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Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 11, 2023, 03:32:49 pm ---...I did have a next-door neighbor for a while who was being considered to replace Keillor when he retired (before the scandal) and would have been good. He's a storyteller who performs onstage all over the country and in Europe, presents one-man shows at the Guthrie Theater, has told a lot of stories on NPR, has published books and put out CDs. Anyway, his material is very recognizably Minnesotan too -- he even uses somewhat of a Fargo accent -- and the suburb he grew up in is only closer to Minneapolis than the suburb Garrison Keillor grew up in. Kevin's take is more original, to me.
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How cool to have a neighbor like that! There was a guy who replaced GK for a while after he retired. He could even sing. But I don't think the show is playing now.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 14, 2023, 07:50:40 pm ---How cool to have a neighbor like that! There was a guy who replaced GK for a while after he retired. He could even sing. But I don't think the show is playing now.
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Yeah, I haven't followed it very closely but I get the feeling it/he was never quite accepted as a substitute.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm kind of disappointed in the anniversary issue. So far I've given up on two articles, the one on impostor syndrome (wasn't what I thought it would be about) and the one on Austin (way too long).
On the other hand, the articles by Rebecca Mead and Joan Acocella were very entertaining.
Front-Ranger:
The only article that interested me was the Salman Rushdie one.
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, I guess I learned something today. Since I'd burned through the anniversary issue of TNY and had nothing else to read over lunch, I opened the latest issue of the AARP magazine, the one with Lily Tomlin, Sally Field, Jane Fonda, and Rita Moreno on the cover. I've been getting this magazine as part of my membership and never reading it. To my surprise, there are a lot of interesting articles in the magazine, and unlike so many things in TNY these days--they're short! I think I'm going to go back and look at some of the earlier issues, starting with the one with Dame Helen Mirren on the cover, at least until I get another TNY to read.
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