wait wait don't tell me

is a great npr show. every once in a while i'll catch it if i'm in lil' pi (that's the name of my subaru). it's also coming to hartford on april 17th! anyway, i read this and thought it very apt

White House press secretary admits she didn't know what Cuban Missile Crisis was
John Byrne
History has a way of repeating itself.
White House press secretary Dana Perino has been front and center of the White House's push to continue to label Iran a rogue state for its pursuit of uranium enrichment technology.
This comes against the backdrop of a new intelligence estimate positing that the Islamic state abandoned its nuclear weapons in 2003.
Turns out she doesn't know quite so much about nuclear weapons as she supposes. And we're not talking about Iran.
Appearing on National Public Radio's quiz show, "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me," this weekend, Perino admitted a story she'd previously only shared in private: When a reporter asked her a question during a White House briefing in which he referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- she didn't know what it was.
"I was panicked a bit because I really don't know about . . . the Cuban Missile Crisis," said Perino, who at 35 was born about a decade after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet nuclear showdown. "It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure."............


wait wait don't tell me

what am i doing right now?

i'm in HEAVEN

i'm listening to k d lang doing her bbc radio show on npr called music from the middle of nowhere

holy shite!

joni mitchell talks

a woman (whose name i didn't get) talks about canadian crows

leonard cohen talks

oh and they sing too.

holy shite!

HEAVEN

Close Up: Music From the Middle of Nowhere

...........Grammy award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter k d lang pays tribute to her favourite Canadian songwriters, including Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith and Neil Young, in a three-part series
In the first programme k d, who has described herself in song as the "big-boned girl from Alberta", is in her home town of Edmonton. Here, at the Sidetrack Cafe, where she performed with her band The Reclines, she talks about her early forays into music. Against the background of the Alberta Scene arts festival in April and May, when hundreds of musicians flock to Edmonton, k d introduces some of her emerging favourites - Nelly Furtado, Doc Walker and The McDades...........

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
I've heard there was a secret chord

that David played,

and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music,

Do you?

It goes like this,

the fourth, the fifth

The minor Fall,

The major lift,

The baffled king composing,

hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair,

she broke your throne

she cut your hair

and from your lips she drew the halleujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I've been here before

I know this room, I've walked this floor

I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

love is not a victory march

it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know

What's real and going on below

but now you never show it to me, do you?

Well remember when I moved in you

the holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above

And all I ever learned from love

Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

It's not a cry you can hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light

it's a cold and it's a broken HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah…

(listen to it by tim buckley as well)