The moorhens and swans did well out of me today, as I fed them while walking along the canal. Real St Francis of Assisi stuff. Unfortunately, Pod(cast) did not reward me... I listened to a few episodes of a climate podcast that I had high hopes for. I won't name it (though obvs I could,... Continue Reading →
Three brilliant podcasts: on Callan (etc), Henry IV pt1 and the proscription of Palestine Action
Three podcasts (played at 1.5 because I am a philistine, according to the wife anyways) while I fed the moorhens, ducks and swans. Spybrary Spy Podcast: Paranoid Visions - Spies, conspiracies and the secret state in British television drama Am currently devouring the Adam Hall Quiller books (probably too quickly, to be honest). So found... Continue Reading →
Podcast recommendation: “All the Right Movies”
Moorhens eh, donchajustloveem? Well, I do, and do a most-days 90 minute round-trip walk along a canal towpath, throwing them aquatic bird food. This gives me the opportunity to both narrate stuff into a voice-recorder and also listen to podcasts. I will do a proper "these are the podcasts I currently find myself coming back... Continue Reading →
Essential podcast – “Letter from an American” (esp April 22)
We are in what Leonard Cohen once sang of as "the Blizzard" - information, misinformation, disinformation coming at us at impossible velocity and size. To have any hope of making sense of any bit of it, we need speicalists who can communicate - "public intellectuals." This being a public intellectual is harder than it looks,... Continue Reading →
Podcast review (cat-belling) and a vain plea for decent podcast tips
I'm not going to mention the name of it, but it's a climate-y one which has some really quite good guests. I listened to a couple a while back and was .. underwhelmed. I've dipped my toe in again and I've got (1) to say… I'm still really underwhelmed. The guests are smart. The host... Continue Reading →
Taylor Swift, cathexis, Zizek and (oof) black boxes
I came to the podcast Ordinary Unhappiness very recently while on a Wilfred Bion binge (blog post abt that stuck in development hell). The shtick seems to be that three very well-informed-on-psychoanalysis young(ish) East Coast Americans (two seem married, to each other I mean) will have a topic (Bion and groups, the 1967 film The... Continue Reading →
Podcast review: Every breath you take, Alice Bell on Cursed Object podcast
So, following on from review of Rebecca John talking about Charles Keeling and the Air Pollution Foundation on the History of California podcast, here's some brief thoughts on Alice Bell on the Curated Object. If you know of podcasts that deal - even tangentially - with the history of man-made climate change (research, politics, etc),... Continue Reading →
Podcasts: Hisham Matar on James Baldwin, Private Eye on Justin Welby, Jeremy Clarkson etc
Fed swans, ducks and, obvs, moorhens, including juvies. Listened to three podcasts. Notes on a Native Son (different writers on a Baldwin passage - excellent series). This one was Hisham Matar, choosing not a bit from a novel or essay but Baldwin on a talk show in May 1969. A must must listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_jufwQBSM The... Continue Reading →
Podcast worth your time – “To Stay in the Fight we must navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We need”
This is good. To Stay in the Fight we must navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5N5nDHr81U Doesn't talk enough about movement organisation pathologies, or the emotacycle or what might - concretely - be done. But surfaces questions and problems in a way that is useful.
Dead rats, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Trump – #canalyomp
I said to myself I'd at least blog every long yomp, if not all the podcasts I listened to. You would think I'd know myself better by now. But how else ya gonna get outa bed if you aren't riddled with self-delusion? Yesterday I left the house at about 0940. I was wearing a weighted... Continue Reading →
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