Laika - A graphic novel about the Russian space dog. Basically readable, it has a really great opening sequence with a man walking out of the gulag and turns a little mediocre from there. The art is very pretty and you find yourself caring about the characters even though they are somewhat thinly drawn. 3/5 Liked it.
WNYC's Radio Lab - A podcast that is basically This American Life, but with science. They pick one theme and discuss weird or interesting stories related to that theme for about an hour. But the theme is Memory and Perception or Zoos. It's really fascinating. However, listener beware the stories tend towards the bizarre and the fluffy rather than the in-depth and scientific. So only go if you want to hear some weird stuff about what can happen in human lives (or tiger lives). 5/5 Loved it.
Coyle and Sharpe: The Imposters - A podcast of recordings made on the streets of San Francisco in the early 1960's before people knew about prank humor as an entertainment medium. The tagline for the show is: "James P. Coyle and Mal Sharpe roam the streets looking for marks." What's really interesting about this is how many people believe them, and most people don't try to play along they explain why what sharpe and coyle are doing is insane, but they use 60's language to describe it. It's more fun than modern prank shows, I think because the prankee isn't really a victim in the modern sense of the word. It's obvious to the listener who's in control in the scene. 4/5 Really Like It.
Dexter - Thanks to Netflix Instant I just made it all the way through Season 1 of Dexter. I had been avoiding it because it had been so hyped and I thought it was just going to be CSI meets Batman. In actuality the show runs on the same mechanics Weeds does the characters keep getting tangled in these plotlines where you gotta know what Happens NEXT! But at the same time it's an interesting character study of how a sociopath passes for normal. And it is chock full of dramatic irony, the writers/directors by putting Dexter in a normal family environment manage to make you the viewer freak out and hold your breath while everyone on screen relaxes and has a good time. 4/5 Really Like It.
The Maria Bamford Show - This show which is available free online if you just click that link, starts off as just Maria doing her stand-up basically, but in the later episodes branches off into the totally bizarre. Maria plays every character using clever costume changes such as putting a chip clip in her hair and bugging out her eyes. My favorite episode is the second one I've embedded below where she forces her real mom to audition for the role of her mom on the show. (If you haven't seen her do her impression of her mother you should watch the first video first. If you have you can skip to the second one.) 5/5 Loved it.
The first episode:
Her mother's audition:
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