[HEY – MAJORLY SUPER IMPORTANT ADDENDUM – READ THIS OR DIE: The idea here isn’t to replace my writing with audio, but simply to do an audio version in addition to Neopoleon.com. I love writing way too much to just do an audio thing. So don’t get your knickers all sour by thinking that I’m ditching Neopoleon.com – I’m not. As a matter of fact, Neopoleon.com, or something very much like it, with writing that is much better, is on its way, so those of you who rejoice in the writing bit should just be that much happier. The point is, Rory Blyth is going multiMEdia, and if that pun didn’t make you vomit, then you’ve got taste, babe. Point being, the long writing will stay, and it will appear in podcast form. There will also be “special” content just for the podcast that won’t appear here because, just like some things in writing don’t translate to audio, some things in audio don’t translate to writing. So, yeah. That’s all. Go back to whatever you were doing.]

I got a comment from a long-time reader (GuyIncognito, for those of you who have the good taste to take part in the comments section), and it went like this:

i have trouble reading the posts with a lot of words in them, but judging from everyone else's responses, it seems like a good one.

This is something that some of my other partially-illiterate, impatient readers have mentioned, and it makes me wonder…

Let’s just say that I know this guy, who we will call “Carl Franklin,” who wants me to start a podcast, and he’s offered to do most of the work so that I wouldn’t have to get off my diva ass to do anything, and it would be me reading my longer posts (sometimes slightly modified for better delivery over the air), and that each episode would last about ten minutes.

Would that be the kind of thing you’d like to have for your tube-ride/bus/car/walk/prison time? I have a sweet voice, like that of a siren calling, from an island afar, diverting you from your course, and leaving you wanting like a parched desert wanderer who has just spent the past three hours chasing an oasis.

It’s sad because I know that my longer posts are the least read, and they are, by far, the best. Some people, specifically myself, would even call them “genius.” I hate to think that the world is missing out on the wonderful experience that is a Rory tale given at length and with many unnecessary tangential and sometimes offensive details.

So… what do you think? Would you listen?

Or would you just ignore it?

I mean, we’re going to do it anyway, but I’m trying to get some support here – a few “goferits” to help me get going. I’ve already recorded a few, but I have to re-record them because Carl was like all, “Those sucked.”

But the new ones would be better.

Because…

They would be.

We learn from our mistakes. Usually. I mean, my eye isn’t going to grow back from “that one time,” but you know what I mean.