Ira Glass stocking up before watching a Tuesday night encore screening of the This American Life live show (which will air as a radio episode this weekend).
(@sethlind of @ThisAmerLife is babysitting this Tumblr for Melody)
Dream movie date.
Never gonna tire of this story.
I’m a geek. I’m a writer. I spent all of my time in my childhood obsessing about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who. I was alone, I was an outsider, what do you expect? I was that bullied kid at the back of the class weeping for loneliness. I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
FYI: My editors in DC are currently fighting over who gets to edit Fresh Air’s Doctor Who/Sherlock/Steven Moffat piece today.
Man, I love it so much when my favorite things come together (in this case, it’s Doctor Who/Sherlock/Steven Moffat and Terry Gross/Public Radio). When Terry interviewed Peter Jackson (10 years ago… vom.) I sat right up by the radio speakers to listen.
Oh, Watson.
Two things:
1) This is what I currently look like.
2) Steven Moffat, who co-created Sherlock, is our guest today.
Can’t wait for Moff’s interview!!
Ken Tucker reviews One Direction’s new album: “These kids sound terrific.”
(via There’s Only ‘One Direction’ For This Boy Band: Up : NPR)
NPR + 1D? My heart just skipped a beat.
Really looking forward to listening to this interview and then possibly picking up a copy of the book.
All this recent hullabaloo about Google’s tracking and ad targeting and privacy invading is interesting to me because I’m on the other side of it than most people. You visit my website? You’re gonna see my ads, following you around the internet. I’m working on a program to target new customers based on their browsing habits and demographic information. So all that stuff that’s getting all y’all all riled up? It’s enabling me to do my job better and more efficiently.
Granted, I’m probably not what people are worried about, and no, I’m not too keen on a hyper Orwellian future, but it’s a bit funny to see everyone getting all indignant when I have a completely opposite agenda.
Right now this is a Google Doc. Soon, hopefully, it will be hosted somewhere else.
If this works — and I hash out the obvious design flaws — I will make this for other years for the show. (I chose 2010 because I started working here on Jan. 20, 2010 and have written almost every single webpage ever since, so it’s nice to have that list handy.)
But for now, here’s a Google document with links to every single interview/review we aired in 2010. Let me know what you think and how it can be improved: I am all ears.
Reblogging for future reference.
California girl with a Boston heart living the dream in New York City.
