I went to dinner last night with some folks from the Ghost in the Machine panel and some of my favorite south-by pals. Kevin Smokler convince a bunch of loons into doing the Hokey Pokey in the median of South Congress. I, being a rational human being aware of his own mortality, did not. But, that didn’t stop me from filming it:\
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You know when you see video of horrible things and you think, “Why on earth didn’t that guy put down the video camera and rescue those poor people?” This is one of those.