[Newspoetry] Streaming Realnewspoetry

[William Gillespie]

> > -that's be pretty cool, wouldn't it, to put a video of us read
> ing our po'erty on
> > the web?
>
> How would people know when to watch -- or would it loop?

Well, I'm thinking not-streaming realvideo files. A real live webcast is
I
think a
big affair. The people I work for paid thousands to put a streaming
realvideo of Al
Gore on the web. They lost sleep for months beforehand, afraid that they

would lose
their web reputation in the early childhood education community. They
sifted through
numerous bidders.

It struck me, although of course I remained stone silent, as an
astonishing
waste of
those precious, waning DOE $.

I mean: Gore. I can see wanting to hear a Gore education speech, but
does
it
necessarily have to be live? See my point? Gore. Live. Y'know, live or
Memorex, with
Gore, either way is fine. Streaming RealGore. I'd probably click on
something else.
He's a good vice-president and all. Light years more sophisiticated than

Quayle
certainly. But I don't know if he needs to be streaming.

He's not exactly Led Zeppelin.

Anyway, in Iowa, Chuck Aukema, Scott's terribly wonderful undergraduate
fiction coach
& mentorpal, took good care of us, and he had a snazzy videocamera that
used DAT
tapes, and he videotaped us cassetterecording ourselves getting
photographed in front
of or behind a flaming cheese appetizer in a Greek joint in Cedar
Rapids:
an honest
touch of postmodern irony for the English & Philosophy professors who
picked up the
tab. Chuck's going to give us a couple CD-ROMs of the video files. My
understanding
is that they'll be web-ready, but, uh... well... I don't... uh, we'll
they'll be
realvideo I think as opposed to uh... quicktime movies... or
something...

anyway we videotaped some fish heads in Lester's kitchen. They'll be in
the Unknown someday.