Sponsor
 
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

Interactive Features

Interact. It's not something that gets done in the upper midwest very often, or at least we're not known for it. But we thought we'd give it our best try. There are some new things you can do on the Web site, like adding your comments to Post to the Host, or sharing your writing in First Person. And there are some old things, like the venerable joke machine, or the greetings you can post to your family and friends. See below for a full list of what you can do to interact with us.

THE JOKE MACHINE

PRETTY GOOD JOKES

An underwater archeologist named Tex,
found sunken ships made him think about sex;
for some reason or another
they reminded him of his mother,
so he called them his Oedipus wrecks...

This original limerick was sent in by Janet P., of San Antonio, TX. Thanks Janet!

Greetings


Here's your chance to ask GK your most pressing questions—about the writing life, the radio life, Lake Wobegon, Guy Noir, whatever you like. Also, feel free to send feedback about the show. Honest comments and criticism are always welcome! Now you can comment on Garrison's comments too.
FIRST PERSON

share your stories from home
Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives — or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
Pretty Good Trivia


If you think you know something about Prairie Home history, take a crack at one of our quizzes.
Greetings


Announce an engagement, admonish the babysitter, celebrate a birthday, or just say hi. At each live show, we collect greetings from the audience and from the Web site for Garrison to read on the air.
But Wait! There's More!

Your Invitation to Lake Wobegon

SCHEDULE/TICKETS

On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.



77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor

77 Love Sonnets From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”


Robin and Linda Williams: Buena Vista

Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!


  • News/Talk
  • Music
  • Entertainment