Archive for November, 2005

I’ve been spending all day chasing down links and names provided me by Ben Vershbow of The Institute for the Future of the Book. This for our show on Google Print. Also, Marcel nudged us yesterday.

How do two topics which, as far as I can tell, have never before seen the light of day, are not the product of pressing news … vault to the fore ahead of those languishing for weeks on the back burner?

Marcel, comment to Open Source, 11/29/05

Hey, by the way, look what all you can find on Flickr. Here’s a slightly fuzzy picture of the new German Chancellor [Cristoph Gommel / Flickr]

Marcel was referring to Google Print and Presidential Power. The former became a show when I finally read the newspaper article Mary gave me a week ago, and an article in this week’s New York Review of Books gave us the latter. Marcel is right: neither show is pegged to a today-and-no-other-day event. Both are, however, current, in the sense that they’d feel old next month.

Current, by the way, is an inexact science, subject to redefinition at our discretion.

“Warming Up” tends to accumulate the evergreen shows that can be rescheduled when news happens, but Marcel’s right; ostensibly-warming-up shows should not grow cold and die. So we have a plan now. We’re booking Don Quixote, David’s long-suffering A Passion for Cookbooks and the rather popular A Christian America for the week of December 19. Ex-Gay Ministries was allowed to die gently; it feld a little old. But Chelsea’s working on a to-be-posted show on homosexuality/sexuality/chastity and the church. Katherine thinks that Morality: God-Given or Evolved? feels like more than one show now, and Pakistan is a different show now after the earthquake; I’m going to try to make it happen next week.

Also, there was this:

Regarding the Bruce Lee statue: reported by The World (I believe they are housed in the same building as the Open Source studios, no?) back in September of 2004 (!) when a resident proposed the statue, and then in again on November 21, 2005 a full 5 days before its unveiling.

Strive to be AHEAD of the curve, dear friends.

Mike, comment to Open Source, 11/29/05

We’re trying, Mike. We’re trying.