Hey, just because I refuse to make resolutions for myself doesn’t mean that I have to refuse to make them for others, too. Here are some things that Brooke and Bob should consider for the coming year. 1. Get Bob a better microphone. For the last few weeks, it’s sounded like Bob has been coming [...]
While listening to “Books That Die,” the last story in the Nov. 27 episode of NPR’s “On The Media,” Kerry laughed, and said it sounded like a Ken Burns documentary. So I turned it into one. Brooke Gladstone’s “The Civil (Book) War” from Radio Sweethearts on Vimeo. I just downloaded the audio, and threw some [...]
Bob isn’t off this week; he’s just hunkered in a bunker. Brooke sunk her feelings into a clunker of an opening to this week’s episode. Sort of like how I just did, back there. Anyway, I don’t know what’s up with Bob being away from his regular microphone – and I know that coupling a [...]
Let the record state that October 30, 2009, is the day that the Cosby sweater began to unravel, stitch by stitch, slowly unveiling the post-apocalyptic, Charlton Hestonian dystopia that is: COMPUTERWORLD. At least in Bob Garfield’s head. In the middle of an otherwise sane conversation about computer programs that construct news stories as search engine [...]
My birthday is in two weeks. I’ll be 25 years old. At this point, there aren’t very many things that make me feel old. On the Media found a way, though. In this week’s all-music episode, the first segment points out that Napster started 10 years ago. I remember using my limited computer time at [...]
Interesting stuff on this week’s recap – namely the technical glitch that made this post a day late: The fact that I forgot to hit “publish.” So I’m taking this opportunity to rework it. For no particular reason. It happens. I’ve been feeling way under the weather, Kerry’s been out of town, I fell asleep [...]
Hey, it looks like we’ve some new rules to play by, but we’ve been pretty good about abiding by them anyway – basically, you can’t be shilling something as a blogger without being up front about it. You all know that we’re not paid to do this, right? That we don’t make a damn thing from [...]
Confession time: despite watching a freakish amount of Nick at Nite during my childhood, I’ve never seen the “Twilight Zone” (for what it’s worth, I think I’ve seen every episode of the “Andy Griffith Show”, “Leave it to Beaver” and “F-Troop” in existence). The “Twilight Zone” isn’t the kind of thing I’m usually into, but [...]
I suppose that after months of hosting the show solo, Bob deserves a break. Brooke’s hosting and editing the show this week (and delivering her own outro without a single trace of longing for Bob – seems that all of that attempted hair petting on his part is getting him absolutely nowhere). Listening to this [...]
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Why Public Radio Works For Me
One of the things I’ve always loved about the public radio approach is the exploratory attitude the hosts/correspondents/commentators/reporters take when dealing with an unfamiliar topic. This effect is most pronounced when the person talking needs to explain the relevance of the subject. One of the greatest strengths of “Planet Money” is that the show’s staff [...]