I was on the episode of Cash Cab that aired yesterday. Full play-by-play of what happened is coming, along with some behind-the-scenes secrets of how things went down. This is a commercial program, so I’m not allowing it to be downloaded, but if you want to play along & see how many of the 12 [...]
I’m slowly getting back on the beam with these things, so the last couple of weeks’ worth of recaps will be relatively bare bones, in the interests of getting them published. They were both extremely fun and well-attended. To wit: Round 1: On This Day Round 2: Audio round – Misunderstood – Songs about understandings, [...]
Maybe I’m just noticing them more lately, or maybe it’s just the 50th anniversary of the publication of On The Road, but the Kerouac remembrances and opinions seem to be all over lately. Louis Menand’s excellent New Yorker piece profiles how uttterly male and uncool the novel is, and how and why Jack Kerouac explicitly [...]
According to the French Republican Calendar, it’s Chestnut Day. So if you’ve been waiting all year, saving your nuts in their special nut chest, then today is totally your day. Oh, and it has to be about 200 years ago. But aside from that, um, go nuts. Podcast #5 seems to have a little extra [...]
I did promise that the emailer would be a rare thing, and so far, so good. The important thing to know is that tonight will hopefully be as OJ-free as possible. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of it. Lots of other more important things are going on, you know. Alberto Gonzales finally [...]
I fight against my internal lack of discipline every day of my friggin’ life. With no one else in the room, it takes every single molecule of my will some days just to put on pants and drag my sorry self over to this machine and make up trivia questions. And that’s something I enjoy, [...]
