I wasn’t going to post anything on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of Katrina, since I didn’t have anything particularly intelligent to say. But I thought of some things to offer today, so here we go. This American Life offered some amazing coverage in the aftermath of Katrina; it’s highly unusual for them to [...]
A bunch of hot air
It’s very likely that wherever you are, it’s scary hot. One of our roving correspondents just returned from London, where the heat was horrific. Harry Shearer is doing his Le Show radio program from there, prior to his appearance at the Edinburgh Festival; he compared the situation to that of Los Angeles, where it rains [...]
Le Show on the road
You’ve possibly read coverage this week of the SXSW Festival. Did you know that Harry Shearer took his Le Show radio program to SXSW? He had musical guests, including Lyle Lovett and Shearer’s wife Judith Owen. I had never heard Owen sing before; I found her to be a little overly emotive, in a Tori [...]
The sound of now.
Letters, we get letters… Have you found any podcasts worth a damn? Podcasting has proved to be a liberating technology that unfortunately lets all sorts of people who shouldn’t be making radio shows actually make radio shows. Like personal web pages and blogs before it, podcasting is overloaded with mediocre and amateurish programming. NOW I [...]