Howell Creek Radio
From an unlicensed transmitter deep within the forests of northern Minnesota, Howell Creek Radio transmits weekly addresses combining weather, personal yarns, shipping reports, poetry and literature. Read transcripts and get more info at howellcreekradio.com. **No Longer Being Updated**
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2014
The Grid Life
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Radio address for May 3, 2014, a continuation of the previous episode. There are lots of reasons not to like cookie-cutter suburban developm…
Neighbors
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Radio address for April 19, 2014. The gap between the ideal and the actual social fabric in my suburban neighborhood.
As I mention at the end, there’s a Part Two…
Wayfinding
Download MP3 audio – 7:54, 11.21 MB
Radio address for April 12, 2014. What it means to do low-focus podcasting in a high-focus world, and how to keep it going that way.
I mention my recent haphaza…
Tracks
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Radio broadcast for February 22, 2014. A narrative of the first two legs of the trip I took in response to the signal seen on the Baie Come…
Out of Sequence
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Radio address for January 24, 2014.
Mention is made of the book The Discarded Image and (towards the very end) of “Unix philosophy”. Music…
Low Power
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Radio address for January 11, 2013: Weather and shipping news, visitors to Howell Creek from Vancouver, and the blue light gleaming from the…
Not a Radio Address
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There is no radio address this week, or the first weekend in 2014, due to the holidays. In lieu of a creative monologue, I’m here to deliver …
Schrödinger's Cat
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Radio address for December 21, 2013, about the affinity I feel for a cat at work that is, for the time being, both alive and dead.
Very prom…
The Second Ring
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Radio address for December 14, 2013. We tend to place a bit of our power into things: trees, books, jewels, bullets and hats. Lose one of t…
The Infinite Aleph
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Radio address for December 7, 2013: a glimpse into everything, everywhere, all at once.
Mention is made of the living, breathing digital e…
The Way Back
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Radio address for November 30, 2013, a short trip through music, the kitchen, and the woods.
Shifting Schools
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Radio address for October 12, 2013, which finds me getting ready for a long drive, thinking about the radio and those static voices in the da…
The Field and the Fortress
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Radio address for September 22, 2013. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who, at some point in their adult life, have had the…
What Happened
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Radio address for September 14, 2013. This episode draws from and adds a bit of dimension to Habemus Papoose, in which I briefly described ou…
Numbers
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Radio address for June 15, 2013. Numbers and words are my yin and yang, my law and grace. I’m trying to explore the parallel between numbe…
Manning the Pumps
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Radio address for June 1, 2013. A venture down to the lowest place in the house, floods and sinking houses.
Recall
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Radio address for May 27, 2013. Getting ink everywhere but on the page, and coming back to life after being submerged in activity.
Without Words
Download MP3 audio – 13:06, 12.36 MB
Radio address for May 4, 2013. What it feels like not to have words for things, or to suddenly acquire them.
The Working Ghost
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Radio address for April 13, 2013. A report on the weather: of the neighborhood, of the mind.
Quarters
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Radio address for April 6, 2013. We contemplate the value of stolen and saved moments doing what you love in between work and sleep.