There are so many great things here, that it’s hard to list ‘em all. Perhaps my esteemed colleague Jen, who brought this video to my attention, said it best with, “the posters in that girls room are amazing” (or something like that).

 
 

WYPR invited long-time RH/Narrow House ally Michael Ball in to talk about his award-winning i.e. reading series — and he brought along Justin and Lauren — Narrow House Souljaz you should know well.

Listen to Ball, Sirois and Bender from WYPR
They talked about the series and then each read a poem — but Ball cheated and read a Rod Smith poem, which happens to be the selfsame poem we had a recording of Rod reading way back when.

Enjoy one of the season’s better fall jams — we’d been so busy not publishing regularly, that we forgot to tell you about it. The album version is awesome — but this Letterman performance gives another looser angle on what they are up to, and is no less lovely.

 

It’s no secret that we b’lieve in the artistic potential of the 30-second ad. If we were offer you a holiday to-do list, the halfway point would be, “take a break to watch this commercial and be reminded of the true spirit of the season.”