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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 […]

Jim James “solo, acoustic” show on NPR.org neither “solo” nor “acoustic”

I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. It pains me to say this, because - really - I love them, but I think My Morning Jacket is overrated
Not that they’re bad. But I just bought the new record, “Evil Urges,” and - well - it’s not bad, but I’m beginning to think that […]

Radio Lab is hiring: Work with Krulwich!

Scott McDowell from WFMU sent us a link to this posting on WNYC’s jobs listings. I am not qualified. I am applying anyway.
Even though I lack the 10+ years of full-time experience the job requires, and my degree is in creative writing with a poetry focus (not in music composition like they require), […]

They say life is very short - but it’s not.

As many of you no doubt noticed over the course of April, Matthew is a big poetry-loving dork. He did a fun weekly series of posts on poetry featured on Writer’s Almanac. A few of you know that I’m kind of a little poetry dork.
Though both of us adore poetry, his is usually relevant and […]

Twitter love for Radio Lab

Over on my personal Twitter stream, I’ve set up Twitterfeed to run the RSS feed from my Last.fm profile. It finally started working today, as I was listening to podcasts.
From Beckyrother’s reply on up, all these tweets owe their existence to this last episode of “Radio Lab” that came through the feed. There’s a lot […]

Linkblogging through Analogy

Apparently people have been saying that while I’m the friendly one, Kerry’s the fun one.
Kerry’s friendly, too. She just has all the snark.
Sorry I’m, you know, boring.
If I am Morning Edition, she is The Bryant Park Project.
If she is Morning Becomes Eclectic, I am Performance Today.
If I am Weekend Edition, She is Weekend […]

Sometimes, They Do The Work For Us

On the way home from work today, I happened to catch the part of “All Things Considered” where they read listener mail.
A few listeners wrote in about the election, but a few more wrote in about Robert Seigel’s interview with Shakira that ended in an adorable, clumsy goodbye.
One of the vigilant listeners noted that Robert […]

Things We Wish We Would Have Said in Our Interview with the Bryant Park Project

So, we trust NPR’s editors to make us sound a little smarter than usual, cutting just enough “ums” and “ahs”  to boost our perceived intelligences just barely, but there are still some things we wish we had said when being interviewed by the remarkably friendly Laura Conaway, of the Bryant Park Project.
After the jump, a […]

NPR Is Not Helping My Current State of Anxiety

Over the last week, the reality of end of the semester has begun to truly sink in for me. With the end of this semester for me comes the end of college. Even when I took a year off about four years ago, I never felt that college was over. I made the decision to take […]