Coming soon... Episode #3 "Who Are You This Time?"

Yes, those three little words are an earworm

As soon as I saw this as a potential theme for our third episode, I immediately thought of the sweet short story "Who Am I This Time?" from Kurt Vonnegut's collection Welcome to the Monkey House (an all-time favorite of mine). It’s a story about an otherwise non-descript man who fully inhabits characters on stage and the woman who falls in love with him for it. (It isn’t in the public domain, but a quick online search would find you a scanned copy.)

So, that got me thinking a lot about identity this past week, and about the masks we slip into and out of. I’ve also through that thinking grown leery of the idea that the masks or fragments of our identity we share are somehow not genuine. I’ve been coming closer to the idea that our “true” identity may not be a secret core but rather the dressing room full of all the masks and props and costumes we present throughout our life.

But just because I gazed down my navel so hard I fell in, don’t worry about the Dilletante DJs. I’ve got their lists in my hot little hands, and in just three days, we’ll convene and debrief and share them all with you.

See you Thursday afternoon. Bring your headphones.