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 [...]
When I was in high school, I was in the marching band. I was also the only contrabass clarinet player in the brief history of my high school’s wind ensemble. Almost every single day, I was at some kind of band practice. This morning, I was at work (with a bunch of other [...]
One of the great joys of Monday mornings is listening to the new “This American Life” podcast. It tends to go well with my morning work routine. Today, though, I just couldn’t do it. Meaning, I listened to it, but tried not to listen too carefully. This week, TAL brought back Alex Blumberg and Adam [...]
I always listen to “This American Life” at work on Mondays. Because work on Mondays tends to be a little insane, the “TAL” podcast always lasts way longer than it should – I digest it slowly, in five-minute chunks. Anyway, today, I was removing some scam ads from the site while listening to this week’s [...]
This is just a short post to let y’all know about a podcast that I found that you may enjoy. After listening to last week’s episode of “This American Life” (the one about being afraid to go to sleep). Anyway – one of the stories was from The Moth, a storytelling collective. They have an [...]
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 [...]
Matthew and I have been house sitting for my parents this week, which means that we’ve had access to their ginormous TV and 800 channels, some of which exist in HD (a format that I previously thought that only dudes could see). Tonight, we happened upon the new TV version of “Car Talk”, and while [...]
Tonight, in theaters all over the country, people are settling in to big, cushy theater seats to watch a live screening of This American Life. It’s going to be all of the heartbreaking, funny stories, some behind-the-scenes stuff from the show, and a Q&A with Ira Glass. Sounds great, right? It would be if we [...]
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 [...]