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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you didn’t know you could make your monthly mortgage payment electronically on line until just now, you may consider this to be a public service...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you are a famous married man who keeps 10 or 20 girlfriends on the side to take up the slack, sooner or later everyone in the world is going to ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 1
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A piece about my house and my stuff. I think the title pretty much describes it. I peer suspiciously through the curtains and auto-dial the police.

Bought by KSFR, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Gratitude and desire are two sides of the same coin.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:20

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:38
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Halloween, Samhain, or "All Hallows Eve" marks the end of the Celtic year, and the beginning of a new cycle.

Bought by WPSU, WTIP, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 4
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Tales of a taxi driver in the after hours of the night

  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 15:05
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College student worries about the cost of education.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:40

  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
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An appreciation of the nursing profession

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
This day of balanced light and dark is often marked by elemental wildness

  • Added: Sep 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You heard about the woman who had the wrong embryo implanted. Because a scientist made a mistake it warranted a spot on the national news.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2009
  • Length: :39
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The author discusses his old home computer and general dorkitude.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, WILL, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can lose weight

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Congress is considering a bill that would charge tourists $10 to enter our country. Good idea. Maine could also set up a toll booth and charge ever...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2009
  • Length: :50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You know people who boast that they eat everything. So --- what unexplored gastronomic delights are left for these cosmopolitan connoisseurs of cui...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
For almost two years every time my wife Marsha spoke, I jumped from my chair while mumbling, “I’m coming, I’m coming,” and rushed up to wherever sh...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:38

  • Added: Aug 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:58
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Several of my neighbors have whipped out some serious fire power and blasted holes in people.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People who are properly motivated can move mountains.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:58
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Have you noticed that everyone wants to help you "Come in and save" --- at least that’s what they tell you.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2009
  • Length: :55
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most of the men who run ads for hit man services are really undercover policemen. The woman we’re talking about here must have been incredibly stup...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 01:24
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
No matter how well you plan out your project, you are going to have to drive into town twice to get what you need.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 01:54
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A genius can immediately see unique and positive alternatives to many situations.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: :56