David: Another .45 Related Proclamation

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For real this time. I've got it figured out.

So first it was a comic, conceived as an entry for DC's now defunct Zuda competition. Then it was going to be a novel. Then a graphic novel released a page at a time. It still may end up as a graphic novel, but delivery on that front remains undetermined (and will remain so until it is actually finished).

However, while renewing the ever shifting project's domain registration, I glanced over at my new mic and realized the perfect way to pop its cherry. I'm gonna go new century Dickens and do an online serial audiobook.

Laying groundwork now. Sleeves to be rolled up around mid-May.

David: Mic'd Up

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My Blue Snowball showed up at the office a couple of days ago.

Its brushed aluminum exterior is every bit as intimidating as a blank page...

David: Looks Like Brandon Bought us Another Year

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Let's make something of it, eh?

David: Podcasts and Me

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When I was a very small boy, somewhere around age 4 or 5, I had a Fisher Price tape recorder. It went with me everywhere. I interviewed my grandparents (as well as 5 year old can). I recorded myself talking about nothing. I recorded my friends talking about nothing. I recorded my Fisher Price record player playing my Masters of the Universe LP.

Point is, I recorded a lot of stuff.

When I got older I made a friend who also had a tendency to record things. We started recording what you might call "skits" but what was really just improvised nonsense. We'd record running commentary of ourselves playing Contra. We'd pull out a Casio keyboard and do a mock news program. All of our other weirdo friends (Brandon included) would get pulled in as well.

I got older still. My parents got a video camera. I swiped it from time to time and we'd record even more complex bits. Some of it was so nonsensical you'd almost consider it avant-garde (I insist it was nonsense) but it made us laugh.

We'd edit clips of movies together with a stacked set of VCRs and talk our high school drama teacher into letting us show them in class. My favorite moment from this is when we made a 2 minute trailer for the movie "Hard Target" into a 10 minute segment, complete with a 3 minute sequence of a voice over announcing "Hard Target" and then an image of a shotgun shell being ejected. To this day the phrase, "How does it feel to be hunted?" forces me to laughter.

We got older, we moved on. In college I met a couple of fellow odd ducks, and we played with the idea of movies for a bit. I still regret that we didn't take it further, but the timing was just off.

I tell you all of that, because every time I play an episode of Smodcast, The Nerdist Podcast, The Pod F. Tompkast, or Tell 'em Steve Dave, I realize that we had the seeds of the future in our hands way back in 1989, and we blew it. Granted, the distribution model didn't exist then, but the spirit was the same.

Where's all of this going? I don't know. What I do know is that there is a creative monster inside of me that is no longer satisfied with only writing. Right now I'm a Laurel without a Hardy, a Fry without a Laurie.

Where the fuck are you?

David: So I Bought an Apple TV. (Or is it tv...)

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Of course I did.

At $99 how could I not? If it was only a Netflix box it would be worth that, but the ability to effortlessly stream (the keyword is effortlessly) my content from my computer pushes this in to no brainer territory. Looking forward to the ability to stream content from my iOS devices to the screen.

As for rentals, I highly doubt I will ever pay $5 to rent a movie for 24 hours in the age of Redbox, but you never know. Convenience has a way of sneaking up on you. If more networks get on board I could see myself canceling my TV service and watching shows a la carte. Even if they don't, well, there are always torrents...