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Hodgman's humor requires a high cultural IQ. "I don't consider what I do comedy qua comedy," he says. "It's something much weirder." Nevertheless, his weirdness is in high demand, with gigs on NPR's This American Life and editing the Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" feature--in addition to The Daily Show and the sequel to Expertise he's writing. "Like Tintin, I'm not one to turn down a good adventure," says Hodgman. "Even when my drunken sailor companion begs me to just stay home in the chteau for once...
...grown up with, on some level, which was a surprise for me. Then, one morning, this guy called me up. We were not dating. He was someone I knew. There was a misunderstanding, and he thought maybe we were. He called me up and said, "I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?" That was the last straw for me. I thought, "If I'm getting asked about NPR as an aphrodisiac, I have taken a wrong turn. Something is really wrong here. I have to do something different." I was at least clear...
...addition to tuning into National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts and episodes of FOX’s television show “The OC,” iPod users all over the world can now listen and watch a Harvard Extension School class. This year, lectures of Computer Science E-1: “Understanding Computers and the Internet” are available in audio and video Podcasts on iTunes, free of charge—the first time a Harvard course has been offered through this medium.Podcasting consists of distributing audio and video feeds online through Podcast clients, allowing...
...reasonable suggestion since on the same day Chertoff first learned--from an NPR anchor in Washington--that there were thousands of people stranded, starving and in some cases dying in the New Orleans Convention Center, a story that had been all over the media that morning. Again, Chertoff suggested reporters were exaggerating. "If you talk to someone and you get a rumor or you get someone's anecdotal version of something," he said, "I think it's dangerous to extrapolate it to all over the place." Demonstrating the kind of tenacious dedication to a line of argument that made...
Sources: AP, FAA, Airbus; USA Today (2); Washington Post, NPR; Editor & Publisher...