what to listen to

I’m trying to figure out which makes sense – 12 Oz Mouse (which I’m trying to watch while reading) or the Cubs probably choosing the worst possible choice available for manager. It’s close.

Tomorrow, when the ‘net world hyperventilates, I think I’ll go the other way partly just to go the other way, but mostly because it’s better to think of what can go right than to fret about the bad completely out of your control.

Either way you feel on the signing, you ought to be listening to cubscast podcasts. I don’t know why it took me this long to check them out (I think maybe I need to clean up some of the links on the Cubs page and, I dunno, visit some of ’em that I haven’t visited before.) I checked out their last two shows, and it’s excellent stuff – well thought out, well produced; I’m actually more envious of their ability to talk without talking over each other than their reasoned opinions, but that’s because I can’t do one and can almost do another. The interview with Kasper – who sounded more like a hard line saber guy than I’d previously figured – was good because they asked all the questions you had to ask, but the season ending show was well done as well. Cubscast is sports radio without actually being Sports Radio, and that’s a welcome change.

The other podcast I just subscribed to – guess I was inspired to bring this up – was the new podcast for This American Life. I guess there was a bootleg one going on earlier this year, but I didn’t find out about it till it got shut down, but this is legal and free. I’m sure it makes me some level of lame to admit to like the show (I have no concept of what other people think of it, and I’m fine staying that way), and I’m not completely in love with it, but it’s close. And podcasting is a lot better than counting on remembering to turn on my radio at 7pm each Friday.

disclaimer: there’s an article on npr’s site which links to luchawiki, and hours after noticing it, I’m still a bit stunned. It doesn’t take much to awe me.