and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

Prairie Home Companion is perhaps some of the best radio you can find these days. No wonder the Canadians are jealous.

In a recent letter to the host, Garrison Keillor, a Canadian asks why he doesn't have any Canadian locales on the tour dates schedule and good 'ol Gary responds,

I am fond of Canada in principle, admire your health care system and so forth, and my father's family came from there, but ... the last time we did a show there, in Vancouver, getting through Canadian customs was exquisite torture.

and he continues,

And then a few months ago, we submitted an hour-long version of A Prairie Home Companion to the CBC, which they declined. Not because they didn't like it, not because they had no room for it, nor because they couldn't afford it, but because it was too American. That really burned my toast. That is stupidity on a scale I'm not used to dealing with.

And it gets my goat, too. See, this is the problem with the Canadian/US relations package - sour milk. They'd like very much to be like us, but not too much so they can still poke fun and laugh.

Well let me tell you something: Stuart McLean has nothing on Garrison. He talks in inflectives. It's really quite irritating.

At the same time we're so worried sitting atop our worldly pedestal that perhaps they'll claw their way up some day that we poke right back.

Which is not to say he is bad, but I'll take Gary over him any day.