The first episode of Poking at the Pockets was supposed to be an elections special. The program was supposed to be finished by Monday, November 3rd. Today is November 27, Thanksgiving day, Obama won the elections and is already making all kinds of decisions about the future of this country, and still the program is not finished. By now I think it'll have to float in the eternal limbo of unfinished projects. All kinds of unanticipated problems kept us from finishing the elections special:
* my partner and I could never coordinate times to do our like-around-wine dialogue about the election;
* a segment I recorded on my computer where my ten year old daughter Antonia and her friend Freya are having an interesting conversation about McCain and Obama is useless because the recording volume was set too high. The girls were great, Freya said she did not like McCain because he was known to have tamper tantrums; Antonia said that she didn't like McCain because he was into sending so many people to fight wars, that soon we were going to run out of grown-ups and would have to start sending babies to the battle front;
* the only segment usable is a fragment Ben and I did at a new Bar-b-q restaurant called Roy's Smokehouse BBQ; this segment is really good, filled with sounds of the restaurant, someone chopping meat, the cash register, cutlery, and the warm sounds that always emerge from a group of humans enjoying each other and the scent of dishes they love; one of the themes of Poking at the Pockets is Food and Fusion, about interesting eateries or food stores around here; we'll probably use this segment in a future program;
* Ben and Brad taught me Audacity, but it's taking me much longer to become a fast editor; I begin to realize that producing Poking at the Pockets will require much more time than I thought.
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