Well, spring has officially sprung. Trees are in bloom, pollen is everywhere, and National Public Radio is officially chaffing my ass.
Their spring pledge drive is in full motherfuckin’ effizzle, which means every 15 minutes, NPR treats its listeners to a lengthy guilt trip about donating money to them. Sometimes, it’s brought to you by Terri Gross. Sometimes, it’s Ira Glass. Occasionally, it’s a random celebrity like Robert freakin’ Plant. No joke. Mr. “Squeeze My Lemon” did a little spot yesterday about how much he loves rock ‘n roll, drugs and public radio.
One of my favorite tactics of theirs is the quasi-ransom threat. In effect, they say, “If you would just send us enough money to meet our goals, we could call this pledge drive off right now, and get back to our regular broadcast.” Bullshit!! I call bullshit on that. They enjoy their little “poor-us-we-have-no-money” game too much. We could give them all the gold in the world, and they’d still trot out Angela Lansbury or somebody like that to implore me to slap another donation on my already maxed-out credit card.
Oh wait. Is Angela Lansbury dead?? Because if she is, I would really feel guilty then.
Anywho, I’ll rant some more about NPR later. In the meantime, let’s rejoice in another waning cultural phenomenon: Lost. Does anyone still watch the show? WTF are the writers thinking? If anyone has insight into the latter, it’s the NYC homeboys in Olde English. Check out their version of a Lost writers meeting. I defy anyone to say their plot points are any less insane than the real ones.
Also, this is some fucked up shit having to do with meat and sex. I thought I’d share it with you beautiful people…
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Do you really think your local NPR affiliates like begging you for money? Really? Because they don’t.
NPR is the last place I hear my news, so I’ll never send them money.
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