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The most entertaining 22 minutes on American radio
After all that, I needed a change of pace (see, “Self-care to prevent self-pickling”), and a friend mentioned in an email this radio program, whose first 22 minutes I think may be the single most fantastic America broadcast of all time. Even those of you who are tired of This American Life have to agree, [...]
Not sure how to feel about your despot? He’ll tell you.
Graeme Wood has a freakin’ pitch-perfect piece on the Central African Republic in Foreign Policy’s failed states issue. It’s old news to those of you with internet that’s not powered by hamsters, but over here, I just got it to download. There are so many things that are right about it, both in tone and [...]
Friday morning humor
This video makes it clear that, one, Newsweek is not so lame a place to work as those old white male columnists might make it seem, and two, that I missed not that much by not watching LOST for the last six years.
Oh, go on, watch. It’s Friday morning, and it’s funny.
H/T @the_hip_hapa
Coming Soon, or, this is a teaser
Things have been quiet here, on and off, for a month or two, and they’re going to stay that way as I finish up some US-based work, and ready for my next trip. Here’s some juicy pieces in the works, though:
* An interview with Billy Kahora, an editor at Kwani? and author of the [...]
"You're totally wrong," or, how I can single-handedly diagnose and save all of journalism
Here’s a description of what one new media guru (who’s actually kind of an old dude, so take hard, Old Guard of a Dying Industry, you too can learn new ways) has to say about teaching young journalists. I share this because it strikes me that for all the buzz of these blingy new [...]
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