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...Huntington. That train is always hellishly hot, overcrowded and airless as the grave. So there's nothing more disturbing than being trapped with some maniac in headphones who periodically erupts in cackling laughter. But I couldn't help myself: you try keeping quiet while listening to Al Franken reading from his book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. Especially the introduction, in which Franken describes ex-U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick as "my former lover...
Here's the part I like best: because the programming exists only as bits, with no shipping or packaging required, the pricing is sweet. The Franken book on cassette, for instance, costs $12.57 plus shipping at Amazon.com But Audible's version costs only $6.95. Better still, you can buy a la carte stuff, such as Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues for 75[cents] each. The opportunity to cherry-pick content and exchange small sums of money online will become more and more attractive, to both consumers and authors. (I would happily read my columns...
...over the roar of my ghastly train, which makes me think it wouldn't work well on ghastly airplanes either. Audible's software interface, which allows you to select programs, could use simplification. On my maiden voyage, I thought I had set up three Keillor monologues, a chunk of Franken and some Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But for reasons that are still unclear to me, though the program manager said I had downloaded 20 min. of Wobegon, all I got was the last few minutes of it. Oh, well--at least the Franken survived...
...Franken, star of NBC's Lateline and the author of two best-selling books on politics, will address the ARCO Forum on March 11, according to a schedule released yesterday by the Kennedy School press office...
...Franken's latest book is "Why Not Me," a fictionalized account of a Franken run for the presidency...