Aug 3, 1999 21:13 from Artemis
hey kids - if you're in the chicago area, here's the dates & times for Sister
Spit. Can't make it to Iowa City - so cloase, and yet so far. I'm gonna try to
come out there & do No Shame & Prairie Lights & mayb ethe tattoo place in th
efall or the spring when school's in. Here it is:
 
Friday August 6
8 pm
Thurston's
1248 W George
773-472-6900
 
Sat Aug 7
7:30 pm
Hothouse
31 E. Balbo
312-362-9707
 
All-girl open mike
Sun August 8
7 pm
Mad1640
er, 1640 N. Damen
773-227-2277
 
Hope to see somebody.
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Aug 6, 1999 13:25 from Amaranth
The statistics about France reminded me of the old riddle: Why are the streets
of Paris lined with trees?
So the Germans can march in the shade.
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Aug 6, 1999 13:26 from Amaranth
Due to a string of minor calamities, I have not been opursuing the job search
as hard as I could. So I am stil in IC/Coralvile. The good news is, I have this
really great idea for a NS skit. . .
 
Mike Cassady -- I think you'd be perfect for one part. I need three men for
it. I have two ideas that would also include women, but I hope not to be around
m,uch longer.
 
Like I haven't said that before?
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Aug 7, 1999 10:40 from Avenue Player
on the subject of people who say they're going to leave No Shame and actually
DO:
 
mose hayward is doing well.  he's in Chile, doing Chilean things such as not
showing up to class very often.  he is somewhat frustrated, as he has found
that Chileans speak a version of spanish that is, in his words, "muy fucked
up."  he went to the store wanting to buy a grapadora, but the people at the
store had no idea what that was, and when they finally got it all figured out
and guided him toward a grapadora that they called something else entirely, it
said "grapadora" on the box.
 
muy fucked up indeed.
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Aug 7, 1999 11:54 from Ender
 
Oh yeah?  well he should try to buy tampons in France.  I mean, I'm not exactly
sure why he would, but they would direct him to rubber stamps.
 
What's a grapadora, anyway?
 
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Aug 7, 1999 16:13 from Evil Chick
a stapler?
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Aug 7, 1999 18:41 from Prufrock
For those who've not heard yet-
James Erwin for City Council
Organizational meeting- Monday, August 16th
IC Public Library, Meeting Room A 6:30 pm
Show up in numbers. Show up in droves. I'm running against Dean Thornberry.
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Aug 9, 1999 02:36 from Thufir
Dude.  You're doomed.  That having been said, I wish I lived in Iowa City so I
could vote for your ass.
 
But you're doomed.
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Aug 9, 1999 08:49 from Whitewolf
 
Rubber stamps? How do you get the glue to stick? Do you use them when mailing
checks that you know are going to bounce?
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Aug 9, 1999 11:01 from Dan
I, for one, will most likely be airborne somewhere over Illinois when that
James Erwin for City Council meeting occurs. (It'll also be my birthday, but
no one cares about that.) Anyway, consider my support heartily lended. (And I'm
a registered JoCo voter, no less.)
Parentheticals, parentheticals.
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Aug 9, 1999 15:27 from John Glenn
Is it illegal or just unethical to pretend I still live in Iowa City, rather
than Coralville so that I, too, can vote James Erwin for City Council.  Can't
I change my voter registration after election day?
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Aug 9, 1999 15:59 from Dan
James would know better than me, but I personally don't see anything wrong with
that sort of small-scale self-gerrymandering. Go for it, says I.
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Aug 9, 1999 16:18 from Carolyn
There's always been a bit of a political edge to NS, with people occasionally
doing a "Please vote" piece, or passing out voter registration cards during the
show, or making fun of the Kennedy family, etc.  But perhaps James' campaign is
the beginning of a whole new era of NS politics.  James, can you say something
about your platform?  Is there any truth to the rumors that a NS party is being
formed in Johnson County?  And what about the unavoidable concerns that your
campaign is secretly being funded by NS??????
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Aug 9, 1999 20:01 from Prufrock
1) I am not frickin doomed.
2) Thank you, Dan, and I care heartily about your birthday.
3) As a City Council candidate, I of course abhor the idea of voter
registration fraud. In any case where someone lies on their voter registration
and tells me about it, I would have to suggest strongly that they not falsify
their voter registration. That having been said, no one has flatly told me that
they have lied on their voter registration to support me, and I expect that no
one _will_ tell me that they have falsified their voter registration. Which is
all to the good as far as I'm concerned.
4) My platform will be up at the website in my profile in a couple of days.
5) I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a NS party.
6) If No Shame could secretly fund a large pizza, I'd reel with shock.
 
Um- so. We all excited about the first show? Yeah! Woo! On topic!
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Aug 10, 1999 04:26 from Thufir
I'm psyched about the first show, James "Doomed" Erwin.
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Aug 11, 1999 15:11 from Amaranth
IF you need media help, let me know, James.
 
And I will leave Iowa City> I have to -- the woman I am dating is beginning to
sound serious.
 
Yes, that's sexist. But me in a marriage (based on some experimentation in
domestic interactionss) is not a good thing. You guys thought I acted like an
asshole when single. . .
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Aug 13, 1999 18:29 from Subotai
Rothschild here---excited about the 1st No Shame as well...I've written some
more personal material (gasp! choke!) that Iwill be doing, but I want to start
off with a bang. And it has to be something that rips on Blair Witch Project,
because I hated that movie hardcore. So beware, BWP fans.
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Aug 13, 1999 22:26 from Skweetis
attention ladies and gentlemen and theater types...
 
JAMES HORAK, that would be me, is having a little shindig in honor of his 20th
birthday!  when is this marvelous occasion going to occur, you ask?  why,
tomorrow night, saturday, august 14th.  why the hell should I come, you ask?
because there will be free booze, I reply.  WHERE! WHERE!  FREE BOOZE!  WHERE!
you ask?  929 iowa ave apt 24.  why weren't we told about this sooner, you
query?  because i'm a lazy ass and didn't get my computer hooked up in my new
apartment until tonight, so GET OFF MY BACK.
 
anyway, if you are one of the wonderful people that i know, and you would like
to watch me get plastered on my birthday, come on out.  and tell everyone else
i know, too.  or just anyone.  but no homeless people.  or migrant workers.
anyone else can come, though.  hope to see people there...
here...
whatever...
 
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Aug 18, 1999 10:33 from Stubble
im so sorry i strayed from you iowa city, but im coming back today
oh thank god almighty im coming home
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Aug 21, 1999 16:30 from Crotch Monkey
i am returned!!! i, mike cassady, who is not running for city coucil, who is
not turning 20, and who is not humiliatd by the obscene amouint of time it took
him to figure out how the f**k to post a message on this god-forsaken hypertext
death-trap.  ahhh.....eyescabs (iscabs), how i havent missed your pointless yet
frustrating ins and outs......i too...james "bound for unavoidable success"
erwin, am pumped fpor september 3rd.....and also for this cheese sandwich im
going to eat right now.
ive got to go...my grandmothers on fire.
insincerely,
mike "full of shit and loving it" cassady
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Aug 21, 1999 16:35 from Fanky Maloon
Mike:
I, too, am pumped for the cheese sandwich that you are bout to eat.
 
-Greg
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Aug 22, 1999 12:33 from Dan
So, just to head off the inevitable (and those of you amateur English gumshoes
out there will quickly write down in your Amateur English Gumshoe notepads,
"you can't head off the inevitable," and fuck you for doing so) barrage of
questions, the very first No Shame Theatre of the semester will be on:
Friday, September Third. 9/3/99. The Thirde of Septembrre, when I departted
from Canterburre.
And yes, it is the Friday of Labor Day weekend, and yes, it probably will be a
smaller, more unionized crowd. But what can you do?
Incidentally, all of our research and projections indicate that it will be the
best No Shame Theatre ever.
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Aug 23, 1999 10:09 from Carolyn
I wrote a NS piece in a dream last night.  It was a version of "You say tomato
and I say To-mah-to," in which all the vowels were changed to "ooo".  In the
dream, I had a conviction of pure genius which I'm having trouble recreating
now that I'm awake.
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Aug 23, 1999 13:42 from Crotch Monkey
carolyn...i wish that i could get some of my dreams up on the no shame
stage...some would make for what you might call "sweet-ass" sketches...of
course....many of them would be lameno shame sketches (much like some of myno
shame sketches)  im having problems with my space bar....and my train of
thought.....i think ill just end this now...
ciao ciao.......
cassady
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Aug 25, 1999 15:33 from Dan
So was it all the vowels, as in "toomootoo" and "toomootoo?" Because that's
pretty cool, but I think it would be even cooler (which is to say, probably
much worse) if it were "Yoo soo toomootoo, Oo soo toomootoo."
Now, to apply this to Ploema Banana -- that would be genius.
Oo woos boosproosed...
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Aug 25, 1999 16:39 from Carolyn
Oh Dan, it *was* "Yoo soo toomootoo, Oo soo toomootoo."  It still wasn't all
that funny in the morning, though.
 
I'm both surprised and concerned that you remember the working of Ploema Banana
so clearly.  It was . . . what shall I say . . . not what I had bespected.
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Aug 25, 1999 19:00 from Crotch Monkey
im not afraid to say that i have absolutely no clue what either of you are
talking about.  not a fucking clue.
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Aug 25, 1999 21:30 from Ender
 
nooot whoot Ooo hooood boospoooooctood.
 
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Aug 26, 1999 00:18 from Amaranth
Actually, I used the Ploema banana bit in my return piece last year. . . It was
"How to Handle Telemarketers Part II," and one of the letters of recommendation
was from one Carolyn Space Jacobsen of Iowa City. . .
 
Want me to send you a copy of it, Carolyn?
 
(Yes, I am guilty of a piece full of in jokes after bitching about them so
much. . .)
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Aug 26, 1999 19:59 from Dan
Ploema Banana, as best I can reconstruct it from the place where it was burned
into my cerebral cortex, goes as follows:
I was besprised and becited when the blellow banana besploded besuddenly beside
me. It was not what I had bespected.
It seems innocuous upon first reading, but if you say it aloud it will conjure
itself permanently into your memory like some kind of demonic prayer.
And since we have an ancient history theme post going, I couldn't help but
notice the name of one JC Luxton in the very last departmental audition slot on
Saturday afternoon. Am I the victim of some cruel hoax, or is he back in town?
Or perhaps I am the first to notice the comet.
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Aug 26, 1999 20:29 from Prufrock
I remember hearing scuttlebutt in the spring that Herr Luxton was indeed
returning to our happy vale. It appears that such has come to pass.
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Aug 26, 1999 20:37 from Thufir
Bah.  I just said that aloud at the computer and I betect no horrible besuch
bespell befalling over me.
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Aug 26, 1999 20:51 from Ender
 
I, too, was besprised and becited by the wella blanna...
 
And yes, JC has been cited in these parts.  Though we'll not name the offense
here.
 
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Aug 26, 1999 21:56 from Dan
Well then, the crows are coming home to roost. Now all we need is for a certain
contemporary of Mr. Luxton to make good on her promise to return to Iowa City
this year, upon completion of her long-overdue doctoral thesis, and return No
Shame to the monologue-heavy absurdity fest that it once was. I suspect she
ain't gonna, though; likely for some lame reason like she wants to finish her
education or she has actual friends and loved ones in Pennsylvania or
something. Bah.
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Aug 26, 1999 22:46 from Carolyn
damn damn damn it still drags me down oh dissertation mine I shall always be a
graduate student
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Aug 26, 1999 22:48 from Carolyn
But seriously, John C (aka John, aka JC, aka Chauncey, aka Young One) is back
in town, although he's teaching early on Saturday in the Quad Cities, so he'll
need some encouragment to NS.
 
And Dan, that was pretty good, but not 100%.
 
        I was besprised and becited
        when the wella blanna
        besploded besuddenly beside me.
        It was not
        what I had bespected.
 
There's a rhythm to it that doesn't really come across in print.  Hmmmm.  I
should figure out how to create sound files . . .
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Aug 27, 1999 01:49 from Crotch Monkey
not a fucking clue.
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Aug 30, 1999 11:23 from Amaranth
I can see it now: in the year 2055, a young doctor publishes about a strnage
phenomenon among Midwesterners in old folks' homes: They keep repeating the
same phrase over and over again, possibly some kind of jangled commercial
jingle that is now unrecognizible. It goes, "I was besprized and bewildered
when the polema banana. . ."
 
Incidentally, I never had a problem learning to spell "banana" when I was
younger, just learning when to stop adding "an". . .
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Sep 1, 1999 14:51 from Skweetis
bananana.
 
 
i'm so pumped for this friday.  i have no shame blue balls.  got some good
stuff ... well... mediocre...umm...i have stuff written.  lots of it.  dan,
would you mind if i used "lawsuit theater episode one, the phantom menace" as a
title?  not that it will have any effect on what i am going to call the piece
whatsoever, (any effect whatsoever...not the piece whatsoever...ack) i was just
wondering if it would piss you off or not...
 
yeah.
 
i hafta go putty my asparagus now.  be well and long live.
 
other james
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Sep 3, 1999 15:02 from Dan
The prequel title is yours for the taking, James. Of course, you'll learn a
harsh lesson in intellectual property laws come Monday morning.
Just kidding. (Incidentally, in my opinion "Just kidding" is the lamest
possible thing you can say in print.) Do what you wilt; I'm rarely if ever
pissed off by that sort of thing.
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Sep 3, 1999 16:32 from Ender
 
I saw a pretty funny poster on my way to work this morning:
 
 
     Q:  Can I take my pants off?
 
     A:  Sure you can.  But it's cold up there.
 
              NO SHAME THEATRE
 
 
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Sep 4, 1999 02:06 from Thufir
God damn it, someone should post the order so I can post my reviews.  :)  I
could probably go from memory, but it helps to have the list to jog things.
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Sep 4, 1999 10:58 from Ender
 
I managed to miss the first show.  In light of Chris' assurances that it wasn't
a brain tumor (he is a doctor, you know), I was left to assume I just had a
nasty headache.  :/  How did it go??
 
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Sep 4, 1999 20:59 from Dan
Alright, chilluns -- the order for Friday, September 3rd, 1999.
1) Mose Hayward and the Wonderful Smell by Jamal River
2) The Importance of Not Being In 'The Importance of Being Earnest' or Welcome
to the University of Happy Theatre Majors by Sarah Greer
3) An Excerpt from Spap oops by Kyle Lange
4) Jeepers, They're All Dead by Neil "Balls" Campbell
5) An Experiment in the Strange But Wonderful World of Non-Offensive, Subtle
Comedy by Al Angel
6) The Coward Meets a Girl by Don Deeley
7) A Story About Girls by Dan Brooks
8) James Lin Erwin by The Beckett Parody
9) Religious Satire #24 or Jesus of Nazareth Kicks Back by Mike Cassady
10) The Aristotle Project by Mike Rothschild
11) During the Course of This Piece, God Will Kill Several Cute Puppies by
Jimmy James Erwin
11.5) Old Joke, New Political Statement by 8-Ball Lange
12) You Got Peanut Butter in my Vagina! You Got Vagina in My Peanut Butter!
Magical Theatre by Chris Stangl
13) James Brown May Have Been the Godfather of Soul, But He Ain't That Funny by
James Horak
14) I'd Give My Left Nut to Be In My Right Mind
by Aaron Galbraith
15) Y Not 2K by Greg Wicklund
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Sep 5, 1999 01:39 from Prufrock
Dan, why do you insist on calling me Jimmy James, or Jimmy Jam? Not that I mind
at all... just curious, you understand.
 
I swear I actually did something tonight, and I didn't just sit at home
dinrking ISCA. S'true.
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Sep 5, 1999 13:27 from Dan
Jimmy James Erwin, aside from being a compromise between your name and what I
really want to call you ("Jiggity James and the Mad Pajama Jimmy Jam"), is
reminiscent to me of Jimi Hendrix's band that he had when he was a teenager --
Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. For me fascinating facts and personal
esoterica, buy my book.
So, reflections on the show? Y'all?
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Sep 6, 1999 17:18 from Skweetis
t'was good.  didn't get sarah's piece...probably too many theater major
in-jokes. loved kyle's stuff.  loved dan's stuff.  the "hi" skit was a bit
long, but had much good things.  James Erwin, your beckett sketch made me pee
my pants.  you owe me 12.50 for the drycleaning.  jamal and stengl's stuff
kinda fell flat.  can't put my finger on it, but something wasn't...funny.  the
honors kids agree with me on all counts.  viva la revolucion.  moshi moshi, and
all that.
 
-horak
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Sep 6, 1999 20:12 from Queequeg
Can anyone recap Sarah's piece for me (especially the inside jokes)?
Judging from the title, it probably included a lot of things that
desperately needed to be said...
 
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Sep 6, 1999 21:21 from Prufrock
My very own totally special review of Friday's show.
1) see-> 12)
2) This was good, and it was funny. But I, being a student in things other than
theater, felt left out. Cold. Lonely.
3) I liked this a lot. A lot.
4) Well delivered, but jeez, we've seen this before.
5) Al
's good. But I always feel like his pieces are a bit loose. And while the
fellatio was funny, I felt numb and somehow un-shocked by the word 'fuck' about
halfway into the piece.
6) Dan, one of the best monologues you've done in a long time.
7) Don (got lost there- whoops) shows promise. A bit long, a bit trite, but I
dug it.
8) Me.
9) Good.
10) For me, Mike Rothschild's best NS piece ever, bar none. I dug this
immensely.
11) Me again.
12) Chris and Jamal are creatures of No Shame. Their skits live, breathe, and
fart in the rich milieu of Theater B and the audience within. When you put them
in front of an audience that's not prepared for the whole NS vibe, you lose
something. I've seen this before- they need the audience to be prepared or the
audience stares in blank horror. They'll do better as the semester goes on.
That having been said, their writing this week did seem a bit below par, but
not that much.
13) Like all of James' songs, utterly catchy. I liked.
14) Good.
15) I can't say anything good about this piece. I wish I could. The writing was
flabby and trite, the delivery was forced, and the subject is hackneyed tripe.
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Sep 8, 1999 15:33 from Subotai
Yeah, way to deconstruct the crapola, James. I thought it was a fine show.
Dan's piece was amazing, I liked the Christ drinking beer sketch, and the guy
meets a girl piece was good, though a bit long and redundant. I was VERY happy
with the way my piece (the Blair Witch parody) turned out. It could have been a
huge cluster fuck, with the comic timing needed and the number of blackouts,
but it turned out very well. I felt better about that piece than about pretty
much anything I did last semester. Also, congrats to Dan for a stellar debut to
the Tuesday night undergrads readings. My new script is being read in two
weeks, (hint hint) so I hope to see you all there. Or at least the attractive,
young, single women who read ISCA. Oh shit...
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Sep 9, 1999 01:50 from Quicheo
Just a quick shout out to Aaron Galbraith, who, if Dan's mother had used
adequate protection, whould have had the best No Shame monologue of the year so
far!  (I liked the Blair Witch parody too.  A tribute to great writing is when
you try to tell other people how funny it was, but you can't do the lines right
and you are giggling too much anyway, and they just end up staring at you, and
you wind up looking stupid.  That's what happened here.  Strong work.)
 
Also, Benesh might be a No Shame on Friday.  She will bring her fetus with her,
I'm told...
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Sep 9, 1999 10:12 from Avenue Player
oh!  oh!  i love fetuses.  they look just like croissants.
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Sep 9, 1999 10:16 from Dan
Babies is mostly liquid, you know.
Incidentally, if you only come to one No Shame of the year, Fuck you! Also, you
should come to next week's No Shame, because I'm going to do something
dangerous and stupid. Well, it
'll look dangerous, at least, and I'm already feeling a little stupid for
subjecting myself to the ordeal. How's that for a curiosity piquer?
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Sep 9, 1999 10:51 from Mose
Hi. how are all of you? I bet you're extra surprised  that I can spy on all of
you from the country with the most bland, disgusting food in the world.
   Anyway, I gots a question: Anyone know what's up with the Portland chapter
of No Shame? I'm thinking about moving there in January,..
        And Dan:  You really did pique my interest with that teaser.  Damn I
miss the real world. Anyone wanna fill me in on stuff? And I noticed I somehow
got my name and patent  smell in the order. Wha's up, hem?
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Sep 9, 1999 12:49 from Prufrock
Hah! You've obviously never been to Vladeca in eastern Slovenia. Their national
cuisine is room-temperature milk.
 
Things here are nutty, Mose. Dan and Okiishi are seeing each other, but that
probably won't last long. Fons is pregnant. (no connection... honest.) At the
last No Shame, John Cameron actually came down and kicked Aaron Galbraith in
the face. And finally, I'm involved at a job where I'm always busy, I'm always
working with intelligent decisive clients, I'm getting paid ridiculous amounts
of money, and I'm given sugarplums when I vacuum.
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Sep 9, 1999 14:59 from Crotch Monkey
also at the last no shame, ewvery tenth paying customer was given a live fetus.
and a kick in the face.  and a brownie.  mmmmmmm......live fetus.....
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Sep 9, 1999 15:04 from Sparkychick
It's illegal to have those, you know.
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Sep 9, 1999 18:10 from Babbling Wombat
I thought brownies were legal, assuming they weren't laced with any
narcotics..
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Sep 9, 1999 18:33 from Sparkychick
Or fetuses.
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Sep 9, 1999 19:13 from Babbling Wombat
Yes, no fetuses laced with narcotics.  Definitely not.
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Sep 9, 1999 19:32 from Subotai
Speaking of that....oh wait, I can't discuss that. I'd have to kill you all,
and that might get messy.
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Sep 9, 1999 19:34 from Dan
You know, I also here it's illegal to be in possession of a live JC Luxton and
not bring him to No Shame. It'd be a real headache to have to send a death
squad out and fetch him. 'Course, we got the aspirin and the numbers.
And in the first line, "here" should be "hear." It's this sort of
homonymm-oriented typographical error that slowly degrades the English
language.
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Sep 9, 1999 19:37 from Skweetis
dan has a good point their.
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Sep 9, 1999 20:52 from Sparkychick
Not to mention how it slowly degrades JC Luxton.  You ought to see him right
now.
In further excuses, he's teaching an English class in Davenport early Saturday
mornings.  I'll tell him he'll be fetched if he doesn't come along voluntarily.
He pined for you the whole time we were in Providence.
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Sep 10, 1999 00:01 from Prufrock
Dammit, homonyms are what make our messy language so beautiful. Other languages
you learn- English you enter into an awful, codependent, downward-spiraling
drink-inducing affair with.
 
BTW, nothing I said in my last post was true, for those of you playing the ISCA
home game. Especially the fulfilling-career part. *sob*
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Sep 10, 1999 00:31 from Crotch Monkey
i like homonyms
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Sep 10, 1999 07:31 from Carolyn
Megan Gogergy is my heroin.
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Sep 10, 1999 09:50 from Dan
Carlolyn Jacobsen is drawn to homonymns and the like like flies to rotting
meet.
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Sep 10, 1999 11:14 from Whitewolf
 
Eye think sidhe has her raisins.
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Sep 10, 1999 12:55 from Stubble
id like to return that shout out to chris okiishi, but his lazy ass made no
attempt to entertain me last week, so i will be witholding the shout out until
further notice
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Sep 10, 1999 13:54 from Carolyn
Otherwise known as a "shout in".
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Sep 10, 1999 14:36 from Sparkychick
Oo.  Those aren't good for the intestines.
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Sep 10, 1999 15:21 from Crotch Monkey
i like intestines
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Sep 10, 1999 16:21 from Avenue Player
you know something, mike?  crotch monkey is a really gross name.  you should
change it to intestines crotch monkey.
 
i want aaron galbraith to be in my thingy (sketch, that is, not intestines or
crotches or anything) tonight.  wanna, aaron?  aaron?
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Sep 10, 1999 17:10 from Stubble
yes!!  ill be in your thing!
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Sep 10, 1999 21:07 from King Of Kale
Returning to No Shame tonight, after a long vacation. Won't be performing this
time (as usual), but I do have something I worked on over the summer I might do
next week.  So beware.
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Sep 11, 1999 10:02 from Stubble
wow, what an incredible no shame!!  i woke up stuck to the sheets and as soon
as i tore them off i just had to express my glee.  lets get that beautiful
order up as soon as possible
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Sep 11, 1999 10:08 from Avenue Player
i agree wholeheartedly (except for the sticky sheets thing--ick).  great night.
 
besides the people who always do great stuff (bill's piece about
dan/mary:walt/edna?olga? jumps to mind), i was really impressed with willie's
piece.  gypsy hips.  aaaw yeah.
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Sep 11, 1999 14:41 from Quicheo
I will post the order as soon as I can run out to the car (stubble's right
about my lazy ass...)
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Sep 11, 1999 14:48 from Quicheo
Okay, the order, with some clarifying notes, as there seemed some confusion as
to who wrote what...
 
1) The Recesses of Theater B by John Hague (monologue in dark, highlighting
exit signs)
2) Mose Hayward's Dead Lung by Jamal River (song from his new album, which he
will be bringing for purchase next week--best six bucks you could spend)
3) Sweet Relief by chris Okiishi (Kim, Adam, and Rick groan about abdominal
pain)
3.5) Persona by Bill Bungeroth (Mary and Dan are just creations fo Bill's
imagination)
4) Inside a Big Black Shaft by Balls Campbell (Not all people who work in coal
mines are miners...)
5) Is there a Doctor in the House, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?  by Aprille
Clarke (Aprille dials 976-...er...911)
6) No Shame Coup D'etat or A Victory Clutched in the Snatch of Defeat by Nick
Clark (Monologue opposing nudity, farts, and foul language at No Shame,
containing all of the above)
7) An Untitled Song by Kyle "I oddly doubt my own talent" Lange (Kyle sings a
darker song of betrayl and loss)
8) Two Horny Boys Go to Church by Luke Pingel (Aaron and Luke go to church and
then hell)
8.5) In a Word: Minneapolis by Mark Hansen. (The title says it all)
9) The Feast by Willie Barbour (Monologue about fat and fantasy)
10) "It's Raining Patti LuPone" or "Three Odes" by Mike Rothschild (Three poem,
from three parts of the stage)
11) Women are like metaphors... by Mike "Lady Killer" Cassady
12) That was a simile dickhead, not a metaphor by Aaron Galbraith (Aaron and
grandpa Mike watch the stars)
13)
Judy Garland Is Dead, and Other Vicious Lies by Chris Stangl (Monologue about
Judy, Wizard and the second queef reference of the night)
14) Gender-Relational Tension in the Bloody Bloody Brine or So I Married a
Comedy Writer by Ezekiel Horak
             (James and Aprille endure a marriage)
15) The Discalimer for Dan's Piece by Sister Mary Kathering and Sister Sarah
Katherine of the Carmelite Order (Sarah and Mary disclaim Dan, then sing)
ooops.  That should have been 14.5  Sorry.
15) The Hanging Poem by Danger Brooks.  A sadly foiled premise still leads to a
swell monologue.
 
 
So there you have it.  Good night, kids.  I had the best time, and didn't even
mind that there were so monay contributers that my second piece (the one I was
in...) couldn't get in.  That's the beauty and the horror that is No Shame.
 
;)
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Sep 11, 1999 15:27 from Quicheo
OOOPs again.  I forgot to describe one--Lady Killer Cassady's piece was a
monologue about getting into relationships, segueing into a sketch about
making your friends check out your date.
 
So there you go.  Strong night, everyone.  See you next week.!
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Sep 11, 1999 16:35 from Trouble
 
I can't say anything bad about anyone's piece last night.  If that ever happens
again, the universe may come to an end.
 
Also, may I saw that Stangl's piece was quite brilliant.  I was impressed by
it's craftsmanship, content, and timing.  And only two brief jokes about
farting or peeing!  In one sketch, he has erased all bad karma he may have
built up over the last two years for me.
 
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Sep 11, 1999 19:55 from Carolyn
Let me guess.  Thufir wasn't there last night?
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Sep 11, 1999 20:09 from Prufrock
Nope. But he was there the week before, and he enjoyed himself from all
accounts. Eerie.
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Sep 11, 1999 21:06 from Subotai
Yes, a truly great show. I was very happy with how my piece (three odes) turned
out, especially since I wrote the whole thing that day and had no idea ifg it
would work or not. I'm guessing it did. Very good work by everyone, I was most
pleased. And that girl I invited last weeek showed up for this week! Oh Happy
Day!
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Sep 12, 1999 14:10 from Jeff
Mose,
Lichen June told me a couple months ago that she was going to start up a No
Shame in Portland Oregon this year.  I haven't talked to her in a bit, so I
don't know much more than that, but she would be the one to talk to.
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Sep 13, 1999 02:28 from Thufir
I was not, of course, there on the 10th.  I was there on the 3rd, which was a
reasonable night, but not great.  I had, in fact, some things to post about it,
but I got busy that week and now it's next week's show and it's too late to be
scathing, damn it.  I really need to log in here more often or something.
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Sep 13, 1999 11:39 from Quicheo
Never too late to be scathing,  I always say...
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Sep 13, 1999 11:49 from Crotch Monkey
i always say too much.
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Sep 14, 1999 04:59 from Thufir
You never say enough, I thought I could hear you laughing, etc. etc.
 
No, I can't be scathing now, because the person I was going to really vilify
was Stangl, and apparently he did something glorious where I was, of course,
not able to see it.  So.  Maybe I'll go next week and curse the lot of you
again.
 
(Not that I didn't like a lot of it.  But it -really- dragged until piece 3,
which was, I think, Kyle's makeshift play, with the hot blonde babe and that
short cute guy who always does a bang-up job of writing and acting.  The
Beckett parody was beautiful, Dan's monologue was excellent, and the piece
about the blowjobs was downright lame, as was the Y2K bug and the apparently
put-together-at-the-last-minute crap from Stangl and River.  But here I am,
reviewing two weeks late, in deep No Shame lag, and nobody knows what I'm
talking about now, anyway.  The short memory of the theater.)
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Sep 14, 1999 17:35 from Garbage
Hey, I think I figured this ISCABBS thing out.  Please don't beat me up for
wasting your time.  p.s. How bout that show on the 10th, huh, pretty swell,
huh?  who wants to see more underpants on the noshame stage?
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Sep 14, 1999 20:04 from Fanky Maloon
An excellent, excellent show that I don't have proper time to rave about fully.
But, a very small number of things I really liked:
 
Stangl's monologue was the funniest god damned monologue I have possibly ever
seen, and I'll stand by that.  I was in tears laughing.  Okay, I could've done
without the excessive Judy Garland parts, but that's totally a nitpick.  And
yes, he may have done characters similar to this one before, but he's DAMNED
good at it so let 'er rip when it's written as good as this.  It was probably a
good 6 or 7 minutes, but nobody in the house was going to complain about htat
(that) stuff.
 
And on a really happy other note - lots of new and terrific faces!!!  It's rare
that I get to say that, last few years.  But the guy who played Mike's Brother
in the have-your-friends-date her piece was a kill.  And the guy who did the
gypsy hips/ I eat too much piece wrote gooood stuff.  I really really dug it.
Kudos, all.
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Sep 15, 1999 16:04 from Quicheo
When, pray tell, will you grace us with some more of your stuff, Fanky?
(BTW--I'm totally with you on your appraisal.  Best Stengl EVER!  With the
possible exception of that one tour de force piece last year two weeks before
best of--the one with Sarah Greer berating him at the end.  MAYBE I liked that
one a little better, but hard to say--this was way good...)
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Sep 16, 1999 02:06 from King Of Kale
I missed that Stangl piece, so I can't compare the recent one to it.  But
after that one last week, I hereby retract most of the bad stuff I've said
about Stangl in the past. Heh.
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Sep 16, 1999 12:54 from Garbage
The "How I created God" piece was probably my favorite Stangl ever.  But, with
the advent of "Judy Garland is Dead", I may have to revise that statement.
It's a toss up, folks.  See, they're both just so durn good.
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Sep 16, 1999 18:11 from Fanky Maloon
Me on stage:   I dunno, working on it.  Ideas, nothing completed, you know the
drill.  Will work on it yis!
 
Another brief positive mention before th next No Shame - Mike Rothschild's
weird old insane grampa watching the stars piece was wholly delicious.  That
was completely insane, just as I loves 'em.
 
Not to mention, Minneapolis.
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Sep 16, 1999 18:41 from Avenue Player
actually, that was Aaron Galbraith's old man watching the stars thing, Greg.
 
mike's was the poems about wilson phillips, etc.
 
both were good.  almost everything was good.
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Sep 19, 1999 11:45 from Dan
All right, campers. September 16th broke down like this:
1) Eastern Parade by Chris Okiishi (James and Chris reveal secrets of
Asianity.)
2) Religious Satire #413 or Jesus of Nazareth Files for Unemployment by Mike
Cassady (JC -- not Luxton, the other one -- goes to the unemployment office.)
3) Blow Job Sketch #4: %th in the Series by Al Angel (Al says "Fuck" 28 times.)
4) Conversation: The Morning After by Willie Barbour
(Four college lushes speak enigmatically about the nights revelry.)
5) Shave and a Haricut, Two Bites by Aprille Clarke (Aprille and her
hairdresser discuss the sociological encouragement of cannibalism.)
6) A Friendship So Deep by Balls Campbell (Neil can't decide if sexually
molesting self-proclaimed neo-Nazis is wrong or not.)
7) The Worst Fourth of July Ever by Danger Brooks (Dan engages in more
self-indulgenc-- I mean, brilliant dialectic.)
8) One Last Parody While My Feeble Brain Stalls for Time by James Erwin (James
parodies me, no one notices because narrative is so good.)
9) Poetry Ain't My Thang, G, But I'm Gonna Try It Anyway, Aight? by John
Hague. (John and his dark side recite a poem.)
10) The Menstruation Trick or Slapstick With Blood and Eggs by Chris Stangle.
(Chris falls down a lot and examines psychosexual power dynamics.)
11) Lights! by Aaron Galbraith. (Lights go up, Aaron goes down. But not like
that.)
11.5) A Beautiful Night by Havalah Backus (A poem about revisiting your youth.)
12) Mose Hayward Loves to Laugh by Jamal River (Jamal satirizes stand-up
comedy.)
13) Yankees Win, Cubs Kill Yankees by Bill Bungeroth and Dan Brooks. (Dan and
Bill are attacked by, and finally escape, their ex-girlfriends.)
14) General Hospital by Mark Hansen (A hospital in which nothing is specified.)
14.5) Bear Smegma has Chunks of Salmon In It by Nick Clark (A couple makes
their waiter do everything. Everything.)
15) Crying in My Leinenkugel's or When Jewish Writers Attack by Mike
Rothschild. (The little-known collaboration between Woody Allen and David
Mamet.)
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Sep 19, 1999 15:54 from Subotai
Soild show, kids. Very solid. Hope people got the Mamet/Allen sketch I wroted.
I think you need to know who they both are. Did I overestimate my audience's
intelligence?
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Sep 19, 1999 17:20 from Avenue Player
i got it, mike.  i think most people got it.  i hope most people got it.
 
i thought the show was...ok.  it started fairly strongly but got kind of not so
good as it progressed.
 
standouts:  chris's asian power thing (elton got very worked up in his seat,
lemme tell you); the one about molesting neo-nazi kids (cassady didn't write
that, did he?  it was the gay friend guy.  he's good); the rope thing (even
though it was mean it was still funny).
 
one thing i have to say:  jamal's cd is very very good.  it's not so good for
when you're having in-ta-mit moments, though, because you find yourself paying
attention to the cd and not the in-ta-mit moments, and your boyfriend goes
"what's the matter with you?" and you have to say "nothing, i was just
listening to the cd."
 
but i still like it a lot.
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