The guest this week is the pop philosopher Daniel Coffeen. Mister Coffeen is a recurring guest to Diet Soap, and this week we discuss his essay The Experience of An Idea which was posted on Thought Catalog last July. It's Sunday, January 8th, 2012, and I'm Douglas Lain the host of this podcast. I want to thank Ishmael for donating to the podcast last week. I'd taken the donate button down from the podomatic site, but he found a link on the old diet soap blog and a copy of my book Pick Your Battle is jetting to the UK right now. I also want to announce that I'm hoping to start a Diet Soap philosophy workshop this year. The idea is to invite people to become regular donors to the podcast and join up to participate in a monthly philosophy workshop online. There will be more details on that front next week. But I will point out that I've still got a half box of copies of my book Pick Your Battle and a box full of my new book Wave of Mutilation is on its way to me, so in the future contributors to the podcast will be able to pick which book they'd like to receive in exchange for a donation. Speaking of reading I also want to point out that Thought Catalog published a collection of essays on the subject of Pleasure or Enjoyment in this Late Capitalist Epoch. These were actually letters that I wrote to Daniel Coffeen and that he wrote back to me, and I think the epistolary form worked well for this bit of writing. So I'll provide a link to those in the show notes for this episode. The music in the podcast included Edie Brickell's What I Am (a Karaoke version), Brian Eno's Music for Film, and the Who's classic "Can't Explain." The voices talking over the music included Rick Roderick describing Heidegger's ideas about anxiety and despair, Herbert Dreyfus and Bryan Magee discussing Heidegger on the BBC, and Andy Warhol discussing how Pop Art has become repetitious. Right now you're listening to the music played during the opening credits to Soderbergh's Kafka, but in just a moment you'll be listening to another Titanic Factoid.