December 2011
21 posts
November 2011
31 posts
Just discovered there are 16 hours of News From Lake Wobegon in podcast form.
It’s true! And we post the latest here for easy reblogging every week.
I was looking at that Bob Ross post
I couldn’t help but remember my first finals in University, freshman year. I was totally stressed and feeling like I wanted to give up (and it certainly didn’t help that one of my readings was the less than cheerful The Road, LOL). What I did during that time to calm down was look to A Prairie Home Companion and Garrison Keillor, who played a largish role in my childhood as the Man With The Imperturbable Voice. However, as I was not possessed of a radio, and had little idea of how I might get a radio program on the internet (something I’m still only familiar with in passing), I went to the public radio website, where Garrison Keillor answered listener questions, and began to sit down and read them all. The one below the read more really helped me, so much so that I copied it into a word document and saved it so I wouldn’t forget. Thanks, Garrison Keillor! When things get bad, you inspire me to keep going.
The News from Lake Wobegon, November 26, 2011
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The News from Lake Wobegon for November 26, 2011
“This Thanksgiving—a fairly uneventful Thanksgiving, a little excitement up at the Magendantz home.” A fire prompts reconciliation between the Bunsens and the Magendantzes after years of animosity, Clint Bunsen accidentally restores the Moonlight Bay Supper Club’s neon sign, the Tolleruds welcome their daughter home from St. Olaf College, and thoughts on Thanksgiving meals.
“One of the questions that people ask me constantly is, Is it hard having to be funny all the time? The difficult thing for me is being serious. It’s a genetic thing—being funny—like being able to wiggle your ears. I don’t have any trouble being funny, that’s my turn of mind. Or at least attempting to be funny. Whether it really is funny is for the audience to judge. But I actually do think that some people are and some people aren’t. We all know, say, a lot of lawyers who aren’t funny and some who are. A lot of dentists who aren’t funny. The dentist who just took a fractured root out of my tooth—we refer to him as the butcher of Fifty-fourth Street—is a pleasant, friendly man, but he’s not funny.”
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Humorist Calvin Trillin, from a 1995 interview in The Paris Review
He joins the show this weekend at New York’s Town Hall, along with conductor and pianist Rob Fisher, and Heather Masse.
Your Burning Turkey Day Questions: Answered!
Have a culinary question for Garrison? The Splendid Table is looking for listeners who can call in with great food- and cooking-related questions when GK joins the live Turkey Confidential broadcast. Submit your questions to turkeyconfidential@americanpublicmedia.org by this afternoon and tune in on Thursday to hear the show!
The News from Lake Wobegon, November 19, 2011
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The News from Lake Wobegon for November 19, 2011
“Oh, we knew it was going to snow. We could see that sky—that was a snow sky. People who have lived here for more than five minutes know what that snow sky looks like.” Plus, discovering hidden treasures under the floor of Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church, Pastor Liz delivers a sermon on one of her least favorite Gospels, and Lake Wobegon exiles return home for Thanksgiving.
“The thing about winter in Minnesota? It helps clarify the meaning of warmth, of comfort. How would we get what it is to come in and peel off layers, warm up by the fire or a hot stove, sip from mugs filled with liquid chocolate or spiced tea, eat bowls of cheesy wild rice soup and plates of steaming chicken noodle hotdish, entwine our legs with someone we love all wrapped in blankets on a big ol’ couch, snuggle into a bed piled high with quilts and drift off? Because of winter, we smell wood burning for months. We burn more calories, and have whole days, stretches of days, unable to leave our homes for the snow. We can bake all we want, and play board games, and sit up late watching what the moon does to that snow piled up to our window sills.”
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“The storm is coming” — The View from Mrs. Sundberg’s Window for November 14, 2011
This week, Mrs. Sundberg reflects on the glory of Minnesota seasons and offers a recipe for Red Velvet Cream Cheese Brownies.
“Satire, kids, is your sacred duty as Americans. Be funny. Poke them cows and make them moo.”
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Garrison Keillor
(via i-am-the-keeper)
The News from Lake Wobegon, November 12, 2011
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The News from Lake Wobegon for November 12, 2011
This was the week that the weather turned. The big ship swung off to the North.
Plus, Lake Wobegon prepares for winter, reflections on Veterans Day, and newly widowed Becky Beckman honors her husband Bradley by taking his place on an annual deer-hunting trip.
"Banjo is not an instrument, banjo is a state of being."
OH MAN I WANT THE REST OF THAT SPEECH BECAUSE IT IS HILARIOUS
Tim Russell played a patron at a nightclub called “Transcendental Banjo” in the November 5th edition of “Guy Noir.” Read the script for more, including Peter Rowan’s appearance as the lead singer of the band onstage at the club: Boddhisatva Grass.
The News from Lake Wobegon, November 5, 2011
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The News from Lake Wobegon for November 5, 2011
It’s been gray, it’s been chilly, it’s been cold, and we had our first real frost out there — frosty sidewalks early in the morning. Lyle Janske discovered that the other day. He came out to take his garbage out and he walked across the deck out behind his house, and suddenly without his anticipating it, his feet were up above his head.
Plus, deer hunting season is underway in Lake Wobegon: look out for deer ticks, how NOT to fit in when you’re invited to go deer hunting, deer hunting widows parties, and thoughts on arguments about and during Thanksgiving.
“It’s Reformation Sunday this Sunday at the Lutheran church, and so the altar guild has hung a banner there in the sanctuary: Ecclesia Semper Reformanda Est - The Church is Always Reforming. They put it up in Latin because if they put it up in English, it would offend people.”
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Garrison Keillor (via billkahler)
From the News from Lake Wobegon segment on last weekend’s broadcast. Listen here.
Remembering Tom Keith →
minnesota.publicradio.org
Tune into Minnesota Public Radio’s Midday program at Noon CDT for a celebration of Tom Keith featuring Garrison, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Dale Connelly and Mike Pengra of The Morning Show. If you’re outside of Minnesota, listen online at the Midday website.
