A long time ago, in a lifetime that seems far, far away…
Somewhere in the mid-2000s, I was flying back and forth to England for work. At some stage I got it into my head that I wanted to read all of William Shakespeare’s plays… and in chronological order. There’s more than a little controversy over dating the works, but the two-volume set I bought used off of eBay back then claimed a chronological order so that’s what I went with.
As part of the project, my brother insisted that I do a faux-primordial “garage band” podcast on my then new MacBook.
I thought these files had been lost in the transfer of data from various computers over the years but I recently found them on an old portable hard drive I used from around that time.
This then is a throwback to a simpler time, a time before the age of podcast overloads and an explosion of media choices. I recall when we first got cable in the mid-1980s it seemed overwhelming to have 30+ channels of entertainment, news, home shopping, and the like. Then there was 500 channels. Then there was youtube and streaming services and downloads and whatever else is a means of consumption. Bruce Springsteen was right when he sang into the void that there were 57 channels and nothin’s on.
All that is prelude to say, this may be nothing… but it was something I did way back when.
