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Posted by sleepygirl2 on May 11, 2011, at 21:55:44
Got any?
I am liking "the moth" podcasts right now. Stories in real life, but with some humor (sometimes).
I like the humor, so I can manage the rest.
It's just listening to someone tell a story about themselves, keeps my interest pretty well.
8 hrs sleep if I start now. I really need at least 9.
Goodnight.
Posted by floatingbridge on May 13, 2011, at 7:13:21
In reply to Good podcasts, posted by sleepygirl2 on May 11, 2011, at 21:55:44
Good morning! Did you get your eight?
It's 5:00 am here. Ouch! I've been up since 4:00. Who knows why. So that gives me,...(sound of fingers counting)...7 hours. I could use ten :(
The Moth. Those sound familiar. Who does them? Nothing like Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross?
One day my son (seven) and I listened to a Fresh Air interview with musician Dr John. It was amazing, and my son was absolutely drunk on this peek into the adult world.
Then there is a podcast of The Story. Also Science Friday. Those can be fun. What about Math Lab or Sound Lab--something like that. Used to be on the NPR site.
The Moth, eh?
Happy Friday :)
Posted by sleepygirl2 on May 13, 2011, at 19:36:33
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » sleepygirl2, posted by floatingbridge on May 13, 2011, at 7:13:21
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth
I think I've got some "fresh air" podcasts waiting for my attention.
I'll check it out then, and the others too.
I got about 8 hrs, need more.
Posted by Willful on May 15, 2011, at 10:56:56
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » floatingbridge, posted by sleepygirl2 on May 13, 2011, at 19:36:33
If you like more academic/lit crit,/current topics/ philosophy, I recommend a great podcast from Stanford called Entitled Opinions, by Robert Harrison. I'm not sure if it's on Itunes U or just the regular podcasts, but I really recommend it. Harrison has interviews with scholars on topics ranging from Byzantine culture, Melville, psychoanalysis, Epicurus, the Human Brain, Samuel Beckett, the Doors and Jimi Hendrix.
Other than podcasts from Insight Meditation by Gil Fronsdal, then are my absolutely favorite listening. I like the Moth sometimes, but sometimes not so much.
Willful
Posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 13:24:49
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by Willful on May 15, 2011, at 10:56:56
Great reccommendations both Sleepygirl and Willful.
I hadn't heard about the Stanford broadcasts.
Thanks you two!
Posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 13:52:01
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by Willful on May 15, 2011, at 10:56:56
That sounds allright. I'll see if I have the requisite skill to make it happen.
We have a program on Radio National called the Pilosopher's Zone and there was a discussion with a philosopher on the nature of time and on all the theories about the existence or not of past and future. It was fantastic.
Posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 13:55:50
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by Willful on May 15, 2011, at 10:56:56
I managed to make it work in 30 seconds!
Robert Harrison on Samuel Beckett.
How cool is that?
Just the way to start the day after not being able to sleep the night before.
Thanks.
Posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:07:30
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » Willful, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 13:55:50
I went to this Buddhist lecture with my nephew the other night and as we walked in I suddenly thought and said to him 'The reason I read history is to collect evidence against us'.
We both thought this was quite funny.
Posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 14:17:44
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:07:30
> I went to this Buddhist lecture with my nephew the other night and as we walked in I suddenly thought and said to him 'The reason I read history is to collect evidence against us'.
>
> We both thought this was quite funny.sigi, I think so, too :-)
When do you expect the jury to weigh in?
Posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:19:56
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:07:30
'History is cruel, like the month of April, in that it doesn't quite die'.
I cannot thank you enough. What an absolute delight.
Posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 14:34:21
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:19:56
Really? If I could ever send a smile your way--well I'd be pleased....
Sleep?
I'm watching an episode of 'Ma and Pa Kettle' of all things. I love seeing my son get jokes.... And get ones that I don't. I like that.
Posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:42:17
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 14:17:44
It's the sort of thing you think on walking into a hall full of humans.
If life wasn't so funny it would simply be painful.
Posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 15:24:33
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 14:42:17
As a child, at the Bronx zoo, there was a bolted vault door with a teeny-tiny barred window. A sign read: the world's most dangerous animal.
We anxiously peeped up to see our own images reflected back in a mirror placed behind the bars.
Posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 15:38:39
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 15:24:33
I had long conversations with my kids where I insisted we are an animal form. They were pretty sceptical.
But then when I was a kid, I thought the cats were girls and the dogs were the boys.
Posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 17:38:24
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on May 15, 2011, at 15:38:39
> I had long conversations with my kids where I insisted we are an animal form. They were pretty sceptical.
>
> But then when I was a kid, I thought the cats were girls and the dogs were the boys.Always seemed that way to me.
And the Westeren fictive mind. Yo, Catwoman!
People almost invariably called my girl lab 'he'. My boy cat a 'she'. Even when gently corrected.
Best to steer me away from this topic... I get twitchy about gender and can begin to sound like a Monty Python character.
Posted by sigismund on May 16, 2011, at 3:10:48
In reply to Re: Good podcasts, posted by floatingbridge on May 15, 2011, at 17:38:24
>I get twitchy about gender
I don't want to sound like I have OCD (especially if asking a doctor for Dex), but strictly speaking, you mean sex rather than gender.
Now what was I going to say?
Posted by floatingbridge on May 16, 2011, at 9:27:38
In reply to Re: Good podcasts » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on May 16, 2011, at 3:10:48
> >I get twitchy about gender
>
> I don't want to sound like I have OCD (especially if asking a doctor for Dex), but strictly speaking, you mean sex rather than gender.
>I don't know. Gender. Isn't that more about the behaviors that go with sexual identity. But I have difficultly keeping the definition straight.
> Now what was I going to say?
>
Awww. Sorry for interrupting. Say something like boys are dogs, and off I go.I had a professor once. She was nuts about Virginia Woolf. All conversation led to Virginia Woolf. I think Woolf is a fine writer, and wouldn't have minded a real Woolf scholar; however, I suspect My (female) professor of a secret plot to clone VW with the express purpose of marrying her. If she could find her car keys.
One of Woolf's novels were among the
seven to read for seminar. Students had great fun inserting "Virginia Woolf" into Any reference and watch her run it to ground. I was so p*ssed about wasting my time in this class, I alternated between disgusted and amused.I decided to read one novel the entire seminar. Woolf's. I didn't care for the others, but more than anything, I had a Very bad attitude toward, again, the waste of time. I wrote all my papers on Woolf's novel. Now that did mean I read and reread it many times. But all I'd have to say is you know, I was thinking some more about Woolf, and she'd warm right up, yet look kinda' glassy.
Me and gender. Unless I mean sex. I'm not sure.
What were you going to say? You could start something perfectly fresh. Like if you went out last night.
I have to see if my smartphone will download podcasts. I hope.
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