Comments for The Next Best Thing

Comment on It Was 20 Years Ago Today… by Jowi Taylor

Jowi Taylor — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:07:15 +0000

Hey Dean,

I had no idea about this – mostly being a listener to NPR cultural offerings in podcast form.

But I’m really struck by how what you’re saying reflects absolutely my feelings about CBC here in Canada – on both radio and television. Even the flagship TV evening show The National has drifted into “lifestyle” stories with increasing frequency. But then, I rarely watch CBC Television news.
CBC Radio kind of glosses over stories, fails to conduct really thorough interviews – opting instead for the man-on-the-street opinion of some complex issue whose terms have already been proven to have been skewed by the mayor or the consultant or the prime minister or whoever is setting that story’s agenda. There’s something so concerted about all this that it’s almost as if Roger Ailes has replicated himself in the form of countless bland KPMG consultants and infiltrated the executive of even our supposedly public media.
Very good to have you in mind again! Hope you’re well.

Comment on It Was 20 Years Ago Today… by Keith

Keith — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:55:53 +0000

Good radio snap. I just bought a new Grundig. It’s astonishing to see & hear how well shortwave can sound on such a small device. Trouble is, just about everyone is gone from SW except the smaller countries and religious extremists. Just this month, Radio Prague hangs it up.

As for cellphone tech, wait no longer. I use my Android phone everyday as if it were a transistor. I listen to my web site and BBC 6 (and 3) on the way to work. Several free apps, especially RadioTime Tune In App (http://radiotime.com/mobile/android ) turn any Android phone into a great radio. I listener to internet radio in my car all the time via a cassette adapter from the audio out of the phone. So easy and sounds great.

You certainly could take BBC 3, 4 or your favorite flavor w/you with just about any Android phone. Other less smart phones (like the iphone, etc) may work as well.

Comment on It Was 20 Years Ago Today… by Dave Jacke

Dave Jacke — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:32:57 +0000

Hey Dean! Long time no see . . .

Glad to hear your opinions on this. I am struck by the NPR website’s vapidness almost every time I look at it.

In addition to the BBC, I like Al Jazeera English too. Don’t have time to dig into it as far as I might, but I am pleasantly surprised by the quality of the news–and opinion–they bring to bear.

Dave

Comment on But What About the Olive Haters? by Tanya S

Tanya S — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:25:22 +0000

Hi, Dean, I’ve always wondered how many of us are out there. I could have well written this myself. Same thing here – no problem with olive oil (because it has no smell of olives whatsoever), but olives.. they’re just disgusting and the ONLY thing I can’t eat. I’ve eaten just 2 in my life and both.. went back out: ) The second time it was my parents who tricked me into eating a meal with hidden olive pieces. After what followed they believe me now but other people still find it hard to believe..

Btw, no Scottish connection here: )

Comment on Tomorrow, at Soho Rep! by Raphael

Raphael — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:32:23 +0000

Thanks Dean! The discussion is FREE and open to ALL! Come by the theater around 8.50PM to listen to what should be a fascinating discussion about Man in Nature/Nature in Man. Also, there are tickets still available for the play! Book at http://www.sohorep.org with the code ‘WALKEREVANS’ for $10 tickets. See you at the theater.

–Raphael Martin
Literary Manager
Soho Rep.

Comment on Today in History by Tish Valva

Tish Valva — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:01:52 +0000

I miss The Next Big Thing on the radio. I for one will certainly stop by.

Comment on This Morning I Shot a Bear in My Pajamas by Bolton

Bolton — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:19:23 +0000

I still miss ‘Next Big Thing’
I would blog more, but I feel you would laugh at me…

Crosswords??? WOW…

Never in a catrillion years…

Bears… Not a problem… yet….

Deer and Voles…

I miss ‘Next Big Thing’…

Comment on How You Know You’re Generation Jones by admin

admin — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:48:31 +0000

Thanks to a glitch that is totally my own fault, “Malinak” wished to leave a comment here and could not. I’m posting it on Malinak’s behalf:

“You know you’re Generation Jones if you collected Looney Tunes glasses from McDonald’s, ran around with those ridiculous wax lips on your face, knew all the words to Benny and the Jets (or faked them), and your fifth or sixth grade teacher wore a button that read: Don’t blame me, I voted for McGovern.”

Comment on Embarrassing Admission: I Watched Every Episode of LOST by Thom Lipiczky

Thom Lipiczky — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:42:39 +0000

Actually, I like Dean’s hypnopompic hypothesis. And notice that you never actually see Ambrose Bierce and Jack Shepherd simultaneously in the same part of the time-space continuum! Coincidence? I think not.

Comment on Embarrassing Admission: I Watched Every Episode of LOST by Amy Reynaldo

Amy Reynaldo — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:07:20 +0000

The closing credits shot was curious. It was wreckage, no bodies, no live people walking around. In the first couple seasons, the characters pretty much cleaned up the wreckage, right? They took what they needed and we never saw that stuff again. Seeing it with the credits made it look as if the crash site had never been touched by live people. Which made me think that maybe everyone on Oceanic 815 died in the crash, and there were never any people on the island at all.

Which doesn’t make any sense, although how much sense does it make that so many people would’ve survived the crash?

Hypnagogic hallucinations happen as you’re falling asleep.

It would be surpassingly strange for Jack to dream entire back-stories for other people. How often do you have dreams that don’t involve you, where you’re an omniscient witness to things happening to people unaware of your all-seeing eye? Like Sun and Jin in the restaurant with the gangland killers–Jack wasn’t figuring into that story at all.