The dreaded day is almost upon us, so it’s time to put up my Valentine’s Day program. I get so gloomy at this time of hear year that I find myself chanting my grandmother’s old poem: “Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I’m going to the garden to eat worms …” Without further ado, here is Attachments, produced as part of the national, CPB-funded series I did with Adi Gevins which we called A Gathering […]
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Gobble gobble, boo and ho ho ho
I’m Really, Really Sorry
Molly sent me this YouTube video. It’s really stupid. But it is seasonal and goes well with the spirit of my Christmas program I put in my previous posting and lightens my dark holiday mood just that wee bit.
Read more‘Tis the Season
How did this happen? It can’t be Christmastime already. But I know it is because there was X-mas Muzak in the Hong Kong airport and now the house down the street has its illuminated holiday sign: “Ho Ho,” it says on the roof. “Ho” it says on the porch just below. So of course I always read it as “Hoho, ‘ho.” Many years ago I produced a half-hour Christmas special for public radio. People tell […]
Read moreThe Chicago Three
My mouth is tired from laughing. At O’Hare yesterday evening I met with Karen M. who had come in from Philadelphia. While we waited for the cab, I told her, You’ve got to go check out that bathroom. I just took movies of the toilet. It is so cool. Karen emerged from the stall a few seconds later, looking perplexed. I guess she’d seen a lot of those tubular toilet seat covers that automatically whir […]
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