This guy was a serious fan who had been at our opening night show in Baltimore and sympathetically complained about an uncooperative MOFO kid and a balcony heckler. We have the most polite fans imaginable. I've ever been to, James drove Penn and me to Millennium Inorganic Chemicals to meet up with Mark Banash . She has shown up so often at shows, and been so sweet and hospitable that we now recognize and greet her by name. When she heard we would be in Baltimore, she wrote to Krasher and invited us for a tour of the science lab attached to a company that makes chemicals used in paints.
Millennium is a serious research facility.
Mark had prepared a good show for us. For an hour or so, he showed us around the airy, spacious lab building, and taught us about the science of making paint. Millennium's chief product is titanium dioxide, the material that gives opacity to paints and whiteness to paper. The mixing of paint, which used to be blind experimentation and alchemy, is now serious science, involving billions of tons of materials a year. He showed us three.