Simo Sakari Aaltonen

What Now with Simo, Season 1 Simo Sakari Aaltonen

- A WORD-FOR-WORD TRANSCRIPT OF THE 1st SEASON OF THE PODCAST -

This podcast is my central outlet for thoughts, feelings, passing fancies, memories, dreams, appreciations, and more.

Maybe a better metaphor would be a flickering campfire after a long day out in the wild - or in the inner wild. Or perhaps a random book with a flashlight under the blanket in a beautiful summer cottage, somewhere in eternity.

I record every episode extemporaneously, transcribe them afterwards, and eventually collect each season into these printed volumes. Part journal, part memoir, part musings on art and life, part strange humour, and part me reaching out to other souls out there.

This edition of the first season of the podcast brings the more than 40,000 words onto the printed page, for reading or leafing through at your own pace.

This also makes the podcast available in its entirety to everyone with any hearing loss.

Unedited, unexpurgated, and with an introduction, table-of-contents summaries in the style of old books, and a few footnotes.

Also part of this season are Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 and H. P. Lovecraft's prose poem "Ex Oblivione".

-Simo