September 22, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, after a glorious, almost perfect street dance and meatloaf supper, we'll be back at the Fitzgerald Theater broadcasting live with Montana's master
singer-songwriter Stephanie Davis, red hot fiddler and mandolin picker Stuart Duncan, and more True
Vine music from Mike Seeger. Becky Schlegel and Brian Fesler are on the bill too.
Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe
Band with maestro Richard Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this week, and take the opportunity to start de-pilling your wool sweaters and socks, before the weather really changes.
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If you would like to see A Prairie Home Companion live, here is your chance! Ticket info has been posted for our entire fall season.
And there's also an opportunity to catch Garrison this fall as he starts on his fall book tour supporting Pontoon, his new Lake Wobegon novel.
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Mr. Keillor,
I'm a huge fan of buttermilk. It's rich, creamy, tangy, and delicious. What more could a guy want?
So what's the difference between powdermilk and buttermilk? Can they be used interchangeably? Is one better than the other? Have you ever had buttermilk biscuits? Do you have any thoughts on buttermilk drinking, and it's apparent decline over the years?
All the best,
Peter R.
Olympia, WA
My father loved buttermilk, Peter, and what's more, he believed in its health-giving qualities. He especially loved it in the summer and would pour himself a glass and drink it with great relish and feel refreshed and ennobled. For the rest of us, the thought of drinking buttermilk
was akin to the idea of drinking cow vomit, in other words something that Communists might force a child to do in order to renounce God and give up nuclear secrets. And we might have done it, too. The thought of drinking it made us tremble with revulsion. There is no connection between buttermilk
and Powdermilk Biscuits. I suppose you could make Powdermilk Biscuits by adding buttermilk to the biscuit mix (in the big blue box with the picture of the biscuit on the cover) but what you would get you should be careful about offering to your friends. Why has buttermilk drinking declined over the
years? I suppose for the same reason that eating mud is on the wane. Because there are better things.
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One day, a priest and a teacher of mathematics are walking past a school. Suddenly, out of a second story window falls a trigonometry textbook. When it hits the ground in front of the pair, it falls open to the section about the ratio of the oppisite side from a given angle of a right triangle and
the hypotenuse. The math teacher falls to his knees and the priest looks down and asks, "What are you doing?" "Praying," responds the teacher, "can't you see it's a sine from above?"
This joke was sent in by Rob D. of Indianapolis, IN. Thanks Rob!
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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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September 17, 2007
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. First show of the season, the one with the street dance after, and the meatloaf dinner. It was such a perfect day, too, somewhere in the mid-sixties, not too warm, cool enough for a light jacket, and sun enough to make you smile. I'd spent the
day running errands. Stopped by the post office and the bank deposit box, the gas station for a paper (and one of those amazing M&M cookies I tend to eat in the car on my way home so I don?t have to share it with anyone) and over to the Charlie's for a bottle of white wine and to the market for
some fresh burger and a slab of cheddar cheese and some tater tots and celery salt and soup.
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon |
 In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared
to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's
pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And
Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel.
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Never Better: Stories from Lake Wobegon |
 Fans of A Prairie Home Companion eagerly await each new
collection of Garrison Keillor's "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Recorded during live radio broadcasts, Never Better features characters we know and love, a meditation on Christmas, migrating turtles, flying Elvises, and more warm, witty, poignant, often hilarious tales from America's favorite
storyteller. As they say in Lake Wobegon, "It could be worse." But what they think is: It's never been better. About 2 hours.
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A Prairie Home Companion: the DVD |
 Legendary director Robert Altman's take on Garrison Keillor's show
boasts a dream cast, terrific music, and a story that tugs at the heartstrings. Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, Virginia Madsen, and Tommy Lee Jones star in a film about the final broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show.
(Don't worry; it's only a movie.)
"What a lovely film this is, so gentle and whimsical, so simple and profound" —Roger Ebert. "A great gang of stars having a great time, brilliantly directed by Robert Altman" —Larry King. 1 hour 45 min.
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When I Get Home: Songs |
Prairie Home Companion listeners are frequently treated to a song. Sometimes to a familiar tune, sometimes to original music—with words by Garrison Keillor. In them, he sings of home, love, friendship, family, faith, or just plain fun. These sixteen songs, specially recorded for this
collection, are some of his best.
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A Prairie Home DVD Collection |
 This 3 DVD set features classic A Prairie Home Companion broadcasts includes
special guests Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Leo Kottke, Doc Watson, Bobby McFerrin, The Everly Brothers, Taj Mahal, and Robin and Linda Williams. Music abounds, as do jokes, skits, and "The News from Lake Wobegon."
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