Gay marriage is now legal in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. It’s a time that makes it easy to be proud about being married. (Or to get legally married, if you haven’t already been able to do so yet.) To all of you couples now eligible for tax breaks and a bureaucratically-recognized thing for one [...]
“Air” Rollercoaster, originally uploaded by nic0. I bought a new battery for my iBook last night. Which means that after months of eyeing a room’s outlets anytime I wanted to use my computer, I’m finally back to the land of laptop users enjoying the convenience they paid for. But part of me wonders if my [...]
Everyone, by now, knows about the plane that went down in the Hudson river this afternoon. It’s worth mentioning that immediately upon the event happening, Twitter exploded with conversation about the plane crash. The Twitter reportage – started, for all intents (and from my vantage point), by your friend and ours, Laura Conaway, via @planetmoney [...]
More bad news from NPR today. Not all of it had to do with a certain Michigan-based industry I currently have little sympathy for – NPR itself is laying off employees and canceling more programs. “News and Notes” and “Day to Day,” as well as a large percentage of NPR West staff, are the main [...]
Since tomorrow is the last day that the BPP will be broadcasting, I wanted to do something special for the awesome people who make the show. All week, they’ve had a hilarious, heartbreaking series of their regular feature “Best Song in the World Today” focused on the five stages of grief (those would be denial, [...]
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 [...]
I find myself thinking about the Bryant Park Project staff at random times. I was rebuilding some furniture I had to dismantle so I could bring it back from Indiana, and and just sighed, wondering what Alison Stewart would tell young Issac about what was happening when he was born. He’ll probably just wonder what [...]
Well, not single-handedly. On his blog, Rob Paterson has at least proposed a solution. In the new world, we work with our “audience” and with our staff. In this new world, the path to economic success is not clear. If it was we would all go there. But intuitively we all know that BPP has [...]
The Forget Ferris Project (Save the BPP!) forges on in the face of listlessness, hopelessness, hangovers, and biopsies the nation over. We got name-dropped on the BPP today. Which would feel good under happier circumstances. Some clarifications of credit are due: The lovely “Save Ferris” watertower graphic is mine, and is to be shared. We [...]
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NPR does social media better than New Facebook
I’ve been hearing about NPR’s new social networking feature for a while now, thanks to its progenitor, the talented and affable Andy Carvin. Today, I realized I couldn’t wait any longer. Given that we know that a large portion of our readership is employed by or married to someone employed by NPR, I feel like [...]