Podcast fever

My current faves among the podcasts I've been listening to, in no particular order:

1) Quirks and Quarks (CBC) -- did you know they're finding ways to make severed spinal cords pass signals without reattaching them, using phosphorescent algae? Well, they ARE, no shit!

2) Vinyl Cafe (CBC) -- like Lake Wobegon, but not in Minnesota

3) Escape Pod -- hit or miss on story quality; A+ for the geekboy host who knows that "science fiction" gets demerits if there's magic in it

4) Daily Mayo (BBC) -- good daily talk show. The ones I listened to today had Steve Guttenberg being all cute about doing Panto and John Barrowman being all cute about his new album.

5) A Point of View (BBC) -- Today's thoughtful radio essay was on how movies glamorize violence and evil by removing historical context. He hit on what I disliked about "Schindler's List" -- the movie made it all about the people who survived and how one person can make a difference, when the real story was the people who died and that it took armies to make a real difference -- not comfortable truths, just truths.

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Me as Sally Photo by lcohen; art by wtfpotatoes

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I'm alternating working with goofing off on LJ. Blame lcohen for this one:

12 first sentences of the month for 2008:

The new year isn't a very big deal to me. Hey, TOTGA -- have we come full circle when Wil Wheaton's talking about Pufnstuf? Found a backup CD from when I lived with cute-poet-chick. Because elissaann had good luck with them, I thought I'd probably like this and this, and I do. My latest post to the McDougall board: I'll spare you the details, but that was as sick as I've been in a long time. Believe me when I say that Dr. John McDougall was, when I first encountered him more than twenty years ago, a reasonable voice for low-fat vegan eating as a way to treat heart disease. mommaduck and I both start our new jobs today.Yesterday, my boss (slash-brother-in-law) was telling me about how dizzy and nauseated he was last week with some illness that really nailed him. Friend-of-a-friend moved into the neighborhood and asked for local-places suggestions. Is it so unreasonable to wish my whole family would be healthy at the same time? Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times: