My new workspace, originally uploaded by mbrewer. Sometimes I forget that this blog exists. Then I invent games on Twitter, like asking “NPR correspondent or Ikea product: Vika Oleby?” You can play at home, too, if you’re a similar-minded public media/Swedish home furnishing addict. If you are, you already know which other names work. Particularly [...]
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
I’m heading to Austin in a few weeks to go to South By Southwest (interactive and music). It’s my first time ever, and I’m totally excited (even if I am staying a ridiculously long walk away from the festival). That said, if any of you are going to be there for either portion, I’d love [...]
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On our way back from visiting Matthew’s parents in Indiana yesterday, we got stuck in traffic. And by stuck in traffic, I mean that we went maybe three miles over the course of two hours. A little bit of research with our phones helped us find out that the wreck that was causing the backup [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
If you follow us at all, you’ve already noticed some changes happening around here with the posting schedule. And, no doubt, someone has noticed that we haven’t written about this week’s all-Bob “On The Media.” It’s been bothering us and puzzling us, and I think we’ve finally found the answer. We’re a bit burnt out. [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Within the last few months, I’ve adopted a new name. Kerry and I are not Mr. and Mrs. Trisler – not least of all because that still sounds like my parents – but Matthew and Kerry Crawford Trisler. I’ve even made the difficult decision to abandon my old pseudonym, William Wolfe. In fact, if you [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
I don’t know why people get upset by businesses saying “Happy Holidays.” I mean, New Year’s is only a week later, Chanukah is right in there, as is Kwanzaa and the Solstice. It’s cool. I don’t want to change store decorations that frequently. And “Holiday” derives from “Holy day” which, while it’s a stretch for [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Dear Jesse Thorn, Hi, how are you? You don’t know me, but my name is Kerry Crawford Trisler, and I’m the (snarkier) half of the blog radio-sweethearts.com. It’s one of very few public radio fan / critical blogs. We don’t work for NPR or PRI or anything – we sort of see ourselves as the [...]
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Monday, December 14, 2009
This week’s “On the Media” is serious business. It’s all blah blah Earth in peril, blah blah, and I couldn’t be forced to care except that I already do. I live on Earth. And, like many scientists, I value the percieved security of my e-mail communications. Anyway, there are more immediate concerns, like jailed journalists, [...]
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Friday, December 11, 2009
A little bit ago ago, I wrote about Jonathan Goldstein’s CBC show “Wiretap.” I mentioned his friend Howard and how he reminds me of a friend I had in high school. I even dug up a “This American Life” episode that served as a great example of the similarities between Howard and my friend. But [...]
It’s a Bob-only recap with a bullet, because bullet points make things easier to read. At least, that’s what upper management says. So, here goes: – The president makes speeches and hardly anyone listens, save for the media, proving that whole Fireside Chat thing wrong. According to the awesomely named political scientist George Edwards III, [...]
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