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Nanci Olesen recalls her highschool graduation party, which involved a mishap between the graduate, the garage and the car.
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Nanci Olesen recalls her highschool graduation party, which involved a mishap between the graduate, the garage and the car.
Broadcast History
Nanci Olesen has been producing short reports, commentaries, one-hour specials and a half hour weekly program, all under the auspices of MOMbo.org (http://www.mombo.org) since 2000. MOMbo?s mission statement is;
?to broadcast the everyday truth about motherhood (in order to save the world).?
In 2005, The NOW YOU MOMbo four hour series has been heard on many public and community public radio stations in the past year, including KALW, KFAI, KUOW, KCUR, KGOU, KROU, KUAT, KUNM, WOI-AM, WBEZ, WOJB, WOMR, WSLU, Maine Public Radio, North Dakota Public Radio, Trent Radio (Peterborough Ontario).
Five-minute commentaries have aired on KFAI, KNOW, WKMS, WOJB, WOMR WYSO, and Minnesota Public Radio since 1997.
MOMbo?s four one hour long specials (A MOMbo Thanksgiving, A MOMbo New Year, A MOMbo Mother?s Day (two versions), produced in association with Public Radio International, have aired on more than sixty stations nationwide since 2002.
Nanci Olesen is the executive director, producer and host of MOMbo.org, a 501?3 organization. MOMbo MOMents are the newest offering by MOMbo.org, and Olesen expects to produce at least two MOMbo MOMents a month (approximate length: 5 to 6 minutes). News from ?the underbelly of motherhood? is MOMbo?s specialty and MOMbo MOMents are designed to be interstitial reports from the extraordinary and ordinary lives of moms, made available to all stations so that the news from the ?mom zone? is more commonly heard.
MOMbo MOMents are podcast at http://www.mombo.org.
More information about MOMbo can be obtained at http://www.mombo.org/about
Transcript
It was almost one o clock in the afternoon on a Sunday twenty nine years ago about now
I was supposed to go pick up my little sister from a birthday party. I backed the Oldsmobile out of the garage and was shocked to hear a crashing sound. I remember my mother coming out of the back door of our house,screaming ? WHAT was that?? I remember walking in slow motion around to the back of the idling car to look at the panel of wood that used to divide the garage doors, lying half on the back of the car, half on the driveway. I remember thinking ?oh my god.? I remember calling my boyfriend Jack and asking if he could hurry over. I don?t remember how my sister got home from her birthday party. I think my mom had a lot to say, a torrential series of sentences about disaster and inconvenience and emergency. My dad was on the radio. He did a Sunday afternoon show on WIVS in Crystal Lake...
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Vaughn B.
Posted on June 08, 2010 at 02:38 PM | Permalink
Interesting, but not interested
The story seem to have great detail, and placed extraordinary imagery within my mind. The story has great pacing and allows the viewer do gradually become engaged, however, stating in the short description that "it was a stressful graduation" not only had me convinced to be more, but also had me convinced that there would be a certain overly dramatic aspect of the story.
Overall, nice sound quality, and i appreciate the lack of music in the story because it also allows the viewer to become engaged and listen to your voice. Which is why I assumed you had your own vocals recorded to sing a short piece in the story, which seemed like a pleasant pause from the calm voice of the story.
However, in the narration there were some p-pops and a small amount of distortion and clippings. As for the ending, I thought it was a tad bit abrupt, and left me somewhat clueless considering the story wasn't as engaging.