PART 2 How the NPR voices look (in my head) / September 13, 2011 by Gaelan

This is who I see in my head when I listen to NPR these days... PART 2! I had such a great reaction to part 1 in this series and want to thank everyone who sent me messages and shared it with their friends.

The fact is that the folks at NPR have difficult names to spell (this coming from someone named Gaelan). So it's probably no suprise to anybody that after I had finished with the drawings I needed to go online to find the correct spelling and fill in the names. This was (for the most part) the first time I actually saw what these NPR personalities really looked like. Turns out their photos are all over NPR.org, huh, who knew?

So, once again sorry in advance, but between you and me... I understand why they say "If you must choose between printing the legend or the truth, print the legend." Zing!...*sigh.

A final thought: I still can't find what this "Tori Malateo" character looks like. The dude is an enigma wrapped in a riddle topped with a catchy nick-name.

UPDATE: It's Torey Malatia! See what happens when you search a wrong spelling? I blame Google, and myself... And society.

Click here to see How the NPR Voices look (in my head) Part 1

How the NPR voices look (in my head) / June 28, 2011 by Gaelan

When I was in high school I had to spend about 30 minutes every morning driving into town to get to school. This time I spent religiously listening to Morning Edition's first segment. This was the 90's so the host was the great Bob Edwards and I can remember for some reason or another getting into my head that Bob was an old Japanese man. Yeah I know, 'Edwards' not the most Japanese name but I wasn't really thinking about it, I just had this picture of him in my head. Fast forward a few years and I see an interview on TV with Bob Edwards (he was retiring) and... What the hell? Bob Edwards looks like Adam West?!

Well I'm sure we all do this with the voices on the radio, we (for some reason or other) get a mental picture of that person and it sticks. The shock is when we actually end up seeing the face behind the voice and our mental image is shattered forever! Like an iconic actor playing a role in a movie or an actor playing an iconic role in a movie from a famous book. For better or worst, sometimes you just can't disassociate the two after the fact (thank you Ian McKellen).

Anyway, this is who I see in my head when I listen to NPR these days, not always intresting but always wrong. Well except for Terry Gross, she just looks like she sounds.