false 64070 2 The clerk at my neighborhood store thinks I'm eccentric because I'd rather read yesterday's <I>New York Times</I> than today's <I>Seattle Post Intelligencer</I>. He'll say, "Today's <I>Times</I> hasn't come in yet; that's yesterday's." I tell him, "I prefer the writing in the <I>Times</I>." To which he replies, "But that's <i>yesterday's</I> news!" <P> Similarly, this collection of Codrescu's essays on NPR's <I>All Things Considered</I> between 1989 and 1993 may strike you at first as cute but now irrelevant two-page vignettes about current events no longer current. But Codrescu grew up in totalitarian Communist Bloc Romania, and his antennae are continually honing in on the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which events are defined, filtered, massaged, and reported by the media -- and how in turn the media define, filter, and massage us into numbness: zombification. These are timeless essays about the eternal dysfunctional codependency of power and belief. Highly Recommended. 62213 1994 Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio total:43|5:5|4:19|3:16|2:2|1:1| 43 154 74 3 3 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Dec 19 08:24:24 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 08:26:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Wed Dec 05 11:30:55 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 11:35:10 -0800 2007 Zombification and expose yourself to the text version. Filled with many short essays/stories/humorous anecdotes, ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jul 14 15:12:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 15:13:53 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 07 08:36:45 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 08:36:45 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 08:19:52 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 06:00:55 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 14:26:05 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 14:26:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 06:42:38 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 06:42:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 25 21:20:48 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 21:20:48 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 18:41:38 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:41:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 19 18:35:37 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 18:35:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 02:00:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 02:00:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 09:58:52 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 09:58:52 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:57:12 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 16:57:12 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri May 22 20:29:17 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 20:29:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 17 13:57:50 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 13:57:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 13 14:53:45 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:53:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 20 18:26:48 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 18:26:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 20 09:41:44 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 09:41:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 08 10:03:35 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:03:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 02 15:00:59 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 15:00:59 -0700 2009