Glad to hear I won’t be missing anything by not seeing A Prairie Home Companion, according to Matt Yglesias:

The obvious turns out to be correct here — if you don’t like the show, you’ll find the film kind of dull. My vague hope that because The Player is awesome, Robert Altman would pull something magical out of his ass and transform a radio show I don’t like into a genius film was dashed. It was all very well made, but it was still a movie that fundamentally spends a lot of time just portraying a radio that I don’t care for. Dullsville. I should say, though, that considering my basic loathing of folk music it actually contained some good tunes.

But he does say he enjoys Garrison Keillor’s writing, and offers this fine example.