“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.
Source: coudal.com
Source: crookedindifference
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)
Just imagine it: your employer has a contract with a grocery store. You go in, you pay your twenty dollar co-pay, and then you get to take whatever you want. You’d probably go home with a lot more groceries and you wouldn’t skimp on the luxuries: why get hot dogs when you can have lobster? And from the grocery store’s point of view, it would have no incentive to keep prices down. Your plan is paying the bill. Pretty soon they might get so high that people without employer-provided food plans could no longer afford to eat. They’d call Congress, demand universal food coverage.
This American Life and Planet Money on why employer-based health insurance is a bad idea. Definitely worth a listen. Plus, “Act Three: Insurance? Ruh Roh!” on pet insurance is absolutely fascinating.
@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)
