Fun
Alec Baldwin’s Podcast? Yes!
Alec Baldwin is that combination of wonderful and awful, depending on the kind of day he’s having. His WNYC podcast Here’s the Thing is Baldwin at his most lucid. Here he is with cartoonist Roz Chast. Food for thought: The New Yorker rejects 90 percent of her submissions.
Dozens of other conversations to knit to—Chris Rock will be my next pick.
Elsewhere in good listening, knitter Lori sends along “Squirrel Cop,” from NPR’s This American Life. The cop telling the story is so great.
Squirrel Cop. I first heard it driving home from college. I was alone. I had to pull over on a dark, straight-line highway because I could not be trusted to drive. I was laughing. That. Hard.
Squirrel Cop is without questions the funniest thing I have ever heard, on This American Life or anything else. I once made an ADDITIONAL contribution to my local NPR station in order to get a paint by number painting inspired by this story. And I don’t paint, by number or anything else. LOVE IT.