Chatting with a podcaster who has repeatedly suggested I should consider creating one has indeed gotten me thinking about it.
I've held back up to now because of my lack of technical know-how and lack of equipment, but even more because I couldn't think of a focus. My interests are all over - poetry, political commentary, faith, short stories, music, Chesterton, history, story-telling, and so on. Do I record me singing original songs? Reciting original poetry? Reading some of my satire or editorial pieces? Talking about Church teachings? Sharing stories about St. Francis and other saints and holy people? Talking about books or the arts? Telling folk tales? Inflicting dad jokes?
But he pointed out that might be the point of the podcast: I'm an eclectic individual with varied interests.
Hmm.
I looked up some haiku podcasts. Some are really intimidating, combining video and music. But some just had voice and images. I immediately thought of the Godzilla haiku/image I created a couple of years ago. And I take a lot of pictures. What if I combined some of my photos and poems to create pieces? I could do two or three of them in short podcasts.
I even mused what I could call my poetic pieces - post them on Thursdays and call them something like "Versedays"? And if I told stories on Tuesdays call them "Tuesday Tales"?
And then do other things on other days?
I also wondered what I might call a podcats. I used to have a column in college called "The Pregnant Pause." Maybe just "The Pause"? My old story-telling name, "Tunes-n-Tales"? How about "Just Saying"? Or could there be something inspired by Chesterton.
Something to mull over.
I need to listen to some podcasts to see what they do and how they do it.
On the other hand, is this all just an exercise in ego?
Hmm again.
At least I can start to compile images and link them to my poetry. I can easily start to take pictures to fit with poems I've written.
More Godzillas in the works!
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