All You Can Eat Sports

I am pretty fascinated with the idea of “All You Can Eat” sections at professional sporting events in the US.  I add “in the US” because it certainly seems oh-so-American to watch a game and indulge in as many nachos, dogs and popcorn as possible.  It seems to give the 7^th inning stretch a whole new resonance.   

 

In an article on the topic from one of the writers at Inside Hockey, I enjoyed learning more about another aspect of the history of all you can eat sports:

“One of the things you won’t see in any of these ‘All You Can Eat’ sections is alcohol. Not just because arenas understand that selling watered down Budweiser for seven bucks is consumer fraud at its finest, but because sports has already taken dangerous drive down the road of inebriation before.

 

The most dubious example came in 1974 when the Cleveland Indians decided to hold a ten-cent beer night, a game which ended with riot police on the field and an Indians forfeit. When the team decided to continue the idea later in the season, they put a limit on how many beers could be purchased, four per person. And when American League president Lee McPhail was asked about it, he said, “There was no question that beer played a part in the riot.””

 

Full article: Eating a Way of Luxury | INSIDE HOCKEY | Atlanta Thrashers

Wisdom from Bucky

“The greater the anger,
The greater the susceptibility
To further propaganda -
A cancerous hate growth.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller, No More Secondhand God

Party Shuffle: Sound Design style

I wonder if others have this experience as well: Because I am a theater artist who has often had the need to find sound effects for plays, sprinkled through my iTunes library are sound effects. When I select Party Shuffle many of these sound effects play, sometimes much to my surprise… The recent Party Shuffle tracks included

The The
The Smiths
Rufus Wainwright
“Audience cheering”
KT Tunstall
Brian Eno/David Byrne
and
“Dentist Water Drill”

The good beer news

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Read more.

The Dome

New York and creativity

Sometimes, this is true:

“New York is so overcommodified,” Mr. Binder said. “While the kid in Greenpoint is creating the piece, he’s already figuring out how to sell it to HBO. New York is so expensive, and it’s hard to be here, and I think that really stifles creativity.”

from Tragedy Tomorrow, Economic Woes Tonight in the New York Times

One of my favorite birthday presents

 

 Want to sing along?

Tegan & Sara & David Byrne & Brian Eno

There is a tremendous amount of theatrical inspiration to be found in music…  And the latest for me includes the Tegan & Sara station on Jango.com and the track from the upcoming David Byrne/Brian Eno creation that I learned about from (the guy I wish was) my friend, David Byrne.

 

Chickens in Iraq

Paul Miller, Iraq Aug 08

This is my Dad.  He is working on chicken ranches in Iraq.  Now that’s theatrical.

Roosteraud

Rooster + Artaud X 5 = Roostaud

This one’s especially for Finn the Dog.