Dave-Yost@sri-unix (07/16/82)
The National Public Radio network broadcasts this nifty little 2-hour program live every Saturday night at 6 pm Eastern time, 5 Central, I guess, and tape delayed at 6 pm in L.A. and S.F. on the West coast. (NPR stations tend to be your classical and/or college stations on the FM dial, if you haven't heard of them.) The show, called `A Prairie Home Companion' is kinda like olde-tyme live radio with musical acts ranging from bluegrass to jazz to folk to you-doan-know-WAH-didiz. The music's nice, but frankly us addicted listeners tune in for the stories told by the show's host, a soft-spoken, humorous, creative story-teller named Garrison Keillor. As Mike O'Dell put it, `the soul of Samuel Clemens is alive and well and living inside Garrison Keillor'. Early on in the second hour each week he tells us the news this week from Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, the town that time forgot and the decades can't improve, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-lookin, and all the children are above average, every single one. There being no appropriate generic news group under which to form a subgroup for us fans of PHC, I hereby create `net.wobegon'. Dave Yost, Laurel Canyon, Hollywood, California where all the women are blonde, all the men are musicians, and all the children are above it all, every single one.