Blogging/Podcast Day at the Acadia Cafe

It’s….

Very quick side note here before I really get rocking on this.  I was fortunate to finally purchase the complete (or complet) Monty Python’s Flying Circus…all forty-five episodes on stunning DVD quality of the original broadcasts with all the warts and flaws.  So when I started out with “It’s…”, I, of course, thought of a bedraggled Michael Palin, dressed in a tattered suit, long beard, struggling to get to the camera, looking straight into the camera to say the should-be-patented “It’s…”, longing as he is to say more, but it cuts away right into the credits.  Somehow seemed seredipitous because I didn’t mean to start this way, but I just did.

Anyway, sidebar over, I’m sitting at the wonderful Acadia Cafe on the corner of Nicollet and Franklin learning more about blogging and even more about podcasting.  After this day, I am convinced that I will do a podcast, and I will do one soon.  No more waiting.  But more about that later as I want to talk about the Acadia Cafe for a second.

This place is wonderful.  It has a fine beer selection, decent food offerings and the background music is not only unobtrusive, it strikes that fine balance between engaging and comforting.  I’m currently enjoying a fine beer by the new Twin Cities brewery Surly…I highly recommend the Surly Bender, a porter-like offering with a hint of hoppiness, mild bitter and chocolate overtones and a smooth finish.  I’m on my second one, and this is with other fine tap offerings like Old Speckled Hen, Beamish, Shiner Bock and Pilsner Urquel, just to name a few of my favorites that tempted me.  That and I saw they offer the very fine Rogue Shakespeare Stout in a bottle.   This is definitely a place I am coming back.

The meeting here was organized by Garrick VanBuren whom I consider the godfather of Minnesota podcasting and a friend of mine.  Garrick’s First Crack podcast has been going on for two years now and has covered the gamut of topics.  I also met a couple of other bloggers and podcasters, including Dan Hook with the Hook Show.  I’m forgetting a couple of guys I know, but I’ll make that up at some point.

Here’s the deal though.  Although podcasting is saturated right now, as well as blogging, who cares.  I’m going to do what I’m going to do.  If people listen, great.  If not, I stop and go to something else.  I looked at the equipment I’ll need for this and barebones, this will still cost me around $329 (not including cables).  Ideally, I get a couple other things and I’m looking at $600-800.  Still less than what I paid for my laptop.

So there it is.  Expect a podcast in the near future, within the week I would say.   There’s no reason for me not to do this.