three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects

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well it's been quite a while since i posted my last podcast, which I guess makes me sound as if I'm going to confession or something.

But, well, besides the fact that I'm now an octogenarian, I'm also recovering from my second bout of COVID this year.

And while the worst is passed, well, my energy level hasn't returned to where it was a few

weeks ago. I actually began working on this podcast over a month ago, so I guess I better quit

procrastinating and get on with it. Today's podcast features the first of a series of Palenque

Norte lectures that I planned to podcast over the next few months.

For those who are new to the salon, the Plenke Norte lectures have been held at the Burning Man

Festival every year since 2003. Of course, there was no burn in 2020 and 2021, so this year's

talks were the first since the pandemic began.

Now, my wife and I launched this series of talks at the 2003 festival, in spite of being told

that nobody was going to attend a lecture during the afternoon at Burning Man.

But we gave it a try because we wanted to keep alive the spirit of the Palenque and Theobotany

conferences in Mexico that came to an end in 2001.

Now, some of us alumni of those conferences talked about restarting them, but, well, we never

were able to pull it off.

So I thought, well, why not give it a try at Burning Man? The last year that my wife and I

were able to attend to burn was in 2007. However, with no help from me, the Plankan

Norte lectures are still going on. And there have been a lot of people who have kept this lecture

series alive. In particular, the series owes a great deal to Camp Soft Landing

for the support and infrastructure that they provide for these talks each year.

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