Keyword results: Podcast
"It's homeopathic inner crystal meth." Just so we're clear, sexual misadventurer and author Jonathan Ames is talking about unashamed old-fashioned story telling.
In 1997, poet and novelist George Dawes Green and a small circle of friends gathered to spin spellbinding tales on a New York porch - THE MOTH was born.
Once upon a time mad, cynical geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut and Phillip K. Dick made a living hacking out stories for pulp magazines, trashy bits of entertainment that could earn a writer a few bucks for whiskey and cigarettes. In the science fiction world, pulp is still alive and well, and a writer can still make money selling short stories to podcasts like Steve Eley's Escape Pod.
We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims of Web 2.0, social media and lifecasting, listening to BACKGROUND BRIEFING is like taking a warm bath in journalism juice.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING truly is Aunty at her finest - rational, thorough and educational.
Do you plan to have intercourse in the next six months? Scratch that. Do you ever you plan to have intercourse? If your answer is a resounding "F!*k yes" then you would be well advised to listen to THE SAVAGE LOVECAST. For the unaware, Dan Savage is a (and here, if I were speaking to you, I would obnoxiously preface the first term with "quote, unquote") sex adviser and podcaster based out of Chicago.
There’s a great podcast here of a talk by Carl Honoré who wrote 'In Praise of Slow’. Listening to it is bound to have even the most speed-addicted wanting to get in touch with their ‘inner tortoise’.
The talk was given as part of the TED (Technology Entertainment & Design) conference held annually in California.
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