Have Some Soup.

Sup? Just pumping water for my camels. Casually.

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nprfreshair:

Today Ira Glass gave the commencement address at Goucher College. Somewhat reluctantly.

I actually like this even more than the Neil Gaiman speech somehow.

nprmusic:

Download “Loveless” by Said the Whale, which glides between toe-tapping pop and beautiful crooning.

Said the Whale! Don’t mind if I do.

nprfreshair:

Audio is now up for our show-long Maurice Sendak tribute. I cried. You might want to have tissues handy.

I’ve been waiting to listen to this all day and I finally got through it. This is how I imagine it played out during broadcast:

Minute 1: Terry reads from an obituary and 5% of the listening audience starts crying.
Minute 28: Maurice’s last interview begins. 25% of the audience is now crying.
Minute 38: Maurice starts crying about the fragility of life and like  60% of the audience loses it.
Minute 41: So many emotions. We must be at 75%.
Minute 43: The “I cry a lot because I miss people…” quote happens and we hit 90%
Minute 45: You thought you were going to last?! BAM. Oh my god oh my god every single person with radio access is crying right now we’re going to drown.
End: “Live your life, live your life, life your life…” everyone cries forever.

So that’s pretty much the plan. But it’s amazing and you should listen.

Maurice Sendak, 2011

It took me a while to figure out why everyone was posting Maurice Sendak quotes today and now that I know, how am I supposed to deal with this quote?

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Lena Dunham on navigating the tricky boundaries with her parents

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Hugh Laurie loves NPR, too.

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climateadaptation:

NPR covers bears roaming around my town! 

The mild New England winter means that more bears are up and about, looking for food — and not just in the woods. They’re also exploring urban backyards and residential streets. The small town of Northampton, Mass., has more than its share of furry visitors.

In Northampton, a call on a neighborhood email list for tales of recent bear encounters netted about about a dozen responses in an hour. Almost everyone, it seems, has a bear story.

“I was weeding by the side of our driveway, middle of a summer day, and a huge — must’ve been a male — literally walked by within a couple feet of me,” one neighbor says.

“And I screamed at Joan, ‘There’s a bear!’ really loud, but of course, she couldn’t hear me because she’s, you know, bopping away under the headphones,” recounts another.

How did Northampton get to this point? It’s a college town full of restaurants, clothing stores and art galleries. Not exactly wilderness.

But it’s flanked by rural, wooded and swampy areas that black bears love — and they don’t have far to go for easy meals. They eat from the Dumpsters, the bird feeders and the compost bins.

Via NPR, “Bears Stuffing Themselves Near Massachusetts Homes”

STEPHEN LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND ON MY TUMBLR DASH.

(It’s not as good when you’re not reading it dramatically, though.)

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wroteandwrit:

Civilian // Wye Oak

Obsessed. And this is possibly the first recorded performance?