Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.

Mal ,'Serenity'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Sep 03, 2013 11:16:06 am PDT #4191 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Yes, I know. And I've been trying to figure out what makes a podcast different from an old time radio show.

Weren't old time radio shows like The Shadow just fiction with multiple roles played by multiple actors? Basically, TV before TV? (Well, fictional TV dramas and whatnot.)

Lots of podcasts aren't fiction at all. They're just people talking about stuff. Like, Car Talk could have been a podcast.


Connie Neil - Sep 03, 2013 11:23:30 am PDT #4192 of 30000
brillig

True, the majority of current podcasts are non-fiction/news. I was wondering if the older forms of audio theater would make a comeback.


Steph L. - Sep 03, 2013 11:26:34 am PDT #4193 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Sorry if my ridiculous literalness missed your point. To answer a question you didn't literally ask: yup, podcasts are the digital version of people talking "on air" in some format, and other people can access and listen to it. But you knew that, so I don't know why I felt compelled to state that.


Jesse - Sep 03, 2013 11:28:10 am PDT #4194 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Maybe I can still live my dream of becoming a foley artist!


§ ita § - Sep 03, 2013 11:29:13 am PDT #4195 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Some podcasts are Arabic lessons, some are movie reviews, some are stories. And some are videos. If old time radio show helps as a metaphor, it's not accurate, but that's not the most important thing.

Good lord, I feel guilty when I take my phone off queue, but SHIT. I am not built for this.


Connie Neil - Sep 03, 2013 11:31:27 am PDT #4196 of 30000
brillig

It's kind of like the stop-motion animators suddenly being in demand to teach the computer animators how things move. It's great that the old skills don't go away completely.

(I have a thing for radio because I worked at a radio station in college and loved being able to create auditory illusions. Though one of our news people got suspended for playing helicopter sounds in the background and pretending our podunk college news station had a chopper.)


Strix - Sep 03, 2013 11:38:00 am PDT #4197 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Strix, you are like the nail polish whisperer ! Thanks!

Oh, good; I was hoping one of those would be close!


Kat - Sep 03, 2013 12:07:03 pm PDT #4198 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Thyroid production also effects skin, eye moisture and nails, so it might just be that eyelashes falling out are part of that greater piece of cells being less resilient when there are thyroid issues (or you may be rubbing your eyes more due to moisture issues).

I never knew that you are supposed to pull your eyelid by your lashes. Mine would fall out if I did that.


Amy - Sep 03, 2013 12:09:13 pm PDT #4199 of 30000
Because books.

I never knew that you are supposed to pull your eyelid by your lashes. Mine would fall out if I did that.

Who said that? Every optometrist I've ever been to when getting contacts has demonstrated raising the lid by pulling from just behind the lashes, never pulling *on* them.

My lashes are in bad enough shape. I don't want to pull them out!


Kat - Sep 03, 2013 12:10:13 pm PDT #4200 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Amy, from here: WindSparrow "Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This" Sep 2, 2013 4:53:15 pm PDT Totally not how I'd ever do it because I'd be eyelash-less.