ISIS, Kid Rock, and the Death of Compassion
Today, we talk about two wars. Both challenge essential freedoms we have long taken for granted. In troubled times,…
March 4, 2015-
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Why I’m worrying about the Mets already.
The Mets are in camp; they’ve yet to play a spring training game. That comes Friday, against the Tigers. Signs are good: Matt Harvey can throw well following Tommy John surgery; David Wright is healthy (at least for now); everything else seems to be in…
March 3, 2015
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I Officially Give Up and do that whole Band/Letters in Your Name thing, creating an excuse to talk about Impaled Nazarene and Weinstein Dorm.
You have surely noticed that the Internet is absolutely lousy with these lists where someone assigns a band to…
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Headmaster’s Wife” A Novel by Thomas Christopher Greene
Arthur Winthrop, the headmaster of Thomas Greene’s title, is in his fifties; he’s settled, comfortable, the head of the…
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Episode 10: On Weaponizing Heteronormativity and How No One Knows How to Do Relationships
In this episode: Kate and Sally catch you up on their lives, from how charming and wonderful Norm Lewis is to friend breakups that suck. They discuss emails from a couple of listeners, including one who has figured out the perfect way to trick aggressive bros out of leaving you alone in a bar. (Hint: It involves using heteronormativity as a weapon…in a subversive way.) They then answer a listener’s question about healthy relationships and how to, like, have one? (Spoiler: We can only guess.)
February 26, 2015
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Episode 54: LIVE with Norm Lewis and The Bitchy Waiter!
The Bartender is joined by Norm Lewis and The Bitchy Waiter for another wonderful live show. PLUS a listener shout out, and we play Craigslist Ad or Casting Notice with Jordan McDonough! Recorded at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY.
February 24, 2015
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Saturday Night Live Turns 40; Tim’s Visits to the Show Turn 38.
The fairly unspectacular memories that follow are dedicated to Alan Zweibel, who was inordinately kind to a 14-year old…
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Remix: Is Music Ready For The Apocalypse?
Listen, no person, no matter how much they froth with opinions, should be above an occasional mea culpa, and…
February 23, 2015 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic” by John Demos
Cornwall, Connecticut was briefly the site, in the early 19th century, of The Heathen School, established to educate the…
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TBT: The Candymen, "Georgia Pines," featuring Rodney Justo
Like last week’s TBT, this is a memory from my law school years; this one from the spring of 1968, when I was a first year law student and, as a transplant from Florida to Massachusetts, experiencing my first real spring since I was a child. I had spri…
February 19, 2015
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