Oh come on. It's a feel-good Saturday post about the foibles of middle class white people.
Next Saturday: I asked for paper when I really meant plastic.
ITYM "I ask for honey mustard and receive yellow mustard".
Besides, you should be bringing your own reusable bags to the grocery store anyway, you dickhead.
You have no feel for aesthetic distinctions.
You shouldn't have given them your money, Labs. They're just going to go spend it on Car Talk.
You can salvage this. There's got to be a class action suit in there, and you'll be setting various listeners against each other.
I wish I'd taped my follow-up call. It doesn't help that I can't avoid talking in analytic philosophy nerd-speak: "is it the case that a specific benefit accrues to the station to which I've donated, so that my intended station is missing out?" "awww, honey, I have no iddeeeaarrrr."
How about, before someone donates money, NPR has to check them with the terrorist watch list? This way we drive a wedge between the civil liberties people and the people who listen to public radio.
Thanks for leaving the funny parts out of the post, Labs.
It's not too late to save this post. You could point out that tomorrow on WQED a person can hear Hélène Grimaud, and that she is hott, and that there are other pianists who are hott, and wonder whether any pianists can compare in hottness to Anna Netrebko, and mention that there is a website devoted to the hotties of classical music, and voilà, echt-Unfogged. You're welcome.
Delicious metaethics. This is why we laugh at you guys. Though I'm now wondering about Labs' cell, since WQED has a teensy range, and why he was assigned such a goofy number.
You're being awfully censorious lately, ogged. Something up in your personal life?
Is something wrong with me that I don't see anything difficult to understand in Labs' question? (Or anything metaethical?)
Brahms is actually pretty radical by WQED's standards -- dissonance and counterpoint! The lighter side of Mozart is much more how they roll. It's really the worst classical station I've ever listened to (it eventually drove me to XM).
Cala? isn't what you do at least as nerdy as what I do?
Fuck, I knew it. It's not just that I gave to the wrong public radio station; I gave to the kind of public radio station I hate. Next up: my links generate revenue for Althouse.
As I read the post, Labs, you haven't given anything, merely pledged to give.
They insisted on a credit card, Ben. I feel so violated.
Anna Netrebko
Go figure. Even when it's classical music sung by a hottie, websites that play music unbidden are still annoying.
23: I think you can go to your credit card company's web site and fill out a 3 or 4-page form, and they'll consider cancelling the charge. If you care enough.
Is there any reason you can't just call up again and donate a larger sum to the intended station? Besides your legendary stinginess, that is.
Is there any kind of organizational relationship between WQED and San Francisco's public TV station KQED? Or they both just liked the abbreviation?
Congratulations, you donated to Pittsburgh's fifth-best nonprofit radio station. To make up for this poor decision, listen to the awesome show "Rhythm Sweet & Hot" on wduq.org from 7 to 10 PM tonight. (Saturday.
Thanks for leaving the funny parts out of the post, Labs.
It's a clever strategy to make sure that people read the comments.
Anyway, the post was far more entertaining than the shit about sports and swimming. Dude.
Is something wrong with me that I don't see anything difficult to understand in Labs' question?
Since I've vowed not to mock you, Ben, I can only say no.
For your Saturday enjoyment: just in case anyone thought I introduced Anna Netrebko only for her babetude, I offer this. She is rightfully the soprano of the moment. Watch all the way through -- the expression on her face at the end is exquisite.
28: Everyone should now be listening to Rhythm Sweet and Hot, at the live stream here: http://www.wduq.org/
Since the two active threads are full of bizarre jargon and incomprehensible hair-splitting, I'll just bump this one and remind you all that there's half an hour left in Rhythm Sweet and Hot.
Yay! Rhythm Sweet & Hot! I'll have you all know that my daughter was, 3 years ago, the Official Rhythm Sweet & Hot Baby. They played "The Milkman's Matinee" in honor of her birth.
WQED, OTOH, I will not defend for a moment (indeed, I'll defend NPR by saying that QED carries no NPR except headlines, and the risible Keillor, which isn't even real NPR). It drives me nearly insane that my MIL puts it on the radios in my home whenever she watches the aforementioned child. Although I will point out that she is a serious afficionado of classical music (plus fluent in French & German), so I'm not sure that I buy 100% the "worst kind of classical" line. She may drive me nuts, but she knows classical.
Lastly, I strongly suspect that KQED followed the lead not of WQED-FM, but of WQED-TV, one of the real pioneers of public TV. Not to mention the home of Mr. Rogers.
Yay! Rhythm Sweet & Hot! I'll have you all know that my daughter was, 3 years ago, the Official Rhythm Sweet & Hot Baby. They played "The Milkman's Matinee" in honor of her birth.
WQED, OTOH, I will not defend for a moment (indeed, I'll defend NPR by saying that QED carries no NPR except headlines, and the risible Keillor, which isn't even real NPR). It drives me nearly insane that my MIL puts it on the radios in my home whenever she watches the aforementioned child. Although I will point out that she is a serious afficionado of classical music (plus fluent in French & German), so I'm not sure that I buy 100% the "worst kind of classical" line. She may drive me nuts, but she knows classical.
Lastly, I strongly suspect that KQED followed the lead not of WQED-FM, but of WQED-TV, one of the real pioneers of public TV. Not to mention the home of Mr. Rogers.
