Sure, you could always get your friends and loved ones one of the year’s best books of letters or one of the records featured on “All Songs Considered“, but this holiday season you should also consider donating to one of your favorite public radio programs in the name of someone you love. Before this week’s [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]