The guy from SHUT UP, WEIRDO on WFMU.
Also: The guy who works at NEWSWEEK/DAILY BEAST.
I'm not, however Bravo TV's Andy Cohen, The Atlantic's Andy Cohen, or spiritual-enlightenment Andy Cohen. I'm:
Just as having a lot of pens doesn’t make you a great writer, having a lot of ideas doesn’t make you a great thinker.
A is for…
Anna’s Book of Bike Bits. To help Anna remember the names for all the bits. With probably unhelpful attempts at German translations.
But it’s spelled I-ran, like the Flock of Seagulls song.
I stand correctly accused. I’ve heard this complaint from Persians I work with. Oh, the irony.
On the same count, remember it’s Mos-KOH, Mos-KOW. There are no cows there.
Keiko, “Freiburg 3.0” — Repeated listenings of this song are getting me through a difficult day. It’s like a rave in my head.
Friday’s Show: Falsely Accused
We’ve all made mistakes, done things we’re not proud of, but nothing stings so much as being falsely accused when you’ve been walking the straight and narrow. You’ve felt it. I’ve felt it. So have Alger Hiss, O.J. Simpson, and the Rosenbergs.
So call us this week on Shut Up, Weirdo and share your tale of offended innocence. Tune in this Friday, 6 to 7pm ET, and deny, deny, deny (201-209-9368). Or just plead the Fifth and listen at WFMU 91.1 (NYC area) or WFMU.org.
Shut Up, Weirdo: The calm before the storm, on Opposite Day.
Someone’s been doing his research.
Maybe he recognized your voice from WFMU. I know I didn’t tell him.
But it’s spelled I-ran, like the Flock of Seagulls song.
I stand correctly accused. I’ve heard this complaint from Persians I work with. Oh, the irony.
On the same count, remember it’s Mos-KOH, Mos-KOW. There are no cows there.
Friday’s Show: Falsely Accused
We’ve all made mistakes, done things we’re not proud of, but nothing stings so much as being falsely accused when you’ve been walking the straight and narrow. You’ve felt it. I’ve felt it. So have Alger Hiss, O.J. Simpson, and the Rosenbergs.
So call us this week on Shut Up, Weirdo and share your tale of offended innocence. Tune in this Friday, 6 to 7pm ET, and deny, deny, deny (201-209-9368). Or just plead the Fifth and listen at WFMU 91.1 (NYC area) or WFMU.org.
Shut Up, Weirdo: The calm before the storm, on Opposite Day.
Little known radio secret: the “cough” button. (Taken with Instagram at NPR West)
We don’t have that, but we could use it. That plus a “yawn” button.
We’s gonna make some monies.
Jenna directed us to this video of herself (at least it sounds like Jenna), but why? Also: this video was posted more than a year ago. But why?
iBooks Author sounds like it could be the next-generation InDesign, or a souped-up Pages. God, we hope it’s the former and not the latter. (via)
92y:
Paul Krugman: The Economic Crisis Will Permanently Scar New Graduates“How long does it you as an individual to recover from the fact that you happen to graduate from college into a bad job market? And the answer is forever. It scars your entire work career. You will never recover from the fact. So the kids that are graduating into the 2011 job market are never going to have the lives they should have had. And this is going on. At the moment, it does not look like the 2012 job market is going to be very much better than the 2011 job market.”—Paul Krugman with Jeff Greenfield at 92Y March 29, 2011.Paul Krugman returns with Jeff Greenfield on April 29. Get your tickets now.
Since men are not angels, it was inevitable that state and local education authorities would dumb down the tests to make themselves look good to the feds and to the voters.
10 Years Later: How No Child Left Behind corrupted education in the U.S.
Photo: Jeff Hutchens / Getty Images
Yikes! College for today’s newborns could cost as much as $422,320.
The Daily analyzed historical, inflation-adjusted price data from the College Board to see what a bachelor’s degree might cost the class of 2034 in 2011 dollars. The result: Total tuition and fees would top $232,000 for an average-priced four-year private college and nearly $81,000 at an average-priced public university — up 111 percent and 167 percent, respectively, from the average class of 2012 tuition.
Room and board brings the average price of a four-year college education up to a projected $288,000 in 2011 dollars for four years beginning in 2030 at an average private school and $123,000 at an average public school. The class of 2012 paid about $149,195 for a private school and $64,591 at a public university, according to College Board data.
Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.comOne of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists,…
Want a job when you graduate? Don’t major in architecture.
Job-hungry college students: Consider majoring in agriculture, natural resources or education, and get a graduate degree. Whatever you do, forget architecture. The major has the distinction of the highest unemployment rate for recent grads, at 13.9 percent.
A new study from Georgetown University lists the majors with the highest and lowest unemployment rates for recent graduates — and some might surprise you.
In Defense of Humanities. As universities [around the world] question the need for humanities education, John Landy, co-director of Stanford’s Philosophy and Literature Initiative comes to the defense of literature. “Spending time in the presence of works of great beauty can powerfully change your life,” he says.
This link is great. It turns out the internet has a whole subculture of competitive foreign language learners… And this bulletin board is just goddamn amazing. Je trouve mon nouveau timesuck.
A great article on how people learn. Basically people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again. Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired.com via Chris McConnell
Education isn’t magic.
Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
(via PROOF that the earth is only 6000 years old)
This leaves me with only one question. What will I do once I have neither scripture nor science to back me up?
Can you see the fallacy in this argument?
Andrew B. Cohen551-226-0376thatandycohen@gmail.comwww.andrewcohen.infoMY SUPER-AWESOME WIDE-RANGING MEDIA EXPERIENCECreator and co-host of the much-beloved weekly call-in radio show “Shut Up, Weirdo” (shutupweirdo.com) on WFMU. (2008-present).Associate Editor, Newsweek Magazine. Edited copy for domestic, international, and Web versions of the much-beleaguered magazine. Worked with writers, top
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RNC BLOG: NEW YORK STORIESNEWSWEEK CORRESPONDENTS ON THE RNCPosted: Wednesday, September 1 3:03 p.m. ETAndrew Cohen: Gewgaws! Gewgaws! Gewgaws! What would a political convention be without campaign paraphernalia festooned with candidate names and affiliations? At this year's RNC, the white-hot center for the buying and selling of souvenirs, trinkets and doodads is the "GOP Marketplace,"
Player Two: In Which A Colleague Goes Retro, and Level Up Gains a Gamecube CorrespondentPosted April 17, 2007 11:02:25 AMAt Newsweek HQ, most of our colleagues are either boomers in name or boomers in spirit, which means there haven't been many serious gamers among our ranks. But from the increasing number of game-related conversations we've had with our office mates, it's clear that this is
Strunk, White—And Good Grammar Set to Music'The Elements of Style,' the classic manual for clear writing, re-emerges as a hip new tome and an avant-garde musical piece.WEB EXCLUSIVEBy Andrew CohenOct. 28, 2005 - Can grammar be hip? Is proper comma use cool? With the publication of Maira Kalman's smart new illustrated edition of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" (Penguin) the classic
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT THE SPY WHO LOVED PREQUELSAUTHOR CHARLIE HIGSON HAS BEEN GIVEN THE ASSIGNMENT TO WRITE THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF NOVELS ABOUT FICTION'S MOST FAMOUS SECRET AGENT ... AS A TEENAGER. BY ANDREW B. COHEN The Duke of Wellington reputedly said that the Battle of Waterloo was
NATIONAL AFFAIRSQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: RUMOR-BUSTINGWHY YOU SHOULDN'T BOTHER IRONING YOUR MAIL OR AVOIDING MALLS ON HALLOWEEN BY ANDREW B. COHEN If you receive any e-mail you probably got a message about how the French astronomer Nostradamus correctly predicted in 1654 the collapse of the
By Andrew CohenWhen I was living in Moscow last year, I loved to watch reruns of a late-1960s Russian science-fiction TV show called "Kosmicheskaya Militsiya." The title translates as either Space Police or Cosmic Militia, though the show is
Cheap ThrillsPinball is True Americana: Garish, Gaudy, Loud, Tacky ... and Fun By Andrew Cohen The pinball brotherhood follows a strict code: Video is evil, pinball is good. Make no mistake, it is a brotherhood, a guy thing. At last year's annual Pinball Expo, held at an airport hotel near Chicago, there were exactly six women among an audience of 200 or so listening to lectures on cable-lacing
In the First Episode, Winnie OffsA Drug Lord and Crashes His BoatBy Andrew B. CohenStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Mention violence on television, and most people think of the same old shows "Magnum, P.I.," "Spenser: For Hire," "Miami Vice." Well, here's a new one for the top of the list: "Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years." That's one of the curious findings of a recent study by the
Upon Reflection,High-School MoviesReally Were Bizarre* * *Educational Film CollectorFinds Gold in the Oldies;Teens Still Hate ThemBy Andrew B. CohenStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Phil has a problem. He can't seem to make friends at his new school. He is a "shy guy," so he tinkers with radios alone in his basement. His father tells him to "pick out the most popular boys and girls and
Write Us an Essay,Buster, and Make ItInteresting--or Else* * *Your Fervent Desire to MeetAbe Lincoln Won't GetYou Into Best CollegesBy Andrew B. CohenStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Aristotle wrote, "The Good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim." Alexander Woolcott said, "Everything good in the world is either immoral, illegal or fattening." Who's right? Or are