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Category Archives: Public Radio International

I’m not sure where it wants to take me

In the last week or so, I’ve finally started to give PRI’s morning news show, “The Takeaway” a chance. Originally, I thought it was going to be the PRI answer to NPR’s “Bryant Park Project”, but it’s not. While I don’t think I would want it to try to be, it still seems to come […]

Radio Sweethearts is no Fail Whale: The NPR Twitter Accounts List Part I

Last week, I promised our awesome friend Scott that we would round up all of the NPR people who actively use Twitter and post links here. This is how it works: I’m going to start a list of NPR twitter-ers (tweeters? twits?) that will be updated every so often with links to relevant Twitter accounts. […]

Home from work, and This American Life saves my life.

I need to apologize for the lateness of this post; I just got home from work.
It was my first day, um, unpacking books for the Rhodes College bookstore in anticipation of their fall rush. Thank God my first day wasn’t a fiasco.
It should have been. All of the employees were locked out of the bookstore […]

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 […]

Hugh Hefner: just one of God’s little helpers

One thing you need to know about me is that I used to go to church. As in several times a week. At one point in high school, I was leading worship for one church, two youth groups, and about three student bible studies.
It’s a wonder I graduated at all.
It’s not like it’s some shameful […]

Self-Reflection Brought on by Acute Shalom Auslander

I’ve just been re-listening to the “With Great Power” episode of “This American Life,” and something struck me. I’ve not been given a huge amount of power, but I’ve made promises. Promises connote power, and I have not lived up to that concomitant responsibility.
If I promise you that I’ll stop by your blog, I’m […]

Ira Glass Has Swan Hands: The TAL Live! Review

Since Matthew and I couldn’t make it to the special showing of “This American Life” in movie theaters in cities all around the country (excluding mine, of course), we turn instead to our friend Shelley Powers for a review.
She was able to attend a showing in Jackson, Miss. and graciously agreed to let us live […]

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 […]

Public Radio Poetry, Vol. 3: William Carlos Williams on This American Life

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 […]

April is the Cruelest Pretentious Joke

EDIT: The Studio 360 link broke; but it seems like that may be a problem with Studio 360’s website. Let me know if it starts working again.
T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” begins with the words, “April is the cruelest month.”
Which is why it’s really stupid that April is National Poetry Month.
But it […]