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January, 2009

  1. Poe’s Birthday Show

    January 26, 2009 by lizhumes

    Happy 200th Birthday
    to Edgar Allan Poe

    Original airdate: January 16, 2009

    Hello and Happy Poe’s Birthday! He’s 200 today and Wordy Birds, The Edgar Allan Poe Museum, the Library of Virginia, The U.S. Post Office and most of the East Coast are celebrating (and you thought all the fuss was over the Obama inauguration).

    This episode details the life Edgar Allan Poe and the misrepresentations of him. I tried to get more dirt, but my guest, Kat Spears, the Director of the Poe Museum, buried those fantasies alive. Oh well, nevermore.

    In the last “chapter” of the program we get to the bottom of the Poe-in-Richmond versus Poe-in-Philadelphia competition. The only thing to say about that is, it’s not us, it’s them.

    A year long schedule of the celebration of Poe’s 200th is available here: http://www.poemuseum.org/

    And here: http://www.poe200th.com/

    When researching this program I found some great sites that have free audio books. The reading of “The Raven” came from http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book.jsp?id=35. They seem like good people. 

    Thanks for tuning in.

    Liz

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  2. David Rees

    January 26, 2009 by lizhumes

    Get Your War On.
    The Definitive Account of the War on Terror 2001-2008

    Original airdate: January 9, 2009

    “Get Your War On,” written by David Rees is rife with F-bombs. So is this show. I bleeped them all because it airs in the “Safe Harbor” hours of broadcast, noon on Fridays. Your ears have been filtered. But, the F-bombs in his work are necessary.

    On the back of the “Get Your War On” book, a writer for Newsweek is quoted: “Hilariously deadpan fatalism…a surprising articulate expression of our anxieties.”

    And when anxieties are speaking, don’t they swear? When you’re watching the news about the war in Iraq, don’t you swear to yourself about the lives lost, the money spent and the horrors that others are facing? Even my dog, lying on the floor in front of the television seems to be swearing.

    The book we’re discussing today takes the headlines, converts them into clip art comics and interjects the anger, revulsion and disillusion that many Americans feel. It’s very funny.

    You can find David Rees’ bio, past work and other tidbits here: http://www.mnftiu.cc/

    Animated videos of his comics can be seen here: http://www.mnftiu.cc/videos/

    Thanks for tuning in.

    Liz

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  3. Noah Scalin

    January 23, 2009 by lizhumes

    Skulls

    Original airdate: October 10, 2008

    On June 4th, 2007, artist Noah Scalin came up with an ingenious idea: he cut a skull out of orange paper and posted it online with the note, “I’m making a skull image every day for a year.” His uniquely witty works became a wild success: five months later, nearly 250,000 people have visited the site, many sending in skull photos of their own and turning Scalin’s blog into one of the world’s top sites. Why skulls? Noah answers, “why not?”

    Thanks for tuning in.

    Liz

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