Monday 05/05/2025
In the morning I had to do the AV for the First Monday Book Talk. The speaker was Albert Camarillo, a professor emiritus of history at Stanford. He talked about his book, Compton in My Soul about growing up Latino in LA in the 60s. Prof Camarillo was a pain for me trying to get a video recording. He gave an energetic and enthusiastic talk but he wouldn’t stay put. His computer was on the podium stage right, but he seemed to want to speak from the corner stage left. Every time he wanted to go to the next slide he would walk across the stage to the podium, talk from there for a minute, then cross back to the other side. Hell for a camera man. Aimed one camera at the podium and one at stage left, and then I just cut between them. Didn’t try to pan to follow him as he zoomed across the stage.
Then down to FOPAL to set up my section for the sale next weekend. Only one box of donations, so that took less than an hour.
At 4 was the monthly meeting of Poetry Out Loud, where a group organized and chaired by Joanne meet to each read one poem out loud. I had picked Ellen Bass’s poem, “Gate C22”. It is fun to read.
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