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The Top Left Corner — 2021/02/10
Welcome to this week’s show!
If you’re here for the first time, the Left Hook is a locally focused weekly live internet radio show and podcast based in Williamstown, Mass. We do our best to wade through the spin and nonsense around here and retrieve the important stuff that we think you might care about. Every Wednesday, we’re going to tell you what we think about local current events and the national stories that directly affect the people of Williamston and Berkshire County.
In New England, Super Bowl Sunday basically marks the midpoint of winter. Spring, or at least mud season, seems right around the corner. But there’s a reason why Shakespeare never wrote “A Midwinter Night’s Dream.” Hardy though we may be, we often find ourselves as sad and brittle as the dripping icicles hanging from the eaves at this time of year.
What we want to know this week is what you do to get yourself over the winter hump. Reading good books, Zooming with friends and family, plotting elaborate revenge on notional enemies, skiing, eating a whole giant box of Dots while bingeing Gossip Girl, cooking, snowshoeing, watching movies, bitterly and silently weeping, walking, learning a new language… What works for you?
Believe us, we’re only asking as an academic exercise in the public interest.
— Jay and Steve
P.S. We want to hear from you! Participate live during the show or anytime by sending an email to us at [email protected] or via Twitter: @heylefthook.
P.P.S. Please send us your pet pics! We’ll post them on our show notes every week, and if you include a caption we’ll read it live on the air. Send your pics to [email protected].
LIGHT (OR NOT)
* The great state of Texas’s Amber Alert system apparently misfired last week, sending push notifications out to the state’s citizens to keep an eye out for Chucky, the–dare we say it, beloved?–murderous doll and star of several eponymous films.
* Matthew Gault at Vice reports that the US Navy has been granted patents on a number of futuristic-sounding technologies invented by a researcher named Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais. We were suspicious, so we immediately ran this so-called doctor’s name through an anagram generator to see what was really going on. Nice try, Dr. Aviators Raze Places!* It took us a little while to figure out all the stuff you can do with this create your own Bayeux tapestry app, but once we did, we couldn’t stop.
LOCAL
* We speak with special guest Abigail Childs of the Berkshires Democratic Socialists of America about their latest community assistance program, “Care Packages for All.” Anyone living in Berkshire County who needs support in surviving this season may request a care package of personal care items and home cleaning supplies by completing this confidential request form. Fifty packages are available first-come, first-served starting today, February 9th; this form will close automatically when the limit is reached. Members of the Berkshires Democratic Socialists of America will make contactless deliveries on the afternoon of Saturday, February 20th.
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Welcome to this week’s show!
If you’re here for the first time, the Left Hook is a locally focused weekly live internet radio show and podcast based in Williamstown, Mass. We do our best to wade through the spin and nonsense around here and retrieve the important stuff that we think you might care about. Every Wednesday, we’re going to tell you what we think about local current events and the national stories that directly affect the people of Williamston and Berkshire County.
In New England, Super Bowl Sunday basically marks the midpoint of winter. Spring, or at least mud season, seems right around the corner. But there’s a reason why Shakespeare never wrote “A Midwinter Night’s Dream.” Hardy though we may be, we often find ourselves as sad and brittle as the dripping icicles hanging from the eaves at this time of year.
What we want to know this week is what you do to get yourself over the winter hump. Reading good books, Zooming with friends and family, plotting elaborate revenge on notional enemies, skiing, eating a whole giant box of Dots while bingeing Gossip Girl, cooking, snowshoeing, watching movies, bitterly and silently weeping, walking, learning a new language… What works for you?
Believe us, we’re only asking as an academic exercise in the public interest.
— Jay and Steve
P.S. We want to hear from you! Participate live during the show or anytime by sending an email to us at [email protected] or via Twitter: @heylefthook.
P.P.S. Please send us your pet pics! We’ll post them on our show notes every week, and if you include a caption we’ll read it live on the air. Send your pics to [email protected].
LIGHT (OR NOT)
* The great state of Texas’s Amber Alert system apparently misfired last week, sending push notifications out to the state’s citizens to keep an eye out for Chucky, the–dare we say it, beloved?–murderous doll and star of several eponymous films.
* Matthew Gault at Vice reports that the US Navy has been granted patents on a number of futuristic-sounding technologies invented by a researcher named Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais. We were suspicious, so we immediately ran this so-called doctor’s name through an anagram generator to see what was really going on. Nice try, Dr. Aviators Raze Places!* It took us a little while to figure out all the stuff you can do with this create your own Bayeux tapestry app, but once we did, we couldn’t stop.
LOCAL
* We speak with special guest Abigail Childs of the Berkshires Democratic Socialists of America about their latest community assistance program, “Care Packages for All.” Anyone living in Berkshire County who needs support in surviving this season may request a care package of personal care items and home cleaning supplies by completing this confidential request form. Fifty packages are available first-come, first-served starting today, February 9th; this form will close automatically when the limit is reached. Members of the Berkshires Democratic Socialists of America will make contactless deliveries on the afternoon of Saturday, February 20th.