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October 05, 2005
Nerd Love.
Used to be, I couldn't listen to talky radio in my car. I needed music: fast music, verse-chorus-verse, and so loud that I'd be mortified when I'd forget to turn the dial down when picking up a friend or a trick or whatever and I'd turn the key and NINETEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN! I HOPE I GO TO HEAVEN! would blow us both into the backseat, no pun intended. In theory, I wanted to be one of those people who listened to NPR, but thanks to Louisville's awesome partitioning of public radio, I can be a public radio listener, yet still not fall asleep at the wheel. That changed the first time I heard This American Life. I fell in love with the themed shows, the mix of fiction, nonfiction, and interview, and, of course, the host and captain of the motley crew of TAL regulars. Oh, Ira.
Thanks to Ira, I discovered David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell (call me!) and learned to listen to people talking for more than a thirty-second station break. And I have second-row tickets to his Louisville show in January.
I might just have to lean in and lick him. The glasses? The hair? The wit? The voice? Oh, the voice.
Oh, Ira.
Posted by eek at October 5, 2005 11:16 AM
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JEALOUS! I mean...as much as it was nice seeing Garrison Keillor, I would really have much rather gotten tickets to this!
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He looks like a dark-haried James Spader.
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