Kittens!

Noted on the NPR blog, Classic Album Covers Reimagined (With - what else - Kittens).

They comes from the site, "The Kitten Covers", which is right here.

Old Time radio

Challenge of the Yukon:

The only reason I listen while this show is on is in order to hear the commercials from Quaker Oats, which is "the only cereal that is shot from guns."

Fibber McGee & Molly:

You'd think I would have figured out before now that Fibber is always taking things for way more than they're worth, since the man's first name is Fibber. So - the show always seems to be that Fibber says something's going to happen; the story is about waiting for it to happen; and at the end, he finds out that it ain't happening, b/c he's always misunderstood the original thing.

Well, ok, then!

And I just remembered that people always talk over each other in this show. Maybe it's because there are always about 4 more minutes of dialog that they wanted to include in every episode, but this was the way of dispensing with it.

I have to say that this show first alerted me to the self-referential surreality of old time radio: it was sponsored by "Johnson's Wax" (when it did only sell wax). The way it was sponsored is through the recurring appearance by Harlow Wilcox, which the main characters completely knew about, and joked about, as soon as he came on, because he would use whatever pretense to go off on the latest Johnson Wax product. They'd also make references to the fact that, well, they had to do this b/c JWax was the show sponsor.

The CBS Radio Workshop:

"Report on the We'uns " - a totally insane report from a group "in the future" unearthing things from the U.S. on 11/11/1956.

Hearing academics puzzle things out for each other is always amusing.

Oh, and not surprisingly, they realized that the people of "Lost Ankles" (Los Angeles) worshiped a gold statue named "Oscar", and included a bizarre sacrifice of people writing their names in squares (the "Walk of Fame" in Hollywood - which they say is "Holy Wood").

And our power seemed to originate in "Laundry Pound" - because of the word "Washing - ton".