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17 April 2009
Remember this? Well, I took y'all's advice, talked to my therapist a lot, and I called the guy.→[More:]
I guess my story isn't quite as dramatic, but I met a guy via a Metafilter item, too. I gave him (and his family) a tour of the Library of Congress, and got a signed copy of his Wired story. That was cool.
YES! That is so fantastic. I can't WAIT to hear it. So, so glad you went for it!
Say, since you have this one fine feather in your cap already, do you know about PRX, the Public Radio Exchange? You can produce and upload your own radio pieces, and programmers around the country can listen to them and then choose to broadcast them. TAL gets a fair number of pieces from there, as do many of the NPR shows.
It's also a good place just to have a fun listen-around.
@All: Thanks for the well-wishes so far! The ironic part is that I may not get a chance to listen to it "live" myself because I'm doing apartment showings all weekend.
@Miko: Since I already have an "in" at TAL, I'm gonna pitch pieces there first, but that's actually not a bad idea to start practicing on my own stories, too. Thanks for the link
jonathanstrange: I believe so. I can't imagine NPR restricting their free podcasts to US only. Just go on itunes and search the store for "This American Life" You should see a download link to the most recent episode (not this one but last weeks). If you do, then yay. You can grab this one on Monday.
Otherwise try the website. Thisamericanlife.org. I think they allow most recent episode downloads. I know they have trouble supporting the bandwidth costs so this may not be true.
If all else fails, let one of us know. We could throw this on divshare or something.
My only real problem was that it could have taken a less black-and-white religious vs. non-religious point of view. This was more one guy's theology (shared by millions), not the only way to be Christian or understand a Christian God.
In fact, his ideas about original sin seem particularly idiosyncratic and far-reaching.
Wow, that's really something, TrishaLynn. It's rare that life's course has such value and such distinct sense of purpose, narrative, lesson, reward. Really sublime; well done.
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