PHC + BC = Bliss

Saturday we went to the live taping / performance of Prairie Home Companion. If you missed it, you can listen to the show here: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2010/04/03/

It was a great show, as always. And it is always fun to hear Garrison's take on your hometown. It was also interesting, having been with him Thursday night - to see how many topics of conversation made it into the show. I wonder how last minute his sketch writing is! For example, in the first show they did here (http://origin-prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2010/03/27/) the weekend before, he brought up Seattle manners. Well, Thursday night the audience got into a dialog with him about the subject and a woman mentioned how after moving from NYC, she had a hard time not jumping in an answering people once she understood what they were asking. Well, what do you know, two days later he's up on stage performing a skit about someone moving from NYC and needing to learn not to interrupt people.

They were in town for two weekends and we sort of arbitrarily got tickets to the second show. Later, the line-ups came out and our most favorite musical artist, Brandi Carlile (local, but you should still consider yourself uncultured if you don't know who she is), was going to be playing the first show. I was distraught. We had gotten tickets to the WRONG show! Well, turns out Garrison was quite taken with her and decided they needed to have her back on the show. So, they added in an encore performance at the last minute and we got to see her after all! Hurray! What a great surprise.

Now, how many of you guys noticed that they last post was by Michael? Wasn't it great to hear from him? Shouldn't he post more? I'm taking him out for a surprise date night tomorrow night. (Surprise = what we are doing, not the existence of the date night.) Maybe I can get him to blog about that...