The Fellowship of the Ring

An auspicious lot to be sure.

Each member specifically chosen for the team, based on merit, charisma, and Time Traveling capabilities. Think the Justice League of Dramatic Podcasting. Think exactly that.

Onto actual business. Time conflicts, technical difficulties, merciless plagues of locust, there have been indeed many roadblocks on the way to Podcasting genius, and plain existence I suppose. Rome wasn't built in a day, as it goes.

As you may have thus far surmised the first true episode has yet to be unveiled. In the sole interest of public safety the original plan was to construct the show via emails. Raw mp3 data was to be disassembled and reassembled to resemble as a full episode.

Isabel would say her piece, as would I, and together they would be stitched together into what would appear to be a natural conversation. The Frankenstein of conversations. It's almost bittersweet to say we have not created such a monster.

yet.

We'll spare you the awful, and at times grotesque, details needless to say that the plan has changed. We have agreed, begrudgingly so, to meet face to face and have at this horrid conversation, creating the first episode once and for all. And here I thought we'd avoid disturbing details.

A precise date for the publishing of the first episode has tentatively been set for this weekend. Leaving us a delightful Friday in which to hammer out as many insightful episodes as time and modern science will allow. If I were a betting man I would rest confident in this forecast. In all likelyhood it's all gravy from here on out. But as second from the right would say to the third...(in some impossible, yet deliciously nerdgasmic Indiana Jones/Star Wars crossover)

never tell me the odds.