Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label podcasts. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Epicodcfastsasy

I liked Cecily Kane's point in Cabbages & Kings podcast about part of the problem with Tolkien-derivative epic fantasy is not that it's Tolkien-derivative but Tolkien-derivative in the same ways. If contemporary epic fantasy was a bit more cool about being fanfic, it might unlock a whole lot of new variety & interest.

Or maybe just a lot of Treebeard shipping idk.

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By the way, podcasts!

I don't really listen to them. Occasionally the Pod Trinity (pseudo, escape, castle) for fiction, or Tea & Jeopardy, and maybe now Cabbages & Kings, and definitely any Tea, Cabbages, Kings & Jeopardy cross-overs.

But I want to listen to them. Podcasts. Any recommendations? Especially anything really really really smart? Genre-related, or anything?

I listen to a lot of Great Courses economics and finance lecture series but I can't hear them over my screaming and gross-sobbing. Occasionally Late Lunch with Out to Lunch ("Polemic, politics, mouth jazz and spontaneous music with Ben Watson").

Or any Booktuber recommendations?

I tried to watch TableTop, I really did.

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Btw. Someone pointed out to me the other day that the university lecture format, which is somewhat embattled in the humanities at the moment, can be considered not only a pedagogic device but a learning outcome in itself -- i.e. the ability to follow a lecture is part of what is being taught, not just a way of teaching.

Who decided to call them "lectures" and not "sermonars"?

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Btw. I wish I could remember this genre podcast I heard once, where the intro mentions listening to audio books and the voice getting mingled with your internal monologue, and imposing its rhythms, which I think also happened to be at 1.5x speed. I thought, "I'm going to listen to more of these" & then promptly forgot. Promptly.

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Btw, Books and Pieces.




Thursday, December 18, 2014

Tea & Jeopardy

"Little chickens, would you be able to sing 'Everything You Know is Wrong' by Weird Al Yankovich? Then Momo can see how clever you are, and we can record it for Frances, as I understand it's one of her favourite songs."

Tea and Jeopardy Advent Calendar Day 17.