Listen to the mp3 of the entire show (90 min)

Is it always better to give than receive? Why is it sometimes harder? Guests: NY-based conceptual performance love artist Kathe Izzo whose work has been presented in galleries worldwide (Wild Gift/London, Artemis/Miami, Highways/LA), ex-NFL Tight End and filmmaker Dr. Jamie Williams (Super Bowl champion with the San Francisco 49ers, Any Given Sunday) and Shanan Carney (aka the Voice of TiVo) whose debilitating knee surgery is teaching her first hand about the art of receiving. Her friends’ surprising generosity has sparked her own upcoming videoblog about random acts of kindness.

Yes that was me on 960am tonight partaking in all the Mark Foley / Ted Haggard fun. Once again, Christianity and Republicans are united by homosexuality.

Here are notes from a conversation I lead at Web 2.2 today. I’m thinking a lot about creating conditions for quality connections online rather than volume eg. myspace “friends”

I’m especially interested in extending the connections and coversations I’m helping happen in live shows.

Many thanks to Ted Shelton for his conference sponsorship.

Julian visits

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He had so much fun playing with my high-tech bed, he crashed it. Kids should be hired as bug testers.

He had so many great questions: “How did you all out of the pothole if you fell in the pothole?”

There”s a lot more to the story of how I got injured, but I love how clear he is about language.

Brilliant bit of impromptu design from my hospital visitor judith zissman

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Best of all, motivated by caring. I heart judith.

I broke my funny bone. The pain isn’t too bad but the jokes are killing me
:^)

The view from my bed

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Natural light helped make such a difference for my healing, as did the beautiful view of twin peaks amd the Mission below,

I broke my funny bone.

That, Alanis, is ironic.

Chris Messina wrotea great post about Google’s purchase of Dodgeball which is a cell-phone-connect-up-with-your-pals-in-a-serendipitous-way-in-the-real-world kind of system.

Chris writes about who owns log ins to sites and your id information.

What I’m wondering about is the fact that I signed up for Dodgeball a few months ago and already it’s been bought. The time between cool things are being made, released and bought is getter smaller and smaller. It reminds me of how you can now see a fashion trend in the Castro or Bayview and it will make it to Mervyn’s in Indiana in a matter of months. It used to take ages for shit like suede construction boots to filter up to fashionistas from the queers and then back down to middle America.

Meryl Streep’s character delivers a great and hilarious monologue in The Devil Wear’s Prada that captures the top-down part of ths influencer cycle in The Devil Wears Prada. But this bit of writing misses the whole cycle.

Much of the fashion looks like this: mid-western fashion in 70s>discarded to 2nd-hand clothing shops>re-contextualized and brought out to queer or urban punk land by poor kids in urban centres on the coast>picked up on by stylists>Milan+ Paris for a week>back to high end stores like Barney’s in NY>knocked off and sold at Mervyn’s in Indiana.

I’m still thinking on the tech cycle. Any ideas?

I was just awarded a grant from Theatre Bay Area to finish the script of my Law Project show.

Huzzah! Many thanks to the community of theatre folks in San Francisco.