From Friday:
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Comedy at 10
A refresher course on largely discredited Reaganomics as a counterpoint to coverage of Michael Moore.
NBC TV - Thursday, September 24, 2009
NBC TV - Thursday, September 24, 2009
Pandamonium
Should we let them die out?
A British naturalist stepped into a firestorm of critcism by suggesting China's giant pandas were an "evoutionary dead end" not worth the cost of saving.
See & Read more at ABC News.
A British naturalist stepped into a firestorm of critcism by suggesting China's giant pandas were an "evoutionary dead end" not worth the cost of saving.
See & Read more at ABC News.
Free Form 006
A few moments of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.
| Toad The Wet Sprocket Fly From Heaven Dulcinea (1994) Jackopierce Summer's Gone Summer's Gone (2008) Ataris The Boys of Summer So Long Astoria (2003) East Village Opera Co. La Habanera (Carmen) East Village Opera Co. (2005) |
Friday, September 25, 2009
Worth A Thousand Words
Where can you find a detailed diagram of the ear, an illustration of a beetle, and a picture of how to hit a tennis backhand?
Your dictionary.
And now artist and book binder John Carrera has categorized and re-printed thousands of the wood-carved illustrations used in the 19th century Merriam-Webster dictionaries and compiled them in a new book called “Pictorial Webster’s, A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities.”
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.
Pictorial Webster's: Inspiration to Completion
from John Carrera on Vimeo.
Beating The Sense Out Of You
Being spanked as a child is linked to having a lower IQ, according to a study presented September 24 at the International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma in San Diego.
Free Form 005
A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.
| Little Feat Spanish Moon (live) Waiting For Columbus (1978) Allen Toussaint Yes We Can Can Our New Orleans (2005) John Hiatt Blue Telescope Perfectly Good Guitar (1993) Eric Clapton Bad Love Journeyman (1989) |
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Off to See The Wizard
440 movie theaters across the country celebrated the Wizard of Oz’s 70th Anniversary by screening a new high-definition version of the film... Misprinted to indicate they were all showing at 7 AM locally.
Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies and a film historian, created a special introduction to the screening, and spoke (at a more civilized hour) about what it is like to see the beloved classic back on the big screen in its new high-def form.
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.
Bogged
Question: Is anti-government rhetoric spilling over into action?
Evasion: Minority Whip Cantor begs the question.
Dancing with Mr. D
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Moral Kombat 9/22/09 | ||||
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He survived week 1.
Free Form 004
A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.
| Peter Gabriel Red Rain So (1986) Radiohead Pyramid Song Amnesiac (2001) Crosby & Nash Naked In The Rain Wind On The Water (1975) Jimi Hendrix Little Wing Axis: Bold As Love (1967) |
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Free Form 003
A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.
| Chalk FarM Lie On Lie Notwithstanding (1996) The Police When The World Is Running Down Zenyatta Modatta (1980) Bonnie Rait Love Letter Nick of Time (1989) Rush Time Stand Still Hold Your Fire (1987) |
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
American Idiots
Recent testing found only 23% of Oklahoma high school students could name the first President of the United States. Can you pass the citizenship test immigrants take?
The ACT college entrance exam organization predicts only a quarter of potential freshmen would be capable of maintaining a C average in their first year of school.
And science?
The ACT college entrance exam organization predicts only a quarter of potential freshmen would be capable of maintaining a C average in their first year of school.
And science?
Equinox
In Las Vegas, the high temperature first reaches 80 degrees on average March 15... Spring starts with high temperatures in the low 70s. Fall starts with high temperatures in the low 90s.
In the English speaking Southern Hemisphere, the calendar overrules Astronomy. Australia & New Zealand have been observing Spring since September 1.
In the English speaking Southern Hemisphere, the calendar overrules Astronomy. Australia & New Zealand have been observing Spring since September 1.
Free Form 002
A few minutes of music... As if a real live person with access to a really big library selected and sequenced the music to present a contemporary experience of what some FM radio was in the past... More personal, less random... Open to the possibility you might enjoy something you may not have heard before as part of an enjoyable context.
| The Byrds Eight Miles High Fifth Dimension (1966) The Plimsouls A Million Miles Away One Night In America (1982) R.E.M. The One I Love Document (1987) Tom Petty American Girl Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1976) |
Monday, September 21, 2009
Blockade
In television advertising, sponsors often buy the same time across a line-up of stations. Someone turning the channel runs into the same thing they left.
It works for Sunday public affairs shows, too.
Really?
In television advertising buying commercials at the same time across the channel line-up is called a blockade. Even if the viewer turns the channel, the same message is waiting wherever they wind up.
Protests seem to work that way, too.
It works for Sunday public affairs shows, too.
by Mark Silva/Los Angeles Times
In an interview with CBS News, he dismissed skeptics who think higher taxes are inevitable to support his healthcare overhaul. He reiterated that he will not accept any proposal that imposes new taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year.
In a number of interviews, Obama also addressed the tone of a heated summer debate over healthcare, and President Carter's contention that racism underlies critics' Hitler comparisons and other harsh attacks on Obama.
Obama disagreed with Carter, saying that the invective instead reflected the kind of turmoil that is common "when presidents are trying to bring about big changes."
"Are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are," Obama told CNN's John King. "That's not the overriding issue here."
Obama told NBC News’ David Gregory, "Look, I said during the campaign, 'Are there some people who still think through the prism of race when it comes to evaluating me or my candidacy?' Absolutely. Sometimes they vote against me for that reason, sometimes they vote for me for that reason."
He took a longer view of his critics' motivations: "It's an argument that's gone on for the history of this republic, and that is, What's the right role of government? . . . This is not a new argument, and it always invokes passions."
Really?
In television advertising buying commercials at the same time across the channel line-up is called a blockade. Even if the viewer turns the channel, the same message is waiting wherever they wind up.
Protests seem to work that way, too.
Emmys
It stands alone outside Hollywood's winter season of self congratulation, but at the starting line of its own prime time season of competition. Winners here, if you care.
Free Form 001
A few moments of music, as if...
| Bob Seger Mainstreet Night Moves (1976) Roxy Music More Than This Avalon (1982) Be Bop Deluxe Life In The Air Age Sunburst Finish (1976) David Bowie Modern Love Modern Love (1983) |
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Mary Travers 1936 - 2009
The most popular folk group of the 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary in later decades proved themselves to be among the most durable music acts in history. Mary Travers died this week of leukemia.
 Leaving On A Jet Plane (John Denver) from: Album 1700 (1967) |
Death of Conservatism
"The Death of Conservatism" is a book by Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Sunday Book Review & Week In Review sections... It's his thesis about the current right coming unhinged from its intellectual underpinnings. Here he speaks with Nick Gillespie of Reason.TV on September 8:
For a different, and longer, discussion watch Sam's Sept. 18 appearance on Bill Moyers' Journal.
For a different, and longer, discussion watch Sam's Sept. 18 appearance on Bill Moyers' Journal.
Rethinking Higher Education
Professor Jose Antonio Bowen of Southern Methodist University has a plea for his colleagues. Strip technology out of your classroom, put your lecture online, or make it a podcast, so you can really use that precious face to face time in class to teach. And Mark Bauerlein says that the tenure system is forcing young professors to write studies without giving them time to think. He says focus back on teaching by rewarding good teachers. Bauerlein is professor of English at Emory University.
Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now. Host: Robin Young.
The University of Texas offers an entry point into free online university-level learning called the "World Lecture Hall."
Videos
What was Kanye all wound up about?
Beyoncé
"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Directed by Jake Nava
(Winner: Video of the Year)
Taylor Swift
"You Belong With Me"
Directed by Roman White
(Winner: Best Female Video)
Beyoncé
"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
Directed by Jake Nava
(Winner: Video of the Year)
Taylor Swift
"You Belong With Me"
Directed by Roman White
(Winner: Best Female Video)
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