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In reply to the discussion: Wobegone Is Me [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,268 posts)Cynics might accuse him of pandering to a false sense of nostalgia in his storytelling and style. And maybe in part they might be right. Lake Wobegon came from a time and place that never really was.
But nonetheless, the man has a knack for putting a homespun, down to earth face on higher minded thinking. Not to mention he's a pretty good liberal. And he's a hell of a storyteller. (His singing voice leaves something to be desired, but I'll forgive him for that.)
His soft, gentle humor makes one wonder how Mark Twain may have sounded if he had a radio show of his own.
I knew inevitably he'd have to retire. But part of me will feel a hole in my soul, remembering how my parents put his show on during our Saturday drives (or Sunday drives when they reran his show the next afternoon) and he'd manage to suck me, a kid way outside his target demographics, into his odd, but wonderfully drawn world.