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Since you last posted in May of 2015? Whew, ah, let's see... well from a purely selfish standpoint, I:
--Won the Cellar Fantasty Football League for the first time since its inception 10 years ago --Got an agent and sold my book --Did some NPR interviews and tried not to sound like an idiot --Let my adult stepdaughter move in with us while she overcomes 18 years of emotional abuse and learns some major life skills on the fly --100% taught said stepdaughter to drive --Became inordinately interested in self-driving cars --Maybe sold a second book, my editor still has another 5 days to respondbeforethedeadlineandIcan'tbreathe*cough* --Took the kids to DisneyWorld for the first time --Did some laundry How about you, hp? What you been up to? |
Hey man. You missed the maturation of the cellar as a whole.
We're like an old married couple now. |
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Also from a selfish standpoint: --I've mostly been writing. I won a Sydney award from the NYT and a Golden Giraffe from The Browser, those felt nice. --I've learned how to narrate (largely by leveraging home-grown technology), so I've been reading my own podcast episodes. I've also been making the music for them, which is fun. --I've been approached about hosting history-oriented television shows, but I'm not as good in front of the camera as our belumbered lumberjim. --I've been approached by Hollywood producers who want to make movies from my articles, but I declined to let them own my soul, so they seem to be just side-stepping me. --I got to attend a test of NASA's SLS system with a bunch of astronauts and NASA execs. That was neato torpedo. That's all I can think of right now. I watched "Life Itself" today, the documentary about Roger Ebert, and it was great, but hard to watch, and it put me in a bit of a funk. I've long been fond of Ebert, and I was flattered when he linked to my works on a couple of occasions, so I was extra sad when he passed. So that's given my day an odd shape. I keep thinking I need to start hanging out here again, but the up-catching is a daunting task. |
Are your podcast episodes just read-aloud versions of your damn interesting articles, or are you hosting discussions with guests about your pieces?
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Upcatching schmupcatching. Just tail post until you start to make sense.
I'm glad you're having a damn interesting life, brother. |
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I suspect that it's due in part to my severe introversion subconsciously protecting itself. But I have a good interview recording setup ready, just in case. Quote:
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Well if you need anything, Clod does professional voice work, and I do semi-pro (which means I got paid for it once) (and my best friend is an audio engineer with a vocal booth and several expen$ive mics)
I actually have a background in semi-pro broadcasting (I ran my college's radio station) and secretly, desperately, want to do a regular show. |
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A quick search turned up WPPM in Philly that is putting together community radio shows. As of July, they were still looking for talent. |
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The main thing I struggle with is eliminating wet mouth noise. The only thing I've found that helps is to munch on apple slices between takes. That's part of why I haven't done any discussion-style episodes--munching apples on-mic is off-putting, but without them my voice can sound like a cat trying to escape a bucket full of gelatin dessert. Quote:
If you have any technical questions about podcasting I can attempt to be helpful (though I have already derailed this thread pretty horribly, so elsewhere might be better). If it's just that you prefer broadcast radio over podcasting, I would say words to urge you to let go of the past and embrace the new. If it's a shortage of ideas or material, I may also be able to be helpful since I have a surplus of both. But I also understand the human drive to pursue one's own ideas rather than another's. |
(ETA: I would never work in the broadcast industry, or anywhere close to it, again. Famous Last Words. But in fact Comcast tried to recruit me a few months ago*. I ate their liver with some fava beans.)
On these kinds of things, I think I'm actually just waiting for inspiration. I did a single ep "Pawncasters" with my pawn shop co-worker when I was at the shop, and it was just so perfect and so right. Had tremendous topics, humor, and a dynamic between the two of us. I believe it would have become popular. I haven't seen something like that again. It's like a vision. If I ever see it I'ma jump on it though. Despite being socially retarded, I don't believe in doing a show alone. It's just not all that interesting. There are only a few podcasters in this world who can pull off a weekly show of a single person, just talking. After a few minutes, a single voice is just not that interesting. You need another point of view, or something to reflect off of. A tinge of drama always helps. Mike Rowe is doing a Paul Harvey "The rest of the story" style thing, but that's only about 8 minutes at a time. Plus, it's Mike Rowe. Congenial, intelligent, a great radio voice, I would listen to him read the dictionary. This gent Mike Carano does it alone, in a weird stream-of-consciousness thought stream, and I enjoy listening to him from time to time, but I wouldn't copy that format. *an indirect recruiter, for an uninteresting position in their advertising division (which is the only division I won't ever consider, Comcast) |
Just listened to a "The Way I Heard It", Mike Rowe's "Rest Of The Story"-type thing. Very Paul Harvey-ish.
I liked it. |
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