Mike Sargent and the ascorbic Joe Mauceri are joined by Grady Hendrix, co-director of the New York Asian Film Festival. Plus: Reviews of The Love Guru and The Incredible Hulk.
Archive for June, 2008
“Ten years ago I could never have imagined I’d be doing this,” says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. “I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to – especially the ones coming out of business school – this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.”
He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.
This week’s show was pre-empted by WBAI’s day long Bloomsday celebration.
At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose
The pale gates of sunrise?
When all things repose, do you alone
Awake to hear the sweet harps play
To Love before him on his way,
And the night wind answering in antiphon
Till night is overgone?
Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,
Whose way in heaven is aglow
At that hour when soft lights come and go,
Soft sweet music in the air above
And in the earth below.
Hooray for James Joyce.
A tourist in Australia is lucky to be alive after being bitten on the penis by one of the world’s most venomous snakes.
The man was having a roadside toilet stop when the deadly brown snake emerged from the bush and lunged at his crotch.
YouTube videos that show a group of friends apparently cooking kernels of popcorn with their cellphones have been viewed more than a million times since they were uploaded last week.
The group, including three Britons, said that they were still coming to terms with how close they came to death in a two-day ordeal in which they were plunged from one life-threatening crisis to another.
Having been swept away and “spun around” for 10 hours in shark-infested waters, they reached the beach of a remote island at nightfall, only to find it was inhabited by Komodo dragons, the world’s largest and most deadly lizards.
The dolphins that died after beaching in Cornwall had ingested debris and mud, leading one of the scientists who examined them to compare their deaths to “mass suicide”.
Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.
Mike Sargent is joined by singer/songwriter Jennie Walker.
When it comes to giving up smoking, pick the start date carefully. At certain times in your menstrual cycle, you are twice as likely to succeed at kicking the habit.
