Ricky Ian Gordon
December 27, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's our final show of the year, from The Town Hall in New York City. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks will
blow some very hot jazz into the icy atmosphere, keeping our molecules vibrating, and celebrated New York stage musical composer, and lyricist, Ricky Ian
Gordon will join us as well. The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band can't get the van started in St. Paul, so they'll have the week off getting that new alternator installed, but Rich Dworsky will hold things together with 88 keys of Steinway, along with The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim
Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, gospel singer Jearlyn Steele, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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Garrison Keillor will be taking up a Sunday residence at Feinstein's in New York this December. He'll sing romantic songs, and maybe tell a New York
story or two. With pianist Richard Dworsky.
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Next week, December 27, is the last day to catch A Prairie Home Companion at New York City's Town Hall (at least until next April). On January 17, we're in Louisville, Kentucky, before moving on to Duluth, Minnesota, on January 24. Then it's back to home base — the
Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul — on January 30 and 31.
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Post to the Host:
I wonder if you have ever thought you might publish all of the essays in The Old Scout in book fashion?
I know hundreds of people here who would rush out and buy copies. Please, if you do this, don't edit a word!
Patience W.
Shaftesbury, England
I don't know what the point of book publication is, Patience, if the entire body of newspaper columns is archived online at salon.com. Anybody who wishes can
read any of them free. The only reason to put them in a book is to have the chance to rewrite them and I don't know if I have the stomach for that or not. They're short newspaper columns, 750 words, not essays and not letters, and I think the only reason to put them in a book is personal vanity,
which goodness knows I have plenty of, but am not sure that a collection of hastily-written columns would serve my vanity all that well. But I do intend to publish a collection of sonnets, including the Christmas sonnet I did on the show tonight (Dec. 20).
"The Old Scout" articles are also available here.
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When you replace a battery, isn't that revolting?
This joke was sent in by Carlos M., of Greenville, SC. Thanks Carlos!
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Cheers, and a merry one to you, and to yours
(12/23/2008)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I'll confess I got a bit emotional a few times during the show. Mr. Keillor did a go-round of "Silent Night" and that always gets my throat all bound up and I can barely sing along...
Tulsa Tonic
(11/18/2008)
A couple of highlights worth mention from the Mudcats Montana tour this last summer: We played in Butte where my brother Mick lives, at the Silver Dollar Saloon — he lives in the city but not at the saloon — on a Monday night...
How an Airp*** Toilet Can Ruin Your Life
(12/16/2008)
It is rather haunting, the notice above the Flush button in the toilet on the airliner, "Do Not Flush While Seated On Toilet." One imagines the engineers of the toilet running tests with flush dummies with big flat butts...
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