FEATURED WEB PAGE Publique Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 33, August 15, 2004, Article 24
FEATURED WEB PAGE
This week's featured web page is the June 10, 1999 online
journal of Ira Glass, host of Public Radio International's "This
American Life", where he describes an evening with money
artist J.S.G. Boggs:"At the beginning of our presentation at the Art Institute,
Boggs produced a copy of the Chicago yellow pages. He
asked the audience for the name of a local pizza place. On
his cell phone he called and ordered some pizzas. When
they arrived at the theater, he asked the delivery guy up
onstage, and tried to pay for the food with a drawing of a
$50 bill. It was, frankly, a little uncomfortable. The guy
delivering the pizzas suddenly found himself standing on a
stage, lots of people watching, being asked to make a
decision: Did he want Boggs to give him $50 in real cash
-- or did he want the drawing instead? He broke out in a
sweat. All the poor guy knew is that if he didn't show up
back at work with real American currency to cover those
pizzas he took out, he'd be in trouble. He turned down
the deal. It was hard not to jump in and just tell him: "You
can make a thousand dollars here! Take the drawing!"- 2004-08-15
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