5.5 Anti-Podcasting, Demystifying Creativity, and Lasting Work

Ray Bradbury’s writing process — Secret self — This podcast — 2020 — Spontaneity — Backlog — My wandering way — Some intentions behind my podcast — Almost an anti-podcast podcast — Special guest episodes — One-person operation — No haphazardness — Morning at the lake — Calm — Now you’re closer — Experimentation — Learning — Alan Moore — J. Michael Straczynski — Babylon 5 (1990s) — Online before most of us — Newsgroup — Demystifying the creative process — Obfuscation — Acting out of narcissism — Many different Alan Moores, then only one — Laundry to the laundrette — Occult and mystical subjects — Regular person — Personas — Not my kind of people — An outlet for thoughts and feelings — No local friends — A bug — Sometimes completely aimless — Being a human being — Free of all nonsense, façades, personas… — A record of moments both good and bad — At my best and at my worst — Ensuring this podcast will remain available after my own time — Currency vs. longevity — Glimpses of one person’s life — Breeze — Perceptions — Something I hope will change over time — Celebrities — Simple realities re: all of us — Throwing up, diarrhea, bodily functions — No one any different — A fancy — Heroic, saintly images — Cultivating a mystique — After I finish recording — Letters and conversations — Communicating verbal thoughts — Thoreau and his journal — Our time’s way of doing things — Warning about social media — More permanent, lasting form — Non-fiction book series Art & Love — Second volume nearly finished — Companion series — What Now with Simo vs. Art & Love — Recording things worth recording — Works by others — Written, polished, unlimited series — Accountable — Coming topics — Navigating in this world as an artist — Peter Falk’s memoir Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life — Delightfully constructed book — But that’s another story