I think it's "correspondents" dinner, yes?

Wow. I just want a break here. I'm manually pausing this just before you go to the dinner so I can think about all the things that were said. You guys bounced around a lot of topics, but theyr'e all connected and the design nerd in me wants to do something like a theory map with links and diagrams of all this (but I'm super-ignorant on the subject matter itself).

An audio diary from Amanda with Laurie Penny while in Washington, DC during the 2019 White House Correspondence dinner. more pictures, links, and info are HERE!: https://www.patreon.com/posts/27191431

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1:45 - AFP at the airport after landing in Washington DC! 
2:30 - AFP in a cab on the way to the hotel!
4:30 - Laurie and Amanda meet up. Laurie recounts being at the Trump inauguration and getting one of her “death metal periods”....
6:45 Amanda recalls being present for President Obama’s inauguration with dresden dolls....
7:45 - AFP and Laurie getting ready for the “Not The White House Correspondents Dinner”
8:25 - Laurie talks about who she is and what she does....
11:00 - In the cab on the way to Samantha Bee’s “Not The White House Correspondents Dinner” Laurie talks about UK vs. US and being a journalist.... 
15:00 - In the cab after the dinner, Laurie and AFP reflect on the “work party” vibe ...
17:00 - Sam Bee’s event was star-studded group therapy with people like Sigourney Weaver ....
18:10 - AFP + Laurie answer questions from Patrons and get distracted....
19:00 - “the racist did racism that was racist”!
20:15 - Amanda invents a new word, “solidarify”.
20:30 - Laurie speaks about free press being under fire ...
25:20 - Laurie references Jay Rosen on “the availability fallacy”.... 
26:30 - AFP on being labeled “extreme”. 
30:15 - Laurie: “people are quicker to assume inauthenticity in women”....
34:00 - AFP discusses the Rumi quote about “the three gates”....
40:30 - Laurie speaks about “holding the line” to fight against misinformation and fake news.... 
45:00 - AFP discusses how we as mammals are motivated either by threat or opportunity
46:30 - Laurie discusses “Everything is Possible, Nothing is True” about Putin’s Russia 
56:00 - AFP + Laurie head to the Official WHCD aka “Nerd Prom”.... 
57:00 - AFP recalls the speech by Ron Chernow... 
58:30 - Excerpt from Ron Chernow’s speech.... 
59:30 - AFP wakes Laurie up the next morning to talk life, politics, and feminism... 
1:00:00 - “The breast pump and the circumstance”... 
1:02:30 - Nationalism in US vs. UK...
1:11:30 - “Go back to bed, Laurie”!!!
1:12:00 - AFP lands in Albany, NY and reflects on the weekend and where we go from here



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Amanda Palmer and Laurie Penny in DC: A Legitimate Adventure

Entry for Amanda Palmer's Sunday Songwriting Contest regarding the blackout in NYC this past weekend.

“Power Restored”
Music and Lyrics by Carissa Johnson

Saturday night, the midsummer lights should be blindingly bright
Traffic signs below a west side glow
Crowded lines above a timeworn road of hope

Mechanical failure now the power's been drowned
And the marquees are saying that the show can’t go on
Stores emptied out, dizzying sounds of

Civilians and millions of dreams
Strong despite the siren screams
Broadway’s still brilliant ‘cause we are resilient
Darkness can’t stop our hearts from gleaming

“Fend for yourself” they said
The blackout is stretching from
72nd street to west and beyond
You better carry the light
Because it comes from inside
You know it’s only been hiding
Here’s it’s chance to shine

Here in the middle of the city of dreams
Strong despite the dimming, so eerie
Subway cars and elevators stopped
In a swath at the center of the world

“This is not the time” they said
The blackout is stretching from
72nd street to west and beyond
You better carry the light
Because it comes from inside
You know it’s only been hiding
Here’s it’s chance to shine

Saturday night, the midsummer lights are still blindingly bright
If you close your eyes you’ll hear the cheers ring out
Dizzying sounds along the timeworn road of hope

“No light for miles” they said
The blackout is stretching from
72nd street to west and beyond
You better carry the light
Because it comes from inside
You know it’s only been hiding
Here’s it’s chance to shine

Oh can’t you see it so clearly now
The light from inside out
Power restored because darling,
You held the power all along x2
Power restored because darling,
We held the power all along x2

Power Restored

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