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This American Life Retracts Apple Factory Episode
Tech Buzz This American Life has retracted its most popular episode ever, citing fabrications. Contributor Mike Daisey is going with the “but it's art” defense.
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Watch A Scene From Mike Birbiglia’s “Sleepwalk With Me” Movie
Movie Buzz Mike Birbiglia is a fantastic comic whose stories of sleepwalking first became popular on the radio show This American Life. Well with the help of This American Life's Ira Glass, Birbiglia's stories have been turned into a movie starring the comic himself and Lauren Ambrose. The film premieres tonight at the Sundance Film Festival. Here's a sneak peek.
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5 Things I Wanted To Do Vs What I Actually Did While Eating Pizza Next To Ira Glass
Celebrity Buzz Earlier today Ira Glass was at the same pizza place as me for lunch. Here is a list of five things I desperately wanted to do to make sure I didn't let this crossing paths with a god go to waste versus what I actually did…
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Cube Dudes
Culture Buzz A Pixar animator named Angus MacLane does pretty amazing LEGO sculptures of pop culture icons. He has hundreds more over on his Flickr account. I'll post these without titles so you can play Name the Cube Dude.
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Link: Ira Glass Sings Elliott Smith
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/music/NATL-Thi...
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“This American Life” host Ira Glass has lent his unique vocal talents to a cover of the late Elliott Smith’s “Say Yes.”
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Link: 'This American Life' Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence
http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-american-life-compl...
“In what cultural anthropologists are calling a “colossal achievement” in the study of white-collar professionals, the popular radio show has successfully isolated all 7,442 known characteristics of college graduates who earn between $62,500 and $125,000 per year and feel strongly that something should be done about global warming.” (via Kottke)
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Image: The X-Men Listen to This American Life
According to a sub-story from Nation X #1 called 'RoadTrip', X-Men Wolverine and Nighcrawler as also fans of yuppie-favorite radio show, This American Life. This worries me because if I have to compete against Jean Grey for the love of Ira Glass, I'll never win.
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Image: Bench-Pressing Snowman
A bench-pressing snowman, complete with barbell & pipe! Found by This American Life listener Eric Peltier and posted by the TAL blog, this shows that carrot noses and raisin buttons just don't cut it anymore.
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Video: Ira Glass On Storytelling
Advice from the guy who knows a thing or two about the craft. And, no, horn-rimmed glasses aren’t a necessity. (But they help.)
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This American Life Live
TV Buzz It started on radio, moved to television, and now it’s going live: Tonight, This American Life will be broadcast live from a New York stage to movie screens across the country. If we know Ira Glass (and we do), there are going to be a lot of panties thrown on-stage at this show. Flannel-clad hipster chicks have, indeed, found their Elvis.
