A Poor Excuse for a Proposal

The final piece of writing I owe for my “Podcasting In Business” class is a proposal for my personal podcast project, The Armchair Architect. I am at a bit of a loss for how to write this, however, since I would never seriously propose such a project.

The lowest scores on my evaluation sheets from the class were for the future viability of this podcast. And they were absolutely right. This podcast has no future viability. I think I said just about everything I have to say about architecture in this one episode.

It was just a joke: a one –off. I just did it to vent a little spleen about contemporary architecture and compensate for the fact that my group project was a propaganda piece for a huge Seattle real estate developer. I also wanted to fool around with audio comedy, talk in some silly accents and force a group of people to sit and listen to me playing bad Heavy Metal music on my electric guitar.

So, if I were to propose an actual podcast, I guess it would have to be some sort of comedy series that would feature me interviewing myself in various accents about various topics. Each episode would be a mock talk show, and perhaps that could be the title of my podcast: Mock Talk. I just Googled those words and didn’t find a show with that name – at least not in the first few pages I examined.

I would categorize my program as Comedy. The pilot episode I produced could also be categorized under “Arts” and “Architecture.” What other episodes would be about, however, I have no idea, because I would never seriously attempt to do an ongoing comedy podcast, or a podcast of any sort for that matter. It hurts my brain just trying to imagine what other programs might be about.

It was fun working on podcasts in this class. I wouldn’t mind producing podcasts for other people (as long as they paid me), especially if they want video or visual content. As far as producing my own podcast, however, I’d never do it.

Finally, I’m supposed to cut and paste a Creative Commons bug to my blog. I’m so worn out, however, from pulling all-nighters for my two podcasts and several other projects, that I’m just going to post the following:

©2008 VAUN S. RAYMOND. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Now I’m going to attack the huge pile of dishes in my sink and finally get some sleep. Good night.