Britt's Blog

“To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a show out of Wisconsin Public Radio, also available, of course, in convenient podcast form.

It caters to the literate and the nerdy. I love how they’ll drop a reference to, say, Sisyphus, without being compelled to tell the audience, “That was the guy who had to keep pushing the rock up the hill.” ‘Course, that means that a few references go whistling over my head, but it’s a small price to pay to not be condescended to.

Lately, I’ve been impressed by Boots on the Ground, their 5-part series on the war in Iraq. It is most definitely not easy listening. This is rough stuff. But if Americans are fighting and dying and killing over there, the least I can do in my fat, safe, cushy civilian life is listen to some grown men break down on the radio from time to time.

Check out also Channeling Creativity, featuring My! #1! Favorite! Comic! Author!, Lynda Barry, writer of the amazing Ernie Pook Comeek, who is apparently now living in rural Wisconsin. Wow. Go fig. Anyway, she is awesome, and she will have a special place in my heart as one of the purest, most authentic voices of childhood.