Slocum Obit 1

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For years, he was one of the main news anchors on KOMO Newsradio.

And now, his voice has been silenced.

Eric Slocum died over the weekend.  KOMO's Charlie Harger looks back at the life of our friend.

"The Thin Red Line" is my favorite film. 

This is what one guy just wrote about Terrence Malick's new movie, "Tree of Life:"

"Just that for nearly 40 years it has been apparent that Malick might make a movie that could alter our understanding of what cinema should be. This may be it."

I'm IN!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/5-things-we-know-terence-188535

This is just great.  We set two records!

According to Scott Sistek...

Seattle's Sea-Tac Airport received 0.97" from when the rain began at 6:48 p.m. through 1 a.m. Sunday. (Why 1 a.m. and not midnight? Because climate records are kept on Pacific Standard Time year-round. So it's measured midnight-to-midnight PST.)  That broke the daily rainfall record for May 14th, which had been 0.53" set in 2001.

And the rain didn't stop Sunday, which as of 10:02 a.m., had 0.57" of rain and broke May 15th's daily record as well -- old record was 0.56", also set in 2001. And it was still raining...

http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/121859314.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/weekly-telegraph-royal-we_n_858783.html

From HuffPo:
The Daily Telegraph's weekly world edition (called, unsurprisingly, The Weekly Telegraph), ran a front page on its latest edition that can only be called stunning. Peter Thal Larsen, a writer for Reuters, was one of the first to notice the absolutely astonishing melding of the royal wedding and the death of Osama bin Laden. The wedding got bigger play, but the two stories turned the front page into a kind of global symbol for the twin poles of fluff and grit, hard news and soft, that make up today's journalistic world.

On the October 3, 2008 edition of HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." On that show, panelist Christiane Amanpour, who was then the chief international correspondent at CNN, alluded to a source who had suggested that bin Laden had stashed himself in a "nice comfortable villa" in Pakistan.

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I'm thinking of doing video podcasts soon.  Let's see how it looks on Posterous before I do too many.  Punch and pie.

barack obama raw lores.mp3

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Here's the interview I conducted back in 2008 with the man who would be President.

Privacy Day 5 Mixdown.mp3

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The latest studies show nearly two-thirds of all Americans use Facebook.

In this installment of his series, "The Illusion of Privacy," KOMO's Charlie Harger talks with an expert about why we give up so much personal information online: