Heather Gold, who was one of my favorite guests on The RU Sirius Show will be interviewing Larry Lessig among others live in San Francisco on Friday night. Lessig, of course, started the Creative Commons and then recently moved on to become an activist against political corruption.

Lessig’s book Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity convinced me that excesses in copyright law pose the biggest threat to free speech in America today. In fact, were I to list the threats in order, they would be:

Excessive Copyright
Hypersensitivity (the Umbrage industry)
The State

Here’s Heather’s release for the show this Friday:

Friday, November 9: Earnestness: The current importance of being earnest. How
can we create believability in our corrupt and chronically insincere politics? What
exists outside the quotation marks? Can you can comedy without cynicism?

Heather conversates with Larry Lessig (founder of Creative Commons, Stanford Law
Professor and now a political corruption revolutionary), Curtis Reliford (named
American Red Cross’ American Good Samaritan for his post-Katrina work), comedian and
anti-death penalty advocate Aundré the Wonderwoman and you.

Show: 8:00–9:30 pm. Doors open 7:30
After-Party: 9:30 - 11:00 pm.
Luscious Garage (map)
459 Clementina St, San Francisco
tix: www.heathergold.com
$15.I’ve promised that if the show sells out ahead of time i will earnestly sing a
Carpenters song on stage.

We have quite a few bakers this month (cupcakes,sour cream cake, pumpkin cake,
cookies) but if you still need the show to be free email me and we’ll figure
something out.

We’ll also be experimenting with ustream for the first time. There should be a
live stream of the show at www.heathergold.com if your in the Bay Area though, I
really encourage you to come. The live experience at this “open source”-ish show is
awesome.