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I usually think it's "Talk of the Nation," which is maybe a dark horse candidate in any broad survey of most-despised public radio offering, but it can annoy the bejeebus out of me. But the "What Do You Know?" guy has to be the worst. Those are two shows I happen into and particularly want to make stop. I also turn off the Thistle & Shamrock pretty quick. Generally I can't take much of that music at all.

Lotsa people hate Garrison Keillor, but he's not in my bottom 3.

Gonna go for a walk in a bit. Record high temps for these parts today---it may reach 60 F. And it's thick with fog, even as afternoon is underway. With the foot of snow on the ground, seeping water until it freezes up again tonight, and the white and grays and blacks all diffused by the fuzzy air, it could make for a surreal stroll. Later the wind is expected to whip up, and there could be thunderstorms, at an unlikely time of year for them.

All of Oahu was without electricity last night because of an unseasonable storm; it took a while for them to power back up. The President-Elect, as you may know, is down there being shirtless and eating shaved ice.

Date: Dec. 29th, 2008 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com
Oh, that's one that I just have to turn off. But I'm sort of an antifoodie. The novelty of listening to whatzername wax rhapsodic about thing that sound utterly inedible to me wears thin after about five minutes, and I have to go. Another element is that the language of gourmet food and wine means as little to me as the language of cricket on the late night BBC reports, and I have limited patience for what is, to me, gibberish.

Date: Dec. 29th, 2008 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com
What about that show about money, in which it's assumed everyone listening has at least some tiny, say, thousands invested & needing tending to? That show makes me crazy sometimes. When I'm already in the process of something like cleaning up the kitchen.

Date: Dec. 30th, 2008 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com
You mean the one where they give financial advice with the disclaimer "don't actually act on our financial advice--only take advice from someone you pay for it?"

Date: Jan. 1st, 2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shmizla.livejournal.com
i remember the one time the host of 'splendid table' was pissed off at some people in italy who were messing with the 'authenticity' of their house/restaurant by buying an electric wheat mill (so women wouldn't have to spend half a day and most of their wrist on it).

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