*Those of you in Austin should come out to the Katherine Anne Porter House to hear Abe Verghese read tonight. He is *amazing.* The reading is at 7:30. Details here.
* Has anyone else noticed the new "gangsta rap" ads for Avis? They are f-ed up, turning on the idea that white guys in suits listening to gangsta rap is ironic, or old white people in sweat suits driving a yellow hummer and listening to hip-hop is ironic. This "irony" troubles me. Actually, I find it pretty offensive.
* I wanna know how "stars" of reality tv are compensated. According to a tidbit at Oh No They Didn't!, the Laguna Beach kids made around 2k a season; less if they aren't in the opening credits. After musing on Assley Parker Angel and Project Jay -- how both the "stars" of these shows struggle with their poverty -- I'm curious as to how they are compensated. I mean, they gotta be given a living allowance, right?
* Finding a good podcast is actually really hard. We love Revello's Buffycast, Ricky Gervais, and Tim Gunn's Project Runway Podcast, but we've listened to all of those several times. So we've been looking around for new ones, but we haven't found anything really good yet. Any recs? We are pretty picky. We don't like podcasts that have any of the following: drama improv geeks trying to be funny, people who talk about eating stuffing instead of the topic at hand, people who have mic problems or seem to enjoy having lots of background noise and / or music behind their voices.
* Has anyone else noticed the new "gangsta rap" ads for Avis? They are f-ed up, turning on the idea that white guys in suits listening to gangsta rap is ironic, or old white people in sweat suits driving a yellow hummer and listening to hip-hop is ironic. This "irony" troubles me. Actually, I find it pretty offensive.
* I wanna know how "stars" of reality tv are compensated. According to a tidbit at Oh No They Didn't!, the Laguna Beach kids made around 2k a season; less if they aren't in the opening credits. After musing on Assley Parker Angel and Project Jay -- how both the "stars" of these shows struggle with their poverty -- I'm curious as to how they are compensated. I mean, they gotta be given a living allowance, right?
* Finding a good podcast is actually really hard. We love Revello's Buffycast, Ricky Gervais, and Tim Gunn's Project Runway Podcast, but we've listened to all of those several times. So we've been looking around for new ones, but we haven't found anything really good yet. Any recs? We are pretty picky. We don't like podcasts that have any of the following: drama improv geeks trying to be funny, people who talk about eating stuffing instead of the topic at hand, people who have mic problems or seem to enjoy having lots of background noise and / or music behind their voices.
2 comments:
dude, I've browsed all the podcasts on itunes, and I guess I'm really picky because almost all of them annoy me. I'll check out the slate podcast.
why didn't tim gunn have a podcast this week?
I think making a good podcast is probably too hard. I mean, I'd have to write out every word, b/c part of what I hate about podcasts is all the hemming and hawing and "happy talk." But I don't know why I wouldn't just make a post of FD. But I'm open. The SB has a great speaking voice.
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