Thursday, December 23, 2010

Bird Beer!

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Super birthday present Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson My daughter gave me both nine wonderful birthday presents (belated because she ...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Fences and Owls

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(Today's For the Birds transcript) Last week I got a sad email from Mary-Ellen Holmes, who wrote from her farm south of Superior, Wiscon...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Tapeworm Makes the Big Time

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"Roger," the nighthawk tapeworm I sent to Dave Barry Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson (Today's For the Birds script) Back...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Another Dave Barry story, about tapeworms.

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"Roger," the nighthawk tapeworm I sent to Dave Barry Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson During my 25-week countdown to the 25th...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Homeowners Insurance

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Barred Owl Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson In another program recounting 25 years of "For the Birds," I talked about my firs...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

What if they gave an airport screening and nobody came?

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One of my friends recently set off the metal detector alarm at an airport, subjecting her to TSA’s new pat down procedures. The TSA agent ha...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Hooray! The one plot element I hated in the book was MUCH improved in the movie. Do not go to this link unless you don't mind a major mo...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

For the Birds Retrospective Part I

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Today I start a 25-week countdown until May 12, 2012, the 25th anniversary of the first “For the Birds” program. Over the past quarter centu...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

California Condors and DDT—in 2010!

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Today's radio script drew from this report in yesterday's New York Times . The script: When I started producing “For the Birds” in ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Great birthday, or the greatest birthday?

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Several months ago, Russ bought us tickets to see Jeff Daniels in concert tonight. He is great--warm and funny. Everyone in the crowd was l...