hi from han
my parakeet offers podcast recs:
perry says bye bon appetit.
not a podcast: Eric Edding's twitter thread . the story is about bon appetit's toxic work culture, but also about the reckoning it prompted at gimlet and reply all. a reminder that not all stories that were made, even if necessary and urgent, should have been made by the people who made them.
perry reckons with destruction.
podcast: Floodlines (Atlantic), especially "Come Sunday", "Reckoning", & "Destiny" . hurricane katrina wasn't the big hit; the human handling of New Orleans before and after was the real disaster.
perry takes a selfie.
audiobook: The I in the Internet (Jia Tolentino) . yes everything is a performance, even this post.
perry thinks before diving into the rabbit hole.
podcast: Rabbit Hole (New York Times), especially ep 7 and 8 . a good breakdown of qanon and the engineered feedback loops on youtube. also pewdiepie talks, but doesn't provide many satisfying answers.
perry longs for home.
podcast: California Love (LAIst), especially "Parrots: A Parable", "Scared Straight", and "P Line" . hands down the best podcast of the year, and not just because it features an entire episode on the origin of the la parrots. stories from the illustrious walter thompson-hernandez, seriously could listen to that man talk forever.
perry just wants to learn.
podcast: Nice White Parents (New York Times) . turns out history is cyclic for school reform too.
perry greets her fans below.
podcast: Rough Translation (NPR) -- Dream Boy and the Poison Fans . the power of the "human flesh search engine": a purist fan faction clashes with queer fan fiction over a celebrity in china.
perry crash lands on bizarre lunar surface.
podcast: Reply All (Gimlet) -- Thank You for Noticing . a sweet story that starts with UFOs and ends with New Mexico.
perry experiences existential dread.
podcast: Reply All (Gimlet) -- Negative Mount Pleasant . foxconn takes over small town Wisconsin?
perry contemplates the self, on horseback.
podcast: Radiolab (WNYC) - Deception . a high school obsession with the tv show lie to me and facial microexpression detection comes back as a radiolab episode.
perry meets a friend
podcast: The Bay (KQED) - The Moral Case Behind Housing is a Human Right . parakeets for moms 4 housing.
perry eats her share of leafy greens.
podcast: Reply All (Gimlet) -- Adam Pisces and the $2 Coke . a scam and the investigation into the heart of dominos headquarters.
perry gives a stinkeye to surveillance.
podcast: Reply All (Gimlet) -- The Crime Machine . a history of COMPSTAT, a well-intentioned tool to leverage data and reduce crime (broken windows policing) that went awry, leading to soft quotas and profiling.
