The Pod Piper

Rank Podcast Episode Lowdown 1 Reply All Zardulu (#56) Everything is not as it seems. This episode focuses on exposing a harmless prank, which ends up signifying a greater struggle with reality, art and artifice in a modern urban setting. With tens of hundreds of thousands of people occupying public space, is it ever safe to take anything at face value? 2 Here Be Monsters Deep Stealth Mode (#45) Some issues are polarizing and confusing. Perhaps an intimate insiders audio diary can shed some light. Brought to my attention by the on-hiatus but always insightful Love+Radio , the casual, authentic narrative quality works wonders. Marlo Mack probably has a couple books worth of stories waiting to be told, but I'm not sure any degree of skillfully crafted autobiographical prose could capture a sentiment the way her daughter's hauntingly poignant version of 'Let It Go' does in this episode. 3 99 Percent Invisible The Green Book (#201) Life was not always thus, and is ...

I like looking at my past and learning about myself, but I don't care much for introspective journal writing (It can be really therapeutic, the problem is that it doesn't translate all that well from the moment of origin).  My wife has set out to record a subjective list of her daily activities in journal form, which serves as an excellent record of of lives, and while that doesn't capture granular details of my life's activities it encompasses the highlights.  Yet I want something more. The other day I read something about how podcasts are simply another form of modern techno-addictive glare, just as habit forming as instinctively checking Facebook or playing Candy Crush without even realizing it. Perhaps the idea for a blog was born out of my desire to rationalize the rather large amount of time I devote to listening to podcasts.  To be fair, I do attempt to fill space that would otherwise be filled with natural sounds of my environment, and I do glean some amount o...