NPR: “First Football Fever”
Posted by Mark Allen on 01 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Random Posts
I have a piece airing today on NPR’s All Things Considered called First Football Fever. It’s a drastically shortened version of my original story The Homosexual Brain—which appeared here last August. Check National Public Radio online for air times, streams and archives. Happy Super Bowl weekend!
Not! The piece was weirdly yanked of the schedule at the last second. Oh well. My heroes Larry and Barrett of HearingVoices.com have posted it over at their site for now. Speaking of, Hearing Voices have a new hour-long weekly show coming up on NPR—stay tuned for details. Look for brand new pieces from me there, and otherwise (for older pieces, see column at far right).
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Hmmmmmm…..listened to the piece, it seems like everything that was interesting about your “The Homosexual Brain” is gone. But it does clock in at just two minutes, so one assumes there just wasn’t time for depth. Maybe it’s like the radio piece is a commercial for the larger one? No? Looking forward to more on NPR from you! And can I say FINALLY???
Nice work! If it had aired I think you would have been the first person in the history of NPR to work Whataburger, Jeff Koons and the Durutti Column into a single two minute monologue.
Yay! Except for the fact that it didn’t air.
I liked listening to your voice. As far as the subject matter, I was left wondering if you ever hooked up with the object of your crush. Or, why you’d watched the whole football game. Or, did you actually like it for the sport or just because of this guy you had a crush on.