{"id":158,"date":"2005-03-11T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/planning-ahead\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T18:55:00","slug":"planning-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/11\/planning-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9. This talk-show idea is too much fun. I spent the drive to campus thinking about who to invite on the show. Here are my choices for the first couple of weeks: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mon:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ph.utexas.edu\/~weintech\/weinberg.html\">Steven Weinberg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanettewinterson.com\/\">Jeanette Winterson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/works\/goingon\/refugees\/angelina_story.html\">Angelina Jolie<\/a><br \/><strong>Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmw.net\/\">Medeski, Martin and Wood<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tue:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.harvard.edu\/\">Larry Summers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.harvard.edu\/randall.htm\">Lisa Randall<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornelwest.com\/\">Cornel West<\/a><br \/><strong>Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertrandolph.net\/\">Robert Randolph and the Family Band<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wed:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/~history\/Mathematicians\/Penrose.html\">Sir Roger Penrose<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinc.sunysb.edu\/Stu\/dmyers\/\">Jonathan Lethem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000686\/\">Christopher Walken <\/a><br \/><strong>Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebadplus.com\/\">The Bad Plus<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><strong>Thu:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk\/dawkins\/WorldOfDawkins-archive\/index.shtml\">Richard Dawkins<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/authors\/stoppard.htm\">Tom Stoppard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000123\/\">George Clooney<\/a><br \/><strong>  Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucianasouza.com\/\">Luciana Souza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fri:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.northwestern.edu\/faculty\/wills.htm\">Gary Wills<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/story\/139\/story_13986_1.html\">Richard Friedman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/sisterwendy\/\">Sister Wendy<\/a><br \/><strong>  Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonardcohenfiles.com\/\">Leonard Cohen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mon:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.cam.ac.uk\/IoA\/staff\/mjr\/\">Sir Martin Rees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/literature\/laureates\/1993\/morrison-bio.html\">Toni Morrison<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/playerfile\/shaquille_oneal\/?nav=page\">Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/a><br \/><strong>  Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmoran.com\/\">Jason Moran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tue:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stanford.edu\/faculty\/sullivan\/\">Kathleen Sullivan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karliagnemma.com\/\">Karl Iagnemma<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/\">Sir Ian McKellen<\/a><br \/><strong>Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenlatifahmusic.com\/\">Queen Latifah<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wed:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/government\/rumsfeld-bio.html\">Donald Rumsfeld<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/howardzinn.org\/default\/\">Howard Zinn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000235\/\">Uma Thurman<\/a><br \/><strong>  Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funky-stuff.com\/bootsy\/\">Bootsy Collins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thu:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ociw.edu\/research\/freedman.html\">Wendy Freedman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.uchicago.edu\/~rposner\/\">Richard Posner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgecarlin.com\/\">George Carlin<\/a> <strong><br \/>Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/net.indra.com\/~jkenyon\/assad.html\">Sergio Assad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fri:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/columbia-physics.net\/faculty\/greene_main.htm\">Brian Greene<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/obama.senate.gov\/\">Barak Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000149\/\">Jodie Foster<\/a><br \/><strong>  Musical guest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/either-orchestra.org\/\">Either\/Orchestra<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I could go on forever. Didn&#8217;t even get a chance to invite <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/economics\/laureates\/1998\/sen-autobio.html\">Amartya Sen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodernword.com\/eco\/\">Umberto Eco<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nigella.com\/\">Nigella Lawson<\/a>. Admit it, this show would rock. We would be crushing Jay Leno like a little bug. Mike Ovitz, call me!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update<\/span>:  Now with links.  Because you&#8217;re too lazy to google for yourself, you know you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9. This talk-show idea is too much fun. I spent the drive to campus thinking about who to invite on the show. Here are my choices for the first couple of weeks: Mon:Steven Weinberg, Jeanette Winterson, Angelina JolieMusical guest: Medeski, Martin and Wood Tue: Larry Summers, Lisa Randall, Cornel WestMusical guest: Robert Randolph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}