Baby, If You Ever Wonder

Produced by Win Rosenfeld and Zena Barakat Thanks, everyone, for being part of the Bryant Park Project. Look for us here. -- Laura Conaway

The Rundown For...Ever

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Let Me Tell You About My Good Friends

The cast of the BPP. Zena Barakat   These are just a few of the people who made the Bryant Park Project such an amazing place to work. Last night I left our office knowing that I had just one day left with everyone here, one more day to make the show that we all love so dearly. I was depressed, and I knew there was only one thing I could do -- bake. There is something about measuring, mixing, and frosting that I find incredibly soothing. My mom always baked for me when I was young, and I remember watching her take the time to paint the food coloring on the apple cut-outs on top of her pie. It was like edible proof of how much she loved us. Last night when I was carefully mixing and coloring my third batch of homemade butter cream frosting, I was just overwhelmed with feelings for this group. I leave the BPP with a final batch of baked goods, 24 ice cream cone cupcakes filled with all my love. -- Caitlin Kenney

Thanks For The Memories

Just a short post to thank everyone here for making me a part of the BPP family. Having started working for the show in June, I think I was perhaps the most recent addition to the staff, but I'm grateful that I had the time here that I did, however brief. It was much more than just a job. I read somewhere recently that the average person laughs 17 times a day (all right, a depressingly paltry amount of laughter to begin with) but I know that I met my daily quota at our morning meetings alone, and exceeded it many, many times over throughout the rest of each day here. Being at the Bryant Park Project was like being part of one big continuous postmodern vaudeville show, with routines both comic and serious, whose stage extended virtually everywhere and could include anything. Thanks for letting me in on the act. -- Paul Hechinger

Run!

This post has nothing to do with the fact that we're being run out of the building. Anthony Famiglietti. Photo Credit: New York Road Runners   One thing we didn't get the chance to air is Mike Pesca's interview with U.S. Olympic Steeplechaser Anthony Famiglietti. Fam, as he's known, is a real running hero of mine. He always seems to run with real guts; he goes as fast as he can regardless of what everybody else on the track is doing. That's what he did at the Olympic Trials in Oregon a few weeks back, and he won the race by a ridiculous margin. Here's Mike's interview: var so = new SWFObject("/player/media1/mediaplayer.swf", "mediaplayer1", "400", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain"); so.addParam("allowfullscreen", "true"); so.addVariable("callback", "http://www.npr.org/player/media1/track.php?Log=1"); so.addVariable("logo", "http://media.npr.org/player/media1/npr_watermark.png"); so.addVariable("file", "http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/images/2008/07/fam.mp3"); so.write("flashcontent20080725tj"); -- Ian Chillag

E-mail This Story!

A long time ago I attempted to create a story that would make it to #1 on the NPR.org Most E-mailed List. To accomplish my goal I studied the list, and created a story that included elements commonly found on the list. Back then I peaked at #2. The #1 story got linked on Yahoo.com, and that was that. So I'm making one more attempt. Go to the story and e-mail it to everyone you know. (Keep in mind that when you enter a list of e-mail addresses separated by commas, the site only counts it as one e-mail. You have to enter one address, hit send, then go back and do the process again.) Now get e-mailing. Use this version of the story from today's show. This is our lasting legacy on NPR! -- Dan Pashman

Fruit From Our Friends

Our table is now piled with sweets -- three different kinds of cupcakes, plus donuts and a pair of cheesecakes. Now, thanks to our friends at WNYC's Takeaway, we've got healthy food, too. They sent us fruit, lovely fruit. Thanks, guys. Keep the faith. -- Laura Conaway

The Final Stage Of Grief: Acceptance

When Web editor Laura Conaway proposed doing a mashup of the five stages of grief with the "Best Song in the World Today," I immediately called dibs on stage five: acceptance. It probably wasn't my smartest move, as it turns out. I thought I was well into acceptance, and then found that in the middle of doing the segment I couldn't even talk. Apparently that's the big misconception about Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's groundbreaking research. You don't just move through the stages in order. You go back through them again and again, and you never really finish. I want to reiterate that I do have a sense of perspective and that although this is a profound loss for me -- personally and financially -- it's not all that bad in the grand scheme of things. We are all healthy people, we have the ability to work elsewhere, we will all be just fine. But to help us accept the loss of the show and the Web experience we all loved (I mean ACTUALLY LOVED -- how rare is that?) I picked the song "Smile Smile Smile" by Dan Zanes. It's about loving simple things about other people, and about how that love ripples and expands and eventually circles the world. Enjoy. -- Tricia McKinney

A Toast to the Bryant Park Project

As the BPP posse wraps up its final show, I just wanted to hijack their blog for a moment and ask all of you to raise a glass and join me in a toast. From start to finish, through thick and thin, the Bryant Park Project team has been innovative, entertaining, informative and a class act. You've created more than a show, more than a community - you've created a family, and for that I thank each and every one of you. Cheers, BPP, and thank you again - it won't be the same here without you. -- Andy Carvin

Before The Atom Split

The wonderful Revolution 21 fired over this clip from our earliest, earliest days. -- Laura Conaway