The PodCast
Okay, so it’s been…..7 months since I said anything here.  Is ADPoV dead?  Not at all.  It’s just that I think I’ve covered all the bases and made my case pretty damned clear and hard to argue against, and lately, I just haven’t had much else to add to it.  While I was at DragonCon last year, I met a few fans of the show, which is always bonus!  I even got to see an ABA Shirt in the wild (i.e. being worn by someone I didn’t know, who chose to wear it at the convention on their own), and that was a thrill.  One of the fans I talked to at the PodCasters Pimp & Ho party hosted by Evo..or Sigler…or was it Tee… Told me they completely understood why I hadn’t podcasted anything for so long, and they even said they prefered it that way, meaning they’d rather I actually have something to say rather then podcast for the sake of putting something in the feed.  I’m really glad they felt that way.

The Swag
The aforementioned ABA shirt is no longer available, nor is any of the other ADPoV swag.  Two reasons for this.  First, LucasFilm Limited (LFL) started using Zazzle, who hosted the ADPoV Swag, as it’s own choice to host it’s brand of customizable Star Wars shirts, so in a knee-jerk reaction Zazzle scoured their site and deleted anyone’s swag that could be remotely considered infringing upon LFL’s intellectual properties, which, I can understand, regardless of the fact that 95% of my stuff didn’t do that at all, in the legal sense as it was all either bortQ’s 100% original artwork, or there was no mention of “Star Wars” or anything else from the series, for the most part.  There was one bumper sticker that had the Imperial Insignia, so that’s understandable, but pretty much everything else was clean.  I say all of this with complete understanding, and no ill will towards LFL, believe me.  I was never in this to make any money, so in the big picture, I lost nothing.

Second reason?  Zazzle’s quality sucks.  Horribly.  I was made painfully aware of this fact when I ordered myself an ABA T and matching Tankard, neither of which I was at all impressed with in regards to quality.  I was literally shopping around other venues to move everything to when Zazzle shut me down, so again, nothing lost there.  I do, however want to apologize to those of you who did purchase some of the ADPoV swag, because I felt really bad that the quality was so piss poor.  Had I known ahead of time, I wouldn’t have ever put your hard earned dollars at risk like that.  At least you can say you have collector’s item now, huh?

If there is any intrest whatsoever for ADPoV swag, people are going to have to let me know.  Seriously.

Podcasting here and there…
While I haven’t been doing any new recordings for my own podcast, I have, however been recording for other shows out there.  Most notably The Metamor City Podcast, in which I play the part of Malcolm ard’Valos, and the Cue the Film Podcast’s six-part miniseries covering all six of the Star Wars films, plus a couple games, books, and the new television series on Cartoon network.  If you haven’t listened to these two podcasts yet, go NOW and start listening.  I’m serious…well.. after you read this, I mean… not now now.

Future Projects..
The feed will always be open, and the old epsiodes available, because there’s always someone new right around the corner who may have just heard of the show, and the important lessons it teaches.  They’re timeless, really.  If I think of something new to toss in there, I will, but thus far, nothing new has sprung to mind in regards to continually proving my point.

I would like to sit down and actually write out a story or two to podcast but I’m torn.  I have my memoirs that chronicle my life in the Imperial Army (Fan Fic), but there’s two reasons I haven’t moved forward on this. 

1. Indiana Jim beat me to it with his fanfic Star Wars: Codename Starkeeper …not about me specifically, but a Star Wars themed production and he ended up using damned near everyone I wanted to ask to be voices in my project, so that leaves me kind of high and dry.  (and yet he -never- asked me to be a part of it…Hmmm)

2.  I really don’t want people thinking I’m a one trick pony.  That’s actually a concern of mine, and has been for quite a while now…ever since 7th Son: Obsidian in fact.  I think I’ll put up the sound experiment I recorded and edited a year ago so you can all have a taste of what have been, or what might still be someday.

Anyhow, that’s the big stinky on this end, or at least a slice of it.  More to come in the near future, I promise.

 

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