Check out this funny site. Happy Thanksgiving. Do your best to overeat. I always do.

I listen to podcasts, so I search for new, different, and fun content.

I found a new one called: DINNER PARTY podcast at the ITUNES STORE. It's from some people in Southern California and it's designed to prep you for attending a dinner party. It tells you a joke you might tell later to your dinner mates, a little history lesson, a little about a mixed drink and whatever else they can stuff into about ten minutes. Here is the web page with the necessary click to get it onto your Ipod if you so desire.

dinner party

Those who look in on The Public Reader from time to time know that I really am a fan of the INTERNET. Like anything that is open to anyone who has a gripe we sometimes have to endure complete claptrap. On the other hand there is an awful lot of really good stuff. One example is THE THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR. The actor historian Clay Jacobson is interviewed in character as Mr. Jefferson for an hour on many topics. I believe they have produced over six hundred shows so that's a lot of subjects so far. I have it on my Ipod, but I also have it on my personal homepage. Since it is an audio production I find it convienient to start it out and minimize it. I can browse and listen to Mr. Jefferson expound. The best of both worlds. I recommend the show. http://www.jeffersonhour.org

I like to listen to interviews and I like a good song. I ran into a site that combines both in short nicely done pieces that are a pleasure to listen to. It's a part of the NPR family called American Routes. I feel fortunate to have discovered it. Only this morning I listened in on and learned some things I didn't know about the personalities and their music life. I listened to people with backgrounds as diverse as Nancy Wilson, Studs Terkel, and Bonnie Raitt, to Johnny Cash. All very different, but for this show, with music as the lynchpin. Check out their archives.

http://www.americanroutes.org/