I recently watched the documentary HARMONTOWN, which is about the time that COMMUNITY writer/creator Dan Harmon took his podcast also called HARMONTOWN out on the road. Weird thing it put me in mind of: in a conversation online with a writer/theorist a couple of years ago, they mentioned offhand that they were going to just send an email or two to have arranged for themselves a public talk or TEDx spot just to talk about the stuff that’d been in their heads for a couple of months. And I remember saying, just that easy, eh? But, of course, for people like that, it is. Just like Dan Harmon could cause a weekly spot in the back of a comics shop just to talk about whatever was in his head that week and a recording and podcasting team would just happen. It’s an interesting place to get to.

Kind of fascinating to me that some people have that… recourse? Affordance? How would you characterise it? Reputation credit, too, of course. But what a thing, to just say “find me a place to pronounce the things I have been thinking of” and then somebody actually does.

Reading: NETWORKOLOGIES, Christopher Vitale (UK) (US)