I can’t believe I still haven’t put all my old radio programs online. Oh, I’ve trickled out one or two over the past decade, but now—in celebration of turning sixty—it’s time for a full-on onslaught. The first batch is something I artsily titled Skip Through The Shadows: Scenes from Childhood, a ten-part series about the trials and tribulations of childhood. A labor of love, it took three years to produce, aired on NPR’s All Things […]
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Radio Programs: Bugs
Just for fun, I’m going to include my very first edited audio exercise, for a class at San Francisco State University. I need hardly tell you that it never hit the airwaves, but it was this project that bit me with the—you know—radio bug. Not bad for a first crack at slicing tape, though the topic lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
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Ever since I got back from Mexico in January, I’ve been arguing with AeroMexico about all the bad stuff they did on our flight, and the more-than-$1,000 it cost me as a result. [In brief, at the last minute during boarding, they wouldn’t let me carry on my carry-on. They took it. They lost it. It contained credit cards, medicines and all manner of critical things. By the time I got it back six days […]
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Installment One Maw: I loved your suggestion that Jason sit at a table near me tonight, and Frank at a table near that. Who is this guy, anyway? In two hours, we will have a preliminary answer. Could he be: An Amway distributor seeking contacts to expand his enterprise? An Anthony Perkins/Norman Bates character who is just a little too close to his mother? A guy who habitually walks around the streets of Berkeley looking […]
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