My first appearance on Public Radio...

I'm probably the only one who remembers this conversation, but years ago I was talking to Andy Buch and the Baumgartner boys about our mutual love of public radio. And yes, I do think that NPR is solid news reporting. And balanced. Really. In fact, I think I'll teach a Sunday School lesson about it next week...

Anyway, we made a bet to see who could be the first to get an editorial on some Public Radio show. I don't remember what the winner would get, but probably the utter amazement of his peers about the sheer awesomeness of the feat would be enough.

Around that time (2006) I was in Chicago for a tradeshow and took a walk through Millennium Park and was interviewed about the iPod for a show called Hello Beautiful that played Sundays on WBEZ. A link of the show is below. There's a great editorial around 7:00 about how depressing iPods are. Then, at 10:30 is a clip about when I first got my iPod. So it's not an editorial, but it's the first step towards fulfilling a dream...

Hello Beautiful! - Act Two

Another unimaginative post...

I'm sure that many (if not all) of you have seen these, but since I have given up trying to post only when I have something new to say (which obviously doesn't happen anymore) I think these are worth seeing again. This band, OK Go, was a band from Chicago that created a video that went viral on YouTube (and eventually won a Grammy). It's for their song "Here It Goes Again":



They just released another video with a huge Rube Goldberg machine for their song "This Too Shall Pass".



Another video for the same song is also worth a watch (although not quite as amazing). Here's the link.

I can't embed this one because their ex-label didn't like people doing what I'm going here (hence the "ex" part of the title). I guess it makes sense. Let's stop what made this band famous. Good strategy BMI!


Oh, and I love this Feist video too...

Dedicated to Kory...