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My friend Radioredcontroldeck has started updating his podcast “Emergency Podcast Networx” again after an extended absence wherein he moved from Chicago to NYC.

I’m really glad he’s started publishing again because I’ve always really liked what he does (even when he was doing it as “This is a Pocket Protest.” see also: this post), which is make a deceptively simple, 45ish-minute, themed mix of music. Receiving a new installment is like getting a carefully thought-out mix tape in the mail, which, I suppose, is why the podcast’s subtitle is “on the matter of mixtapes.” The songs are carefully chosen. The segueways are smooth, often surprising, and always thought-provoking. This is the sound of someone thinking through a question by putting one song after another, by doing that which those of us of a certain age did for hours and hours on end in high school: make a nice mix that might mean something to someone other than the maker.

I suggest you subscribe and listen carefully. It’s well worth it.

This is the link to this week’s quiz.

The quiz was on a short hiatus because of Thanksgiving and the Ornery Ninja Elf’s visit to loverly Scoblo/Gering (photos from our trips to Toadstool Park, the Black Hills, and Bassett can be found by clicking the links). There will be another hiatus around Christmas.

The answers to Nov. 10’s quiz can be found below. They’ve been whited out, so if you’d like to see them, you’ll have to highlight that text.

The answers:

1. After I threw the practice clock down in disgust and turned around, the following happened:
b. two rows of students parted like the red sea so that I could get at the offender more easily

2. Kaci R. responded to the question, “Why are you looking at me as though I just drowned your kitten?” thusly:
c. “Because sometimes, Mr. Huelle, you make the scariest faces.”

3. The keynote speaker at this week’s health fair
d. all of the above

4. I marked the following quotation in Walter Abish’s essay/story “Reading Kafka in German” (from his book 99: the New Meaning. Providence: Burning Deck, 1990. 67-92.)
d. “But the Germanic element, which is usually insufferable when it speaks on its own behalf, is treated here with too much deference, at least in view of its present day behavior.”

Thanks for stopping by. See you next week.