Sherman Alexie
& The Chuckanut Radio Hour
Last night I went to hear Sherman Alexie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Alexie
I don't know what I was expecting, the only books I have read of his are Reservation Blues and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven. And, of course, I have seen Smoke Signal (based on the latter book) and The Business of Fancy Dancing. I guess I was expecting a tidy little book reading regarding his new book Flight. I forgot that it was also a taping of The Chuckanut Radio Hour-a Prairie Homesque Radio show a la Bellingham. This made the evening a bit messy, and Sherman only popped in for dissapointingly short, radio sound bytes. But, then, at the end, he did his monologue which floored me. He was completely irreverent, politically incorrect, DIRTY, and absolutely hilarious. I haven't laughed so much in a while, it was nice. You can stream the show after it airs on the second saturday of May, although I am not sure where you go to do this...