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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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Next week, October 25, A Prairie Home Companion travels to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then it's back north to St. Paul and the Fitzgerald Theater — October 31 and November 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22. Our post-Thanksgiving broadcast comes from Cincinnati on November 29. And we finish out 2008 in the Big
Apple, with shows at New York City's Town Hall on December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 and 27.
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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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Mr Keillor:
How did you come up with the name "Wobegon"? I ask because it just came to my attention that "wobbegong" is Aussie slang for "excellent" (see Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.) Lake Excellent, where all the children are above average? OK, likely just a
slightly interesting coincidence.
Pete V.B.
Colorado Springs
It was just one of those lucky moments at the keyboard, Pete. "Wobegon" sounded Indian to me and Minnesota is full of Indian names. They mask the ethnic heritage of the town, which I wanted to do, since it was half Norwegian, half German. And it recalls the word "woebegone"
which means what it means. Never heard of that Australian word until now.
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Q: How is going to the bathroom and a Roman Catholic service alike?
A: You should always light a candle for the ones you love.
This joke was sent in by Jon T., of Savannah, GA. Thanks Jon!
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The List
(10/21/2008)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I spent a good part of the show with my feet up on the ottoman in the living room, a pen in one hand and a clipboard in the other. I've had it in my head to get so much done lately that I keep forgetting what it is I need to do, so I figured I
ought to make a list.
Notes from a Slow Learner
(8/14/2008)
More than a full quarter of work spent on the ridiculous notion to put together a first class six-piece bar band and take it to Montana has pretty much taught me nothing at all. I most likely wouldn't do it again but I might.
Let the Leader Lead
(10/14/2008)
The Scripture reading in church Sunday gave me a jolt — Exodus 32, which refers to the Chosen People wearing earrings, men as well as women, and I twitched when the lector read it. Yikes! Moses got his ears pierced? What else didn't we know???
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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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