I love love love Listener Request week on Simply Folk. They just played a wonderful parody of On The Road Again called the Midwest Winter Driving Song. A few of the verses:

Off the road again, looks like I just drove off the road again.
Hit a patch of ice and I just buried my front end.
But it won't be long 'till before I'm back on the road again ( Read more... )

I was just listening to a radio program about Sesame Street and its associated international programs. A caller talked about showing his kids classic clips from You Tube. The Sesame Street rep said that you can see classic clips in better quality at sesamestreet.org.

Oh, and I got to hear "Rubber Duckie" in Mandarin. That was cool.

"The NSA has threatened me..." and the phone line goes dead.

You can't make this stuff up!  I was listening with just one ear to Kathleen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio and she's interviewing James Bramford who writes books about the NSA. She managed to get the guest back and he was able to finish the sentence "threatened me with prosecution after ( Read more... )

WPR: easily as valuable as a sandwich.

I understand where Jim was going with a story about how much you might spend on a lunch out, but the phrase itself still amuses me. "What am I going to have for lunch? I think I'll have Chapter A Day, that sounds tasty".

Which reminds me, I must call and change my pledge from the old bank to the new one.

Check WPR Classical Music Listings tomorrow to find out what was playing at 2:50 this afternoon. I turned on the radio to hear an orchestral version of the theme to Rawhide. I'm guessing Bernstein or Copeland, but it could be another modern composer. It was pretty funny to hear. :)

Does anyone else know what this might have been? My Google-fu has ( Read more... )

Calvin Trillin has a new book out, About Alice, so he's on book tour and on the radio. He was just telling a story about his late wife Alice, who was very beautiful ( Read more... )