Update: Episode One of TAL TV now online.

Original Post: The TV vers of This American Life premieres tonite (Thurs Mar 22) on Showtime. They’ve also revamped their web. And I.Glass will tell all on the upcoming Bob Edwards Weekend– here’s the promo:

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Transom Tools just posted a Portable Digital Recorder Comparison writ by (the amazing) Jeff Towne. ‘Chines compared are the Marantz PMD 660, Zoom H4, Sound Devices 702/722, Edirol R-09, and M-Audio Microtrack.

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In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave drugs to spiders and observed their effects on web building:

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New audio software, not yet released yet, but a possibly promising tool: Snapper by Audio Ease.

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Sometimes I think there needs to be cussing on public radio. Not because I want to go head-to-head with FCC Chairman Martin about issues of free speech. (En garde!) But sometimes the people you interview use sh-#$%$ and f-%$# and b-^#%@$ more often than the word “and.” It’s just who they are. So when you take out the “bad” words you lose, I think, an accurate representation of their f*cking awesome personalities.

Case in point, Bobby Hansson. Bobby is the artist featured in our recent piece Tin Can Orchestra. He is colorful in dress (see pictures from previous post) and in language. Admittedly, there were times when I cringed a little as I held the microphone because what Bobby was saying was inappropriate and cheesy. But there were other times when I just laughed. He was quirky. I liked him. So I was a little sad that I had to cut out some of Bobby’s zingers.

Here is my mini tribute to Bobby’s colorful mouth. It was done in a flash. I’m pretty sure there is better stuff in the raw tape, but at least it’s something, right?

(The piece of opera music is from Bobby’s record player that he connected to a power strip in his blacksmith shop. It’s Maria Callas, don’t ask me from what opera. My mom would kill me if she found out I didn’t know.)

PS–Is it just me or does the FCC chairman look like he’s twelve?

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Photos by Scott Carrier from Afghanistan for an Harper’s Magazine article:

Music by Eva Cassidy from her Live at Blues Alley.

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Funny how you can glean the plot from The Big Lebowski- F*cking Short Version:

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This week’s HV cast is “Rocky Mountain High” (mp3), from the Song and Memory series, produced by Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler. Jeffery Carpenter explains the sectarian severance special connection to John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” (4:11):

(Also check WFMU’s X-rated John Denver.)

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