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 fodder, [...]
I love it when NPR happens to answer a question that’s been in the back of my mind forever. Like this one – how exactly is it that professional artists make a living?
Granted, I have a friend who owns a glass studio and she makes money by teaching classes, taking commissioned work and selling her [...]
Quite often I set something down to do something else. I’ll put down one book to read another. I’ll forget to flip the record because I realized, one track in, in that I needed to do the dishes, which don’t get finished because I needed to load the washing machine. The wet clothes in the [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve done this, and I’ve skipped over talking about the Poetry Magazine podcast, mostly because it’s not funded or distributed through public media channels.
But listening to “Morning Edition” this morning, Kerry and I heard this terrible limerick regarding a judge’s reaction to a lawsuit whose “short and plain” allegations stretched [...]
This is the post wherein I declare my triumphant return from finals and my less triumphant, but no less hard-earned, exit from undergraduate studies–If I passed German.But I’ll save it for later, because I must urgently report a crime taking place among the poetry section of your local bookstore, however meager an existence it claims.
The submissions guide on “This American Life’s” Web site says they don’t do poetry very frequently, as they “find that it’s hard to do poetry or drama on the radio without sounding corny.”
Depending on your point of view, this shows either an ignorance or an intimate knowledge of the career of Garrison Keillor.
Despite their [...]
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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 is [...]