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[wealhtheow]

Guess who is coming to UW's Kane Hall this Sunday?

DOCTOR DEMENTO!March 2, 2008 - "Don't Hear This: A Performance Talk on the Effects of Media Consolidation and Government Censorship." The ACLU cosponsors a music and comedy presentation by syndicated radio host Dr. Demento. Kane Hall, room 110. Sunday, March 2, 3:00-4:15 PM. And there's a

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[jholomorphic]

Darn you--I was going to go home and sleep early due to 8am anthropology (which is the worst kind of anthropology, by the way), but now I have to go directly from the airport to the BRT.

Also:

[wealhtheow]

Holy sweet jumpin jehosaphat, that's a lot of hair.

Where have you been travelling? :)

[jholomorphic]

I wasn't trying to draw attention to my hair so much as my proximity to the Dr., but: indeed. (I haven't cut it since then, so presumably I have no less, but it looks different tied back).

Nowhere exotic--I was in southern California for the weekend to visit people who share my last name. But nonetheless delicious-- I spent one evening eating in Monterey Park and made a long-planned pilgrimage to Santa Barbara for horchata (etc.) at La Super Rica.

[jholomorphic]

Also, since it sounded like you couldn't go to the Seattle talk: he gave a thematic overview of various types of music censorship over the years, citing both famous cases of general interest you probably know about (Ice T, 2 Live Crew, early rock and roll) of which he played illustrative snippets, and dementia examples, where you certainly know the songs if not the fact that he or others have had to pull them. (I haven't been in an area where his show is broadcast for a decade, so a few of the newer ones were pleasant surprises for me (e.g. "Candy Wrapper"). There wasn't much surprising analytically, but it was very entertaining. Since there was no visual component and his lecture style and radio style are identical, you won't be missing much if he ever posts a recording of one of the incarnations of these talks.

(This is based on the last two-thirds of the talk, since my flight arrived 35 minutes before the beginning.)