Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Apr 13, 2010 13:13:38 GMT -5
Who Buried Paul? was first presented at the San Jose Convention Center on St. Patrick's Day 1999, as a featured lecture of the Game Developers Conference.
The lecture was repeated by invitation a few weeks later at the corporate campus of Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
I have attempted to provide a fully illustrated transcript below, with key audio content presented as .mp3 clips. Please allow time for all of the images to load into your browser. The transcript corrects a couple of factual errors (mostly dates) that slipped into the original lecture.
Prologue
How many people here are under the age of 35?
I was twelve years old when the events I am about to describe to you took place.
I'll be rattling off dates and places, and naming names.
In a few minutes, you'll see and hear everything you need to become a minor expert on this strange little episode in the history of mass communication.
But there is something else I want to communicate as well.
Something you can only learn from an eyewitness.
I want you to know what it felt like to be almost a teenager in late October of 1969.
I want you to know how it felt to be talking about this on the school bus, and in the cafeteria of my junior high.
Huddling with friends at night around our record players, poring over our album covers, wondering.
Staying up late with our parents to see what they would say on the 11 o'clock news.
One of our heroes was missing.
Some people were saying he was dead.
The world's most beloved band, ambassadors of truth and love in an age of endless war and assassinations, had been caught in a monstrous lie.
And their records, so full of joy and playfulness, had become the ever-present messengers of a creepy conspiracy.
It was Halloween, and we were really scared.
You may be wondering why anyone would make such a fuss over a bass player in a rock band.
Those of you who did not raise your hands a minute ago probably know the reason already.
For the rest of you, it isn't easy to explain.
You see, this wasn't just any bass player.
And this was no ordinary band.
Much more at the link:
ludix.com/moriarty/paul.html
The lecture was repeated by invitation a few weeks later at the corporate campus of Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.
I have attempted to provide a fully illustrated transcript below, with key audio content presented as .mp3 clips. Please allow time for all of the images to load into your browser. The transcript corrects a couple of factual errors (mostly dates) that slipped into the original lecture.
Prologue
How many people here are under the age of 35?
I was twelve years old when the events I am about to describe to you took place.
I'll be rattling off dates and places, and naming names.
In a few minutes, you'll see and hear everything you need to become a minor expert on this strange little episode in the history of mass communication.
But there is something else I want to communicate as well.
Something you can only learn from an eyewitness.
I want you to know what it felt like to be almost a teenager in late October of 1969.
I want you to know how it felt to be talking about this on the school bus, and in the cafeteria of my junior high.
Huddling with friends at night around our record players, poring over our album covers, wondering.
Staying up late with our parents to see what they would say on the 11 o'clock news.
One of our heroes was missing.
Some people were saying he was dead.
The world's most beloved band, ambassadors of truth and love in an age of endless war and assassinations, had been caught in a monstrous lie.
And their records, so full of joy and playfulness, had become the ever-present messengers of a creepy conspiracy.
It was Halloween, and we were really scared.
You may be wondering why anyone would make such a fuss over a bass player in a rock band.
Those of you who did not raise your hands a minute ago probably know the reason already.
For the rest of you, it isn't easy to explain.
You see, this wasn't just any bass player.
And this was no ordinary band.
Much more at the link:
ludix.com/moriarty/paul.html
