As the World Stearns

They’re called Improv Everywhere, and they stage public events in large cities. Their next project is the Eighth Annual No Pants Subway Ride on January 10. Can’t wait.

but I do love the old-time radio shows. They take virtually no space on my iPod, and most are the length of a subway ride. And some—especially Orson Welles’s The Adventures of Harry Lime—are tiny wonders of economy, drama, and art. Some clever folks have put most of the Mercury Theatre’s recordings on the web here. (The Mercury Theatre was infamous for its dramatization of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, of course.)

Well worth checking out.