http://social.richmond.com/blog/wordy_birds/ en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:18:53 -0500 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:18:53 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss dukecms 5 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/07/dale-brumfield-goes-home-again/ writeWindowsMedia({"src":"http://static.mgnetwork.com/rdc/audio/DaleBrumfieldWebSession.mp3 ","width":"240","height":"43"}); I’ve got two mega guests coming up. Their books and the subsequent shows are sobering political smack-downs dishing out the grisly truth of terrorism, torture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The book for this show however, is not. It’s about as threatening as the jingle on an ice-cream truck. Three Buck Naked Commodes is the to-the-best-of-his-memory autobiography of Dale Brumfield and his life in small town Virginia.  The book begins in 1968 in a rambling eccentric old farm house and takes a boyish romp through the hills, fields and elementary schools of no-where Virginia.  As with all ... Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:58:08 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/07/dale-brumfield-goes-home-again/#1255 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/07/tomorrow-isnt-pretty/      My guest today has sat in the interview chair at the WRIR the studios before. He’s beautiful, mentally and physically, although I think he prefers the term pretty. His first book was called The Day I Stopped Being Pretty.  The plot of his autobiography revealed how Rodney Lofton came to learn to love himself as a gay black-man who is HIV positive.      It’s been 16 years since Rodney contracted the disease and he’s written another book, No More Tomorrows. This one is a love story between two men, one of whom is HIV positive. It’s a gripping, dripping ... Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:14:15 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/07/tomorrow-isnt-pretty/#1240 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/06/uncovering-depression-era-america/ Hello, short post this week. . . This is an interview with David Taylor, author of a “Soul of a People.” The show is fascinating, the book was even better. Taylor looks at a small portion of Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration called the Federal Writers’ Project. Considered the largest cultural experiment of its time, the Writers’ Project set out to employ thousands of out-of-work journalists, novelists, poets and people to document history. They produced some of the most spirited stories of America life ever published. Thank you for tuning in. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:01:01 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/06/uncovering-depression-era-america/#1174 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/05/interview-with-ray-mcallister/ When Ray McAllister came into the studio to talk about his newest book, “Hatteras Island, Keeper of the Outer Banks,” I had planned to share with him my landlubber high school memories of the Island. But immediately, Ray McAllister reminded me of my father, though younger. Juvenile dread crept into my subconscious and I decided that the bounty of secrets from long ago were to remain locked up in my pirate’s chest from days of yore.  We visited Hatteras a lot as teenagers, “camping for the weekend.” You’d think with going so often I’d know more about Hatteras Island, at ... Tue, 19 May 2009 11:24:42 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/05/interview-with-ray-mcallister/#1020 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/04/wordy-birds-on-earth-day/ Happy (almost) Earth Day, If you think about it, the environmental movement is a legislative movement. We can change all the light bulbs we want but if there is no legislation protecting the James River, we’re all swimming in sh**’s creek. On today’s show my guest pays homage to a few far-sighted congressmen who realized in the 1960s that Virginia had to do something to slow down the post World War II development and its noxious waste or we were going to lose our common wealth. Margaret T. Peters' book, “Conserving the Commonwealth, The Early Years of the Environmental Movement ... Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:01:25 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/04/wordy-birds-on-earth-day/#864 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/03/the-byrd-theatre-tour/ Listen to Wordy Birds: The Byrd Interview Listen to more Richmond.com podcasts Hello All. When I picked up my copy of “The Byrd: Celebrating the Byrd Theatre, Incredible History, Exciting Future,” I wasn’t thinking about the new multiplex that was opening downtown. I wasn’t thinking about the economy, nor the Academy Awards. I was thinking, thank God someone finally wrote a book documenting the Byrd Theatre. The Byrd Theatre, aka Richmond’s Landmark Movie Palace, opened on Christmas Eve in 1928. It’s a stunning place. “Every square foot has something to grab your eye,” said George Bruner Jr., author, in this interview. ... Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:05:32 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/03/the-byrd-theatre-tour/#831 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/02/breaking-spirit-bridge/ Listen to Wordy Birds: An Interview with Ruth Perkinson “Breaking Spirit Bridge” opens with a vicious scene of its heroine being admitted into the psychiatric ward of a mental hospital. Piper, the lead character, was delusional and saw the waiting room filled with celebrities and perverts. Her mind shuttered in and out of reality and she couldn’t distinguish between the truth and the snakes sliding out of the air-conditioner vents. The writing is fragmented and frightening and vividly recreates what it could feel like to be in the mind of someone suffering a psychotic break. Piper was in the grip ... Wed, 8 Apr 2009 22:11:25 -0400 http://social.richmond.com/blog/lizs/2009/02/breaking-spirit-bridge/#829