Is this an Introduction?
This is going to be a short post.
I have decided to start doing more commentary, but in order to do more commentary I have also decided to embrace the Pod. Yes, I am going to use the machinery of podcasting in order to get some (more) of my thoughts about the World out into the World.
I know, I can hear the groaning and eye-rolling from here - just what the World needs, another podcast from some middle-aged cis white dude, right?
Well, first of all I don't really care - I need an outlet and I am going to avail myself of the power of the internet to give myself one, even if it only amounts to actually narrating my soul into the malestrom while no one listens at all. Finding the energy and rigour to always be writing just leaves me with unwritten, or unfinished and certainly unpublished blog posts.
If I have something to say, I can just say it and put it on the internet, and then I've said it. There is something so fantastically liberating about sharing my thoughts, even if no one hears or reads them, even if no one cares.
Publishing essays on here is not going to stop, but I am pretty sure that talking to my laptop and then uploading the result is going to happen a little more often. You never know, I might start using a decent quality sound recorder, or my "good" microphone (at home) if my desire to speak comes with a fortuitous location, but I am not going to limit myself. If something needs saying and all I have to hand is my iPhone, then you had better believe it's still gonna get said.
I am making no commitments to schedule, I have no hopes to really raise the level of discourse or even move the needle, let alone change the World, but the things in my head need to get out; keeping them all in has not been working for me.
I am using Spotify because it's free, I am keeping an offline archive of everything I record, because I can and because I may, one day, decide that Spotify is too evil to use for this, but as luck would have it Spotify will allow me to use RSS to syndicate my new podcast, so here are two links:
Daemon Diaries - Episode #1 "Is this an Introduction?" (on Spotify)
or
Daemon Diaries RSS Feed URL
If you want me to syndicate to any other platforms, such as Apple Podcasts or Overcast or Amazon Music, then please let me know and I will do what I can, but for now the RSS Feed URL ought to allow anyone with a severe Spotify aversion to listen.
Listen, don't listen, I am content with either choice, but here's the real catch...
I want you to appear on an Episode in the future. I want anyone that can read this / see this to know thar if you have something to say, or ask, or confess or tell the World, I will offer you a platform, under two very important conditions:
1. I will not tolerate anyone with hateful intent and I will deep-six any recording(s) of anyone that tries to use this opportunity to further a bigoted agenda.
2. You are sure you want to do it - the internet is forever people, be sure you want to be on there.
Please contact me via this blog, or on X https://x.com/ThoughtCrim3 to suggest a discussion, and as always there is an opportunity to publish written thoughts here as a guest author as well.
Good night, dear Internet, and remember;
"I have friends everywhere."