Hey there Sports Fans, Al here with the latest:
Podcasting?
Say what?
That is an endeavor that I am looking into these days. After looking and more likely listening to over the last five months that I was out of work I began to feel disconnected. But as sat I heard a number of people, of everyday commentators who were watching and seeing how the cultural landscape was changing. They felt the same as I did about what was changing.
And it was not for the better.
Pop-Culture has been under attack from many outside forces and internal as well. Now you may have noticed over the years that I had been working towards getting into the comic-book industry for years with not a lot of success. But I still love the medium and still write and draw comic after comic. But money always seems to play the key factor if you are successful. In short, I was not. As a close friend of mine said (to paraphrase) "How much do you make off a comic-book? And then how much do make a single image?" It's apples to oranges my friends and not a single image not selling or being shown = no cash flow.
Along with the free time I had if I wasn't fearful of Wildfires sweeping in and purify the land of all my work and living, the harmful effects of smog town USA, or the massive civil unrest that lurks just beneath the surface ready to explode all magnified by a worldwide pandemic. I had no job and some time on my hands. But the idea of social commentary struck me as "That topic is funny as hell!" Social life has thrown a helluva a curve and not much social interaction going at work or outside of the fear factor of meeting that walking vector point I need to express. Why is this happening? WHY are people being stupid in their writing?
I know myself to be sarcastic and even sardonic at times depending on the topic being spoken about. My ex used to say to me "Why do you laugh at everything?" My response was "Because everything is funny." If I didn't laugh at the hairless chimps I would have already gone mad and be left out on the streets like so many homeless that I have walk past to get to work.
The polarization of modern society is stupid. Using a social platform to cancel people with impunity is stupid. Subverting expectations is stupid. Racism is stupid. Sexism is stupid. Mass media is stupid. Basically, the world in of itself is stupid.
AND how would end all of these social topics on the air? A tag line. Again I refer back to my ex and what she would say to me “Whatever the topic, whatever scene dear listener, it always comes back to trek.” And that does really cover it.