The host of NPR's awesome news quiz/comedy extravaganza, "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", has put up his annual Halloween display. It is a nativity scene of evil. I heart it. Image via Peter Sagal's Twitter account. Which you should be following.
Peter Sagal's Halloween Decorations
The host of NPR's awesome news quiz/comedy extravaganza, "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!", has put up his annual Halloween display. It is a nativity scene of evil. I heart it. Image via Peter Sagal's Twitter account. Which you should be following.
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Peter Sagal looks disconcertingly nothing like I imagined; always happens when I see radio people for the first time. They should stay invisibly in radio. I'd love to see the pics, but I am not following his or anyone's twitter feeds.
Absolutely in agreement, Anonymous. I am not buying into twitter, which to me is essentially yet another stumble toward the long eventual collapse of cultural senility.
I disagree. Ira Glass looks exactly like I pictured Ira Glass to look.