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God bless Oklahoma.
You know an airport restroom is bad when it isn't rated by the Tourist Bureau but Amnesty International.
By request: our interview w/ @anapopovic "Serbian Scorcher" who makes blues guitar soar tinyurl.com/mngupok Yeow!
2 great young staffers left us. Thanked me for what I'd "taught" them. Hope they didn't mean journalism, but something lasting.
International Night at grade school. @katyperry 's Firework is international language of daughters: pic.twitter.com/v1xy55rXmw
This week's essay on a most excellent space adventure n.pr/10Kmnr8 with @Cmdr_Hadfield
Can we just play this @AudraEqualityMc interview w/ music over & over & over?
Just head myself tell @AuthorDanBrown Dante "great artist, but not known for his mirth." Not definitive judgment, I suspect.
Our friends at @WKNO Memphis already tuned in. Between Grizzlies & @anapopovic lottsa Memphis on our show today!
Up ahead--sports! You bet we'll mention Memphis Grizzlies! And Becks! But first--Dan Brown on his new novel. Already # 1?
Up now: our @davidfolkenflik on feds combing AP phone records, and @ConnieSchultz on what a local paper can do on big stories.
Every interview I do about how much is safe to drink before driving, I wind up thinking, why drink at all before driving?
Up ahead: will amendments snarl immigration overhaul? And cold cases from a sad era.
I think @anapopovic is the most electrifying blues guitarist I've heard since...
Up ahead: an Irish memoir of The Troubles @colin_broderick & @anapopovic Serbian Scorcher of the Blues Guitar.
Always had a problem w/ trying to infer about society from TV. On TV, you'd think 75% of people cops or docs, no plumbers.
Thanks for all nice comments on @Cmdr_Hadfield essay. Will post later. Now: Zimbabwe elex, Afgh mining, teevee mothers not working.
We're on the air! Up ahead: @arishapiro on touch week for @BarackObama & @peteroverby on grilling of IRS. With garlic?
Last show for great editor @GeoffRBennett going to TimeWarner. He might burst into studio, shout @TheGeorgeCarlin 7 deadly words
Music we're listening to before we go on air: @dark_shark Monitors set to @CNN @espn @AJEnglish @FoxNews. Fair & balanced!
In studio, watered, caffeinated, & ready to leap upon the news like the WH press corps on a slip from @PressSec
A new study from Carnegie Mellon says our digital devices are making us all dumber. LOLZ!
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Wrote in script that an astronaut sang w/ "Barenaked Ladies." Forgot you can't see capital letters on radio. Changed it.
Thanks for follow @musicboxfilms We've watched Dragon Tattoo trilogy so intently, wish they made Lincoln in Swedish, too!
Know what I've liked most about @RealBeckham_7 ? (not his cologne). He really loved playing for his country. En-ga-land!
Changed places w/ our 10yr old. I told her something looked like dog droppings. She said, "Escher." Darn PBS kid shows!
Prepping for tomorrow's @cityandcolour interview with @nprscottsimon . Vastly different sound from his days with Alexisonfire
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Twitter invites me to follow both @TheLewisBlack & PM @netanyahu Does that say more about them or me?
Nicest email on my novel Pretty Birds tinyurl.com/c2kk2z5 from pitmaster at @DallasLockhart Will is insightful reader!
Book of the Day: Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other by Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) #Books #Memoir ow.ly/kzThK
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Our @arishapiro just asked, "This admin prosecuted twice as many leakers as all others combined. How does this reflect balance?"
OK everyone, so the plan is when Commander Hadfield lands, we'll all be wearing ape masks.
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II) --"Who starred in it anyway?" I said, "Daniel Craig." She said, "Why did we waste our time on the Swedish version?"
I) Wife & I enjoyed Swedish Girl With Dragon Tattoo. She says, "No need to do US version. I hate when Hollywood does that--"
Monitoring reporter's phone records chills. @ACLU raising questions reminds us they challenge excesses of liberals, too.
WATCH: Woman kicked off JFK-bound flight for refusing to stop singing Whitney Houston's 'I will always love you' nyp.st/10lCU7P
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BBQ sauces compete for sinister names (Ass-kicking, The Widow Sanchez, Hot & Nasty, etc). What about just Tobacco ?
Kids from China, Russia, India, Mexico snack on my wife's pain du chocolate for kindergarten France Day: America! pic.twitter.com/GhmzrP73cD
French Day in daughter's kindergarten. Ask, "What's France's favorite sport?" One boy says, "Yoga!" pic.twitter.com/w39FHgvuMo
By request: this week's essay on special vision of mothers: n.pr/19bqIrj w/ eyes in the back of their head.
Alma Guillermoprieto has written the best and most accurate description of post-Chavez Venezuela. Via NYReviewofBooks nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/…
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Zounds--George Carlin would have been 76 today! He can RIP. We shouldn't. @kelly_carlin keeps fanning flame of his genius.
Look at my behind-the-scenes interview with @PushPage: pushpage.me/ScottSimon
Hey hey! Watching Cubs-Nats game, Cubs w/ 7 run lede. Tell my daughters, "Treasure this moment." Cub lead. And daughters.
Sondheim's mother once said she was "sorry-grateful." Yrs later, a song. This unlikely trio does well tinyurl.com/dxfavsu
Just listening to Norm Lewis & @AudraEqualityMc in 2012 Porgy & Bess revival. How did I miss this last year? Terrific.
By request: this week's essay on special vision of mothers: n.pr/19bqIrj Eyes in back of head & middle of heart
"Missing: Jonathan Winters. Badly." Dick Cavett's superb recollection of a singular talent (Part 2). @NYTOpinionator: ow.ly/kVMxK
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