High point of today was gettign to watch an early morning show at the flynn from buddy Paul Z. Paul had a long running and wonderful science show on TV called Beekman’s World.. and he was the ringmaster at bread and puppet forever.. I met him when I attended a puppetry workshop he gave 3 or four years ago.. For the past year , Paul has been working on this new stage show called’ Beekman on the brain’.. I’ve met with Paul about 4 times since he began writing the show.. twice here .. once in LA and once in Pittsburgh with friends Larry and Leah e met here .. It’s been so cool to watch the thing take shape. I began by offering to help Paul build a bunch of high tech props.. in the end he opted for low-tech puppets, optical illusions, eggs, ventriloquism, optical illusions.. dancing bird videos and Paul’s special brand of  zaniness  to tell the story …. and it worked superbly. The jokes were great. the effects were great.. … I particularly loved his use of toy theater to tell some of the stories.. The theater was packed with kids for two shows today.. about 1400 kids at each show.. And Paul kept every one of them laughing..   I felt good because IBM  had sponsored  both shows..   these kids got something really special.. today.. Paul did a very cool collection of word illusions.. including this one at the end of the show The previous slide was… move the bar and you see.. Now.. how cool is that. ?!?! I was really proud of paul.. and I know he was psyched… OK., it’s late.. gotta go.. nite all, nite sam -me