The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 33, August 15, 2004, Article 24

FEATURED WEB PAGE

  This week's featured web page is the June 10, 1999 online
  journal of Ira Glass, host of Public Radio International's "This
  American Life", where he describes an evening with money
  artist J.S.G. Boggs:

  "At the beginning of our presentation at the Art Institute,
  Boggs produced a copy of the Chicago yellow pages. He
  asked the audience for the name of a local pizza place. On
  his cell phone he called and ordered some pizzas. When
  they arrived at the theater, he asked the delivery guy up
  onstage, and tried to pay for the food with a drawing of a
  $50 bill. It was, frankly, a little uncomfortable. The guy
  delivering the pizzas suddenly found himself standing on a
  stage, lots of people watching, being asked to make a
  decision: Did he want Boggs to give him $50 in real cash
  -- or did he want the drawing instead? He broke out in a
  sweat. All the poor guy knew is that if he didn't show up
  back at work with real American currency to cover those
  pizzas he took out, he'd be in trouble.  He turned down
  the deal. It was hard not to jump in and just tell him: "You
  can make a thousand dollars here!  Take the drawing!"

  Featured Web Page

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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