Steve Radio Essay, 12/22/11

Here's Steve's most recent essay, this one on the perils of timekeeping, both real and imagined, at high school football games. Note that WBAA has changed the format of their website, so things look a little different.

Steve's Radio Essay on Haircuts

Steve's latest radio essay starts out with a haircut disaster for Tyler and then segues into memories of Dad's forays into barbering. Chris is featured, as am I (in an episode I have no memory of). By the way, Andy Rooney just retired at 92, so expect Steve to be making his move any time now. Here's the essay.

Max's Essay on Steve Jobs

Max has published a thoughtful essay on Steve Jobs, who died this week, on the Geekosystems website.  In it, Max tries to analyze the nature of Jobs' hold on our imaginations. Unlike most of the tributes to Jobs, this one doesn't simply memorialize the great man.  Worth reading.  You can read it here. 

Swimming Pools Subject of New Steve Eddy Essay

Steve has a new essay on WBAA, this one about the swimming pools of yesteryear (Mohr's) and those of today (Castaway Bay).  You can listen here.

Oxford Is On!

Lisa confirmed last week that Matt has been accepted into the Oxford program.

Steve's Father's Day Essay

Here is Steve's latest radio essay, this one on Father's Day, fatherhood, and Mark.  Be sure to check out the archive to the right for any you may have missed or want to hear again.

Matt to Oxford?

It appears pretty likely that Matt will be invited to participate this fall in Georgetown College's unique Tutorial Program at Regent's Park College, Oxford University (shown in picture). The program is unique in that American participants learn alongside regular Oxford students using the tutorial method that Oxford and other traditional English universities are famous for. Participants are selected by Georgetown faculty and faculty from Regent's Park College at Oxford on the basis of writing samples and interviews. Selected students are trained in the tutorial method before their experience so that they can succeed in Oxford. Should be a great experience for Matthew, who may come back with a high-toned British accent. Here's a link on Georgetown's tutorial program.

Max Eddy: Wunderblogger

As a blogger for Geekosystems website, Max is the only Eddy currently making his living from writing (Bonnie and I have both been writer/editors at various times). Here is a link to Google news that should pull up a search of Google News listing everything with Max's byline that appears in the Geekosystems website. It works most of the time.

An Archive of Steve's Radio Essays

I'm in the process of archiving Steve's wonderful audio essays that air on WBBA. It's over in the right column. I'm perhaps half-way done, but I'll wrap it up soon. Thought everyone would enjoy having the "collected works" in one spot, and it's impressive to listen to them in order as I've been doing. Keep it up, Steve--Andy Rooney is bound to retire one day.

Rob's Latest Novel Available on Amazon

You can download Rob's latest novel, Overdub (with illustrations by John Frigo) to you Kindle from Amazon here.  Here's the description of the novel:

OVERDUB is a lyrical exploration of the meaning of music, how it transforms our relationships, culture and technology. Isaac Rubinger is wounded in the Korean War, losing the ability to perceive or imagine music. Much as a person’s hearing can improve following blindness, when music plays Isaac hears physics: Space, time and even memory fold in on themselves. His brother’s young wife writes a letter that brings a visit from composer Hoagy Carmichael, and then from someone Hoagy believes to have the insight to understand this affliction. Only he’s not a doctor, but the most unlikely technologist, seeking to create new musical forms.

The novel came out May 26. Rob's previous novel, Dreaming of a Song, is also available on Amazon.