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Category Archives: National Public Radio

Renee Montagne owns your soul, John McCain.

This morning, an epic battle of wits took place. The battlefield: Morning Edition. You can surmise from this story’s headline both the participants and the victors.
The vanquished now lay limp and bleeding on the field while Montagne hoists the lance above her head in victory.
The transcript tells the epic tale. From the bard’s mouth, wherein […]

Merlin Mann: productivity guru, insightful little bastard.

A friend brought this to our attention:

Unlike 34,368 other Twitter users, we don’t follow @hotdogsladies; he seems far less inclined to shake the haters off than the fans, but once in a while, he’ll go on an insight spree.
This is pretty awesome, but we’re still not following.
Besides, it’s inaccurate. Robert Siegel doesn’t host All Things […]

I wanted a beach party, NPR gave me Stepbrothers.

One time, I was out at my mom’s house, picking her up to go to dinner. When I went in the house, my mom was still in her work clothes, engrossed in a classic beach party movie on AMC. You know the kind - no real plot, lots of dancing, Frankie, Annette and some kid […]

OTM Recap, 07/18: It’s not funny anymore.

 
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It’s plenty clear that lately, we’ve had other things on our mind, but we’re supposed to be here to prove that Bob Garfield has it bad for Brooke Gladstone.
So, even though I’d rather wear a black armband for “The Bryant Park Project,”it’s time to soldier on, and to find things to tease Bob and […]

Forget Ferris, Listen to This Tape.

Since tomorrow is the last day that the BPP will be broadcasting, I wanted to do something special for the awesome people who make the show.

All week, they’ve had a hilarious, heartbreaking series of their regular feature “Best Song in the World  Today” focused on the five stages of grief (those would be denial, anger, […]

Cerealize The Bryant Park Project: The Forget Ferris Project, day (I’ve lost count)

It’s kind of funny, sometimes, how you can see something mentioned a million times before deciding to pay it any attention, even though it’s something that calls you by name.
Bryant Park Project listener Daniel O’Toole has a can of Gargoyles Spaghetti-Os that’s been sitting on his shelf for God only knows how long a great […]

The Forget Ferris Project, Day 3: Rob Paterson might save the Bryant Park Project

Well, not single-handedly.

On his blog, Rob Paterson has at least proposed a solution.
In the new world, we work with our “audience” and with our staff. In this new world, the path to economic success is not clear. If it was we would all go there. But intuitively we all know that BPP has a lot […]

the Forget Ferris Project, day 2: Bryant Park Project still cancelled.

The Forget Ferris Project (Save the BPP!) forges on in the face of listlessness, hopelessness, hangovers, and biopsies the nation over.
We got name-dropped on the BPP today. Which would feel good under happier circumstances.
Some clarifications of credit are due: The lovely “Save Ferris” watertower graphic is mine, and is to be shared. We did NOT […]

Sad News Day Two: If the BPP can’t make it, how can the rest of us?

Good morning, everybody.
So yesterday, the Bryant Park Project got canceled. I’m sure you heard about that. If you’re just joining us and are wanting to hurl a few pebbles at the NPR Goliath, go here.
Yesterday morning, I heard that BPP was canceled via their Twitter feed and fired off a rather spiteful post after […]

Screw Ferris, Save the Bryant Park Project

I just got off the phone with Kerry; she’d left in a huff after writing the previous post, full of vitriol and good points.
She took the just-announced cancellation of NPR’s “The Bryant Park Project” personally. I suppose that’s good; it means I didn’t do something horrible right before waking up.
You see, Kerry works in New […]