Pyrate,

I agree w/ Christopher on Keillors impromptu stamina. Though PHC is not 
high lit it is not sposed to be. Think more in terms of maintaining the 
breath of radio drama... that we still have a ear to listen with and 
that it is not overcome with moving images. There is high lit out and 
about (not to be confused w/ the academic & creative writing program 
stuff), but it has never been all that popular as a contemporary 
activity once radio, movies & television came into their own. Besides 
all that, most of my relatives, and mostly from a Midwest agrarian 
background or the railroad, most of my life have never had any taste 
much higher than PHC. Reading is an acquired habit. I will readily admit 
that Keillor as an author of written work though is pretty poor stuff. 
Myself, for radio I prefer Wait Wait Don't Tell Me or Click n' Clack (I 
will sit in a parked car to listen to these). But now w/ XM I tend to 
listen to CNN, BBC, Audio Visions (some sort of new age stuff that does 
not tax the brain, or the X-Comedy channel. Then, there is all the 
podcast audio revolution going on. People all over the place making 
audio serial broadcasts. Some of them are topical temporary volatile 
crap, and some of them are absolutely hilarious and worthy of remembrance.

It is too cold here to be standing around outside today. And I need to 
go back outside and stand around.

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