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The President's Mandate

6/28/2012

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Photo: some dude listening to some guy



Click me or the picture.  We are both links to a very short one act play about today's Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act.


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Three relatively recent things

2/7/2012

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Minnesota budget surplus essay for NPR:  How to spend it?

Paper Machete essay:  What's it like being a liberal Catholic in 2012?  Audio/answer here.

And lastly, a homemade audio bit on the G8 and NATO summits coming to Chicago.  It has to do with some rather... is "autocratic" the word?... severe new right-to-assembly regulations Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wanted to pass.  Our august City Council, thankfully, gave him hell and he largely backed down.  Don't worry.  Satirists like me will keep an eye on this story.
I posted this last one on this blog last month, but later removed it because I was on the make.  My plan was to get some high roller types with excess CA$H to pay me to record it in a professional studio.  I figured if they knew I'd give the product away for free that would be less likely.
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Nobel Prize: The Picks-to-Click

10/4/2011

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My latest All Things Considered piece:  Winning Fantasy Picks & Some Nobel Predictions.
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Alfred Nobel: Industrialist, prize-giver. "Damn... Y'all make me think WITH MY MIND!"
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A bunch of my broadcast and published stuff

4/16/2011

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Here is a sample of some of my work that either was broadcast or published.

Stuff you can read:
  • McSweeneys: I Will Fax Anything
  • NPR: Mayor Rahm Emanuel
  • Chicago Tribune: An Elegy for the Phone Book
  • Chicago Tribune: Everybody's Running for Mayor
  • Chicago Sun-Times: My take on people who don't believe in Oprah
  • Chicago Sun-Times: My take on people who don't believe in that other God
  • Chicago Tribune: The Great Wing Crisis of '09
Stuff you can listen to:  (FOR WBEZ LINKS: click "download" on the WBEZ site. The "Listen to this Story" button does not work.)
  • DO'T solo joint: The Blizzard of 2011 Press Conference
  • NPR: The Primacy of Short Men
  • WBEZ: The Secret to My Success
  • WBEZ:  Chicago, The 11th Angriest City
  • WBEZ: Me (i.e., Dennis O'Toole) for Lt. Governor
  • WBEZ: Letter to Obama
BONUS:  Photo of me in studio during a giant beard phase.


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DennisOToole.com Exclusive! NPR's Leaked "How to Talk to the Public" Memo

3/14/2011

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MEMORANDUM




TO: All Employees
FROM: NPR External Relations Department
SUBJECT:  How to Speak to the Public
TOTEBAG:  RED

DATE: March 9, 2011

In the current political climate, NPR employees must assume that every stranger we meet is secretly recording our conversations with the intent of discrediting NPR.  (Please see yesterday’s memo, “STRANGER DANGER.”)

We have gotten feedback from many of you that feigning temporary deafness is not always practical.  Therefore, we have compiled this sample quiz for those times when replying to people is simply unavoidable.  Please study this closely, and respond to the public in kind!

1. What do you think of the Tea Party?


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Two new pieces plus video of a skateboarding dog

1/28/2011

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READ:  Here's my piece on the Rahm Emanuel residency circus.

LISTEN:  Here is me reading an essay about Pope John Paul II to people drinking in a bar

WATCH:  Here is a dog that is a god among men.
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    About Dennis

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