Candybitch?

About the time my notebook died (or started dying; it was a pretty drawn-out process) I was fortunate enough to discover a new distraction for my daily commute: Podcasts.

You may have heard of them.

I started with Ace's Hoist the Black Flag, which I really enjoyed, but which has sadly slipped from weekly to monthly to, as far as I know, indefinite hiatus. Then I tried listening to Instapundit - who has some great guests, but is not a particularly interesting speaker himself - and some of the conservative radio hosts like Hugh Hewitt, but not being conservative myself I could only take those in small doses.

Then I discovered that Penn Jillette has a daily radio show - and that all the episodes since it started in January were available online. So that got me through the Time of Great Suck at work (August and September, basically, during which I pretty much disappeared from view).

And when that ran out, I found that there are even podcasts about anime. I've sampled about a dozen of them, but the two I keep coming back to are Anime Pulse and Electric Sista Hood*.

The girls at ESH like to hear from their listeners, so I stopped by their web site and told them how much I liked their show and that they had a listener in remote, exotic Australia.***

One of the things they do every week is give away candy - I think it's ESH custom M&M's - to someone drawn from the people who've left messages during the week. And this week they announced that the winner was... Well.

And yeah, I used my real name on the message.

The only thing is, what with me being in Australia and all, the M&M's would have to eat each other during the voyage to survive, and when the candy finally got to me all there'd be in the bag is one big mean-looking M&M that I wouldn't dare eat so I'd just leave it sitting in the back of my freezer for ever and ever.

So... Listen to the show. And one day you too might be a candybitch.*****

* The best** girl gaming and anime podcast.
** The fucking best -
*** Where I live is about as ordinary and suburban as you can get, and there are probably hardly any kangaroos within half a mile of my house.****
**** Possums, now possums we got. Bastardy things. Flying foxes we got. Kookaburras we go. Sulphur-crested cockatoos we got. Rainbow lorikeets, no worries. And I'm sure I could find an echidna or two if I looked. But mostly, what we got is possums.
***** Assuming that it really is me. Which confusion would have been avoided if I'd used my nom-de-blog, but that would just lead to other confusions.

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