Lynda Barry & Pop Culture Happy Hour

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Lynda Barry is a self-identified "freak", a cartoonist, a writer, and for the last couple of years, she's also been a college professor teaching interdisciplinary creativity at the University of Wisconsin. What does that mean? Well, she encourages students to abandon their fears of creating and embrace their work and process. Lynda Barry's book The Greatest of Marlys is now available in hardback Our friends Linda Holmes and Stephen Thompson from Pop Culture Happy Hour give us some pop culture recommendations during a live show in Washington, DC. Jesse heartily disagrees with A.O. Scott's review of the film version of MacGruber. In short: MacGruber exists, and the world is better for it.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.7	Can you draw or can you not draw and actually it kind of freaks you out just thinking about
0:19.5	drawing?
0:20.8	Maybe it's because we think of drawing as something that we're either good at or you know terrible
0:27.6	at.
0:28.8	To Linda Barry, she's a cartoonist and she teaches art and creativity.
0:33.4	That's a problem.
0:35.2	Not so much whether we all think that we can draw, although that too.
0:40.7	But more generally, the way that we think about learning and doing things, acquiring skills,
0:48.0	that's why when she's working with a group of grad students at the University of Wisconsin,
0:53.6	folks who's thinking can kind of get locked up.
0:57.3	She tries to pair them with partners who sort of can't think that way.
1:04.9	One of my students is a mathematician and he was thinking about like numbers and he said,
1:09.4	well you know, like there's that question, what is five?
1:13.3	And one of the kids went, I'm five.
1:17.3	He's different ways of looking at the world.
1:22.4	It's Bullseye.
1:28.3	Coming up, I'll talk to cartoonist Linda Barry.
1:32.1	She's teaching a lot these days and she's trying to get her students to learn how to actually
1:35.9	interact with what they're doing.
1:38.3	You know, you're looking down at this drawing and you're sort of hating it.
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