I’m racing around getting ready to drive to MIT where I hope to live-blog Frank’s latest adventure–he’s appearing on Penn and Teller as one of their experts to talk about ghosts!
Penn and Teller, if you don’t know, started out as magicians with hugely successful and very funny stage show. They now have a TV show on Showtime called, er, “Tishllub.” (I’m assuming the censors of Google can’t spell that backward, but I’m sure you can.) Each episode pokes fun at some popular fakery–like UFO abductions or talking to the dead–showing the audience how its “results” can be fudged.
It’s a pretty amusing show, spiked with pretty surprising language. As Teller (I think it was Teller) explained, “We could get sued if we call somebody a liar, but our lawyers say calling them &#@@!! or **&^%$??!! is fine.” (Do their lawyers know about Michael Powell?)
Anyway, Frank won’t have to swear–at least, none of the experts on other shows did–and he has some pretty cool physics demos set up. This particular show will be about ghosts, a topic on which I do have more to say, but in another blogpost.
By the way, many thanks to ”
The Tatler” for liking Frank’s talk last night and saying my blog is “interesting”! (Also, thanks to Technorati for letting me notice this blogpost.)