Hobby Alcoholics

I need podcasts when I’m traveling. Driving, flying, sitting in airports waiting for the delayed connection—without something in my ears I’ll start talking to myself out loud, which is still somehow weird even in a city like Berlin where people are generally doing stranger things.

Found one called Hobby Alcoholics, which is basically a bunch of German blogs getting together to discuss whatever’s supposedly destroying the blogosphere that particular week. This time it was the ethics of blogs making money from advertising. Riveting stuff. The kind of conversation that’s definitely going to change everything about the internet tomorrow.

But I listened to the whole thing mostly because they spend the first hour talking about me. More specifically, they use that time to call me out for being incompetent at taking photographs in Tokyo. Which they’re right about. It’s strange listening to people criticize you and knowing they’re completely accurate and having zero ability to respond or defend yourself. You just sit there, quiet, with your cold coffee.

It was funny though. Uncomfortable but funny.

Anyway. Maybe 82 people know this podcast exists now instead of 81.