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'That would be pretty cool.'

For anybody interested in the future of Tumblr, The Verge did a podcast interview that I can recommend with the CEO of Automatic (Wordpress) about the acquisition. One of the interviewers is a fannish user of the site and did try to bring that perspective to the chat. I found the CEO's ideas intriguing albeit necessarily circumspect. Also he has a really nice voice.

Anyway, well worth a listen if you like your information in podcast format, and they do also provide a slightly condensed transcript.

On the off chance that there is anybody on my flist who is not also on elisi's, she's just written an utterly massive analysis of my Sugar Daddy vid, which then became a more general Good Omens meta and also a bit of a commentary on purplefringe's gorgeous Hallelujah vid, with an emphasis on interpreting the show as a queer fairytale. And it is GLORIOUS AND PERFECT and contains basically everything I think about Good Omens.

Go read and feed her treats.

News for TV Majors does what it says on the tin: collections of links on tv-related topics, intended for people who actually get to study this stuff. Some of it is quite industry inside-baseball stuff: advertising trends, analysis of cord-cutting news, upfronts, etc. Other entries skew more towards fannish interests: picks of articles by tv critics, episode analysis, trends in current tv content. I've found a lot of great articles through this site, which I've been following for years.

The highlight, however, is Good TVeets, a (mostly) daily round-up of the funniest tweets about tv shows. Because we all need more of that in our lives.

Both of these vids basically have the same story: I was browsing through Festivids, I watched this vid about something I hadn't seen before, I played it obsessively about twenty times, and then I dropped everything to watch the source material because it looked so great. And, indeed, it was great, as are these vids. The end.

Paper Planes by shati is about Bandidas, the fabulously campy movie about Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek robbing banks in old-time-y Mexico that you never knew you needed. Also features a great cover of the title song.

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by amathela is about The Middleman, an unfairly canceled genre show that deserves way more cult favorite attention than it gets, for reasons that The AV Club explains in much better detail than I can. Fair warning: I have recced this show and this vid before. Pesterings will continue until all are in compliance.

Kimchi is tasty, spicy, and good for you. Nom, nom, nom!

. . . ok, so that's not actually my rec, though kimchi is pretty great, it's true. Try the radish kind.

Eat Your Kimchi is a YouTube chanel by Canadians Simon and Martina, who lived for seven years in Korea before recently moving to Tokyo, Japan (their channel is since renamed to Simon and Martina). Their enormous archive of videos covers food, sightseeing, weird Asian product finds, commentary about Korean and Japanese cultures, and random slice-of-life stuff. Simon and Martina are adorable dorks with an eccentric sense of fashion and an immense sense of fun and adventure. Also they give their recurring segments suggestive acronym titles:



Guys, I have lost days binge-watching their videos. And they've really kicked their game up a notch since moving. Eat Your Sushi, their weekly segments documenting their first six months in Japan, would not be a bad place to start at all.

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.