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Stick Poke Scrape Dump
From: Bill Palladino
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A rhythmic essay describing the producer's first job cleaning up a drive-in theater.

Bought by WDBM, KFAI Minneapolis, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 3
Vampire Dreams
From: Tim Forrest
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What if you think you're a vampire and are required to tell all your secrets to a psychiatrist?

Bought by PRX Administrator and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2005
  • Length: 01:20:53
  • Purchases: 2
Web animation: a new genre of family entertainment
From: Nathanael Johnson
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Web animators whose art lands in the intersection of cute and ironic are drawing unbelievable numbers of fans.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 2
The Changing (and Ghoulish) Faces of Halloween
From: Jackson Braider
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How Halloween has -- and hasn't -- changed over the years.

Bought by WTJU, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 9
Dog Park Moses Yearns for Terry Gross
From: TL Wagner
Series: Finding The One (paying listener) at the Dog Park
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Fundraising at the Dog Park

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMXT, and WYSO


  • Added: Oct 10, 2004
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 3
The Zildjian Cymbal Tester
From: Jackson Braider
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Leon Cippini wanted to be a great drummer; he became a great cymbal tester instead.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded (Short Version)
From: Hannah Palin
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It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by KUOW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, East Village Radio, WUAL and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2004
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 6
The Day My Mother's Head Exploded
From: Hannah Palin
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It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2004
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 10
Stuck on a Word
From: Patricia Priest
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In this offbeat essay the commentator examines her newfound habit of cursing, a feeble but oddly satisfying response to these Orwellian times.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2004
  • Length: 03:31