Posts Tagged ‘Garrison Keillor’
In February 2010, I was fortunate to attend a taping of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. I got some great advice that night (“Don’t talk about your problems; talking about your problems only makes you discover new ones”). I laughed out loud at Garrison Keillor’s stories and I got […]
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Tags: Elvis Costello, Fitzgerald Theater, Garrison Keillor, Minnesota, Minnesota State Fair, postaday2011, Prairie Home Companion, St. Paul, The Jayhawks
Gems from the Writer’s Almanac
On my way to dinner with my friend Uta tonight (vielen, vielen herzlichen Dank, Uta!) I caught Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac on MPR. I was moved by the story of Sacagawea (or Sacajawea, in some circles): It’s the birthday of the Shoshone woman Sacajawea , born in Idaho (sometime around 1789). She was kidnapped […]
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Tags: Garrison Keillor, MPR, on this day in history, Oscar Wilde, Paris, Pere Lachaise, postaday2011, Sakagawea
A Prairie Home primer
Yesterday evening Steve and I had the incredible (good) luck of attending the first-ever live cinecast of the Prairie Home Companion. I’ve been a fan of the show for some 20 years, but I’d never crossed the Mississippi to see it live until last night. It was fantastic. Aside from Elvis Costello, the thing I […]
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Tags: Elvis Costello, Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon, Prairie Home Companion
