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36-point Georgia on my mind

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

EDIT: NPR’s Andy Carvin commented to gently remind me that most of their videos are also posted on their YouTube channel. So I will be embedding after all. Starting next Monday, July 27, NPR.org will have a brand new look – a very familiar, blog-like look with some classy, but Web-friendly typography (as referenced in [...]

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It’ll be fine. Just stay off it until the morning.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Tuesday was Bastille Day. Morning Edition always does this thing for Bastille Day where they play some awesome, bombastic French music from the Revolutionary period, usually performed by Edith Piaf, which – even though it was written before the city of Memphis existed as such – contains such proletarian fervor that it has the unmistakable [...]

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Germans Love Us

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

I was browsing through our incoming links while my mom thought I was listening to her on the phone, and I noticed something odd. One of the links was in German. I’d been thinking about our audience lately, wondering who all reads. I wasn’t thinking they’d be German. Given that our topics (save when Kerry [...]

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The Statue Got Me High

Monday, July 6, 2009

I’m noticing a big divide in opinion about art thanks to NPR. It seems like there are people who have a sense of humor and whimsy about art, and people who don’t. A few weeks ago, I posted about a giant traffic barrel statue that a college student made. In the story’s comments, there’s a [...]

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NPR is D-listed

Monday, June 29, 2009

I know that I shouldn’t get all excited about this, but I love that sometimes, I find tomorrow’s Morning Edition stories today. It’s the little things, you know. Tomorrow morning, there’s going to be an interview with Kathy Griffin, who I love more and more every time she talks about her life on the D [...]

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Cursed (need for) Sleep

Thursday, June 11, 2009

So I’d meant, in all earnesty, to come back to regular posting on Tuesday. And if I would have done what my knowledge of Memphis told me to do, I wouldn’t have gone to the venue for Bonnie “Prince” Billy in time for doors to open. I would have waited at least two more hours, [...]

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If you see those kids, grab Andy’s phone

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

I was skimming through my Twitter stream this evening when I saw this disturbing piece of news from NPR’s social media guy Andy Carvin: “Robbed on the DC Metro. Rat bastard took my iPhone. Filed police report; need to put ice on my leg and change all my passwords.” He tells the story of the [...]

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We’re doing it live!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Apparently Bill O’Reilly ran out of ideas. He went fishing though NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” looking for clips of Obama advisor David Axelrod making a fool of himself. It’s clear that O’Reilly isn’t a dues-paying member of his local public radio station, even if just for the classical music that I’m pretty sure [...]

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This Ethiopian Life

Thursday, April 2, 2009

  I checked. I haven’t written about Mulatu Astatke before. I find this completely shocking. For the last two or three years, after almost every episode of “This American Life,” I have had this song stuck in my head: YeÌ€gellé Tezeta And I couldn’t be happier with that state of affairs. There aren’t many songs [...]

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Sudanese Basketball Sketchest

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

I was on the way to work when they were playing the story about Sudanese basketball players. And frankly, it seemed a little silly. I know what you’re saying – by which I mean that I know what my little brother is saying – I don’t understand, I’m not willing to see how basketball affects [...]

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