[joe-frank-list] Newly-discovered show, 'White Elephants'

[Erik Cameron]

Isn't that pretty much what he was charging when he was alive?

(I do hope that his passing will open up a conversation about making his
work more broadly available.)

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:01 PM Danny <goarmy7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love Joe Frank.  But the "newly discovered" and "brand new show" sold at
> $4.50 per download sounds like his estate is really trying to commercialize
> his work.
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 5:28 AM <russellbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>         joefrank.com has published a newly-discovered show, 'White
>> Elephants', from 1980.
>>
>>         Quoth https://www.joefrank.com/shop/white-elephants/ :
>>
>>         'Newly discovered in 2020: Brand new show!  The first eight
>> minutes is the original first draft of the opening of "A Landing Strip
>> in the Jungle" where Joe describes his experience in Sri Lanka with
>> Ali, his tour guide.  The rest is not in any other program: Beggars
>> and their tactics.  Disparate stories of people Joe meets: a beggar
>> originally from Denmark who complains about how Dutch are treated in
>> Sri Lanka, a teacher of Marxism who becomes a guru's disciple.  The
>> "Tooth Festival" named after the Temple of the Tooth in which a chest
>> held one of Buddha's teeth.'
>>
>> russell bell
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