Saturday, November 07, 2009

Seeing Al Gore

Al Gore has a new book out, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. I went to a book signing in Harvard Square.

I saw him this week on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and thought he was a little stiff.

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More candidate Gore than Oscar-winner Gore. He didn't do a book reading but rather gave a talk that was over an hour long. It was a little dry at times but then he'd add a joke and it was closer to Oscar-winner Gore (without the visual aids) than he was on The Daily Show. He said unlike An Inconvenient Truth, the new book is 99% solution rather than description of the problem, though 50 pages into it I'm not seeing that (it's about 400 pages long). The talk was similar but by the end of it, yeah you want to do something. That can only be a good thing.

As I left I saw a Ford Hybrid (non-stretch) Limo waiting which had to be his.
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