Talking Blog Please….
I would like to see one of you “West Coast Seattle Boys (or Girls)” design a talking blog (or if it’s possible to do sound-byte posts tell me how?)….. I have lots of posts I want to make and not enough time in my day to put all of them to paper and pen, although I do know how to type (without looking at the keyboard yet! – two points for being skilled…), it’s still very time consuming (for me anyway) to get across what I want to say with the right emotion and detail….. Something I could say in less than 60 seconds audio might take an hour to write getting the phrasing and emphasis to work right on the page…. Somehow, in my case anyway, the process of translating what I would say vocally onto the page is a painful process and I usually end up doing rewrite after rewrite and it still doesn’t seem to have the same impact….. Maybe I should be a radio talk show host….. Man, I have loads of respect for writers, especially novelists….
So-o-o, let’s here the pros and cons of a “Talking Blog”….. Let’s get that “Great White North Think Tank” up and running, eh?, and tell me if I’m a Smeghead or just being lazy….. I’m getting a log-jam back-up of posts just sitting in my brain waiting to irriate someone (it’s my job) and not enough time to get them out to the public……
Maybe someone could furnish me a “Temporary Secretary” on a permanent basis?….. There would be qualifications to be met…… On second thought, my writing output might go down if that happened….
Test…. 1…. 2….. Can you hear me in the back?…. Testing….. Ouch!….. Better ground that @3x%&z mike……
May 11th, 2005 at 9:20 am
Look up “audio blogging” on google, there are already some options (I’ve seen one blog do this in the past). Podcasting seems like a related venture, although not quite blogging.
“Temporary Secretary”? Just when JEK thought I’d gotten my obscure McCartney out of my system…
She can be a belly dancer
I don’t need a true romancer
She can be a diplomat
But I don’t need a girl like that
She can be a neurosurgeon
If she’s doin’ nothin’ urgent
May 11th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
I’m not sure a talking blog will solve your problem. I argue that an idea still takes time to time to formulate and express whether written or spoken. Writing it down almosts forces you to do that. Your idea may sound terribly rough to anybody randomly listening if it just exited your head right into his or her head. Although I suppose if you wanted to sound angry, you could easily do that in voice. In writing, it can become flat.
May 12th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
I knew you “West Coast Seattle Boys” couldn’t handle it…..(Ha-Ha, that’s a joke, son – Foghorn Leghorn)…. So I guess I’m forced to write like this: He said (with hands on hips, a stern glare, and a deep southern accent), “You Boyz are in ah heap of trouble”…. I’ll start writing scripts…. Maybe someone from Hollywood might check this little Blog one day and we’ll all be rich…. Then I could get that “Temporary Secretary” “With a Little Luck” or I could just move out to “Junior’s Farm” and wait for “Another Day” and see what’s “Coming Up”….. So much for taking it around “Venus and Mars”…….
Guess what album I’m listening to?….. (Loud Buzzer) Wrong, it’s not Paulie…..
May 12th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Answer: knowing you it’s Big Lips Jagger singing to Bovine’s strings on the corner of Guthrie and Fayetteville with lots of noisy traffic driving by
May 13th, 2005 at 6:23 am
Actually it’s “Berline Bovine” to you, funny boy….. And it was on the corner of Hollywood and (Bo)Vine in LA of the USA…. You do remember Hollywood and Vine don’t you, Mr. Jek?….. You don’t think English cars have horns like that, do you?…. Their’s are more “beep-beep” or “ah-ew-gah”….. Nothing like the good old solid American blaster horn of that period…..