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Lyrics to Ira Glass’ Disturbing “I Wish Song” from This American Life

Filed under: — jwinter on 10/29/2004 at 2:54 pm

Because I couldn’t find it through Google:

Oh the woman in Act I is wistful,
But funny in a quiet way
And the guy in Act II has a tough job to do,
A mission that’s gone on twenty days
I only wish their stories will be gripping and special
Even though it’s not the news and they’re not stars
You’ll remember what they said, you’ll mention them at dinner
And when they’re on, you will not leave your cars

Chorus:
Because it’s radio
Stories on the radio

Can be funny and emotional, can fill you with longing
My wish is that this show lives up to this song and
Bring on the conflict, make the people speak
Bring on that music we use every week

Chorus:
I wish for radio
Decent stories on the radio

Heeeerrrre… [talking]

Oh I wish that you’ll stay here and not touch that dial
Please don’t say goodbye or ‘I’ll see ya’
You know you want to hear the final words
We have from Tory Malatia

From Episode 259: Promised Land

Table of Programming Wisdom

Filed under: — jwinter on 10/4/2004 at 11:08 am

Lots of good advice in the following table:

Table of Programming Wisdom

with links to the books where the author discovered them. To my great shame, the only book on that list that I’ve read cover-to-cover is The Pragmatic Programmer.

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