It's a stretch, but this is satire
The No Show | Mar 30, 2010
Playlist:
THEME: "How Long Blues" - Jimmy Yancey, piano
"Lil' Jack Slade" - The Dixie Chicks
"Way Back in the 1960s" - Incredible String Band
"Turkish Taffy" - Cat Mother & All Night Newsboys
"Midnight at the Oasis" - Maria Muldaur
"Sheik of Araby" - Django Rheinhardt
"Caravan" - David Grissom
"Wing & a Prayer" - Ry Cooder
This week we hear another selection from Steve Post's no-longer-in-progress-but-encyclopedic-in-scale novel. This episode takes place sometime in a remote past when the United States was waging war against a country that had never attacked it. (We know it's a stretch, but this is satire.) As we join Steve, he has just left his job as mimeographer for the "Committee to Wipe out Poverty," or CWOP--under the direction of obsessive-compulsive Reverend Thornhill--to follow his bliss as mailroom supervisor for WPFR (Peace & Freedom Radio), a job he saw advertised in the "Society for World Reconciliation Newsletter," or SWERN. All caught up now? The program's music kind of wanders off on its own. There is no hidden meaning. Nor meaning of any other kind. This program was first broadcast April 19, 2003.
THEME: "How Long Blues" - Jimmy Yancey, piano
"Lil' Jack Slade" - The Dixie Chicks
"Way Back in the 1960s" - Incredible String Band
"Turkish Taffy" - Cat Mother & All Night Newsboys
"Midnight at the Oasis" - Maria Muldaur
"Sheik of Araby" - Django Rheinhardt
"Caravan" - David Grissom
"Wing & a Prayer" - Ry Cooder
This week we hear another selection from Steve Post's no-longer-in-progress-but-encyclopedic-in-scale novel. This episode takes place sometime in a remote past when the United States was waging war against a country that had never attacked it. (We know it's a stretch, but this is satire.) As we join Steve, he has just left his job as mimeographer for the "Committee to Wipe out Poverty," or CWOP--under the direction of obsessive-compulsive Reverend Thornhill--to follow his bliss as mailroom supervisor for WPFR (Peace & Freedom Radio), a job he saw advertised in the "Society for World Reconciliation Newsletter," or SWERN. All caught up now? The program's music kind of wanders off on its own. There is no hidden meaning. Nor meaning of any other kind. This program was first broadcast April 19, 2003.
