Ricochet Podcast #30: A Soap Opera With Hats
Blue Yeti ·
Aug 19, 2010 at 4:07pm
It's late August, so it's more pop culture than politics on the podcast this week as we tackle Mad Men, vampires, South Pacific, the Drambuie mistake, and the definition of a bunco party. Then, columnist Virginia Postrel joins us for an boots-on-the-ground report of the LA Obama-Jam, why Michelle isn't Jackie, the allegedly non-functioning U.S. Senate, and the Target controversy. So sit back and grab a martini: it's a podcast best enjoyed shaken, not stirred.
And now the links:
- Behold the mistakenly delivered bottle of Drambuie!
- You Only Live Twice on IMDB
- Production Designer Ken Adam's Wikipedia entry
- Justin Bieber sings slowly
- George Packer's New Yorker piece on the broken U.S. Senate
- Todd Purdum's similarly themed article in Vanity Fair
- Virginia Postrel's Atlantic piece on Obama and glamour
- Jeri Ryan makes Lileks' life worth living
- The dog barking in the background is Rob's beloved Lab Illy
Music from this week's episode:
- Wake Up by Arcade Fire
- You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra
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May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #30: A Soap Opera With Hats
Posting on my iPad works!! Yeah!! Thank you, Ricochet software developer. My husband calls my monthly bunco get togethers "drunko". We think we're so clever, but the husbands are on to us. It's our version of poker night only without the nuisance of strategy and thinking. After chasing children all day we don't have any of that left, anyway.
May '10
Re: Ricochet Podcast #30: A Soap Opera With Hats
I don't think the quote feature works on the iPad? This is in response to The Ottoman Umpire... I hope the powers that be quickly remove the edit button on ~Paules' VDH blog. It has to stay...it's a Ricochet classic.