Brecht, Barnum, Tesla and Hubbard

[Thing]

Mike Daisey, who I've never met or seen, is performing a series of extemporised monologues called "Great Men of Genius" in Seattle, where I've never been. The Tesla and Hubbard ones in particular sound very interesting. His site gives links to reviews in The Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper. Mike's own comment on the Hubbard one includes this:

The performance for me was strange, surreal and alternated between great fun and sheer [rule8]ing terror as I felt the wide, staring eyes of Scientology members radiating their disapproval—at first I thought it was paranoia on my part, but I hit a section where I talk about my issues with psychiatry and I felt their approval, which was much more disturbing than when they were hating me.

 

[tube]

Though I could have, I did not attend the Tesla performance. One reason was the $20 admission charge. I cannot, therefore, offer any kind of review.

I can tell you, however, that an AOL CD placed in the spark discharge of a Tesla coil erodes the metallic coating in beautiful and long lasting ways. Much more beautiful than simply nuking a CD.

 

[Dr Adequate]

Weird ... I just posted on the evolution materclass spinoff thread in R&P and it came up here.