11:30 AM – Bob Schieffer & Helen Thomas, with Kathi Goertzen: “Past, Present and Future: A Conversation”
Sheraton Hotel, $45-75
If you’ve got the dosh, why not see two giants of journalism receive the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award and talk about their work, while eating an overpriced “luncheon”. They have over a century of media experience between the two of them, I do believe. Kathy Goertzen will be on hand to moderate the conversation, i.e. squee like a crazy fangirl. Don’t expect much from the food.
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7:30 PM - Alva Noe: Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs, $5
Rather than “I think, therefore I am,” Noë prefers “I am, therefore I think.” How profound.
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7:30 PM – Phillis Levin: May Day
Elliott Bay Book Co.

I’ve decided to waste my life again,
Like I used to: get drunk
On the light in the leaves, find a wall
Against which something can happen

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8:00 PM – NorthEndForum: Poetry Reading
Bai Pai Lounge
Open mike poetry and music, and all night happy hour prices on drinks. Because writers drink. A lot. Also, they tend to be strapped for cash. Frankly, this is kinda brilliant.
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