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NPR Arts & Life Pop Culture Happy Hour: In Which We Make New Resolutions And Face Old Ones By Linda Holmes Published January 4, 2013 at 9:58 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen •
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This week's podcast is a bit more contemplative than most, as we go back to the New Year's resolutions we made last time it rolled around to January ( we also made some in 2011!) and
consider how we did. Some of us set concrete goals while some of us left ourselves a lot of wiggle room, but we all take the opportunity to think about how we did or didn't — sometimes by
conscious choice — pursue what we thought we would.
We also, logically enough, take up the task for the upcoming year, returning again to a theme of wanting to find, explore, and share more stuff that we think is wonderful. Basically, it's a
very sappy week around the ol' PCHH table, so strap in.
And then, because it's not a 2013 episode without some probably doomed fortune-telling, we make predictions for the coming year. And yes, I give you my projected major Oscar winners before
the nominations are even out, and yes, I will probably be wrong because I am a terrible prognosticator, but darn it, when I say I'm going to make a prediction, I'm going to make a
prediction. I wear my likely wrongness with pride.
As always, we close the show with what's making us happy this week. For Stephen, it's a new record from an artist he likes a lot; for Trey, it's a show he had abandoned for quite a while;
for Glen, it's a new companion; and for me, it's a movie I always meant to see this year and didn't until just lately.
In the meantime, keep in touch with us — you can find us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter: me, Trey, Glen, Stephen, Jess, and our producer emeritus and music director Mike.
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