Showing posts with label npr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label npr. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Short, Short, Short Story Contest
NPR is holding a contest, which ends this week. (I just learned about it.)
The winner gets interviewed on Weekend All Things Considered, gets to have his or her story read on air, and gets a book.
Here's where you'll find the rules.
I submitted one and hope to get another in.
How about you?
This summer, we're beginning a contest called "Three-Minute Fiction." The premise is simple: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less — that's usually about 500-600 words long.
The winner gets interviewed on Weekend All Things Considered, gets to have his or her story read on air, and gets a book.
Here's where you'll find the rules.
I submitted one and hope to get another in.
How about you?
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Controversies That Fade
NPR has a list of "Who Cares?" stories from 08.
My thoughts:
The New Yorker cover was certainly the dumbest of non-stories this year. Well, other than Brett Favre.
I remember a lot of arguments about the price of oil during the summer where I was derided as hopelessly naive for saying that since oil was just commodity like any other, a price increase did not mean that that we were on the brink of running out of it.
Hilary's tears were sorta interesting, because it did raise the question of how the press and the voters were going to act toward a female presidential candidate.
Never really cared about Jeremiah Wright. I imagine that I would think that what most Pastors say in church sounds pretty nuts to me. See Johnny Logic's entry from yesterday.
ESPN's crazy over hyping of Brett Favre caused Chad Pennington (the man he replaced) to fall to me way lower in my fantasy draft than he should have. I had a good long laugh when Pennington put up better numbers than Favre, and did his best to help me mock my coworkers.
My thoughts:
The New Yorker cover was certainly the dumbest of non-stories this year. Well, other than Brett Favre.
I remember a lot of arguments about the price of oil during the summer where I was derided as hopelessly naive for saying that since oil was just commodity like any other, a price increase did not mean that that we were on the brink of running out of it.
Hilary's tears were sorta interesting, because it did raise the question of how the press and the voters were going to act toward a female presidential candidate.
Never really cared about Jeremiah Wright. I imagine that I would think that what most Pastors say in church sounds pretty nuts to me. See Johnny Logic's entry from yesterday.
ESPN's crazy over hyping of Brett Favre caused Chad Pennington (the man he replaced) to fall to me way lower in my fantasy draft than he should have. I had a good long laugh when Pennington put up better numbers than Favre, and did his best to help me mock my coworkers.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Online Comics on NPR
This is one of the reasons I love NPR: they have featured both Penny Arcade and Achewood. Now they need to do xkcd for a online comic trifecta.
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