Category Archives: Podcast

PAUSE FOR PODCASTS: An Introduction, and Goodbye to “It’s All Politics”

I once loved to drive. During my eight years living in Los Angeles, I regularly drove myself home to San Francisco to see my family. It didn’t take much longer than flying onec I accounted for getting to the airport early, the flight itself, and then the drive to my mom’s house in Marin County.Continue reading “PAUSE FOR PODCASTS: An Introduction, and Goodbye to “It’s All Politics””

Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1

I’m still hedging my bets. This habit stuff is hard. (That’s been my motto all year: THSIH. It rolls off the tongue.) As I mentioned yesterday, barely a day passes that I don’t encounter at least one thing prompting my internal voices to say, “I’m going to write about that.” In fact, I generally keepContinue reading “Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1”

Pausing for Podcasts: Radiolab Digs Through the Dirt

As I’ve discussed before, I’m addicted to Podcasts. In an era where polemical talk radio dominates the airwaves and in a city like New York where most of us barely listen to radio because we don’t drive to work each day, for me, the “Podcast” as an entity has had quite an impact. I’ve alwaysContinue reading “Pausing for Podcasts: Radiolab Digs Through the Dirt”

PAUSING FOR PODCASTS: DIVORCE GIVING ME CHILLS

There was a new episode of This American Life this weekend, and the theme was “Break-up.” As usual, the entire episode is excellent, but nothing stuck me quite as powerfully as the second act called “But why?” During a very tight 10 minutes, they first played an interview from 1987 when Noah Adams — thenContinue reading “PAUSING FOR PODCASTS: DIVORCE GIVING ME CHILLS”