On the zen of catastrophe:

I do not know if this makes him a very lucky man, or a very unlucky one....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/31/arizona.eye.socket.shears/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Podcast The Commute 001 (The Financial Commutapocalypse)

Hey, all

I think finally got the podcast hosting kinks ironed out, so enjoy this first episode of The Commute:  the podcast for people stuck in their cars, produced entirely by someone stuck in his car.

I started recording these as a way of avoiding going totally insane when I moved back to LA and started spending about 3x as long driving to work.  The episode's a short one, but there was still fun to be had ruminating upon:

• Family abandonment
• Redistribution of wealth
• The benefits of union membership, and 
• The best videogames to play while partaking of good bourbon

This is actually not the first episode I recorded, so I'll be posting up some of the backlog of episodes soon.  If you liked this one, then the others are just like it, but much better!  If you hated this one, then the others are nothing like it, but also much better!

In the meantime, fire your comments to podcastthecommute@gmail.com

http://www.ourmedia.org/ia/details/BaldricaTheComm...