Oh no. I haven't listened to Prairie Home Companion for quite a while; lately my Saturday nights have been filled with other things. However, I used to spend most Saturday evenings, usually while John was at work, listening to a number of shows on NPR, and never turn on the tv at all. Then several local stations jumbled up their schedules, the ( Read more... )

My brother Doug turned my dad on to this station when it was still on the radio. When that station changed formats (as do most of the ones I enjoy), it became a web station. Lounge music is not my everyday listening, but I turn it on sometimes when I'm in the mood for it - or when I'm remembering what he liked to listen to. They're struggling ( Read more... )

I drove in to work today (school starting and getting the kids ready in the morning this week has thrown me off my bus schedule), and listened to Kevin & Bean on radio. I only get to hear them once or twice a month anymore, and frankly, don't always want to listen because, like many morning shows nowadays, rudeness and crassness are mistaken for ( Read more... )

Just wondering - is anyone else a member of Gather.com or Last.FM?

Hmm, just got notice a few minutes ago that a story about CA Department of Fish and Game wardens making a bust on illegally caught spiny lobster will be featured on "All Things Considered" this afternoon (Listening to it now). Don't know if it was recreational or commercially caught ( Read more... )

I forgot to say that Mark Knopfler being a guest on Prairie Home Companion this week was just shy of heaven. Garrison Keillor even offered him a job!

Have to add his new album to my wish list...

A friend of mine is on the CHET ATKINS DIET. You can eat anything you want, but you're only allowed to pick at it.

(I thought about sending this to some of my friends, but I'm not sure they'd remember who Chet Atkins is...)

And you're going to see it here every year, probably, because it's funny. And maybe someone hasn't heard it yet. I am forever grateful to Prairie Home Companion, where I first heard it. ;)

Laws Concerning Food and Drink/Household Principles/Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier ( Read more... )

I finally worked up the courage to post something in momlessdaughter, which I joined sometime ago. I don't have it on my friends list because it affects me too much to read it every day, but I do stop in from time to time.

(what I posted)

(  An excerpt - Some October thoughts... )

I did get to see Garrison Keillor on Monday night; I ran out at lunch time to get his book Love Me so I could have it signed, and I also brought one that's been on my bookshelf, WLT, for a number of years. It occurred to me that I have been listening to this man and his show for going on 20 years; I believe I started before I went to college. ( Read more... )