Wednesday (Episode II: Attack of the Zoned)
The workday wasn’t too bad. Zipped by, more or less. It’s amazing how quickly time flies after you’ve had 32 oz. of frozen mocha goodness… especially when there’s two shots of espresso kickin’ it in the proverbial ass.

NPR/PRI
Talk of the Nation: Hawks, Doves and In-Between (Opinions about War)
Talk of the Nation: American Delegation Goes to Iraq
Talk of the Nation: Leon Wynter / Changing the Face of American Media

What’s more American than starring in a commercial to pitch Coca Cola or Budweiser? From Mohammed Ali to Oprah Winfrey, writer Leon Wynter says using African Americans and Latinos as pitchmen has changed our perception of race. On Talk of the Nation, Neal Conan talks with Leon Wynter about how popular culture is blurring the color lines.

Talk of the Nation: Writer Michel Houellebecq’s Comments on Islam
All Things Considered: California Power Supply
All Things Considered: Maine School Vouchers
All Things Considered: Vocal Sampling (www.ciocanmusic.com)
All Things Considered: The Man Who Created the First Emoticon

NOTE: : Check out The World‘s article on Medical Interpreters

Stray Toasters

  • I was going to have a little diatribe about the TotN segment with Leon Wynter, but I’ll put that on the back burner for now.
  • What Marvel Comics has done with their dotCOMICS is a great idea: Take some of their books. Make the pages into static Flash® presentations. Put ’em online. For free. Sure, they’re a few issues behind the newsstands and comic shops, but this is an excellent way to take advantage of the Internet…and maybe pick up a few new readers of the hardcopy books, too. Maybe someone should clue the higher-ups at AOHellTimeWarner (the parent company of DC Comics) about this.
  • Song of the Day #2 will have to be Sympathy for the Devil, also by the Rolling Stones. If turned the right way and looked at from a certain angle, it’s an interesting look at a few scenes from history, like Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire. Of course, Sympathy doesn’t have a line in it where no one remembers any of the lyrics except “….Marilyn Monroe!” But, it doesn’t need it, either.
  • Cats are funny. (According to , monkeys are funny, too.)
  • There is almost nothing to compare to tasty popped corns… well, maybe tasty iced creams, but that is another story altogether. I have come to realize that I seem to put popcorn in the Spider-Man promotional popcorn tub/bowl/whatever-the-Hell-you’d-call-it. Ironically, I got it at some movie that wasn’t Spider-Man; I think that I got it a week or two before that movie hit the silver screen. It holds roughly the exact amount of popped corn that are produced from one scoop of kernels that go into the popper. Synchronicity, indeed.

Bedtime. No, it’s well past bedtime. Oh, well.

Peace.