I've been thinking for some time that it might be fun to do a totally informal morning podcast, just recorded on my phone while I'm getting the kids ready and shipped out for camp (or school, as the case may be). Just me, talking through what's come across my transom that morning thanks to my perpetually full (and mostly unread) e-mail in-box, and Twitter.
Twitter's been eating more and more into my will to sit down and blog, simply because it's so easy, fun, and "in the moment." And the only thing easier than Twitter is to just talk out my thoughts. But as most of you have probably already discovered, unless there's someone there, you're not doing anybody any good. And quite frankly, if you ask around in my house, you'll find that you're not doing anybody any good even if someone else is there to hear you.
And so I've decided to experiment with forcing this crap on you, instead. Or rather, giving you the option to force it on yourself.
It's taken me a while to decide what to do with this. It's from the other day, when Mark Halperin called the President a dick. Didn't know what to do with it, or even really how to get it off my phone for a while. But now it's here.
Be warned, the format has absolutely zero polish. It's me, talking into the phone, sometimes with the radio on in the background. And it cuts off arbitrarily at 8 minutes (which is probably quite enough), at which point the file I made (coming in at nearly 17 minutes in its entirety) became too large to email to myself from my phone.
I'm putting it up just to see what happens to it, and whether people listen. And more to the point, whether people find it worth listening to. Because I kind of like the idea of doing it, and if I did it a little closer to real time, and in small bits of 5 minutes or so at a time, I might try to do it more regularly.
I don't know what else I can do to undersell this thing, so without further ado, I present you with this awesomely high tech link, which you can click to hear the recording, even though the link says "image."
How exciting is that, eh?
http://images.dailykos.com/...