You may remember some time ago that I intended to start doing a Podcast version of this Blog, for reasons inexplicable, and yet those Podcasts never materialised. You’ll perhaps remember that I was very excited about this pointless development and had invested in a new microphone and everything. Well a flood of zero complains that the Podcasts never begun suggests nobody really gives a damn if they happen or not and so you’ll be neither happy or sad to learn that they are going to happen, definitely, and I’ll record the first one next week.
The process of writing a Blog is pretty odd anyway, believing that people might want to read about your life despite you not being famous, original or interesting, and so the idea of going to the enormous effort of recording a weekly Podcast might appear both ludicrous and egocentric, but I’ll do them for the very same self-serving reasons I write this every day – it’s just something to do. And just as the Blog helps me to write, the Podcast will help me to… speak. No, it will give me invaluable experience at talking for half an hour in a hopefully entertaining manner (fat chance) which could lead to radio stuff, who knows? I’m used to standing on a stage and talking continually for half and hour, but this will be a bit different because it’s untried stuff – and also wont just be attempting to make people laugh. I see it as a structured rant.
There are also some characters which were fun to do when I recorded the demo episode for The Echo. Let’s see, there’s the Uninformative Alien who has the secrets to life and the galaxy at his fingertips but only tells us about a boring and mundane part of his week. There’s Doomsday Diana, a mystic force that can see into the future but unfortunately only forecasts death. And a special section called Alan’s Dates, where Alan Merrick, the great-great-grandson of John Merrick, The Elephant Man, tells us of his adventures going on dates with women. So you’ll be looking forward to those.
I think it will give the Blog a bit of a boost. I know it’s been a bit slack recently, not really on form, and that’s partly to do with me being distracted by other work and partly to do with me staring at the screen thinking ‘why do I do this every day?’ But it’s a really good discipline and we’re not far from the first anniversary now so I think I owe it to the world to present proof of how little it’s possible for a human being to achieve in one whole year. This Blog will be that document.
I will get everything ship shape by next week. For those of you kind enough to volunteer to read The Power Of 10, and amazingly there were ten of you like I requested, then I’ll be sending those out on Tuesday or Wednesday. I’ve not just conned you into giving me your address so I can hide in your garden and watch you through the patio doors. That is not what I’ve done and if you see me in your garden, hiding in a bush, that’s entirely coincidental and I can prove that in court so don’t even think about phoning the Police.
The brave new world of Podcasting – I’m quite excited by it. I know that means there’s a total of one person in the world excited by the idea of a Pathetic Lot Podcast but every journey starts with a single step.
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