FYI, for your listening pleasure, I'll be giving a commentary on NPR's "All Things Considered" later this afternoon. I recorded it just now, and it will air sometime today, don't know exactly when. I waxed philosophical about what it's like to drive around a Dallas summer without air conditioning in your car. I kept the strangled screaming to a minimum.
UPDATE: Just caught the piece live. They edited it clumsily, so you might not have understood what I was talking about at one point. But NPR tells me they'll have it fixed for the re-feed. After 7:30 eastern, you can hear the commentary here.
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Thursday August 31, 2006
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Sorry, one more thing: if I were that producer, I'd have asked you to think about your intentions when you are reading a story to your children. You emphasize things a certain way, and you consciously adjust your voice and delivery for a young audience that is paying more attention to your voice (and the pictures, in some cases) than to your face.
Translate that to an adult audience who can't see you, but can hear more nuance in your voice than in ordinary circumstances.
That's all. Go about your business. Franklin is done scratching his itch.
;)>
OK, go to the new scion of Texas retail bidness - the Dollar General - and build one of the battery-operated mini-fans, attach it to the dashboard and BINGO! air conditioning!
It's what we in north Texas term to be improvisation - adaptation. Put a glass of ice under it and you've got cool air blowing.
That and the greatest hits of Kinky CD will get you gone on the road.>
It's become a quest!
I enjoyed your commentary yesterday as I was stuck in traffic on my way to my son's jv football scrimmage. My younger son was with me passed out in the back seat. We had some cold drinks on hand.
My 1998 Chevy Tahoe's a/c went out 3 years ago. It costs way too much to get it fixed and I'm still driving it. And will keep on until it finally drops. It's become a quest!
Be cool,
Tolbert>
1996 Nissan Altima, 130,000 miles, A/C out since summer of 2003. Dallas, TX. Still driving it. I finally broke down and bought one of those battery powered fans with spray bottle attached. It's not A/C, but it helps a tad - especially when it's friggin 105F and humid.>
I've been driving in Dallas without A/C for my second (?) year now at least. My commuting car isn't worth fixing the A/C on - it's a 1990 Geo Prizm with somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 miles on it. In the morning, it's not too bad; on the way home, traffic slowdowns on I-35 can be sweltering.
But ... one gets used to it. Really. Even in this very hot summer of 2006.>
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