The second installment of "Saints & Rascals" (History in the First Person) is Avicenna, the great, great Persian doctor, philosopher, scientist, and person of all things from about the Year 1000. He (I) describes what it was like to be able to

Saints & Rascals - Part One - Thomas De Quincey - 10:1:19, 11.00 PM

Oct 2nd, 2019 31m 37s

In this first audio essay, Thomas De Quincey, of a new series of monologues, Saints and Rascals, by Clark Carr, we hear De Quincey talk about his book, "Confessions of an Opium Eater," and of the terrible history of opium, the British/Chinese O

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 13 - Comings And Goings

Aug 21st, 2019 25m 47s

This is the last chapter of the comic travel adventures. Comic after the fact, of course! Miserable or frightening while one is in the teeth of the tiger. But even if all might not be well that ends well, it DOES make for good stories! Enjoy. T

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 12 - Cardinal Rules

Jun 30th, 2019 30m 25s

The way you learn the Cardinal Rules is by breaking them wildly, dumbly. Best done at 4AM outside Mumbai, or in a crowded Manila airport lobby with waiting passengers staring at you, or sitting on the royal white throne in Mexico City for days.

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 11 - Fool's Luck

Jun 15th, 2019 24m 3s

Well, I've had more than my share of good luck. Here are three stories where it could have gone very south, very fast. But somehow kismet smiled on me. I don't deserve it, but I'm alive to tell the ridiculous stories of how I survived. Enjoy!

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 10 - Love Your Enemies

Jun 2nd, 2019 34m 43s

Not everyone gets to present at a science conference in Iran. You would think this would be so simple. What could possibly happen? After all, we're all such good friends, aren't we? Well, I made it, and it was VERY interesting. Very interesting

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 9 - I Am So Sorry, I Am So Sorry

May 21st, 2019 35m 56s

CC "Nix" Nixdorf comes clean and tells some stories on himself, when he put his feet throughly in his mouth...and even had to chew on them. Stories of blowing with a lovely old Japanese lady, trying to teach Indian doctors in Mumbai, trying to

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 7 - Down Below

May 11th, 2019 12m 54s

In this chapter of "Tomfool Traveler," we go down to Mexico City and to what it was earlier, the capital of the Aztecs. We see that some of Mexico Today is built from the very stones...and blood...of the Aztecs and their city. The author looks.

Tomfool Traveler - Eleven Moments

May 5th, 2019 34m 49s

These are eleven 'moments' that divide the 12 chapters of Tomfool Traveler. They span the globe from a Bangladesh sultry afternoon to a Hollywood luncheon with Russian doctors, from a Ghana fishing beach to the deep Montana night. You might chu

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 6 - Manners, Good - 4:25:19, 11.07 PM

Apr 26th, 2019 32m 15s

This is the sixth chapter of the travelogue adventures or misadventures, Tomfool Traveler, by CC Nixdorf, read by Clark Carr. Will we ever stop learning good manners? Hopefully not. But it's a rocky road (although funny as hell, sometimes.)

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 5 - Peoples Hotel Of Moscow

Apr 12th, 2019 34m 48s

In Chapter Five, CC Nixdorf regales us with some of his experiences lodging in spidery forests, wannabe Communist hotels, Southeast Asian princely palaces... Dry humor, but always smiling with us (not at us).

Tomfool Traveler - Chapter 4

Apr 5th, 2019 17m 47s

Chapter Four - The Great Equalizer - of Tomfool Traveler, by CC Nixdorf, is a very NON-serious story about the author's adventures with...bathrooms, toilets, baños, pissores...you name it, from India to China, Mexico to wherever. Very funny stu

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