Promethia recs stuff: Spilled Milk podcast

[promethia_tenk]

In the spirit of trying new things and posting again, I'm going to rec you something new every day for the month of January: things to watch, things to read, things to buy, things to make . . . whatever. I'm calling it 'Promethia recs stuff.' Because I like stuff, and I bet you do too.

First up, a podcast:



Spilled Milk is a show where, "we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any."

Actually, the tag line is a bit misleading: sometimes they don't cook at all. What hosts Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton do do is get together every week to discuss a particular variety of food, eat examples of it, and crack themselves up running hysterically off-topic. Subjects range from vinegars to squash to frozen burritos to Dim Sum and Icelandic convenience store food. It's refreshingly light and brief if, like me, your podcatcher is full of two-hour-long, information-dense talking head shows. And the hosts have a rhythm and improvisational patter that I could listen to all day.

I would recommend this podcast even if you don't like food. Though: what is wrong with you?

Sample episode: Pumpkin Spice. In which our intrepid hosts read the Pumpkin Spice issue of the Trader Joe's catalogue and face their prejudices about the PSL. I listen to this one every fall.

Comments

[elisi]

Who are you and what have you done with Proton?

[promethia_tenk]

Hey, I practice what I preach: change is good.

[elisi]

*impressed*

[promethia_tenk]

Mind you, the semester starts on the 11th, so I'm probably going to rec something like breathing or clean underwear at some point.

[elisi]

Well, those are important things.

[promethia_tenk]

And today I am home sick, so it's Mucinex and licorice tea for me . . .

[elisi]

Poor you! Hope you feel better soon.

[owlboy]

I came here to ask the same question.

Soon she will be updating as much as me and the thought is too terrifying to bear.

[elisi]

We can distract her with typology.

[promethia_tenk]

Lamentably true . . .

[elisi]

LOL

[promethia_tenk]

>>Soon she will be updating as much as me and the thought is too terrifying to bear.

lmao. Somehow I doubt things will get that dire . . .

But I am trying to work on my Ne.

[owlboy]

How do you work on Ne. For me ''working on Ne'' means talking myself down from making impulsive financial decisions at 5am on Ebay.

[promethia_tenk]

Lol.

Well, you make yourself use it more. By doing new things and forcing yourself into situations where you have to improvise and can't really plan.

I would make myself buy more things impulsively, but I think I have that aspect down . . .

[owlboy]

>>forcing yourself into situations where you have to improvise and can't really plan.

I'm at a point in my life where the thought of that makes me cringe, now we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of me arriving in a strange country with naught but a suitcase

[promethia_tenk]

You don't really have to work on your Ne if you're a Ne-dom. You work on your Ti so it can keep your Ne in check.

[owlboy]

I know haha. I mean I don't have to go about making myself improvise bc I have a long list of ''jesus christ, why the fuck did i do that?'' experiences now, and the thought of *actively* developing the thing that made me fuck off halfway around the world for no reason makes my eye twitch.