The shows were an hour and a half long at that time and as we'd been 
doing them almost every other day for weeks so it wasn't hard to whip 
one up on the spot. Plug In's director, Doug Sigurdson, and Suzanne 
Gillies were very helpful and the audience was receptive and got 
involved in the show. It was a pleasant reunion to the town where I'd 
been born but hadn't been back to since. 

The other show we did in Winnipeg was at the WAG.33  Hank and I sat 
there in the middle of a large lit stage in front of an enormous theatre 
containing four gallery staff and a few friends and did the show 
directly to radio station CFUN via a ribbon microphone. A ribbon 
microphone uses a metal ribbon between two magnets and reacts to the 
velocity part of a sound wave, rather than the pressure vector which 
normal diaphragm type mikes react to. The result is such that one can 
be, and should be, quite far away from a ribbon microphone when 
speaking, allowing much more freedom of movement. We used one 
another time to good effect, at KORA in Portland, Oregon where Jack 
Eyerly and his manifesto writing friends, the Preliminists, joined us in 
an HP Show.34  We've been trying to get a ribbon microphone ever since.