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Renee Montagne owns your soul, John McCain.

This morning, an epic battle of wits took place. The battlefield: Morning Edition. You can surmise from this story’s headline both the participants and the victors.
The vanquished now lay limp and bleeding on the field while Montagne hoists the lance above her head in victory.
The transcript tells the epic tale. From the bard’s mouth, wherein […]

Cerealize The Bryant Park Project: The Forget Ferris Project, day (I’ve lost count)

It’s kind of funny, sometimes, how you can see something mentioned a million times before deciding to pay it any attention, even though it’s something that calls you by name.
Bryant Park Project listener Daniel O’Toole has a can of Gargoyles Spaghetti-Os that’s been sitting on his shelf for God only knows how long a great […]

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 […]

Public Radio Poetry, vol. 4: Limericks shouldn’t count

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 […]

Tuesday NPR Roundup: Only Death Names Mountains

Today was a busy day for public radio. There were loads of interesting stories, Frank Deford described his “fertile handicraft years“, and the BPP had to deploy an Emergency Krulwich.

The Emergency Krulwich was about one of the perks of working for the federal government - naming things after yourself! One caveat - the U.S. has […]

Patty Wente is Gone!

I was cleaning out our spam comments, and noticed something kind of awesome. There only one comment flagged incorrectly. Also it shared an update on a story we posted earlier: St. Louis’ KWMU has (finally) decided to fire their general manager, Patty Wente.
This is fairly old news; it looks like the decision came down on […]

So does this make us Green Warriors?

Boxes in the living room, originally uploaded by james.thompson.
Seems divorce is bad for the environment. Cohabitation is good.
I also brought reusable grocery bags. But that’s less of an eco-thing (a couple of my bags are still plastic) than frustration with the knowledge that Kerry’s plastic bags are completely out of control.
Still, we rock the […]

St. Louis to Host Public Radio Adaptation of “The Office”

We do accept tips, so you know. I mean the kind as in “news.” We’re not quite equipped yet to accept the financial kind - though if you want to give us that kind, we’d be glad to work something out. Either way, you can get hold of us here.

Jen Nathan, who blogs at Public […]

Naming the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

I’m supposed to be finishing this week’s recap of last week’s “On the Media” right now; I’m in no mood for that right now.
It’s a beautiful day outside. Also, we had an earthquake earlier today (dig the New York Times‘ story and accompanying graph, and note that I’m moving from blue to red earthquake risk […]