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Fred Armisen Co-Hosts With Ira Glass | This American Life

For this week’s episode, the Saturday Night Live and Portlandia star co-hosts the entire hour, and he does it in character. He’ll be imitating a public radio personality, one familiar to This American Life listeners. The theme of the episode is doppelgangers. Armisen says he worked up the imitation hoping to do it on SNL, but the public radio personality isn’t quite famous enough to be mocked on network TV. Tune in this weekend, or get the podcast Sunday night!

If you’re not watching Portlandia and/or not listening to This American Life, there’s something wrong with you.

WI really full of excellent material since last visit. many thanks to mr. ignition et. al.

i wanna start a national “red hot poker up the ass day”. on this day, which would be Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, i would be allowed to poke a red hot piece of steel up someone’s ass. i can honestly say that i wouldn’t abuse the cause, and would treat it as a solemn ceremony, with dignity and tenderness for all.

I took a class at IHCC that had the nerve to call itself “Journalism”. We were assigned to do a feature story.

I wrote a story about a guy that I knew and respected. The teacher remarked that the topic of the story should be the guy himself, and not the fact that I knew him.

His point was lost on me. I didn’t know how to write that story and wasn’t interested in learning. The fuzzy land between asleep and awake has always been where I’m most comfortable; I don’t want a rude awakening demanding that I join the herd interfering with my comments.

Watching the doc about HST, “Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride”. It explains Hunter’s approach to journalism. My attempts to imitate Hunter have never really been conscious. It’s more like inevitable. After you’ve been converted it’s no longer a question of faith, but truth. Truth isn’t arithmetic. It’s a better fit in the Philosophy department.