Death, Cancellation, Format Change, Rebirth.

The title is pretty much self explanatory. I don’t have a microphone hooked up, and the webcam isn’t playing nice with the Server, so this is going to be a text only post for those of you who are cool enough to have your RSS readers tuned into this feed and the rest of you that check the blog on a regular basis.

Over the past few months I’ve tried to motivate myself to actually doing something with this blog and show, but I haven’t really felt like it. I’ve grown bored, and come to dislike the direction this show was starting to take.

And as a writer and a creative individual that’s something that I can only tolerate for so long.

It became less about delivering content that makes you feel, makes you think. It became more about reporting on what was readily available, rambling into the microphone, and picking on Ben.

Now don’t get me wrong, giving him shit is one of my favorite past-times, however, that can’t be all the show is about as much as Kyle would lead us to believe.

That is why I come to you today to inform you of the death of Banter Over a Cigarette. There will be no more new content, no more new seasons.

I’m going to go ahead and upload the backlog of stuff I’d already recorded, unedited. Think of it as the BOaC unplugged finale.

Of course, the only thing in my backlog is podcaster interviews, and thankfully the editing required on any of that is little to none, so it’s not too big of a deal.

Aside from the backlogs that are posted there will be no more posts on this blog. That doesn’t mean that you should remove this from your podcatcher, or stop watching this with your RSS readers.

Just because I’m ending this show, does not mean that I’m retiring from podcasting.

Once I’ve got the backlog posted I’m going to sit down and think about what I can do differently. I’m going to come up with a new format. Decide where I want to take the new show, what I’ll talk about. Create something completely different. And once I’ve got all of that figured out, I’ll take a step away from the drawing board, and I’ll begin creating new things. And once I’ve got something put together and polished I’ll leave word here on where you can find the new show.

Stay tuned. As they say, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.