Podcasts
2012-02-21 16:29:02.558262+00 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
Time in the shop with headphones on, and a commute, mean I'm consuming podcasts.
- Nobilis Erotica. Nobilis is hugely prolific, some of his tales are full-cast recordings, some are straight reads, his genres run all over the place, both written by him and written by others.
- JD Sawyer has a number of podcasts, including some full-cast recordings. I've been sucked into his "Antithesis Progression" series, although it tends to get a little too caught up in the hard action "uh, wait, the world doesn't really work that way even if this is a solar system spanning Sci Fi world", and enjoyed "Down From Ten", although that one felt a little more obvious about where it was going. But for pulpy fiction with great production values, I'm eagerly awaiting future episodes.
- Christiana Ellis has put out Nina Kimberly the Merciless, in which the daughter of the most feared barbarian in the land leaves home to find adventure, and Space Casey, an intergalactic grifter telling tales. Both feel a little YA, but I enjoyed 'em.
- I got turned on to Chris Lester's Metamor City based on a story Nobilis wrote in that universe. An imagining of what might happen when a world with telepaths, vampires, magicians, and millenia old shapeshifting curses evolves to modern day technology. Full cast, high production values, lots of attention to world building and exploring the psychology of transformations, poly relationships, and religion and technology in the face of magic.
- NPR's Planet Money. Economics in a little bit of depth.
- NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Current events quiz show humor.
Music-wise, I've been listening to:
- Coverville, everything covers, many of which are better than the originals, some are the originals of things you know better as covers, and a few are covers that should never have been made.
- Nine Bullets, hard rockin' alt hillbilly something.
There are a number that have dropped off my listening.
- This American Life dropped off my list because the smarmy Chicago urban thing got kind of old.
- Marketplace because... well... I'd rather be informed, and do we really need more "Freakonomics" distortions trying to pass themselves off as insight?
I don't remember the others off the top of my head.
So, what else should I be listening to?