On Maron. Again a good premise goes on too long. A really good premise. Old radio guys, except now that means morning zoo radio guys and overnight guys who are actually in a local studio somewhere you can drive to and knock on the door. So those guys vs. the podcast economy. You meet a couple of these fellows and you…

He's taking all James Franco's roles.

Comes with an NPR tote bag though! Will be interesting to see how it sells.

Liver transplant, it was controversial for two reasons. Glad for him though.

Does she really have pet ocelot named Bruce? Looking at IMDB.

Was watching an old episode of Dark Angel (remember when Jessica Alba was an angsty bike messenger, secretly genetically engineered?), and they went into a whole routine about "defenestration." You get to see J.A. say "I don't know that word." Then, spoiler, her gentle handler shoots the corpse in the morgue and…

The neck shard is now a trope, along with the amazing auto/truck T-bone from out of nowhere. I think the really influential T-bone was that season finale of Law and Order so many years ago, but who knows.

Maron was finally good Thursday, first time really this year. Seth Morris plays a swarmy yoga teacher, revealed to be… etc. Rachel Harris. Solid until they push it too far with the assistant (Josh Brener), who's usually the best part of the show. He works better restrained, maybe Maron's sabotaging him. Morris is…

The Wash. Post finally put that old story through the juicer, and… it turns out to be true, more or less. http://www.washingtonpost.c…
Not so much a drinking song as a popular song that had drifted into pretentious literacy already just before Key put it in amber.

It's the world that got insane.

Matisse was into being old by that point, so it's a little different than Portlandia I guess.

Pretty much the opposite of his performance in Dune.

Fantastic when the NTSF:SD:SUV Kate Mulgrew character started talking about the postal service or something into a radio mic.

Have you seen Plenty (1985) with Streep? I've been meaning to rewatch it to see how it holds up. I tend to appreciate films made from plays (this one's by David Hare). Sting shows up for a few memorably bleak scenes. About Streep's career, I didn't like it when she turned to comedy. I have the same opinion on Arnold…

I'm not going to see it, but I was surprised by the trailer. Wahlberg comes of well and it seems like another The Happening, with warm people, pretty well-acted. Then the rusty truck turns into a creature and then there is something like a fire-breathing Godzilla rampaging through a city, and that at least looked a…

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I'd say tune in ten minutes early to get the national anthems.

I'll bet they leave out the part at the end where he starts macking on Terry then. Transcode NPR! Our digital future is at stake!

Whelp. It's a pretty amazing interview, and I've listened to a lot of Fresh Air over the years. At the end he even… well, you'll have to listen to it yourself, after you get the software.

James Franco got to you! So I looked up an old Fresh Air interview, and it was two weeks before 9/11/2001. To play it I had to download that old handy "Real Alternative" player though. http://www.npr.org/template…