NPR has been hitting it out of the park for me lately. So many interesting things were talked about this morning!

First was a story about an English cathedral with a rather unique welcoming message on their door:


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Seems like everything I've heard today has been really dark and disturbing. It started with the radio. I love love love This American Life. It's a show on NPR where they tell three stories all along the same theme. I listened between doing shopping and lunch, so I missed a few bits of it. The theme of the week was pets ( Read more... )

One of the many good things about Fridays is Science Friday, a radio show on NPR. They cover all sorts of science topics, bringing in experts from around the world to talk about them ( Read more... )

Television news is doing something that really pisses me off. Any video that's popular online gets a showing on the evening news now. It's not even just something that might pass as news, cute puppy/kitten videos, kids, any video that goes viral now ends up on the evening news ( Read more... )

In no special order, the three things I've run into today that I love:

1) Did you watch season one of The Walking Dead? If not, go do it now!

An amusing look at 'behind the scenes' of season two. I can't wait!

2) Trailer for Pixar's new movie: Brave. Watch it in the highest HD you can! The animation is SO GOOD (other than the sadly ( Read more... )

I was listening to NPR on the way home from the farmers market, and they kept running a promo on an upcoming story: a clip of a kindly sounding southern woman explaining how she had faith that they'd get through the lack of jobs/money after the Gulf oil spill. She used the quote "God feeds the birds ( Read more... )