Comments on: Unplugged http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/38 Susie Watson, trend analyst and pop culture pundit teams up with cartoonist Barbara Luhring. Together they tear through the real and manufactured trends in pop culture today. Listen in! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Old Comments http://popgoestheculture.com/archives/38#comment-95 Old Comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:26:32 +0000 http://popgoestheculture.com/?p=38#comment-95 I actually discovered podcasts due to power outages! For some reason the morons that run the electricity supply in my city are surprised each and every year when the temperature hits 40 degrees and above (104 degrees and above in your language). Despite the fact we have many days of this temperature each summer as soon as it happens and more than 3 residents of the city turn on their air- conditioning the power supply goes out for anything up to 24 hours. During the 04/05 summer I decided I'd had enough of reading via candle-light (the candles often melt in the heat anyway) and playing board games (who can be bothered when you're sweating so hard the board pieces fall out of your hands). Being too cheap to buy audio books for the iPod I was given as a birthday present I went online and discovered podcasts. Now in summer I keep the iPod and lithium powered speakers all charged up and make sure to download a few new podcasts each day. Then as soon as the power goes out we hip play, sit in the dark with the last of our melting ice and listen to pop goes the culture and all the other good shows. Bernadette • 5/22/06; 5:07:31 AM # I actually discovered podcasts due to power outages!

For some reason the morons that run the electricity supply in my city
are surprised each and every year when the temperature hits 40 degrees and above (104 degrees and above in your language). Despite
the fact we have many days of this temperature each summer as soon as it happens and more than 3 residents of the city turn on their air- conditioning the power supply goes out for anything up to 24 hours.

During the 04/05 summer I decided I’d had enough of reading via candle-light (the candles often melt in the heat anyway) and playing board games (who can be bothered when you’re sweating so hard the board pieces fall out of your hands). Being too cheap to buy audio books for the iPod I was given as a birthday present I went online
and discovered podcasts.

Now in summer I keep the iPod and lithium powered speakers all charged up and make sure to download a few new podcasts each day. Then as soon as the power goes out we hip play, sit in the dark with
the last of our melting ice and listen to pop goes the culture and all the other good shows.
Bernadette • 5/22/06; 5:07:31 AM #

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