March 2012
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“When things get too comfortable and things get too safe, I get the feeling like...”
– Writer Harry Crews died on Wednesday at the age of 76. He had a hard life and didn’t made it any easier for the characters in his novels.
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“It’s a little misleading to say three fingers. It’s actually two...”
– Banjo player Earl Scruggs talked to Terry Gross about his signature picking method.
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What was the best thing that happened to you this...
Idea via Daniel Victor
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“A long-lived relationship is about so many things. It is such a dense and...”
– Adrienne Rich, on relationships [the complete 1989 Fresh Air interview]
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“Essentially poetry, if it is poetry, does not lend itself to simple readings, to...”
– Adrienne Rich: The 1989 Fresh Air interview
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beccap asked: Whose idea was it to start a Fresh Air Tumblr? Was it hard to convince coworkers/higher ups that it could be a meaningful communication tool for your program? Has (or would) Terry ever guest blogged on the Tumblr?
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Fresh Air Offices, 9:05AM
Mel: Do you have Kisses on the Bottom? [the name of Paul McCartney's new album]
Coworker: You can't say that in the office.
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Anonymous asked: Paul McCartney?!?! If I show up at your guys' door tomorrow, pretty please with a cherry on top let me in?
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“There are no ideal conditions for the making of a film, or rather, conditions...”
– via Four Eyes: How do I absorb this into my cellular structure?
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Tumblr Hits 20 Billion Posts, Nears 50 Million... →
thenextweb:
Congrats Tumblr! <3
19 billion are animated gifs.
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“At one point, when Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner of New York, he...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, the story of the Thomashefskys, stars of the Yiddish stage.
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“We would determine a minimum amount … and if we understood what their...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, former sports agent Josh Luchs explains why he repeatedly paid college athletes, in clear violation of NCAA and NFL Players Association rules.
eyesuponblueskies asked: My favorite Yiddish word is bashert!
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Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online →
This is awesome
Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. It’s part of what Lomax envisioned for the collection — long before the age of the Internet.
Related: Alan Lomax on Fresh Air
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“Bupkis.”
– My favorite Yiddish word. Today’s show is about Yiddish theater. What’s your favorite word? [List of English words of Yiddish origin.]
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“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical...”
– Rachel Maddow on depression
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“Nothing about me wants to write. I reject it liked a transplanted organ....”
– Rachel Maddow on writing
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“I just wanted to throw something up in peoples’ faces. I’m not sure...”
– Rachel Maddow on coming out at 17 in the Stanford student newspaper.
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What Happened to Fresh Air on iTunes?
whathappenedwas:
Something changed in iTunes on March 6th that made Fresh Air start downloading per segment instead of per episode.
Anyone know what happened? It’s not a problem, I’m just curious if this change occurred for everyone or just me. What say you, NPR Fresh Air on Tumblr?
I say as follows: We had a ton of people write in over the past year complaining that the podcast...
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