Speak Out! 
Quarter to Three
My Conversation with Laurie Anderson
Outtakes of my phone conversation with Laurie Anderson, August 7, 2008:
Sparrow: So now is a good time to talk? Anderson: It is a good time. I'm just out on a walk. Sparrow: You're in the Hamptons, I hear. Anderson: We are! It's great. It's really fun. Sparrow: So you swim? You've been swimming? Anderson: We're on our way to the beach right now. I'm lagging behind, so that I can talk to you. Sparrow: Oh, thanks! Anderson: Yeah, we're slowly ambling down the sidewalk -- several people and a dog. Sparrow: It's not too late to swim? It's still warm enough? Anderson: It's pretty warm. It looks like it's about to storm. So if you never hear from us again, we got lost in the storm. Sparrow: [Laughs.] I'll get the exclusive! Anderson: You will! Sparrow: This could make my reputation. Anderson: This could do it! This could be the break you've always been waiting for! [Later, on the subject of Homeland Security.] Sparrow: You travel a lot, so you really deal with this Homeland Security apparatus. Anderson: All the time. Every other day. Sparrow: My worst experience was, one time I was racing for a plane in San Francisco. I get to the airport, the bell goes off, they look in my bag, they find a tube of toothpaste, and they just drop it in the garbage can. And I'm a natural foods person, so my toothpaste costs four dollars! Anderson: Awwww! Sparrow: They can't give you a break; you can't put the tube in your other luggage. It's just like: "You're out! That's gone!" Anderson: "You're out! Your name's on the list!" Sparrow: [Laughs.] "... as a fucking toothpaste terrorist!" Anderson: Yeah. A toothpaste terrorist. Sparrow: Which is the lowest form of terrorist. [And the very ending:] Sparrow: I saw Bob Hope once, in Gainesville, Florida in 1976. Anderson: All right! Sparrow: At the Gator Growl, the pep rally. He would begin a song, then he'd stop himself and tell one of the dumb jokes his writers handed him. He was great. Anderson: I wish I had writers.
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