Summary: Due to lack of sleep and poor sound quality on a recording for the Avant Garde edition of Former People I am rerunning an episode of a now defunct podcast I created with my son Benjamin. This is episode three and we discussed Edouard Manet's "The Rue Mosnier with Flags," Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's renovation and modernization of Paris in the mid 19th century, and the notion of a dérive. In the weeks to come on Diet Soap I will be running a conversation with Jason Horsley, David Blacker, Andy Marshall and I hope to talk to Pat Cadigan. I also hope to create podcasts that will track my progress with my book, "How to Watch Star Trek" which I need to write and submit to Zero Books. According to wikipedia: "The Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags depicts red, white, and blue pennants covering buildings on either side of the street; another painting of the same title features a one-legged man walking with crutches. Benjamin and I discuss this second painting in this episode.
