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The OPEN YOUR MIND roundtable crew is all back ad ready to jump into the spring 2009 semester with a splash!

In the is first show, Davon, Liz, Sonam and myself are joined by special guest Chris Crews, media liaison for The New School in Exile. The topics include (of course) last semester's occupation, the inauguration and first days of President Obama, Michael Phelps & "bong-gate" and the World's Biggest Breasts, to name a few.

So the sad news about this show is that Damien isn't at the table, and as it now stands, looks like he won't be with us this semester. I hold out hope that something will change, but it doesn't look promising. He is the only one among us who is actually holding down a full-time job while doing the Media Studies program (admirable -- I couldn't do it at this point in my life), and so after reviewing everyone's schedule we chose the best time for all of the panelists (and, of course, Joe as the engineer). Turns out Damien was the one who couldn't make that best time. I'm not pleased...but we soldier on.

This show was sort of odd for me. I had been anticipating it and looking forward to doing the roundtable again - the ideas were REALLY flowing while I was on break -- but when the day itself came around I was a bit off my optimal energy because I had been having a number of early mornings working a promotion (for the Quaker Oat company of all things!) on the very cold streets of Times Square. The usual set-up is that I compile and send a topic agenda and brief packet of pre-readings for the panel to receive the day before. didn't get it done this time around -- so we all feel a bit under-informed.

That, PLUS the bottle of wine before we rolled tape. GODO TIMES! Either way, the panel is always fun to listen to. I did some stutterign and stammering as the show went on -- got to work on that for next time. At least the winter break cobwebs have been shaken off...

MUSIC:
"New School Swagger" / "Bailout Money"
by Angel Folgar
www.myspace.com/angelfolgar

SHOW THEME:
OPEN YOUR MIND by Melissa Etheridge, From the Island Records album The Awakening.

EPISODE 7 - FIRST SPRING 2009 ROUNDTABLE - CLICK TO LISTEN or RIGHT-CLICK TO DOWNLOAD MP3!