Patt Morrison for Thurs 12/24/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Thursday, December 24, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

 

1:00 – 1:20

OPEN

 

 

1:20 – 1:30

Preserving the Mojave Desert

Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation that, if passed, would protect over a million acres of the Mojave Desert.  The legislation seeks to create two national monuments on the land and expand both the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.  It would also establish several new wilderness areas, protect sacred Native American land and establish as permanent 5 existing off-road vehicles areas. A portion of the infamous Route 66 would also become a beneficiary of the federally protected status.  The only hitch is at least 19 renewable energy companies have deigns on the land as well. Can she find them a new home?

 

Guest:

Senator Diane Feinstein, D-California

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1:30 - 2:00

Twitterature

@englishmajor you’re going to flip when you see this #twitterature. 80 classics in 140 characters or  > !

No, really. Two sophomores at the University of Chicago have managed to breakdown everything from Beowulf to Harry Potter into tweet style segments from the perspective of the protagonist.

 

Guest:

Emmet Rensin, co-author of Twitterature

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2:00 – 2:30

Candy Canes or Coal… this year's politicians get a dressing down

 From a history-making president to hiking the Appalachian Trail to a movie-star governor, we look back at the year’s most memorable events and scathe its most gaffe-worthy politicians. Who will be getting candy canes and who will be getting coal?

 

Guests:

Ken Rudin,  NPR political editor and writer of the Political Junkie blog

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Rick Orlov, City Hall reporter for The Los Angeles Daily News

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2:30 – 2:50

Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

Historian Ron Schick delves deep into Norman Rockwell’s American mythos, picking apart his photographic process—exploring the photographs he used as the basis for his paintings, noting exactly which details Rockwell kept and discarded from the photographs, revealing that many of his most memorable characters—the girl at the mirror, the young couple on prom night, the family on vacation—were friends and neighbors who served as his amateur models —and surmising what his works say about the social milieu and attitudes of the time. Schick brings Rockwell’s works to life in an homage to photography, art and Americana.

 

Guest:

Ron Schick, author of Norman Rockwell Behind the Camera

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2:50 – 3:00

John Henry Faulk: More than a Storyteller

It was more than forty years ago that story-teller and radio host John Henry Faulk first recorded his “Christmas Story.” Since then it’s become an NPR Christmas tradition.  But Faulk was more than a story teller. Among other things, he was an activist, author, playwright, and husband. Faulk was branded a communist in the late fifties, but won a libel suit that helped to bring an end to the Hollywood blacklist. He was known for his work as a proponent of civil rights and made speeches at universities on the First Amendment.  But, let's hear that wonderful story he told so many years ago. 

 

ON TAPE