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May 20th, 2006 03:07 pm

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Great Square Inches

I detest public radio pledge drives so much that I won't be having the radio on much this week, but I'm making an exception for The Midnight Special.  Rich Warren just proved why, spoofing the pledge bulldoze by playing a couple of comedy cuts well-nigh the thank-yous gifts that yous can't actually get with your pledge.  The first one was a gag that virtually made me autumn out of my chair, an old cut by someone named
Bob Conrad.  It begins by giving this not bad pitch almost how we invented the condensed book to make great literature more accessible to decorated people, and abridged sound recordings, and such.  Then it goes on to offer the next version of this idea:  Great Square Inches In Art.  That'southward right, a collection of reproductions of famous details of famous art.  Mona Lisa's smiling, God'south finger in The Cosmos of Adam from the Sistine Chapel, the pitchfork from American Gothic, etc.

Mayhap information technology'southward funnier because I'm in the procedure of producing a photo post of what I did yesterday, an of import office of which is cropping the photos so that the epitome I'll put on-line can have enough item to exist interesting without taking a week for me to upload, because everybody else has broadband just I nevertheless don't.  And it probably loses so much from my description that you're at present scratching your head wondering what I've been smoking, but information technology was so funny I had to mail service most information technology.

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I'm not fond of them either but I know they need the coin. I take to acknowledge that right at present there is pretty much nothing to give. What I usually do when things are like this is await for a "challenge grant" where somebody says they'll requite more for every pledge (which makes my measley $5 worth more)

But our local stations have been doing a absurd affair - they practice but uncomplicated curt announcements that for every x dollars they volition cutting a 24-hour interval off the pledge drive! I think the last drive was exactly one day long!!! Yay VPR.

Particularly since now days with web pledges it's so easy to pledge.

and yep - I *want* the corking square inches in fine art!! :-)

Robert Conrad is from Cleveland, Ohio, and does a prove chosen Weekend Radio that is syndicated on some public broadcasting stations.

He guests at other stations sometimes to help with their pledge drives and does wonderful comedy bits.

I remember Ira Glass (of This American Life) did some practiced spots a couple of years ago where he showed up at people'due south houses and wouldn't get out until they pledged, amidst other bits.

I tin can certainly visualize what he was describing in the "Great Square Inches" thing.

Perhaps we've only got funnier guest-hosts during the pledge bulldoze weeks here in Little Rock, but I don't mind them much. I even go volunteer to answer phones one evening shift each time.

We were listening to WILL-AM, by the way, driving back from Valpo yesterday. Picked information technology upwards about 40 miles n of Champaign (as the Kankakee non-NPR mellow-oldies station we'd BEEN listening to faded out) and kept it until somewhere south of Effingham, when we switched to WSIU back on FM.

WILL AM's signal reaches pretty much all of Indiana and Illinois during daylight hours. For some goofball historical reasons, their license requires them to become to low power after nighttime, and information technology gets hard for me to selection them up twoscore miles from the belfry. (WILL'due south tower is located a ways westward of Champaign.)

Morris (my-married man-the-ham-radio-person) says that the reason the station has to reduce power at night is, that propagation of radio signal is much improve at night, (I can recall occasionally hearing WGN out of Chicago belatedly at nighttime downwardly on the Texas gulf coast, for instance) and "who in Africa wants to hear Illinois agronomical weather reportage?"

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