Time here, id like to say that this is the arena portion of our evening, which is to say we have a great event for you tonight. We regularly have awesome events but were very excited for this one, the book launch of the happeniness industry with William Davies and simon critchley. If you do have a question, raise your hand and you can talk to the motorcycle microphone. If you havent noticed, we have cameras. Come over, ask questions and well get the ball rolling. I want to briefly substance introduce our author. William davies, political quarterly and hes an associate editor at renewal and open dem academy democracy. A few words about our moderator simon critchley. He asked me not to read it but to make some white remark which i hopefully just did. Please put your hands together for william and simon. [applause] thank you very much, and welcome. I hate people that do this when they begin. Im very proud im very proud to be here, and this is a fantastic book and you should buy it and rea
I was usually about five minutes late for our meetings at the residents in the afternoon so he normally expected me to be late. And i was five minutes early this one time in particular. I was walking up the stairs and i heard the Television Going and i her laughter coming from the television and realized he was watching something that went to amuse. He had his shoes off, and feet up on the ottoman and he had the Remote Control in his hand, laughing, and enjoying the show so much. I wanted him to have a few extra minutes where he didnt have to be on and the serious Richard Nixon he had to be most of the time. I cleared my voice, and cleared the top of the stairs and he looked horrified at watching television and he tried to shut it off with the remote crow and jam his feet into the his shoes and he dropped the Remote Control. He was red faced and said you caught me watching the tube. He said i dont do it often. But sometimes i like to see what is out there. Host when was the last time y