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“This House Must Go” airs on TLC this week. Portions of this show were shot in our house back in April. Dates and times are below. I’m assuming that the times are Eastern.

JUN 10 2006 @ 10:00 PM
JUN 11 2006 @ 01:00 AM
JUN 17 2006 @ 08:00 PM
JUN 17 2006 @ 11:00 PM
JUN 25 2006 [...]

The Beyond crew has come and gone. They consisted of an Australian director, a camera guy from Pittsburgh and an audio guy from Metairie. They shot an interview with us on Thursday, plus some scenes of us walking around our gutted basement. (Earlier in the day they got a termite expert to examine our damage, [...]

I was contacted last week by an Australian television production company. They were looking for a termite-damaged house and they’d read about us in the Times-Picayune. They were interested in shooting a segment about us for a special on real estate disasters which they’re producing for The Learning Channel.
I told them if they wanted to [...]

BBC Radio Five asked me to record a segment for a show they’re doing next Monday, I think. I don’t know if they’ll use it, but you can listen for yourself now [mp3 audio, about 5MB].

Famous at last: I was interviewed for Open Source, a public radio program that culls stories from the internet.

After we evacuated from New Orleans, I did a short interview on WFHB. When I made my first trip back to New Orleans, the city was still officially closed, and WFHB gave me a press pass. I did a longer interview when I got back, a full hour, for a program called Interchange.
It aired last [...]

If you want to hear what people in New Orleans are concerned about, tune in to United Broadcasters of New Orleans via WWL, the Big 870. In New Orleans you can actually get this on a number of different channels on both AM and FM, but the Big 870 can be heard in something like [...]

Xy & I watched the premier of 30 Days last night. I think it was as good as anything I’ve seen on television in years. Better, in fact.
The premise: People spend thirty days living a different life than they normally live. The first episode features Morgan “Supersize Me” Spurlock and his fianc?© trying to make [...]

Last week’s episode of This American Life was the most thought-provoking I’ve ever heard, on a subject of great interest to me: religion. And it’s now available online for your listening pleasure.

It’s TV-Turnoff Week.
Needless to say, we’re not observing this in our household. Depriving Xy of her remote control is like trying to separate a crackhead from his or her crack. Of late, she mainly watches CSI reruns. She says it helps her cope with the buttload of homework she has to do each night.
Yet for [...]

Unexpected circumstances found me at the Fairmont talking to Ira Glass of This American Life.
“I really wanted to come see you talk tonight,” I told him. “I was just too cheap to buy a ticket. But my friend here” — I pointed to David — “broke up with his girlfriend last night, so he had [...]

For about the past month or so the local NPR affiliate has been saying that “many of our listeners have told us that NPR is more important to them now than ever,” followed by a plug to support the station financially. Could there be any doubt that “now more than ever” is a coded reference [...]

I’m sure by now, anyone who cares has seen this article: “A Whitewashed Earthsea - How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books” by Ursula K. Le Guin. But there’s the link in case you missed it.
I read A Wizard of Earthsea to Xy this summer, in anticipation of the miniseries. Yet somehow I overlooked [...]

Man, I thought the political rhetoric was pretty shrill this season, but last night I got an earful of some conservative AM radio that made my toes curl. This dude called the Democrats “vermin” and said the choice was between “Bush or death.” He also said the American people “fear” Teresa Heinz Kerry. I was [...]

Pledge week began this morning on my local NPR affiliate. Their goal was to raise an entire day’s funds in just one hour. They did it, and then they shut up. I think that’s great, because I hate pledge week, and I’d gladly contribute more money if it meant fewer interruptions in programming. In fact, [...]

Had tea with the fabulous Heather Weathers at Bayou Coffee.
Painted the alcove off our hallway a bright blue. There’s actually a long story here, but I think I can boil it down to this: Xy tried to give the alcove a porcelain crackle finish this summer, and it didn’t work out, so I’m remediating.
I did [...]

The Green Party Convention will be on C-SPAN Saturday night at 7:30pm (Central Time).

Xy got a call last nite from “Crafting Coast to Coast,” which is a show for HGTV that is curently in production. Apparently they go around from city to city exploring people’s craft projects. They originally got turned on to Xy through Greg “Pretty Pony” Der Arnanian.
Funny thing is, this is the third [...]

So last night around 9 p.m. I mixed myself a drink and went downstairs, thinking that I would veg out watching some television. XY was doing schoolwork and watching ER, not my favorite show, but then again there’s nothing better on, so I didn’t complain. I scooped a cat onto my lap, turned [...]

I’m suffering from radio withdrawal because it’s pledge week on both the local NPR affiliate (WWNO). Normally I would just switch over to Tulane University’s radio station (WTUL) for the week, but guess what? They’re in the middle of their annual “Rock On Survival Marathon.” In other words, it’s pledge week there [...]