“In Chicago we actually call that move ‘Cock of the Nation’”
“Each week we choose a theme and bring you a variety of stories on that theme. This week: my sex tape.”
Such an amazing, affectionate parody of This American Life: This American Laugh: Ira Glass Sex Tape with guest Terry Gross.
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Ira Glass Likes Excess and Giant M&Ms
New York Magazine: How often do you prepare your own meals?
Ira Glass: If “prepare” means “cook,” almost never. If “prepare” means “combine” or simply “transfer from ice-cream container,” nearly every day.
NYmag: Who is your mortal enemy?
IG: Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes. Or he would be, if he were mortal.
NYmag: Times, Post, or Daily News?
IG: Times. Please. I’m a cliché. Did I mention I work in public broadcasting?
NYmag: What makes someone a New Yorker?
IG: Oh, for God’s sake. I could give a fuck.
It’s not even fair how wonderful this man is.
On The Media presents the story of net neutrality, especially the recent Google-Verizon developments, with the different voices on the issue (advocates, Google, Verizon, FCC) accompanied by different musical leitmotifs from Peter and the Wolf
My favorite line:
If our town square is going to be paved with broadband bricks, then we’d better make sure it’s operating in the interest of all of us and is not under the control of a precious, special few.
-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
Net Neutrality, A Musical Intepretation (via On the Media)
@TerryGross laughs so hard she snorts during this interview with Mary Karr, discussing her new book Lit.
So it’s the Boston Ritz. We’re having a rehearsal dinner. I’m lying with my neck arched up in a sink and I smell marijuana in this beauty salon where I’d taken her to get her hair done, and I think: mother. I mean, I think: mother. And sure enough, my mother gets gunched out of her mind with her hairdresser in the alley, smoking pot, gets her hair jacked up like a transvestite.
(Laughter)
Ms. KARR: Really, it looked like a big topiary, and then - and then at the actual dinner says to my father-in-law that she’ll paint him in the nude and fix anything he needed fixed.
Really terrific.
(via Fresh Air on WHYY)
This is an outstanding cartoon (by Chris Ware) depicting a This American Life story about kids who started a fake TV camera craze at their elementary school. As Graham says, “It’s so amazing. Why can’t there be more of this? I could watch HOURS of this.” (via Boing Boing)
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