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I try not to let a winter season go by without shilling at least once for my favorite snow removal product, The Snow Wolf. As the picture shows, it in essence is a wheeled snow shovel, enabling you to push and lift far more snow than with a regular shovel. It changes the back-breaking labor […]
Now that blizzards seem to be happening about every thirty-six hours, you don’t hear quite so much about this. Thank God.
If the purpose is to make me long for the days of receiving email from Nigerian princes and friends trapped in Copenhagen, mission accomplished.
Based on the trending topics in my news feed, here are what appears to be the most important cultural items and touchstones of 2013 that should go in the new Cedar Rapids Convention Center Time Capsule: A picture of what I had for lunch yesterday. Beyonce lip syncing “America The Beautiful.” A cute kitten Another cute […]
The following is a guest opinion run in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on April 11, 2011. Read it on their site. Much of the dialogue regarding proposals in the U.S. Congress to reduce or restrict funding for public broadcasting has focused on the impact those cuts will have on news and information stations such as […]
I just returned from the Public Radio Music Conference, which despite it’s encompassing name, is really just about Classical stations. In fact, I was the only non-classical person there! That said, music stations of any stripe have much more in common than they have differences, be they classical, jazz, AAA, or for that matter, commercial […]
I’ve been in New York for a couple of days attending the Music Personnel in Public Radio conference. Because… Well, KCCK is a jazz radio station, and jazz is music, right? It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that most public music stations ate classical music stations, and to say that this group […]
We all love to hear the musical sound of our own names, which perhaps can partly explain why, when I first saw an episode of “Boston Legal,” many years ago, my hero William Shatner had to repeat his character’s name several times (which as I recall, was also an intrinsic dialogue element), before I realized he […]
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An article is making the Twitter rounds which discusses “implicit egotism.” The authors suggest that implicit egotism leads us to prefer things that are connected to ourselves, that might have the same letters as those in our names, for example. The writers’ research turned up the fact that the city of St. Louis has a […]