Tag: garrison keillor
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September 30, 2007 08:35 PM EDT --
"The gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
Garrison Keillor
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November 01, 2008 01:40 PM EDT --
I read a Commentary today by Garrison Keillor, who I love. He writes that "Even the GOP realizes Obama's time has arrived." And he affirms that Colin Powell was right in calling Obama a . . .
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September 09, 2009 07:01 PM EDT --
The host of the NPR radio show Prairie Home Companion and author Garrison Keillor was hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke. He is undergoing medical tests in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Keillor . . .
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September 11, 2006 04:35 PM EDT --
Tuesday, September 12
Garrison Keillor reads "Where I Am With You" a poem by Ryan Vine on Writer's Almanac on Tuesday, September 12.
Ryan Vine is assistant professor . . .
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February 09, 2007 04:52 PM EST --
A friend of mine has this saying: "Being too lazy to Google is like being too drunk to fish." Be that as it may, I always love when something you've been meaning to look up just falls in . . .
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June 30, 2007 09:02 AM EDT --
Freedom Show
Beautiful Lenox, Berkshire town
Early summer air ringing freedom
Even lines of cars and a crowded field
Don't disturb the peace of excited expectation
Faces . . .
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August 18, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
After reading Bill & Nancy's recap of the first performance (pictures included) I double checked the tour schedule to see if we could swing one of the closer stops. No go, the calendar gods . . .
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May 21, 2009 10:26 AM EDT --
Garrison Keillor claims to be a liberal. He – and we — should know better. Keillor has just joined the already large and ever-growing list of allegedly ‘liberal’ media figures . . .
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June 06, 2009 05:28 PM EDT --
The felicitous last line can make or break a novel, short story, movie script, or poem. There is a wonderful example of a perfect last line (actually two short last lines) in Julie Cadwallader-Staub's . . .
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July 01, 2009 09:05 PM EDT --
OMG! Has anyone else caught the commercial for Gather.com? I heard it yesterday on PBS. Garrison Keillor delivered it in his thoughtful, inimitable style during one of his literary shows.
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October 03, 2008 02:07 PM EDT --
Everyone is invited! A Prairie Home Companion kicks off their season with a street dance and meatloaf supper this Saturday. Information (all times CT):
The annual Street Dance and Meatloaf Supper . . .
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October 23, 2009 02:28 PM EDT --
Garrison Keillor had the following to say last week on his Prairie Home Companion "Lake Wobegon" story, about the snow that fell in the town on Columbus Day:
You tell people your . . .
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September 22, 2006 09:45 PM EDT --
I tried posting this yesterday to the Praire Home website's "comments" section, but the powers that be would not permit it.
"I just wanted to mark the passing of the Prairie Home Companion . . .
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September 05, 2009 12:06 PM EDT --
No, I won't feel guilty For I am not to blame. I won't let you put on me That load of grief and shame. For life is full of sunshine And love is full of light. Tomorrow is another day-- God bless you . . .
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October 28, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
The fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon is real to millions of A Prairie Home Companion fans, who tune in each week for the latest news about its strong women and good-looking men.
In the little . . .
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May 16, 2006 04:55 PM EDT --
If you're like me, you've been a Prairie Home Companion (PHC) listener in good stead for almost 25 year. Now there's a movie based on Keillor's book about the behind-the- scenes and onstage . . .
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September 03, 2006 06:25 PM EDT --
This came to me via the UK, from an online friend who is more intelligently aware of what's going on here than most Americans. I'm sure all you NPR listeners have heard it, but for those . . .
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August 07, 2008 04:15 PM EDT --
A Note from Garrison:
Dear Companions,
The Old Radio Show is off on another Rhubarb tour. It's not a long tour by rock n' roll . . .
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May 10, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
So this weekend you're at that Mother's day brunch or in a pink Lund on Mille Lacs and you want to strike up a conversation. A real conversation! This is not small talk about the weather. Here . . .
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February 12, 2007 02:16 PM EST --
A little bird - and the official Prairie Home Companion Web site - told me that the News from Lake Wobegon would be a podcast!
“The News from Lake Wobegon” is Garrison Keillor’s . . .
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