Armando Iannucci, Public Enemy #2

[tealin]

I've just listened to Armando Iannucci's Lent Talk, in which he said that after the terrorism episode of Time Trumpet he was briefly called the second-most-hated man in America. Does anyone in America know who Armando Iannucci is? Is Time Trumpet even broadcast there? Or is this a totally spurious statistic thrown out for rhetorical purposes?

It's an amusing idea, anyway...

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[floramir.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him; but then, I live under a rock and I'm not exactly up on statistics and I never watch TV so... it could very well be that I SHOULD have heard of him...

I'm also not aware of any 'Time Trumpet' being published over here...

I might sound very stupid, but who's the first-most-hated?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That's what we was wondering, too ... I would guess it's Osama bin Laden but really, second?

Don't worry, I'd never heard of him before listening to Radio 4. Dunno if that's consolation or not as I am hardly representative of the media-savvy populace...

radio geeks

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Tealin, long time reader, first time commenter. (Meant to be a joke, but then what do I know anymore?)

As one radio addict to another, you should definitely look up the radio plays at http://decoderringtheatre.com/
I say this because not only are they a fantastic troupe of Canadian actors, but I desperately want you to draw Jack and Trixie from "Black Jack Justice".

Back on topic, even though I'm a poor and pathetic college student, because I have a political science roommate I'm typically up on recent events, and I've never heard of him.
-Shamora

„Das ist Karfreitagszauber, Herr!“

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

Re: „Das ist Karfreitagszauber, Herr!“

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh, gee, my list is hardly pretentious or deeply liturgical ... I give up fiction for Lent so it's mainly non-fiction I haven't gotten around to reading throughout the year. This year I've got Citizens by Simon Schama, about the French Revolution, which I started last year but had work to contend with so never finished; The God Particle by a Mr Lederman, on theoretical physics, which I bought last summer; and my annual reading of I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Réne Girard, one of the handful of books I can honestly say has quite literally changed my life. That reminds me, I should change my icon...

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]