Dan Hartung, in a 10-26-00 post to his weblog Lake Effect, was one of several who only grudgingly accepted my distaste for Ira Glass (grin). I’ll concede — when I ranted about Glass, I did neglect to mention that I essentially agree with Dan’s point: if you separate out Glass’ presence, This American Life can be of interest because other people do tell interesting stories. Thanks, Dan, for throwing me this bone in finishing:

Eliot, however, may enjoy this 1998 sour-grapes story of Glass’s

rejected partner from their Chicago show The Wild Room

before he was offered the chance to take his schtick national.

I actually read that story and thought about linking to it when Jorn Barger pointed to it in Robot Wisdom on 4-29-00 (probably because he follows Lynda Barry, the second of Glass’ “rejected partners” featured in the story).

While I’m thinking about it, thanks, Jorn, for the wonderful page of Blake quotations, especially your selections from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. “If others had not been foolish, we should be so.”