Showing posts with label The Hatecast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hatecast. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

Hate Watch

It's baby's first podcast! Maybe. If I've listened to any others, I don't remember them. I'm a pretty tardy adopter. If you know me, or you have been reading this blog, you will probably not be surprised that the podcast I have imprinted on is called The Hatecast. It comes from The Onion and Amelie Gillette.

Have you heard this? It's very good. Her subtly dead-pan inflection is at once uniquely soothing and exquisitely passive aggressive. Plus, she brings me all the things in popular culture that I would totally hate if I hadn't managed to avoid knowing about them and then she hates on these things for me and for all the right reasons. It's like a scalp massage for the soul. I encourage you to hear how she feels about harem pants. I haven't determined yet if this is going to exacerbate my sense of alienation from the world around me or reliably take the edge off.

I had no idea podcasts were so easy to consume. I always avoided them because I felt certain they would be some kind of undertaking. I see now that I could very easily become a junkie.