Unlike other pieces by this author, this one is just entrancing. The pace is slower but perfect for getting the listener to focus on the story. There seems to be a real jelling of story and pace that makes you wonder what will happen next. It's very personal and close to a discovery of self that would work well on This American Life.

An odd little piece about a comedy course. Slower paced than it seems like it should be. The speaker has a style like a Steven Wright which would play well in a comedy club but kinda drags for an essay. It is well written and spoken but just leaves me waiting for something exciting to happen which never does. Would be a good piece for This American Life but probably has little use elsewhere.

If you liked Les Triplettes de Belleville then you will like this piece. It captures the essence of the gypsy music of France featured in that film. It also makes the connection of people to this music that serves as the roots for a dispursed culture. Would make for a good end piece on a news broadcast. The interesting part of this piece is it is very Euro-centric but brings to light music that is heard in different styles all over the world.

A nice nostalgia piece about Baseball and the movies. Great for the series, too light to stand on it's own. I would strongly consider carring the whole Adults at the Movies series as most the of piece do follow a good and consistent theme.

The piece starts off about why Gen X or Gen Y is a bad stereotype but then refocuses on the author's volenteer work. Overall it's a very good piece but it kinda threw me for a curve. I came in expecting one thing and then got sent a different way. Not that it is bad, just unexpected. The piece would run well if coupled with a show on volenteerism and youth.

A unique glimse into how personal people can be with people they know very little about. It also illustrates how florists can also be councelors of sort. They are there during the good times, the secret times, and the bad times. Telling the story of one florist, this piece touches many topics, much like the florist herself.

Starting off as an informational piece on chess makes it quite engaging. The focus then shifts to the discussion of women, specifically girls, playing chess. Having grown up playing chess in school then not playing anymore after High School, I found the piece personally engaging and well rounded in explaining the appeal of the game and problems with engaing women into the game. It especially focuses on the learning divide of the game versus the actual learning curve and would server as a good news piece. I am not sure how it may be used but areas with school teams or hosting a national tournament in the near future would find it worth broadcasting.

Just a funny funny piece on miscommunication. A woman gets stuck in the attic and uses the cat to send a message down to her husband who completely misinterprets it. Shows interesting communication between husband and wife/men and women.

It's a nice review by David Byrne of the type of music he is making now and his thoughts on what he is creating. It would work well with an upcoming concert promotion but doesn't stand on it's own unless it is paired with the other itmes in this series. Nice interlude piece.

A very interesting tale of one reporter trying to find out if video games can be educational or if video games can lead to violent acts. Told within the confines of a game, the report is both player and reporter on the history, effects, and affets of video games. Quotes are culled from both pro and con views of video game education and violence to make for a very well rounded piece. It's length may be bit of a deterant but the content is engaging.

Level 2 offers a nice juxtoposition of early educational games versus current educational games. It also touches on the diffuclty of educational games to compete with thier more active and violent counterparts.

Starting off with a review of popular summer camp culture the intent is to pull the listener in to the stories of what summer camp is like. But it disolves into personal stories of summer camp experiences with very little set up or transition from story to story. The stories have very little connectivity other than trying to be sound bites to link a theme together. The concept is good but the excution is uneven.

Starts off very uneven and clearly a taping of a discussion panel. However, once you get past that there is interesting information in here on how computers have been used as art over the years.

Parts of the discussion are visual and need to be described for true use use on radio. Questions from the audience are just lost all together. However the discussion of using printers, early machines, and 8 bit design for graphics, music, and ASCII art are priceless. Great content for the piece.

More a review piece of Spaulding Grey's life than anything else. Segment 1 is a little uneven but gives a good introduction to Grey. Needs to be leveled. Segment 2-6 gets into the real meat of the piece and the discussions with Grey start. Grey's prose and analysis of how hesets up his pieces is interesting but anyone not interested in Grey would bore easily.