Puerto Muerto - "Jean Lafitte"

She's so brave! Clearly drunk, she is promising the impossible; there's no way she could defeat the Spanish, nor could she avenge her relatives, nor is she an old man. But Jean is the bravest little girl in the green, smoke, shakey-plank tavern, and she's a delight to watch as she sings her song, it reminds you of a passion you always wished you had. [Buy]

Eugene Mirman - "Russia and Atari"

Spurred on both by Greg's recommendation of him, and Sean's recent mention of him, I thought it was time we all listened to Eugene Mirman in our own home. What's interesting to me here is the honesty of his story. He has a perfect sense of both how true the suffering of his family (mostly his parents) was, and how literally no one in the audience is probably acquainted with that amount of poverty. Usually, when comics are making "I was so poor" jokes, it's cause they grew up about as poor as most of the audience, but here it's not true. But he doesn't hold it against them; he's really a positive person. Yes. [Buy]