Connections
Larry Lessig pointed today to a New York Times article about “the creativity possible when control is relaxed”. I didn’t find that aspect of it nearly as interesting as the random connections to my life I unexpectedly found in the piece. One of the puppeteers mentioned (and pictured), John Tartaglia, was in some of my middle school and high school classes. He didn’t come to our five-year reunion so I haven’t seen him in a very long time. I’m glad to hear he’s doing well. And the article’s author, Jake Tapper, was the press secretary for a Congressional campaign I worked on in high school. He’s since gone on to write for Salon and briefly date Monica Lewinsky after her, uh, encounter with Bill Clinton. While I’m not surprised to see him writing for the New York Times, it’s quite odd to see him writing articles on theater. I wonder if he’s had his fill of politics and decided to move on to other things.