This podcast is a collection of simple pleasures, some old and some still with that new car smell. Thick, sticky electronic taffy, creamy, dripping indiefolks, and garage-brew cotton candy make (I hope) for a well-timed wintertime treat.
My Career in Radio
by Garrison KeillorI’m a radio man for thirty-some years
In St. Paul, an old variety show
Like those I used to hear, my dears,
When I was a child long ago.
To critics, my show is peppered
With little bits of Bob & Ray,
Jack Benny, and Jean Shepherd,
But those critics are dying (Hooray!)
And to twenty-year-olds who were born
Too late to hear the great Fred Allen
I am the master of the form,
Sailing the airwaves like Magellan.
If a thief escapes and is not hung
He may be honored by the young.(Garrison Keillor’s new collection, Sonnets, 1983-2008, was just published by Common Good Books.)
image: Josie’s Coney Island Nightmare (cinema 1914) (Flickr Commons, NYPL)
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