On Demand
Survival Kit
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Al Franken
Al Franken strikes me as something of a split personality; there is the incisive political satirist, author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiotand Other Observations and Why Not Me: The Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, writer and performer on 15 seasons of Saturday night Live, star of the sitcom Lateline, commentator for Comedy Central’selection coverage and guest on Politically Incorrect. But there is also the softer, touchy-feely side: his alter-ego Stuart Smalley, unlicensed therapist, author of I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough and Doggone It, People Like Me and, of course, Dr. Al Franken and his book Oh, The Things I Know! : A Guide to Success, or Failing That, Happiness. Let’s see if he’s packed politics or advice in his Survival Kit.
2. Guitar w/ songbooks (Grateful Dead, Beatles, James Taylor)
3. Cellphone
4. Pictures of my family
5. Grateful Dead American Beauty (Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Box of Rain)
6. Biographies and Books about History (Bright Shining Lie by Neal Sheehan and LBJ books by Caro)
7. My Pillow
8. Halle Berry
