Attention! You parents who think you and a pneumatic blonde who was once a Playboy Playmate of the year are smarter than the medical community which came up with the measles and polio and whooping cough vaccines, please disabuse yourself of that idea. Would you try to rewire your child’s bedroom with no knowledge of …
I went to the optometrist yesterday to whine that my new glasses (that I got in September; there’s been a long delay between appointments with her) don’t work when I’m sitting at my desktop computer. Either I lean way forward to within a foot of the screen to use the bifocal section of the glasses …
He died today at 81. Back when I was in college in the late 1960s his poetry was everywhere. I gave at least one girl a book of his works for her birthday, probably “Listen to the Warm”. I recognize the cover. Here’s his most famous song, from the 1969 movie “The Prime of Miss …
Amazing! These trick kicks were done to advertise Pepsi, but who cares? The guy can really place the ball!
On today’s Fresh Air Terry Gross interviewed Kevin Howlett, the guy who spent years tracking down recordings of The Beatles’ performances at the BBC in order to produce the “On Air — Live at the BBC Volume 2” album back in 2013. Many of them had to be acquired from fans who’d recorded them off …
Our new Governor is scheduled to give the State of the State address this morning at 10:00AM. He’s been in office since December 1, about seven weeks. I submit that seven weeks is hardly enough time to get one’s head around everything an entity as large as the state’s government is doing. Here’s my imaginary …
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When the wind is blowing and the temperature is in the 60s, folding clothes straight from the dryer is much more fun than when it’s 85 degrees and still.
I wandered through a used book/cd/dvd store this afternoon and found a copy of MGM’s 1963 epic How the West Was Won. This was one of the last movies with huge casts of big stars. It included Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie …
Have any of you other NPR listeners noticed that Morning Edition has suddenly gotten a bucketload of mentions while other programs are on? During All Things Considered each of the last few days there’s been a promo spot for Morning Edition (“Tomorrow on Morning Edition there’ll be…”). I’m wondering if the show has been losing …
“It is a mistake to ever overestimate the ignorance of the Idaho Legislature,” he said. That was Frank Lundberg, a herpetologist in Idaho, upon the failure of the legislature to pass a bill recognizing the Idaho giant salamander as the state’s official amphibian. Why did the critter lose out on this honor? Because ten paranoid …