This week we are joined by the lovely and talented Carr Hagerman. Carr has years of performance experience and dozens of amazing stories from the road. We don’t talk to him about any of that.
We do talk about St. Patrick’s day, which teaches us that Salsa and Matt are grumpy old men and Jena is a capitalist pig. (It’ll make more sense once you’ve listened to the show, I swear.) We also discover the need for a Russian-themed vodka holiday and plan on getting that off the ground in the next year or so.
We do talk to Carr about his latest project the Discovery Forum, a project that seeks to bring some of the most interesting minds of the day together to talk about issues that concern us all. We’ll be sure to post further details as the dates draw near.
We also cover how news and information is spread in the fancy new Web 2.0 culture, and ponder whether we set ourselves up in an informational feedback loop. Here’s the video Carr mentions on the subject:
We even discuss happiness and contentment and how to seek them out. This one went all over the place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
You’re welcome!
YES! I vote Steve gets to be a part of the holiday take over/cash in.
I vote that Steve become the official poster boy for the holiday. He looks Russian… all hairy… and likes booze…
Ok, Matt. I started fest doing Cabriolet, don’t you EVEN start about having to do parade. I once had to take a wedding couple that was easily 350 pounds apiece and the sheer mass of their asses almost didn’t even fit into the cab. Try stopping 1100 pounds on the hill in the narrows by doing a Sonic the Hedgehog-esque both heels in the dirt style stop the whole way down the hill with a rookie cabbie up front. That nearly turned into a 4-way first aid run if we hadn’t regained control of that barreling lardtrain. I never thought I’d learn how to waterski on woodchips.
Parades:
Agreed that they’re primarily for kids. Nothing wrong with that at all.
In the late seventies I remember my parents taking us to the Mpls Aquatennial Parade and there was a big hullabaloo about how local millionaire Percy Ross was gong to ride in the parade and throw dollar coins to the kids. Seriously. I was about eight or nine years old and I think I managed to get one or two, but I saw teenagers walk by with a stack of them in their hands.
I know I’m in the minority but I love doing the parade at festival, I always have. It’s the ultimate hit and run, on the move street theater. You barely have time to say one line before you move along and say something to someone fifteen feet down so if you approach it with the right high energy mood, it’s a blast. That said, I’ll get on my soapbox for a moment and comment that I don’t think it worked well to have it at the end of the day. I understood that idea of trying to draw people to the gate but unfortunately I don’t think it worked; people don’t follow the end of a parade, when it goes by they just look around for something else to do. And in terms of impact for the efforts of the people in the parade, the streets are deader in the last hour than midday-ish and there are far less kids (the target audience for parades), so you’re really wasting your efforts in comparison. I strongly feel the best impact for the parade is either late morning as in recent years, or around 1:30 like it used to be.
I hear Kent rbek is pretty pissed at alsa.
I thought it was pronounced “üsker Dü”
I hated that Jena and Bill were just a couple blocks from my house at Merlin’s Rest on St. Patrick’s Day and I couldn’t come by and say “Hi” because I was finishing up my school stuff.
Ouzo NO unless you’ve spent the day on a nude beach in Mykonos and met a pretty stranger. Just sayin’.
I would like to apologize to Carr Hagerman for causing all this Internet culture of amateurs thing.
“The rocking horse at fest”
You have just ruined an infinite number of childhoods.
Holy crap, the guy in that video is a terrible speaker. His voice and cadence makes me want to poke my ears out with a pencil.
My fest bingo card is blank, actually.