1. It’s my favorite time of the year. The flowers are blooming, the AC isn’t on yet, and in Moscow, thousands of Europeans (and a few Middle Easterners) are texting in their votes for the Eurovision song contest. And this year, they’re streaming the whole thing online. NPR had a short story it over the [...]
Does anyone else find it a little offensive when total strangers confirm that yes, you are boring? Whenever this happens, I have a hard time forgetting that most of the time, it’s a general “you”, not one specifically directed at me. I can be overly analytical like that. So this afternoon, when the I listened [...]
Apparently, I’ve been right all along. I don’t really like shoes. I’ll admit a certain weakness for a really cute pair of heels, and a huge preference for my beat up Chucks. But when I get home from work, the shoes are the first thing to go. There’s usually a trail of them scattered through [...]
So, we trust NPR’s editors to make us sound a little smarter than usual, cutting just enough “ums” and “ahs” to boost our perceived intelligences just barely, but there are still some things we wish we had said when being interviewed by the remarkably friendly Laura Conaway, of the Bryant Park Project. After the jump, [...]
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