Laughter

[lollardfish]

I heard the final part of this episode of This American Life while driving back home from Pastoral.

You can click on "full episode" to listen to it for free, though downloading it costs 95 cents.

The first bit is The Onion staff throwing headlines at each other and trying to get from 600 jokes to 16. The final bit, from Gladwell, on making up stories and phrases at the Washington Post, is wonderful.

When I have some free time (perhaps while playing with the boy on the floor tonight), I look forward to listening to the rest.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I haven't any idea what's going on, but I probably have 12 or 15 episodes of the program in .mp3 format. Sometimes I download 2 or 3 at a time, because I've gotten behind in doing so.

K.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I wonder what I'm doing wrong.

The important thing, to me, is that Gladwell is really funny.