The Diner

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Is it wrong for me to like James Lileks' stuff again? After it earned a rec-in-passing from a reality-based podcast that I enjoy, I subscribed to The Diner, and... it's great. His warm and funny writing style mixed wonderfully with mid-20th century audio ephemera, which I (much like you) am a sucker for.

And Lileks has a really nice radio voice, too! I suppose that's not surprising, given what I know about him, but boy, it's just a well-produced show, all around.

It's good enough that I can almost shake off the feeling that the act of ticking his subscriber count up by one is emboldening the enemy. He still drops enough hints - probably not even intentionally - about his political orientation that makes me set my teeth. But still, when my stupid iPod Shuffle ate his podcast halfway through my commute this morning, I was pretty ticked off.

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I think it's completely okay to like a person's work while not liking the person. It's jarring though... I'm a big fan of Doug TenNapel's work (Earthworm Jim, Creature Tech) and was kind of thrown off when I found his blog and discovered he's a angrily right-wing christian. I'd still buy his next comic, unless it was somehow about politics.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Wow. He sounds absolutely nothing like what I would imagine from his screeds.