isrealli (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The New York Public Library has had its share of interesting talks with authors, but we can safely say that none of them were as funny as the meeting between This American Life host, Ira Glass, and Israeli author Etgar Keret. No related posts.
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
No one tells a better story than This American Life, the award-winning radio program coming out of Chicago. And no one is better positioned to explain the art of great story telling than the show’s host, Ira Glass. Above, Glass gives you his thoughts. And this clip comes in 4 parts. For more, get Part [...]
SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... I was that enthralled by This American Life's recently repeated episode featuring Hell House . As Ira Glass explains about ten minutes into the episode: In 1999, documentary filmmaker George Ratliff read about a church in Cedar Hill, Texas, which is a suburb of Dallas, that was staging a re-creation of the Columbine Massacre. That church, Trinity Church, was putting on a haunted house, called...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Futterman, who’ve recently signed to run the third season of In Treatment . This American Life’s Ira Glass is also exec-producing, apparently the series was inspired by an episode of his show. JJ Abrams to Produce Micronauts? JJ Abrams to Dose Us With 500 Rads Star Trek Deleted Scene: Nero Interrogated By Klingons J.J. Abrams Spills on Star Trek 2, Mission: Impossible 4, and Fringe J.J....
Dolittler (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... Ruh-Roh!” is written by Planet Money's David Kestenbaum, it's preternaturally geeky Ira Glass who goes on tape to tell Harriet’s tale: When Harriet’s mom found a tumor on her beloved, she claims that pet insurance helped give her the green light to undertake the expensive treatments to follow. In the end, VPI paid about $800. Kristen and her husband...$1,900. Despite the...
Fairly Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yesterday I had the great fortune to listen to This American Life with Ira Glass. The show, Someone Else’s Money, was absolutely the best description of how America got into this health care mess I have ever heard. I’m not talking about pointing fingers at politicians, I’m talking about historical evidence. There is, surprisingly, a pretty [...]
SuperForest (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
SuperForesters, This American Life is a weekly, hour long, totally cool radio show (and podcast) on Chicago Public Radio hosted by a cool cat by the name of Ira Glass. The format of the show is this: Every week, a topic is chosen, sometimes something more general, sometimes something related to something that’s going on in [...]
It's Serious This Time (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
I found a website that hosts podcasts of This American Life!!!! I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy!!! Really - look at all those O's!!! AND why would I use up my maximum allowed number of exclamation points for the day if I really wasn't THAT happy'?!!If you like This American Life and my radio lovah, Ira Glass, you can load up on podcasts here. Or you can find them on their website, but...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Some of the questions put to me tonight by the students at the UCSC... What do I do when she tells me to pull out before I cum, but I already did a minute ago? My girlfriend wants to fuck me from behind with a Feeldoe , but it hurts. What do I do? What is Ira Glass like in person? What is the clitoris? What are your views on the "gay marriage" movement? Is it an assimilation into...
intueri: to contemplate (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... across recently that may also pique your interest: This American Life: US Healthcare Series. Ira Glass and crew again provide entertaining and informative coverage about the current brouhaha surrounding the healthcare “debate” (aka screaming and shouting) in America. I found Part 2 more interesting than Part 1 … partly because of a discussion related to a hedgehog that is receiving antipsychotic...
Gearlog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Terry Gross and Ira Glass fans, rejoice--now there's an Internet radio just for you, and it's an actual radio. Livio's new device is an NPR-branded system, devoted specifically to National Public Radio programming. The radio lets users tune in to 1,000 local NPR streams and access more than 800 podcasts and archives from the media organization's Web sites. The radio also features a "my NPR"...
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... you in the throat you will stop breathing. --SoHo Teen girl : Did you see that? I almost punched Ira's glass in the chest! That was awesome! --AMC Theater, 19th St & Broadway Overheard by: Katie Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2009-10-14
Getting Better (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... mind it when I missed breakfast with them. Why did I miss breakfast? I was being interviewed by Ira Glass from NPR. For some reason, this little ol’ blog got the attention of the producer from This American L ife , the show that Ira hosts. They are doing a series on health care costs being out of control, and read the post I did in January about the insanity of medical codes. She felt that...
Biting Edge (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... her prize. JOSS WHEDON news ( cause that's how we roll here at BE )! Check out his interview with Ira Glass of This American Life on 826NYC . Joss dishes on Firefly what ifs? and Buffy's expanding bustline. Biting-Edge is darn proud to share this news about our pal, medical thriller writer CJ Lyons. From Publishers Lunch: Mystery/Crime CJ Lyons's fourth medical suspense novel, ISOLATION,...
Musings of a Distractible Mind (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... mind it when I missed breakfast with them. Why did I miss breakfast? I was being interviewed by Ira Glass from NPR. For some reason, this little ol’ blog got the attention of the producer from This American L ife , the show that Ira hosts. They are doing a series on health care costs being out of control, and read the post I did in January about the insanity of medical codes. She felt that...
