Our Kith

So I'm reviewing my own website, that's kind of a funny thing. But I needed a first review to fill the spot on the homepage, and I also wanted to give a brief overview of the new design. So I figure, why not kill two birds with one stone? To start things off, let's go over the new features. Well, I'm using one of them.

One of the perks of my job as a web developer is the ability to choose my own soundtrack to the day. While the musical melodies of Radio Paradise are the usual background noise, once a week I get the treat of two quality radio shows. Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me being the first and This American Life the second. While Wait Wait's comedic broadcast of the news makes for a hilarious hour, I'm going to focus on the latter.

I first heard the author and comedian David Sedaris from the radio show This American Life. He spoke of an incident during his regular visits to France where two American tourists, assuming he spoke no English, loudly proclaimed in their native tongue how David was a stinky French thief. For ten minutes he described the scene as it played out, the two tourists reciting the rudest remarks, somehow forgetting that English is a language even most native-born Frenchmen know.

The story was a delight to listen to, one that makes you want to retell it to everyone, even though there's no possible way you could recreate it. You finally end up telling people, "Just download episode 173 of This American Life and it's the final act, around the 40 minute mark" but that does even less for the person you're trying to convince.