Comments on: The Giant Pool of Money (Read, err, Listen to This!) http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/08/the-giant-pool-of-money-read-err-listen-to-this/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:01:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Blacknell.net » This American Life: Another Money Ep http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/08/the-giant-pool-of-money-read-err-listen-to-this/#comment-48993 Blacknell.net » This American Life: Another Money Ep Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:59:06 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/?p=1248#comment-48993 [...] This American Life’s extraordinarily well-received Giant Pool of Money episode, comes another look at the factors involved in the recent FUBAR’ing of the financial [...] [...] This American Life’s extraordinarily well-received Giant Pool of Money episode, comes another look at the factors involved in the recent FUBAR’ing of the financial [...]

]]> By: MB http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/08/the-giant-pool-of-money-read-err-listen-to-this/#comment-48752 MB Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:28:08 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/?p=1248#comment-48752 It really was a great means of boiling down the global to the personal. Would that we could do the same with so many other issues. It really was a great means of boiling down the global to the personal. Would that we could do the same with so many other issues.

]]> By: Peej http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/08/the-giant-pool-of-money-read-err-listen-to-this/#comment-48747 Peej Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:43:24 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/?p=1248#comment-48747 I read the transcript. I don't know how it comes off in audio, but on [e-]paper? It sort of read like a 30s or 40s fast paced, hard-boiled PI thriller, with the main conversation taking place in a dim light, run down office, interspersed with flashbacks to the supporting character actors and bit players (all in black and white, of course). Maybe it's because I just re-read a bunch of Graham Greene's thrillers, and watched a couple of related movies, but there was also something very Third Man about the transcript and its flow. It was almost hard to remember at certain points that this *was* fact and *not* fiction. Almost. Great recommendation from everyone. (P.S. I pointed my 15 year old niece to it and she is reading it right now. From the last exchanges we made over chat, I think I am going get an earful from her parents tomorrow [read: she's bugging them to come read it with her. Which usually means it got her attention.) I read the transcript. I don’t know how it comes off in audio, but on [e-]paper? It sort of read like a 30s or 40s fast paced, hard-boiled PI thriller, with the main conversation taking place in a dim light, run down office, interspersed with flashbacks to the supporting character actors and bit players (all in black and white, of course). Maybe it’s because I just re-read a bunch of Graham Greene’s thrillers, and watched a couple of related movies, but there was also something very Third Man about the transcript and its flow.

It was almost hard to remember at certain points that this *was* fact and *not* fiction. Almost.

Great recommendation from everyone.

(P.S. I pointed my 15 year old niece to it and she is reading it right now. From the last exchanges we made over chat, I think I am going get an earful from her parents tomorrow [read: she’s bugging them to come read it with her. Which usually means it got her attention.)

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