Today I learned that NPR isn’t merely the smarmy, self-proclaimed grassroots news database I had always assumed it to be. Oh sure, I knew it was reputable. I’d heard the occasional enlightening broadcast, but today my understanding of the NPR world was shifted on its axis. It’s like that time I found out my church choir director didn’t wear anything under his robes because “it just got too hot” . . . Today, I found out that NPR can have fun.
That’s right, folks.
FUN.
Check it out: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/08/154583514/listen-npr-hosts-reporters-take-on-call-me-maybe
Not only was this remarkably entertaining, but it also lead me to discover this:
Lots of people have proclaimed the wonders of NPR to me, but this is the first time I’ve seen the light for myself. It’s a whole new world.
Cakey Hankerson: Great Adventures 