Listening pleasure

The Agony Column has Harlan Ellison's WorldCon lecture (MP3) which starts with "the angrier I get the more demented I get," and quickly moves to "If by the end of my talk I have not insulted your physical infirmity, your sexual choice, your color, your race, your religion, your ethnicity, please, raise your hand, I will try to get to you." While Ed finds this desperate, I think he's got a lot more energy and hutzpah -- and, sure, obnoxiousness -- than most writers, and easily buckets more than most 72-year-old writers. Which makes for a fun listen. And perhaps it's safest to keep him on the other side of your computer screen...

Two more podcasts from Bat Segundo: Jeff VanderMeer and Robert Birnbaum. Wait! I'm still catching up with JSF!

And a debut litblog podcast from Collected Miscellany - a conversation with Brock Clark.