"Did you ever see a tree cry? Its tears are paper napkins. A proper host doesn’t make guests dab their mouths with swatches of the ozone layer. Thank goodness for cloth napkins—little squares of color that double as ascots or penalty flags. Whatever you do, don’t use ShamWows. Yes, they absorb spills, but also facial hair, dignity, and eyes."
APM is the second largest producer and distributor of public radio programming and the largest owner and operator of public radio stations in the nation.
August 27, 2012
April 13, 2012
It’s Friday folks! And what a week it has been. We started off with a 14-hour car ride with an Australian GPS named Jill who yelled at us about shaaap turns from New York to North Carolina, spent mid-week in Urgent Care with a case of strep throat that took at shot of penicillin in the ass to resolve, and now we’re so loaded up on ibuprofen that it’d take a horse tranq and a Big Gulp of rectified spirits to cure these cramps! TMI? Our apologies! We’ll make it up to you with this vintage picture of APM’s Kai Rysdall, who is single-handedly responsible for making the Dow sound like sexy talk. Did you know that before joining Marketplace, Mr. Rysdall was a Navy pilot and worked in the foreign service in Ottawa? There’s only one thing hotter than spying on Mounties, and that’s this: when you donate to Marketplace’s sister show, The Dinner Party, you get a page from Kai Rysdall’s on-air script! No word on how much it takes for in-person delivery, but that would be worth all the Nina Totenbags in the world. HOT!
February 22, 2012
Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein:
There was a question at the beginning: Will this show appeal to people outside of Portland? Once the episodes starting airing, Portland turned out to be a city that was watching it a lot less than others, mostly because people here can’t afford cable.
January 27, 2012
From The Dinner Party, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim reveal a secret behind the unpracticed look of their TV show and new movie:
It takes a lot of work to make it look like it’s not a lot of work. A lot of it’s in the editing — cutting to the right reaction shots. A trick we use is we shoot a lot of reactions from people and extras when they don’t know the camera’s rolling. That’s when you get a really weird pose, like eyes closed.
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December 5, 2011
"If you remove all the empty space from an atom, you can put the world’s population into something the size of a sugar cube."
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GZA, aka “The Genius,” the rapper and wordsmith at the core of the Wu Tang Clan, has a new title: lecturer. This week, he spoke at Harvard about (predictably) music and creativity but also (less predictably) science.
