Mis y Mas

Has Mr. O'Keefe inspired anyone else to contribute to their local public radio station, whether NPR or another "independent"? (Sorry, much as I love my NPR, PRI and APM, the real independent stations are those such as Pacifica/KPFA Berkeley, but I digress...)

Anywho, am I the only one who is inspired to contribute to NPR, not just because the Republicans are trying to pull the rug out from under them,

but because a foolishly loose-lipped but honest admin stated the fucking truth that much of the Tea Party is pushed/backed/fronted by people who are racist idiots?

The urge to donate reminds me of the routine played out on the old Mary Tyler Moore show (1970's).

Mary discovered she is paid about $400 less a month than her predecessor--because she is a woman and not head of a household. Side plot: she's also been given the additional job of co-hosting a morning show with the obnoxious Ted Baxter.
At the end of the episode, she loses her tempter on the air, and tells Ted to just shut up.

In the office with Mr. Grant, she expects to be demoted or fired.
Lou Grant: Mary, I didn't think I was going to have to say this, but...you get the raise.
Mary: I...get the $400?! You'll pay me as much as you paid Frank?
Ted: Wait a minute Lou! She just told me to shut up! On the air! How can you give her $400 more a month?!
Lou: I'm sorry Ted, but my hands are tied. I'm not allowed to give her any more.

NPR's Kitchen Window: 4 Oyster Stews

I'm a newcomer to the oyster, but a happy convert. Still won't eat the things raw, which I know is heresy--but I discovered them in a cioppino. (Yes, another form of sacrilege, but I'll be a happy culinary pagan, thank you.) Never realized how tasty they were, cooked.

At the link above you'll find 4 recipes, and pictures that would make Pavlov proud of you.

And if one of you could give me the lyrics to what I can only call "The Oyster Song From Mad Sal's", I shall be a happy girl.

Now, everybody sit down.
Piroshkis, empanadas...and Cornish Pasties

Recipes and kibitzing at NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113207915

This goes out with a salute to serendipity17

Do yourself a favor and listen to this brief bit of natter from NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, from 1 Aug 2009. Click on opening panel round.

Arkham couldn't top this.

" Pianist Andras Schiff has immersed himself in Beethoven in a big way. He's performed all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, in chronological order, in 20 cities around the world over the past few years. His Beethoven odyssey ends this month with concerts in Los Angeles; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and New York."

Yesterday's 8 minute NPR interview, but..

Also on the page are links to other interviews with Schiff--and audio files of some of the sonatas. If you scroll down, you will find files of the final three sonatas (from the 30 March 2009 interview).

And from Oct 2008, #29, "Hammerklavier" and a 4 minute interview.

Happy 400th Birthday John Milton on NPR

2 selections from Paradise Lost, read by Anton Lesser

NPR from last week and today....because I finally have time.
Having returned from journeys to Confusion and Deep Doo Doo.

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For masterfiddler, laviolista, groblek: Cat Scanning Strads and Guarnieris, or Hot Rodding a Violin. With a blog on violin Envy by Senior Producer Ned Wharton.

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45 minutes with Janis Ian on Folk Alley.

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OK, he's just bored. See, if kids have no recreation, they just turn to vandalism.

Otto the Octopus at NPR

Maybe Zendo instead of chess.

"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."

Here is a great NPR page, that includes a LOT of audio that Studs did for various public radio programs. Included is his appearance on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me earlier in this decade. On this episode, he makes reference to what might be his epitaph:

"Curiosity didn't kill this cat"