I'm kinda stuck at the moment, at episode 8. Now I feel obligated to finish it since I got past the half-way mark, but I have little enthusiasm for it so I keep finding other things to do. Maybe I'll try to wrap it up this weekend, or else just decide that I don't want to bother.

I have no idea why there is so much attention lavished on CBB, with or without Esposito or anyone else.

Yeah, there was a fair amount of what sounded like self-aggrandizement from Joey Meatball. It detracted from the Goodfellas episode for me.

I tried to quit it, but I ended up going back, got caught up on the seasons I missed, and am happily entrenched. I really wondered how well the show would weather the loss of Sandra Oh, since (1) she's so good and (2) her character Christina's dynamic with nominal title character Meredith was so central to the plot…

He's pretty good on Pop Rocket. The podcast varies wildly in quality (I've been listening for about 3 months), but overall it's been worth following.

I'm waiting for Terminator: Endocrinologist. That's going to revive the franchise!

I've recently started listening to Current's The Pub, which is focused on the public media complex, its issues (good and bad) and challenges. It's a bit like WNYC's On the Media, but I am finding it both more focused and more consistently interesting and provocative. I'm only up to Ep. 7, which featured among other…

Sawbones is perhaps my favorite podcast these days. I'm happily making my way through all the back episodes. When I get through a good percentage of them, I'll check out MBMBAM.

Wow, an unprecedented week in which the latest episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was better that this lackluster episode of The Flash. I wouldn't have thought it possible.

I gave up on The Canon after about 3 episodes — I guess I'm just more prone to violence than you.

I started listening to it on the radio years ago and, at the time, found it consistently interesting and found the style innovative and refreshing. I think so many of the audio presentation techniques that Radiolab pioneered or extended have been incorporated into other shows that the style now seems kind of tired and…

Agree about the book. The flaw in the film adaptation for me is the way it melodramatizes the reveal and the "betrayal." It abandons Muriel Spark's subtlety and slyness, which for most of its running time it had actually captured rather well (no mean feat!).

Yeah, I mentioned in the discussion thread for last week's Podmass that I had just tried out Hollywood Handbook and am really enjoying it. Sean & Hayes even had a shout-out to A.V. Club haters in the second episode. I felt so special!

A few decades ago I worked as an assistant editor to the editor-in-chief of an imprint at a big publisher. One of my boss's authors, who was a good and somewhat notable writer who basically drowned his talents in alcohol and other substances, managed to cajole from my boss an additional payout of his sizable advance…

Thanks for all the recommendations. I have subsequently listened to the Jake Johnson episode (er, I mean, you know, Jack Johnson from News Girl) and now I understand why they were making a big deal about not having an engineer at the live show.

I checked out out Hollywood Handbook for the first time — pretty good. It was a live show with four guests who were potentially auditioning for a position as a potential live employee. So I guess that isn't quite their usual format and maybe not the best episode to judge whether it is worth putting into rotation. Any…

Yep…sounds right up my alley. Flatliners, baby!

I am so sick of the endless saga of the PDX airport carpet that I almost deleted the episode of 99% Invisible about it, though I did end up gritting my teeth and listening anyway since it was fairly short. Please, Mr. Gorbachev, rip that carpet up. The white people of Portland need a new obsession.

Agreed … I thought it was much better than the previous episode's main Zardoz discussion, which seemed more lackluster than I had expected.

For once, Mark Duplass does something I might actually like … will definitely check this out.