I always knew the insiderhosting account which I haven't paid for in 3+ years would expire one day, taking with it all of my recordings from this LJ. And now, it seem as though nature has taken its course ( Read more... )

I'm not sure where this song comes from. I think the text started out as a late 18th century English Ode. An article in JSTOR attributes it to "Bidwell," that's all I got. Anyways, the text crossed the water and got a really nice tune attached to it in New England and a really crappy tune attached to it in the south. The New England version seems ( Read more... )

In all the hullabaloo about the RNC's totally awesome "Harold, call me!" ad, I failed to notice, up until now, that said ad features the dulcet tones of some sort of clarinet choir. David, you may have some thoughts on this--does anything better illustrate the concept of left-wing, commie philandering than a farty, staccato bass clarinet ostinato? ( Read more... )

I'm on On the Media again this week. My piece is called Faker... and Harder.

The Blueit smells like birthdays in the haze where small breaths blow out candles ( Read more... )

If anybody out there listens to the NPR show On the Media produced by WNYC, be sure to check it out this weekend because I'll be on it. My segment is called "Friends of Evan Bayh"--it's all about Bayh's use of Facebook to appeal to "the kids." It's a pretty fluffy story with which to make my national radio debut as a journalist, but oh well. I ( Read more... )

There's so much cool music I associate strongly with driving to school in the morning with my mom, from Suzanne Vega to the Morning Edition theme. But she used to listen to "Solitude Standing" so often during the morning drive that I can't listen to it without thinking about cold car seats and the residual taste of cereal and toothpaste in my mouth ( Read more... )

Took a break from woodwind quintet-ing to blow out my voice and microphones alike on this stupid, stupid song. Of course, a song like this forces us all to ask the question: do we hate it because it's bad, or do we really just hate because it's Billy Joel?

Dear Professor Howley,

I'm writing in response to your piece in today's Bloomington Alternative. To my knowledge, NPR has run at least four stories on the subject of net neutrality in the last few months, only one of which was presented as a business story. As I recall, a net neutrality story that aired on All Things Considered earlier in the ( Read more... )

For the record, this mentos+coke phenomenon made the BBC World Update.