Nonogirl Radio

The Animals

When Katrina hit, my co-workers talked about places to donate and what we could do to support the artists who were relocated to San Francisco. Then someone had to bring up the ANIMALS. My eyes rolled.

When this Morning Edition story began, again, my eyes started to roll..but then I really listened. What followed is a story that masterfully uses ambience (and sometimes the lack thereof) to demonstrate the destruction the hurricans had on animals, their habitat, and also the people who depend on animal life for their own livelihood.

La Plebe on Dailysonic

So I'm on my first podcast! And it's with a piece that I feel really good about.

Check it out here!

Saiko da. Honto!

Mono
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I was fully ready for an amazing Mono show and started my Japanese lesson with Atsushi in preparation. "Anata no bando wa saiko desu." Your band is cool. I thought I'd say this to one of them after the show. But I realized, that I could yell it out DURING the show, so he adapted it to, "Saiko da. Honto!" Cool. Really!

But I stood behind trees, like literally, the tallest guys at the club. And even though I practiced in the middle of songs and felt like my yoga lungs would be able to belt it out, I was shy. I never made it close enough to the front to get good photos/video so I'm using someone's shot from SXSW. And to top it off, I didn't even get to know my fellow fans huddled around the speaker.

Still, it was an amazing show; and it's particularly refreshing to see my Japanese brethren worshipped like rock stars!