1,776: HodgePodge for Feb. 13

Because

Weren’t you just saying you really wanted to know Sarah Silverman’s take on Serial?

Where is he now?

Jon Stewart’s announcement that he was leaving the Daily Show launched a surprising amount of, I guess, nostalgia for his predecessor, Craig Kilborn.

A capella

This article says everyone can sing because very few people are actually tone deaf. If you ask me (and if you’re reading this, you basically did), being able to sing and not being tone deaf are two vastly different things.

More than words

Here’s the oral history of a particular hit rock ballad.

From David Carr

In a week when the journalism world was already reeling from the fall of Brian Williams and death of Bob Simon, NYT media columnist David Carr passed away in his office. I find myself wanting to read Carr’s take on this, but since that’s not possible, here’s a classic from his archive: the story of his own adiction and redemption.

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