Brainstorm 2

Other random ideas:

 

• tape meetings and post highlights on youtube. This will provide free publicity as these could be pretty funny/interesting.
• invite famous art bloggers who live in New York (Winkleman, Paddy Johnson) or bloggers of more political persuasions. These people love to talk, so why not in real life? Also, we could steer away from the shit they talk about every day (who reads that? dorks) and ask idiotic questions that perhaps are more interesting.
• invite atendees to brainstorm new debate topics and submit them at the end of the meeting. Then we choose the best one for the next week ad infinitum.
• 2 topics per night. One of a serious nature, one of a less serious nature. (45mins-break-30mins of silly argument) I have no idea what those times should actually be.

How much time do people want to spend arguing? If there is no formal structure then how do we decide when its over? Does one of us become a master moderator like Big Tim in the Sky that coaxes the argument to a satisfying conclusion? Or do we say “okay shut up go home.”

So I have a couple questions regarding structure, but those are purely academic compared to the task we have of coming up with some topics. I think we can use this blog to write down a ton of these whenever they come to us, and then edit them down gradually until we find something we like. Once we have some cool (interesting, fleshy) topics (3 or 4), it makes sense to begin actually planning the first event.

also

how we gonna find people with different views than us? Or at least with views different enough to make things sexy?