Joe Ely
and Joel Guzman
May 31, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we?ll be broadcasting from the Pan American Center at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. With special guests, D'ette and D'anna, honky-tonk heroes Joe Ely and Joel Guzman, Prudence Johnson, mandolin maestro Chris Thile, and our man of steel Joe Savage. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy?s All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this week, when we float down the Rio Grande on a 10 foot enchilada.
Prairie Home Reunion: Still Singing After All These Years brings together most of the old crowd whose music inspired the creation of this radio show back in the summer of 1974, including Bill Hinkley
and Judy Larson (The Original Powdermilk Muffins) with Cal Hand on dobro, pianist Butch Thompson, cowboy singing
idol Pop Wagner, the Powdermilk Biscuit Band of Adam Granger, Bob Douglas, and Mary DuShane, singer Becky Riemer Thompson, pianist and current Prairie Home Music Director, Rich Dworsky, and mandolinist and
composer Peter Ostroushko. As a special added attraction, the Brandy Snifters?Minnesota's Oldest Old-Time
Band?will offer a few tunes.
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Garrison,
As a regular listener, I have noticed that you have occasionally used Paul Simon's melodies with new lyrics. These offerings have been witty and I have enjoyed them very much. I am curious what, if any, feedback you have received from Paul Simon.
Jan H.
Lansing, Mi.
Jan, Mr. Simon is an American genius and has better things to do than worry about parodies of his work performed on a little old radio show from Minnesota that is not even worth suing and think of the terrible publicity. He is busy with his work and his family, as he should be,
and is not a litigious person, not in the least.
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If you would like to see A Prairie Home Companion live, here is your chance! We will end the month with a May 31st show from the Pan American Center on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Friday, June 7, finds us in the heart of Los Angeles at
the Greek Theatre — a performance to be broadcast the next day. On June 14, join us at the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. And the following week — June 21 — we move on to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, with a show from the Blossom Music Center. Stay tuned.
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So a dung beetle walks into a bar, and pulls up a stool...
This joke was sent in by Jeff D. of Denver, CO. Thanks Jeff!
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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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May 27, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. First time I slowed down all week, I think, and a blessed thing that was. I don't know about you and yours, but in this house May is always a month when one seeks clarity and perspective in order to maintain a sense of sanity. With three kids
wrapping up the school year, there are enough plays and award ceremonies and ball games and field trips and registrations and sack lunches and goodbyes to launch one into orbit...
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May 20, 2008
The Current Occupant tossed Nazis into a speech last week, something he rarely does since it only reminds people of Dick Cheney. He likened those who would negotiate with terrorists to those who tried to appease the Nazis, an awkward comparison, since Nazis were self-defined and wore the swastika
proudly, and terrorists are anybody we nominate to be terrorists, who may include terrorists, people who know terrorists, people named Terry, or people with wrists. One reason Guantanamo is kept top-secret is so you and I won't know how many innocent people have been locked up there and how little
the bureaucracy cares about innocence, which might remind people of the Nazis...
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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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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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