Most mornings I'm awake before Pixie, but on those occasions when I manage to catch a few extra winks I'm invariably woken by the alarm on her clock radio, which, for reasons I don't care to investigate, is set to the local public station. She's pretty quick on the draw so I usually only hear a second or two on a given morning. But it's always some priceless bit of earnest commentary that seems as though it might form the basis of a good comedy sketch. This morning it was, "...but the Hopis have a complicated relationship with the corn." Then click, the alarm's off and I'm left to ponder the comedic possibilities.
I don't think it would be half as entertaining if all the NPR on-air personalities didn't sound like they'd been given voice lessons by HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
