A Hot Cup of Jack Squat » this american life http://cupofjacksquat.com Randomness has a place to rest Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:00:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How To Annihilate A Friendship http://cupofjacksquat.com/index.php/2010/02/07/how-to-annihilate-a-friendship/ http://cupofjacksquat.com/index.php/2010/02/07/how-to-annihilate-a-friendship/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:00:26 +0000 admin http://cupofjacksquat.com/?p=996 A very funny story, told by Malcolm Gladwell.  

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Tight structure, insightful descriptions…this story was taken from the Moth storytelling series. Stories are told onstage, with no notes or props – pure performance. Check out their podcast.

Malcolm Gladwell writes for the New Yorker and has written a few best selling books: The Tipping Point, Blink, The Outliers….

]]> http://cupofjacksquat.com/index.php/2010/02/07/how-to-annihilate-a-friendship/feed/ 0 If You’re an NPR Nerd Like Me… http://cupofjacksquat.com/index.php/2009/12/12/if-youre-an-npr-nerd-like-me/ http://cupofjacksquat.com/index.php/2009/12/12/if-youre-an-npr-nerd-like-me/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:07 +0000 admin http://cupofjacksquat.com/?p=769 …and you love the stories and interviews on This American Life, The Story, and Fresh Air – then you’ll dig – and may even remember – this interview from Weekend America with Dock Ellis about pitching a no-hitter in the 70s while he was tripping on acid. A collective called No Mas came across the interview and produced this Bakshi-esque animation for the interveiw.

As the animators put it – with all the asterisks being added to steroidal athlete’s statistics, this record deserves a giant exclamation point next to it.

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