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Archive

Mar
29th
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This is the image I want in my head during tomorrow’s show.

This is the image I want in my head during tomorrow’s show.

(Source: carlyelliott, via catladysoul)

Mar
27th
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Friday’s Show: Name That Router This week on Shut Up, Weirdo join us for a rowdy and rousing round of router revelry as we wander the the whys and why-nots of Wi-Fi naming rituals. It’ll be so much fun you’ll WEP yourself. Join X9IW7 and and LOVESHACK this Friday from 6 to 7pm (Eastern) and call us on the air at 201-209-9368. Listen in on WFMU 91.1 FM or online at wfmu.org. Shut Up, Weirdo: The Man Can’t Bust Our Chit-Chat.

Friday’s Show: Name That Router

This week on Shut Up, Weirdo join us for a rowdy and rousing round of router revelry as we wander the the whys and why-nots of Wi-Fi naming rituals. It’ll be so much fun you’ll WEP yourself.

Join X9IW7 and and LOVESHACK this Friday from 6 to 7pm (Eastern) and call us on the air at 201-209-9368. Listen in on WFMU 91.1 FM or online at wfmu.org.

Shut Up, Weirdo: The Man Can’t Bust Our Chit-Chat.

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For those of you who have never seen the inside of WFMU’s Studio A.

For those of you who have never seen the inside of WFMU’s Studio A.

(Source: spacecampband, via atompunk)

Mar
26th
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Email of the Day

Email of the Day

Mar
23rd
Fri
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Listen to 'Shut Up, Weirdo' for March 23, 2012

Topic: Mean Childhood Nicknames
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Bugs Bunny in Australia: Nature Boy (left) confronts Bugs Bunny in the 1950 Looney Tunes short “Bushy Hare.” This post is dull on purpose.

Bugs Bunny in Australia: Nature Boy (left) confronts Bugs Bunny in the 1950 Looney Tunes short “Bushy Hare.”

This post is dull on purpose.

Mar
22nd
Thu
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Friday’s Show: Mean Childhood Nicknames

Mean boys, mean girls, hear my call. This week on Shut Up, Weirdo we delve into the wonderful world of youthful sociopathological ad hominem attacks. So whether you’ve been the giver, the taker, or the bystander, call in and share with us the most scathing and esteem-crippling kid insults (or kidsults) you’ve heard. 

Join Big Nose and Mr. Ed this Friday from 6 to 7pm (Eastern) and call us on the air at 201-209-9368. Listen in on WFMU 91.1 FM or online at wfmu.org.

Shut Up, Weirdo: The Man Can’t Bust Our Chit-Chat.

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Newt Gingrich: Definitely Not a Smarty-Pants

It’s not his job to go around correcting people, this time.
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newsweek: Ask a Copy Editor! Ever have a grammatical question you want an expert’s view on? Do you wake up at night wandering wondering if you used that semicolon correctly? Have you found youself chewing on a pencil over single vs. versus double quotation marks? Wonder whether “Etch a Sketch” is hyphenated or not? Have no fear! We’re launching a new segment here on the nwktumblr called Ask a Copy Editor! It’s exactly what it sounds like! Use Tumblr’s Ask box to submit any and all of your titillating copy/grammar/spelling questions. We’ll pass them on to Newbeast’s expert copy editors and they’ll do there their best to answer all of them right here on our Tumblr. So have at it!  Submit a question for a copy editor FYI: Andy is a member of this august panel. And, no, he did not edit the above blurb.

newsweek:

Ask a Copy Editor!

Ever have a grammatical question you want an expert’s view on? Do you wake up at night wandering wondering if you used that semicolon correctly? Have you found youself chewing on a pencil over single vs. versus double quotation marks? Wonder whether “Etch a Sketch” is hyphenated or not?

Have no fear! We’re launching a new segment here on the nwktumblr called Ask a Copy Editor! It’s exactly what it sounds like! Use Tumblr’s Ask box to submit any and all of your titillating copy/grammar/spelling questions. We’ll pass them on to Newbeast’s expert copy editors and they’ll do there their best to answer all of them right here on our Tumblr. So have at it! 

Submit a question for a copy editor

FYI: Andy is a member of this august panel. And, no, he did not edit the above blurb.

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wfmu:

Yo La Tengo rockin’ covers during this year’s WFMU Marathon

Mar
20th
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Life is short; get off as much as possible.
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Henry Rollins (via kiloalphalima)

What a fucking smarty-pants.

(Source: youtube.com, via kiloalphalima)

Mar
19th
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'Shut Up, Weirdo' Is Ready to Be 'Liked' on Soundtap

 Help take WFMU to the Final Four of “college” radio.
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wfmu: WFMU Has Been Pitted Against 63 Of The World’s Top Non-Commercial Stations: Help Us Win Round 2 and Then Move on to Kick Some NPR Ass. Link: Register and listen for free.  Take that, McGill. Comin’ for you, Columbia. I predict a final showdown between WFMU and KCRW: East Coast blabbers vs. West Coast blabbers. 

wfmu:

WFMU Has Been Pitted Against 63 Of The World’s Top Non-Commercial Stations: Help Us Win Round 2 and Then Move on to Kick Some NPR Ass.

Link: Register and listen for free. 

Take that, McGill. Comin’ for you, Columbia. I predict a final showdown between WFMU and KCRW: East Coast blabbers vs. West Coast blabbers. 

Mar
18th
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atompunk: A 1950s Coronet instructional film detailing how teenagers should spend their free time (especially not mopping) Does listening to WFMU count?

atompunk:

A 1950s Coronet instructional film detailing how teenagers should spend their free time (especially not mopping)

Does listening to WFMU count?

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Mar
17th
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For Frangry.

For Frangry.

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