Why the lucky stiff dazzled the audience with his performance art piece entitled, A Starry Afternoon, a Sinking Symphony, and the Polo Champ Who Gave It All Up for No Reason Whatsoever. My mind was blown and my gut busted. O’Reilly should hold a Monday Night Extravaganza at next year’s OSCON and give the entire night to Why (and his band, The Thirsty Cups). My (very limited) notes are below. This was an incredible experience including about four different movies (two with shadow puppets — yay!) and two live performances by Why and the Thirsty Cups. First Why extolled the virtues of the future — such as the octagonal paper they were using (as seen on Battlestar Gallactica) — this octagonal paper has literally changed their lifes (when asked where one could purchase such fancy paper, Why simply replied, “The future”). After a storytelling session (movie with shadow puppets) and possibly a musical performance (sorry, so much happened my mind is a blur — I was too busy trying to capture it all on film to take accurate notes), Why noted the dearth of programming resources for children — claiming that the only books he could find at Amazon dated from the mid-80’s (over 20 years ago); unless he was doing the wrong search — when asked what “kids” are called now-a-days an audience member replied “gangsters” (or was that “gangstas”, it was difficult to tell) — a search for “gangster programming” turned up a single book on Amazon. After that it all become a blur with more movies and another musical performance. Snapshots from the (pre)-show at FOSCON are here: http://www.onestepback.org/articles/depinj/index.html Once I get access to a proper USB cable, I’ll post my photos to Flickr as well. Also, Why said that he would post torrents of the movies at his site: http://redhanded.hobix.com/ What I want to know is when we can purchase Why and the Thirsty Cups on iTunes …