Podcast Ping's Christmas Calendar Day 17

Day 17. A week from now it will be Christmas Eve. Or Christmas Eve
day. Or the morning of the day of Christmas Eve. Or somewhere in
the general vicinity.



http://www.archive.org/download/PodcastPingsChristmasCalendarDay17/ppcc17.mp3


It was two years ago today that I did Bonus 9-A Visit From St.
Nicholas. And since it was my first Christmas it was my first
Christmas show. I feel it was one of my best shows and sounded the
way I wanted the show to. As such I've tried to do much the same
thing in the regular shows for this year with classic poetry,
although none of them feel as strong as the bonus 9 was. I suspect
it's because everyone is familiar with the Christmas poem so the
musical breaks aren't as disruptive.

I keep feeling as if I might miss a day, but with a little more
than a week to go I doubt I will. But doing a post a day can get a
little repetitive and it's easy to forget. And it does take a bit
of time since I'm not only posting to the podcast blog but to
Mininova as well. So far none of the sites I've used have been down
so I've had no trouble in posting, although it re-enforces my
decision not to do it again next year.

I usually take December off from writing, so this has changed
things a bit this year. Although I'm not doing any novel writing I
have had a few poems to write--and of course the postings. It's not
demanding, but the main reason for not writing during December is
to regenerate my ideas.

I've had an idea for a new podcast but I can't say when I'll get to
it. But I'll likely talk more about it on the New Year's
show--which I still haven't done any work on. I may even keep
things light for the first few months of next year and not do any
podcasts--except for the Blue Hot Gossip anniversary show. I
skipped the first one (since I wasn't sure about continuing it at
the time) so I don't really want to skip the second. Although at
this point the one after that might take a little time.

And sometime I would like to do another fan commentary. The trouble
is that I need a couple hours I can work uninterrupted to record
it. It's been more than two years since I did the Dark Crystal
commentary, which happened to come out shortly before a new version
with an official commentary. But I would choose some other movie to
do, preferably one that is widely available but doesn't have a
commentary of it's own. Now that I've got some podcasting
experience I think I could do a better job, or at least I would
sound better.

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