Category: Holidays & Special Events

Gobble gobble, boo and ho ho ho

V.D.

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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‘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 […]

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The 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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