Went last night to hear Greg Palast lecture in Columbia Hall at the Uof O.
He was introduced by Ed Monk, local attorney, and also by Alan Siporin, who is this local diety radio talkshow NPR guy I can't stand. The first week of the Iraq invasion his program was to interview some Vietnam War peace activist who sounded painfully and annoyingly shrill.
Alan has written a book, a terribly boring book, about racism, classism and sexism in a fictional town. It's not even imaginitive enough to be interesting. Needless to say, he plugged his book pretty hard, as did Greg Palast.
The difference is New York Times best-seller and world-reknowned journalist Greg has broken some amazing stories, about campaign contributions, about elections in Florida, etc etc so even though he plugged his book, it wasn't nearly as annoying as stuck-in-the-sixties I'm-a-local-celebrity Alan.
And it was crowded and too frigging hot in the lecture hall.
It started an hour later than it was supposed to, and it went until 9.
And the standing ovations irked me.
Guess I am a big grump.
Bah.