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Great Egret at Roemer Bird Sanctuary
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The Pundemic
On location in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, your intrepid correspondent brings you this live report from the 94th annual World Pun Competition.
Click on the triangle or mp3 link above to hear the report as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC and Pacifica stations across the nation.
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California Dreamin’
Monday morning, waking up in a new place with The Mamas & The Papas
Thanks to YouTuber TheFreddyShow
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Rocky Mountain High
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Flying over the Rockies
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To God And Truth
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From the museum description: “Bisa Butler used thousands of brightly colored textiles to create these figures taken from an 1899 photograph of the Morris Brown baseball team. Combining hand woven Kente cloth, Nigerian hand-dyed batiks, and African and Dutch wax-resist printed cottons, Butler portrays these athletes life size…”
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Mass.
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“I Think It’s Broke”: Stevie Wonder
You probably don’t know this Stevie Wonder song, because he made it up on the spot when his electric keyboard wouldn’t work. And that’s why he’s Stevie Wonder.
Thanks to YouTuber djcooler1976
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World View
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It may be hard to tell without blowing up the photo, but the sphere by artist Virginia Jacobs, entitled “Krakow Kabuki Waltz” is covered with various kinds of fabric, a quilted ball. The artist says that it is “a distillation of the continuity and indefatigability of the spirit of folk music, dance and costume.”
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Mass
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Lady Buds: Six Women Underground Cannabis Growers
In 2016, Californians voted “Yes” on proposition 64 which made cannabis legal for recreational purposes. But perhaps counter-intuitively, the consequences of that act were decidedly mixed and complex. A new documentary, Lady Buds, focuses on a group of six cannabis growers, mostly women, who had to wrestle with the many unforeseen circumstances that came along with pot legalization. I was happy to be speaking with the director of Lady Buds, Chris J Russo.
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Chris Russo, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
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The MTA Song
Monday morning The Kingston Trio looking for poor Charlie who got lost on Boston’s MTA.
Thanks to YouTuber John1948SevenE
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It Was A Berry Good Year
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For this Cedar Waxwing, feasting on a slew of winterberries.
Boston, Mass
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Serenity Prayer Redux
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Carla Fernandez, Untitled
Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Mass.
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Grumpy Cat Sez:
When you’ve eaten too much the night before.
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I’ve Just Seen A Face
Looxury!: The Four Yorkshireman Sketch
One more sketch from pre-Python days from At Last The 1948 Show, which was later revived for the Pythons. I think I like this original version best.
For some reason, the punch line is missing at the end. “And you try telling the young folk that today… and they won’t believe you”
Tim Brooke Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
Thanks to YouTuber BritBox
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time
Kurt Vonnegut’s humorous and fantastical novels are all still in print today. Certainly, if you were a college student of the 60s, 70s or 80s, you probably know lines from Vonnegut novels by heart. Producer, director and writer Robert Weide has come out with a new documentary on Kurt Vonnegut, which includes Mr. Weide’s personal relationship to Vonnegut, called Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. I was happy to interview Robert Weide for Arts Express.
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Robert Weide, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
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Friend Of The Devil
Monday morning, Grateful Dead wake up with some unexpected friends.
Live from the Fillmore East in 1970.
Thanks to YouTuber Omra Sky
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Covid Crime
This is a play by Lionelle Hamanaka concerning the wave of anti-Asian hate crimes that have occurred in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The play was performed live on the streets of NYC. The cast also got together to do a radio version which I helped put together. This radio version was heard yesterday on WBAI FM.
You can hear the radio version of “Covid Crime” by clicking on the triangle or mp3 link above.
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Honda Car Illusions
Not Anymore, Though
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Plumb Beach,
Brooklyn, New York
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Red Rubber Ball: Nellie McKay
A Paul Simon song written for The Cyrkle sung here by Nellie McKay with a Dylanesque harmonica.
More at Nellie McKay
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The Bookshop
The pre-Python Pythons in another classic sketch from the At Last The 1948 Show television program.
Thanks to YouTuber BritBox
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Gold, Oil, And Avocados
Leftists who have followed the recent fortunes of socialist governments in Latin America can’t help but be both heartened and chastened by the ups and downs in those economies and in their social development projects. The dynamics of building socialism in the midst of an imperialist world presents enormous challenges. I was happy to interview journalist Andy Robinson who succeeds in demystifying much of the politics of the area by getting down to basics in his fascinating and illuminating new book, Gold, Oil, and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities.
Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear my interview with Andy Robinson, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NYC, and Pacifica stations across the country.
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Vega Seeks A (Check) Mate
Monday Morning, Suzanne Vega’s “Knight Moves.”
I hadn’t heard this song for decades before hearing it again yesterday. Vega had fame with “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner” but this is one song of hers from 1985 that I particularly liked.
Thanks to YouTuber ponchsanta
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The Professor of Music: Danny Kaye
From The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Favorite line: “Chocolate Malto”
Thanks to YouTuber Dean Mason
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The Railway Carriage: Marty Feldman and John Cleese
John Cleese, Marty Feldman from pre-Monty Python days on a tv program called At Last The 1948 Show. Feldman was hired as a writer as he was not yet a performer, but Cleese thought that Feldman would be great in sketches. And he was.
Thanks to YouTuber inedibledormouse
