Mon 14 May 2007
So a couple weeks ago I started hearing about this Public Radio Talent Quest, and some friends had suggested I submit something from my past podcasting repertoire. I thought that sounded like a GREAT idea, but you know, with grad school and politickin’, I kept putting it off.
The deadline is MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. And having listened to everything in my podcast library, there ain’t a two minute clip that I feel meets the general guidelines set forth in a very hard-to-find (and still quite ambiguous) blog post on the NPR contest website.
So, my backup, half-assed plan is to read an old, popular blog post into the mic when I get home from the mountains in a few hours — hopefully one without too much profanity or Imus-like insults. As I’m about to spend the next few hours in the car unable to go back over my archives, I’d LOVE some input from the audience as to your favorite, possibly NPR-worthy posts. Please leave your comments, even if you can’t find the particular post and can only remember “that one about the bucket not for to poop in.” (Hint: I don’t think the bucket not for to poop in quite makes the public radio cut.) Many thanks.
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May 14th, 2007 at 8:42 pm[…] Well, the suggestion to clip some audio from the Newt Gingrich video was popular, and not at all a bad idea. But I wasn’t quite sure I was ready to make a politically controversial first impression. Then, as with so many good ideas, I had another water closet epiphany: Faking It. As far as introductions to why I want to get into public radio go, that seems to hit the nail on the head. But boy did it take some red ink to edit that down from a 3:45 nervous read to a 2:00 on-the-nose relaxed one. […]



May 14th, 2007 at 10:35 am
What about the audio portion of the YouTube response to the republican tax breakers? That was pretty good, both in terms of audio quality and poignant sarcasm.
Sold the house. Moving to VA beginning of July.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:46 am
You know, I was just thinking the same thing in the shower. Kind of a creepy, almost-gay moment of synchronicity, huh? Mwah!
Just gotta cut it down to two minutes. Why’d I have to ask the gentleman to yield another 60 seconds??? (And then take 90.)
May 14th, 2007 at 10:51 am
My favorite post ever was about fake IDs and the Sex Pistols.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:58 am
i think you gotta go with the golden egg portion of the newt podcast.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
The very first thing that came to mind was the nickname post. Then I had to find it to make sure I rememebered if it was about what I thought it was about and it was. So. That’s my pick.
May 14th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Acutally, just about anything from the nostaligia category works for me.