It had to be a slow news day for the Times to write about The Radio Show: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/sports/football/despairing-the-giants-but-without-shouting-on-public-radio.html?_r=1&hpw

“People get to keep their jobs – that’s all I was concerned about,” Don Young said on Saturday morning, standing a few feet away from a small, illuminated case that held one of Pete Maravich’s socks, which appeared to have been laundered. Don’s a design engineer for Cablevision in the Bronx. He came up to [...]

“A small wiry man in a tan golf jacket with a greasy duck-tail haircut who paced along the sidelines of both practice fields with a speedy kind of intensity….like a pimp or a track tout,” was Hunter S. Thompson’s take on the man, back in 1973, during the too-short month they hung together at Raider [...]

Hey dad: remember the Bronze Star you never sent back to St. Louis in ‘46 so the corps could send you a Silver Star instead because they decided that on review your actions taking the cave on Peleliu merited an upgrade, but they needed the bronze back first? And mom says you said, “F*** ‘em?” [...]

He didn’t have to be here, playing football for a fraying city once known for its mighty port, its Frank Lloyd Wrights and its Frederick Law Olmsted landscaping, and now best known for a bar snack featuring the part of the chicken that you used to throw away, wearing the jersey of a football team [...]

My guess is that in the rest of the world, when someone decides to commit billions of municipal bucks to building a stadium for their city their first thoughts generally go immediately to the architecture. My guess is that the Beijing Olympics organizers didn’t sit down on day one and say, “First off: Which fast-food [...]

The heat is so intense it feels as if the sky is going to start melting from above, and below, rises off the parking lot asphalt in shimmery ribbons. But a hundred yards away down on the beach, the ocean breakers are rolling in, and the kids are wading and laughing, and what could be [...]

When he turns from his computer to introduce himself, after pausing the replay of last night’s Phillies game, my immediate thought is: This sandy-haired, little-kid-smiling guy looks way too young to have just turned forty.
And I tell him so.
“I’m lucky, I guess,” he says.
Right. He’s lucky.
It’s a kid’s face. It really is. And then, [...]

An observation that wouldn’t be worthy of opining except on an irrelevant website. In Hitchcock’s 1950 “Stage Fright,” Marlene Deitrich sets up Jane Wyman’s fiance for a murder rap.
Wyman says, “I’ll just go talk to her, woman to woman.” And her dad responds: “An impressive situation, at any time.” How cool a line [...]

Congratulations. Welcome to the real world. Sorry we left it in such a mess. Now, can you fix it, please?
I’m betting you can. Because you’re different. Because your generation is different, and your class is different, and some of you know you’re different…And different is good. Being different is good. Actually, it’s not only [...]