Cyrus on The World — TODAY!

Dear Friends,

I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the return of President Ahmadinejad’s blog will be airing today.

Will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams):

New York – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org
Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org
Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg
Boston – 4 pm Eastern – WGBH – 89.7 FM – www.wgbh.org
San Francisco – 2 pm Pacific – KQED – 88.5 FM – www.kqed.org

Will be available on The World’s site tonight and here if you miss the broadcast.

Update: Audio is here.

Five bloggy facts

I’ve been tagged by Glenn Fleishman for the latest blogger meme du jour. I’m supposed to list five things that most people don’t know about me.

1. My only run-in with school authorities came when I was in kindergarten. I was suspended for one day for biting Lee Kramer, a friend of mine (yes, we’re still friends) on the hand. Basically, at recess there was a shopping cart full of balls (for four-square, handball, etc.) and it was always a struggle to get the first ball. The one day I got a ball first, other kids tried to take it away from me — I got upset and bit the hand closest to me, which was Lee’s.

2. I didn’t got to my first large-scale concert until I was 16 and saw MC Solaar at the Paléo Festival Nyon (Switzerland) in 1998.

3. I’m obsessed with geographic oddities. In particular: Nauru, Pitcairn Islands, but also Kaliningrad, Northwest Angle (Minnesota), and Sealand.

4. I really love international pop music (particularly rap) in languages that I don’t speak. My iPod contains tracks from Tarkan, Lee Ssang, Toe Tag and lots of others.

5. I actually prefer wearing suits to wearing tuxedos, because as an amateur musician all throughout high school and college, I had to put on the penguin suit on a regular basis. I don’t have very many opportunities to wear suits. (I have a fantasy that one day I’ll get a swanky three-piece suit, or preferably, a zoot suit, complete with a fedora.)

I tag Paul Boutin, Alex Farivar, Daniel Zhu, Marie Javins and Dallas Bluth.

“. . . and for God’s sake, it should be well-written.”

JournalismJobs:

JournalismJobs.com: How does a weekly news magazine stay relevant in this up-to-the-minute news world?

Karen Breslau [San Francisco bureau chief, Newsweek]: Just because people are pelted with information from morning until night, they haven’t lost the basic human hunger for a good story. In that sense, a good newsmagazine story is the un-blog: it’s richly reported, it’s coherent, it puts things into context, it gives you ideas to think about for more than 3 seconds and for God’s sake, it should be well-written.

Welcome Nena to the LJ/Blogosphere!

My cousin Nena do Nascimento (who I lived with in Switzerland) is studying abroad in Brazil this year, on her junior year abroad at McGill University. She’s just started a LiveJournal. For those of you who’ve studied abroad before, some words of encourgement I’m sure would be appreciated. Go Nena!

Redesign! New Domain! Woohoo!

Now that I can afford proper hosting, and am sort sick of the fact that I can’t have comments turned on in my blog unless I want to be subjected to comment spam in Moveable Type, I’m migrating to WordPress. Subsequently, I have a new, cleaner layout. All the old posts since Jan. 2004 are in the archives here.

If I did this correctly, the Feedburner feed should stay live, (I just edited what it points to), and the cfarivar.org domain now points here. The OCF archives will stay up indefinately.

If for some reason you have trouble, let me know.

Off to lunch!