ponderings.

Is it an essential inherent quality that theater has to have an audience? 

or is it enough to just put the energy into the universe. 

Is no audience any better or worse than the wrong audience? 

 

bloo.

(Interlude)

I was watching some TED talks and I came across this guy

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/renny_gleeson_on_antisocial_phone_tricks.html

Basically what I took away from it was the idea of technology dividing as much as it brings together, not such a new concept, but also the idea that the thing you're doing now is not as important as the story you'll tell about it later. 

One of my big jams in life is about creating community and one big issue I have is with technology. Morally too I guess, but mostly just that I'm bad at it. So putting those things together sends the gears a-turning. I'm also into storytelling and finding any excuse to do so. 

I do plan to do some sort of piece on the subject, but mostly I guess I'm just saying hi...in this potentially community-building technological forum wherein I tell stories. Seemed logical enough.

And for your troubles, here's a joke. 

There was this elephant who every week would walk by this anthill and crush it and scatter the ants to the winds. Now this went off for some time until one week the ants decided to do something about it. They made a plan and decided that the next time the elephant came by they would wait up in the trees and pounce. So sure enough, next week rolls around and there's the elephant. And like always he stomps all over the anthill...but there are no ants. Why? Because they're all in the trees, if you'd been paying attention. So the ant leader yells "CHARGE!" and the ants descend on the elephant kicking and biting and doing everything they can. But of course the elephant is considerably bigger, so he shakes and shakes like a wet dog and all the ants go flying off--except one. He hangs on just at the elephants throat at the windpipe. And the leader ant, from his position on the ground, looks up and sees his comrade fighting and he yells, "CHOKE HIM!"