Disclaimer: Not the official entry for this week (official entries will all be found under the 'School' category, for those who are playing along at home).

Now, then. (And what an odd turn of phrase that is, by the way...suggesting a conflation of past & present that feels very familiar.) Since I have a dreadfully long commute (45-60 minutes each way), I spend a lot of time in the car with my iPod. Goddess bless the podcast revolution, because as much as I love music, and that's a lot, having whole radio shows and other interesting intellectual tidbits to listen to during that time has (I firmly believe) saved my mind from becoming some kind of grayish polenta. So, since in the vernacular of The Tipping Point I'm a Maven who loves to share information, here are a couple of great, mythologically-relevant podcasts I'd recommend.

• Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason – Six episodes. I think this ran on PBS TV a couple of years back. They have streaming video of all of the interviews as well as downloadable audio, and what interviews! Jeanette Winterson on Atlas and the Old Testament, Will Power on translating Oedipus to hip-hop, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood on the stories of religion....and a bunch more.
• Radio Lab – I mentioned this one a few posts back, and it's rapidly become one of my favorites. While the show deals with ostensibly science-related topics (a lot of neurology in particular), there is always a strong sense of humanity and story. The series is ongoing, and I'd highly recommend a few shows in particular to get you started: Sleep, Memory and Forgetting, and The Ring and I.

And that's all I've got for tonight. Back to the books!