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Brief status update, then back to sleep.
The bacon salt arrived and I opened the bottle of hickory flavor to turn a serving of plain cream of wheat into a cunning vegetarian imitation of bacon grits. NOM NOM NOM.
Other than that my brain has melted from sleeping-as-stress-relief this week and sleeping with the radio on makes me have really bizarre dreams, particularly during The StoryNot ( Read more... ) -
I don't really hate those of you with perfect pitch, I'm just jealous of it right now.
For a fleeting moment I knew what key my tinnitus[1] is in and bolted out into the living room to grab one of the electronic keyboards and a set of headphones to confirm it. Unfortunately Vogon was asleep and Laurel was watching TV, and its horizontal scan rate noise throws my perception. I am ready to unplug that irritation box. Vogon assures me ( Read more... ) -
Link: Harmonicas Shipped to Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
"Harmonicas are easy to pick up and play, and it sure beats sending tubas."Damn you, NPR, for making me laugh so hard I had a coughing fit ( Read more... ) -
"& now Denver is lonesome for her heroes"
Fifty years ago this month, a San Francisco municipal court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's poem "HOWL" was not obscene.
Last week a public radio station chose not to broadcast a 1959 reading of the poem due to fear of an FCC fine.
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Flatulence's effect on my carbon footprint, science tattoos and Eliot's stepdad on NPR.
Bedroom chatter the other night...
Me: I wonder how much I enlarge my carbon footprint every time I have a lot of gas.
Vogon: ...
Me: Like cows and methane.
Vogon: Why isn't Al Gore against eating beans?
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These science tattoos rock. They remind me of the time I discussed tattoos with toddler_hiway and he mentioned that if he ever got one, it would be the ( Read more... ) -
Garrison Keillor has a doppelgänger and he lives in Dallas.
Garrison Keillor has a doppelgänger and he lives in Dallas ( Read more... ) -
Link: NPR story on a NY Philharmonic oboist that makes his own reeds.
Blogged for vogonpoet's future reference: Oboist Liang Wang: His Reeds Come First -
Media diet: WYNC's Radio Lab, "Goat on a Cow" story.
I know a bunch of you love This American Life. Branching out from that, I recently got hooked on Radio Lab, a limited-season show from WNYC.
Today I teared up with joy at one segment. The site's synopsis for "Goat on a Cow":
Producer and gumshoe Laura Starecheski brings us along on a hunt that traverses the country, and time. The mystery to ( Read more... )
