Oct 4, 1999 22:01 from Dan
Well, boyos (and girlas), I'd love to post the order, but unfortunately I lost
it. Or I gave it to someone and they lost it. But the likely theory seems to be
that I lost it.
Sorry.
So, let the discussion commence, and let us assume that if you cannot remember
it it was neither particularly good nor particularly bad. A good rule anyway,
methinks.
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Oct 5, 1999 02:45 from Thufir
You look better without the goatee anyway.
 
I used to post piece by piece criticisms.  I keep intending to start again, but
I either don't go, or don't log on as often as I used to, and bam, it's next
week.  They tended to alienate people anyway.  (Although there were a fair
number of people who stuck up for them even when they were hostile, something I
will forever appreciate.)
 
That reminds me, while I'm here.  About the order.  The order should not be
Piece Zero, IMJO.  Go up.  Do announcements.  Speak the order.  Sit.  I'm not
saying it should always have a somber tone to it or anything, but seeing people
hamming it up on stage before the show even begins irritates me.  I know that I
start watching any piece with Kyle in it prejudiced against it from the very
beginning, which is a damn shame, because he's done some kickass work.  But
he's such a damn _ham_.  I know, I know, actors, but.
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Oct 5, 1999 02:46 from Jeff
Oy vey.  Okey dokey, here's as much of the order as I can piece together,
anything you can add or correct would be appreciated.
;
>>Dan Brooks - "Dan's Ambercrombie piece"
>>Mike Cassady - "Mike Cassady's piece was commendably brief and capped off a
simple premise (the ever-familiar writing-about-writing-for-No Shame theme)
with a very funny punch line."
>>[author unknown] - The Aaron's butt/striptease sketch. // And the nipply
tassly guy dancing to Yello for his father was excellent indeed, in that "I
can't believe it!" sort of way. // and the piece where Kehry Lane did the
strip-tease at his father were definitely in pretty startling territory.
(performed by Kehry Lane...)
>>Bradley Harris - "The juggling rocked the house"
>>Chris [last name?] - Chris' cat torture monologue
>>Neil Campbell - Neil's piece
>>Arlen Lawson - Arlen's piece (performed by Chris Stangl)
>>Nick Clark - Nick's poem
>>Al Angel - "I liked Al's poem and was impressed by the startling contrast of
that piece compared to everything else Al has done"
>>Jamal River - "You know, the one about pooping?" (performed by Dan Brooks,
Kyle Lange)
>>[author unknown] - the job interview piece with the dwarf and the zany movie
titles
>>Adam Hahn - Egg
>>[author unknown] - the piece where Aaron Galbraith serves as a prop
>>Chris Okiishi - the Wicca piece (performed by Chris Okiishi, Sarah Greer)
>>Brad [last name?] - "Brad's piece was funny, but mostly in the way that a
sequel is funny, in that it references the previous jokes and makes you
remember how hard you laughed the first time you heard that joke."
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Oct 5, 1999 07:02 from Ender
 
...and Mario's monkey piece.
 
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Oct 5, 1999 10:57 from Avenue Player
oh, mario was there?  damn, i love mario.
 
hey, did Kehry do some sort of striptease for his father thing?  if so, how was
it different from the last time he did that (a semester ago or so)?
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Oct 5, 1999 12:12 from Garbage
and kyles motorcycle visit his father in purgatory thing which i thought was
mega-swell.
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Oct 5, 1999 15:56 from Subotai
Length issue rebutal: guys, just take it upon yourselves to edit. If you don't
think something works, cut it, we won't know the difference. 2 pages full of
monologue text is not the same as two pages of dialogue. Personally, I know in
the first 20 seconds if I'm going to like a piece or not, so I don't need 10
minutes to get the punchline. Whatever the hell that means. Oh well, I won't be
there next week anyway, so that's 3-4 less minutes of self depricating comedy
that you will or will not miss. Also: eggs=bad. That's all.
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Oct 5, 1999 17:49 from Jeff
Here is the order for Oct 1 so far.  If you have any other
information/corrections, please let me know at noshth@aol.com or post here.
Announcements: Al's final pizza-delivery night.
(performed by Brooks and Lange, appearance by Angel)
[Note: Brad or Brad went first, but who the hamba-jup can remember?!]
Brad Smith - [title missing] - Cut off my hand? Yes!
(performed by Smith and Galbraith w/ Stangl, Brooks, Lawson)
Bradley Harris - Lights Up
(performed by Harris)
Jamal River - Yes, Mose Hayward Smelt It, and Yes, He Dealt It.
(performed by River, Brooks and Lange)
Arlen Lawson - Sheridan Way
(performed by Arlen Lawson, Mark Hansen, Jamal River & Chris Stangl)
Danger Brooks - The Abercrombie -&- Fitch Theory
(performed by Brooks and Powell)
Mark "Malkmus" Hansen - Shady Pines, Part I
(performed by Hansen, Mitchell, Campbell, Smith_ more?)
Kehry Lane -&- Guy - We're Not Gay, We Just Like To Stare At Men's Asses_ Well,
Maybe (some guy) Is Gay, But Not Us. (I paraphrase.)
(performed by Lane, another guy, Galbraith's butthole and Lane's visibly
aroused father.)
Balls "Neil" Campbell - [title missing] - Good parenting, smack and self-esteem
(performed by Balls, Lane, and who else, yo?)
Mike Rothschild - Ziggurat (?)
(performed by Rothschild, Brooks, Powell, more?)
Nick Clark - Nick's poem: Here Comes The Love (?)
(performed by Clark)
Kyle Lange - [title missing] - Dead dad!
(performed by Lange)
12) Chris Stangl - Broken Heart, Broken Hymen: An Apocalypse
(performed by Stangl)
Willie Barbour - Fantasy, A Trilogy in Three Parts
(performed by Barbour)
Al Angel - [title missing] - Hog Tied Poem!
(performed by Angel, assisted by Lawson)
Mario Sosa - [title missing] - Ray-Ban Monkey masturbates, eats semen!
(performed by Sosa)
Mike Cassady - [title missing] - The piece that is is short!
(performed by Cassady and Greer)
Chris Okiishi - The Family That Preys Together, Stays Together
(performed by Greer and Eggman Hahn)
last) Adam Hahn - Egg
(performed by Egg-a-loba Hahn "Solo" Eggman)
t show) Cleaning up egg scum!
(performed by Brooks, Eggy and co.)
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Oct 6, 1999 05:09 from Trouble
 
  I think it wasn't the length of the pieces that was the problem.  No...I know
that wasn't it.  It was the length of the SET-UP time.  That dragged everything
down.  There were a bunch of pieces that took too long to set up and we all got
pretty bored waiting.  Either get everything set before the show so you can
just go up there and do it, or get Brad the juggling guy to entertain everyone
while the doofuses set up their piece.
 
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Oct 6, 1999 06:57 from Ender
 
Ben Schmidt did a piece once where HE was all tied up, so he had it all taken
care of and hopped out on stage bound.  Might not have really set the
appropriate tone for Al's piece, though.  Especially if he'd tried hopping in
the chair.  A little jarring, I imagine.
 
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Oct 6, 1999 20:32 from Garbage
 
 
I meant someone should shave off HAHN's goatee.  Whoever did the shavin' got
the wrong goatee!
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Oct 7, 1999 14:22 from Subotai
"I'll leave you as you left me, in the center of a dead planet, buried
alive....buried alive...in eggs"
"HAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNN"
a bit of Star Trek II humor for y'all.
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Oct 9, 1999 15:11 from Fanky Maloon
Great show great show!  Post order yis!
 
My favorites, in no order:
 
Neil's Kaiser piece.   Ooh, did I dig.  I'm still a cacklin' when I recall
parts of this one.  Mike was so ultraKaiser, couldn't have picked a better
person than someone dressed like that to play the part.  And Dan was hilarious
as a cruel daddy.  I really loved the way he threw his head back to cackle when
Aaron so wittily called Neil a loser.  Goood, good stuff.
 
Aprille's wonderfully titled little ditty.  Tight stuff.  "But they make me
write their papers for them...".  Aaron looked _so_ 10 years old, yesss.
I won't go so far as to say that Aprille looks like a sorority wannabe mom,
since she knows where I live and stuff, but she was great playing the role of
said dippy ma.
 
Chris's little kiddy monologue.  This man is kicking some ass this semester,
no?  I think I liked this mono even better than the Wiz of Oz one he did
earlier this semester.  They're both well into the Best Of category if you ask
me, too bad he did both of them.  "So if you eat a popsicle, and like...imagine
that it's a guts of bug, 'cause guts of bug is green...."  So cute!
 
Jame's Jesse Jackson impression.  Talk about imagery, kiddies.  In combination
with the delivery, which none can fault.  Some gross Bengals fan, in a stadium,
getting James from behind, pressing his forehead into the remains of a corn
dog....and.  Well, you know.  Coming unto James, and coming unto the small of
his back.  Ack!  Killer.
 
Jamal's "you lick butts if you won't play with Chris's nipples piece".
Audience involvement at its best, very possibly.  Well done, well done, yis.
 
Ben's song was really great.  That is some serious slide action, and he sings
as well as anyone who gets up there to do songs.  Nice to have him show up and
do more.
 
Adam started off the night really well with a good Okiishi paragraph, and it
set the tone for the evening.  So great when there's a clamor for shorter
pieces...and it actually happens!  I believe there were more pieces tonight
than last week, and yet the night was at least 15 minutes shorter.  Rock!
 
Honorable mentions:  The Jedi Mind trick in a bar piece, Al as the 5 year old
sister, Al and Chris with the broken toilet/ Neil who wants to suck cock.
And I'm probably forgetting stuff, order yis!
 
Oh, and on a mildly negative note, more of a "maybe next time try this" note, I
thought Bill shoulda used either less volume on the electric, or better yet
used an acoustic guitar for his song.  Couldn't make out the vocals, and it
seemed like a lot (well, a little more than necessary) of setup compared to
just pulling out the acoustic since he didn't use any effects or distortion o
whatnot.  But who knows, maybe he doesn't have no stinking acoustic.
 
Good night!!!  Excellent in fact!
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Oct 10, 1999 19:15 from Dan
The order, Boyos and Girlas:
1) An Attempt to Do as Dan Brooks Suggested and "Cut All the Fat" Out of My
Writing, Tossing Aside the Dead Weight, Jettisoning the Redundant Repetition,
the Superfluous Sentence, the Extra Example, In Favor of a Leaner,
Less-Gristled Monologue, As Performed by Adam Burton -- Thanks to Dan for the
Inspiration and to My Mother for Her Love and Support. Peace. Out. by Chris
"Succinct Is Now My Middle Name, Thanks to Dan" Okiishi (Editorial note: Chris
is my friend. But fuck him.)
2) Fose Fatfard vs A Dead Bee by Brad Smith
2.5) Die Wichtigeit Earnest Zusein by Mike Rothschild and Aaron Galbraith
3) I Want to Be Just Like Dan "Danger" Brooks by Hazard Angel
4) Hostile Word Association by Chris Sobbing and Kehry Lane
4.5) A Song by Ben Schmidt
5) If You're Gonna Steal, Steal from the Best: A Blatant Rip-Off of a Mike
Rothschild Idea by John Hague
6) Mose Hayward and the Talking Booger by Jamal River
7) The Matchmaker by Kyle Lange
8) Oedipus, Then Wipe Your Chin by Aprille Clarke
9) German Chocolate Hate by Neil "Balls" Campbell
10) Knotty Pines, Pt. II by Mark Hansen
10.5) Part I, by Dan Hall
11) Tattoo by Greg Mitchell
12) Get Down on Your Fucking Knees, You Miserable Wretches, For I Bring You
Theatre by James Erwin
13) The Pudding Sketch by Arlen Lawson
13.5) Wow, What a Coincidence; We Have So Much Not In Common by Sarah Greer
14) The Shotgun Rules or a Fallopian Tuba Recital by Chris Stangl
15) The Good Girls Never Leave by Bill Bungeroth
A damn fine show, if you ask me.
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Oct 10, 1999 21:27 from Fishcult
It seems that all the talk is taking place on the web page this week, which
seems somehow backward.  Maybe it has to do with the plugs made in the
announcements the past few weeks.  Maybe the major isca posters just aren't
posting for their independent reasons.  In any case, it all seems weird.  And I
am afraid.
 
I'm quivering, even.
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Oct 10, 1999 22:05 from Subotai
Left after the piece that had my name in it, though was strangely not about me
or having anything to do with me. Which is a good thing, trust me. Sounds like
things went smooth. Wasn't going to write anything this week, what with the
bombing of my over written piece last week and the desire not to write poems
that sound like other people wrote them first. We'll see what I come up with
for next week.
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Oct 10, 1999 22:07 from Subotai
oops, I finished before I was done. anyway, I wrote the german piece with Aaron
during the performance of Earnest. It was cheap and easy, like me. What's with
the self deprication in my posts these days? Oh yeah, it's my fragile and
breakable mental state combined with lack of sleep and stress. Glad we settled
that.
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Oct 11, 1999 14:43 from Carolyn
Great titles.  The list had me laughing out loud.
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Oct 11, 1999 21:38 from Fanky Maloon
Well I still try to use the website chat thing, but I must once again make the
argument that the website blows chunks.  People keep "responding" to other
posts rather than posting anew, so one must search for posts about the most
recent show manually.  In addition, clicking on the "next" message button is
likely to actually bring up the "next" message roughly one in three attempts.
An noy ink yis!
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Oct 11, 1999 22:12 from Quicheo
Must concur with Fanky, and, as usuaul, I'm quite proud to do so.  That said,
there wis some pretty interesting discussion there, if you take the time to
piece through it all.  Exhausting, but pretty interesting.
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Oct 12, 1999 07:14 from Trouble
 
I agree with Greg on nearly everything he has said thus far.
Which is crazy, I admit.  But I can't help it.
 
I'm not sure I liked this weeks Stangl skit BETTER than the Wizard skit...but
it certainly did rank way up there.  Highly imaginative.
 
New rule:  When performing with electric guitar, have electric voice-amplifying
machine as well.
 
And James wins the "Brad Quinn memorial award for excellence in blasphemy".
Even though I'm not dead.
 
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Oct 12, 1999 18:28 from Frackledart
Hiya! My name is J-Mab "Mole" River "Boobies" Rivers! This is my VERY 1ST post
here on ISCA! And you know why? Because I don't like ISCA one bit! I must speak
out in defense of the No Shame website. It's funner to look at, and really I
think easier to be using! Yes. If you just click on "Index by Date" then you
don't have to figure out what order the messages were written. Can it be more
great? No. It is already too great. ISCA is persnickety and slow, and hard to
use. For instance: I want to back up and change one of my sentences that I have
typed, but I do not know how. The arrows keys make the letters  O & D appear.
Who can say why?
Anyway, I thought last Friday's show was pretty fine. I would say the theme of
the night was "odd". Many odd pieces. Mostly good-odd, though. I liked
Okiishi's monologue, I liked Neil's skit, I liked Chris' monologue. Brad's
piece was far and away my favorite. Greatest skit of all time, I say! I'm sure
there were lots of other good pieces I can't think of right now.
Hey everybody! I wrote a parody of ISCA conversation. It goes like this:
SmenkO: I thought Friday's show was alright. It started to drag during the
second half. Dan's piece was easily my favorite. I think it was one of
the strongest monologue's he's done this season. Binbo, when are you gonna
bring the air freshener?
Binbo: Aaargh! Me thinks I smell a rat!
Fantootie: thebre's a sqwuirel in my shorts!
SomeoneWhoDoesn'tLiveInIowaCity: Sounds tantalizing!
I think that should be posted every week (except this one, cuz Dan didn't do a
monologue). I am going to stop typing and post this now. Thanks to everyone who
made this post possible. Special thanks to Rev. Stangl, who came up with a
couple of the funny funny ISCA parody lines. Bye, ya'll!
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Oct 12, 1999 22:20 from Garbage
Ha!  And you all thought you had a nice quiet little ISCA going here!
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Oct 13, 1999 12:46 from Whitewolf
 
A quiet Isca? Sounds tantalizing!
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Oct 14, 1999 07:56 from Carolyn
Does anyone know anything about the Riverside play, "A . . . My Name Will
Always Be Alice"?  My parents are thinking of going, and want to know if it's
good.  They've read the general description of the play ("a hilarious and
cutting edge musical revue", "a time capsule for women's issues at the end of
the 20th century"), but want to hear some first-hand responses.  Thanks.
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Oct 14, 1999 08:04 from Ender
 
I saw "A... My Name is Still Alice" a few years ago when they did it at
Riverside.  (This is one of the two plays from which the current Alice play is
drawn, kind of a "best of those two Alice plays" thing.)  There's no attempt at
a plot; it's just a collection of monologues and songs related generally to
women (everything from Mom-focused to breaking out of the clerical pool armed
witha  gun made out of post-its and paper clips to a monologue about penis size
to a piece featuring famous works of art where the women in the pictures
discuss THEIR usually unheard perspective--but in a comic way).  There's no
telling which of these made it into the combo production.  Some of it made me
laugh, some of it wasn't so hot, but I enjoyed it in a non-profound way
overall.  Sounds kind of like another event I could mention...
 
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Oct 14, 1999 14:58 from Crotch Monkey
and also, mary fons is in it.....so go to see her if nothing else...she
deserves everyones undying support and large cash gifts, mailable to mike
cassady, 100 currier hall #.....wait a minute, im not giving you looneys my
address....id be dead within in the hour.
gotta go.....potty break.
ciao.
mdc
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Oct 18, 1999 09:21 from Ender
 
Um, order?
 
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Oct 18, 1999 11:01 from Whitewolf
 
Okay, I'd like a medium deep-dish, pepperoni and sausage, with a side of bread
sticks and three large Cokes. Does No Shame deliver?
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Oct 18, 1999 13:21 from Subotai
Sometimes No Shame delivers. Sometimes it's just cold and greasy, however.
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Oct 18, 1999 14:08 from Ender
 
And it always takes more than 30 minutes.  But it's better than Domino's.
 
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Oct 18, 1999 15:17 from Jeff
Need help reconstructing the order from last week.  Here's what I have so far.
Anything you can add will be helpful...
o       Anwar ??? - (the thing about not wanting to go to heaven)
o       Kyle Lange - ???
o       Dan Brooks - (trans-am piece)
o       ??? ??? - (the juxtaposed supervillain/superconservative things)
o       Mark Hansen - "Knotty Pines, Part III" (???)
o       Neil Campbell - (Neil's abortion one)
o       Jamal River - (mad-libs)
o       Chris ??? - (the piece that made Aprille itch)
o       Adam Hahn - "Shorn, A Fragmented Di-Monologue"
o       Aprille Clarke - ???
o       ??? ??? - (the hiding a body sketch)
o       Willie Barbour - (the piece Willy always does about sex waitresses)
o       Al Angel - (the piece Al always does where he says disgusting things
into me ears.)
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Oct 18, 1999 16:57 from Ender
 
5.  Super Villain's Institute
    Written by Brooks Peck, performed by Adam Burton
 
7.  Dan's monologue
 
8.  Super Villian's Institute II
    Written and performed by John Smick
 
As recollected by my own self-centered memory. :)
 
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Oct 18, 1999 17:21 from Prufrock
12. Fight, Fight, Fight, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIIIIIGHT!!
by James Erwin. Jamal's mad lib piece was the first of the evening. Everything
else, fuzzy to me. Wait- Kyle was #3.
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Oct 18, 1999 20:14 from Crotch Monkey
justin rose was after kyle.
immediately after kyle
so there.
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Oct 19, 1999 10:21 from Ender
 
Have the scripts been lost for the weeks that orders aren't posted?  Or just
the sheet that had the order written out?  It should be reconstructable from
scripts if they haven't gotten misplaced somehow.
 
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Oct 20, 1999 12:38 from Subotai
I think the same dude who stole the Earnest costumes is the one who has taken
all the orders, and is the one who robbed the office and took the Glengarry
leads, the GOOD leads. Heh heh.
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Oct 20, 1999 15:36 from Ender
 
Wow, that sounds like some juicy gossip.  Someone stole the Earnest costumes?
That production is still happening, isn't it?  What are the actors wearing?
 
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Oct 20, 1999 17:04 from Prufrock
PAtel? PATEL?
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Oct 20, 1999 17:13 from Garbage
ABC... Always Be Closing.
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Oct 20, 1999 19:53 from Sparkychick
Ah, you win third prize.
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Oct 21, 1999 10:09 from Whitewolf
 
Just gimme the damn steak knives.
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Oct 21, 1999 15:59 from Subotai
Adam, a few weeks ago someone stole some of the Earnest costumes, includling
Gwendolin's Act I dress and some hats. they were able to clothe people with
pulled costumes, but the dress alone was valued at $1500. And earnest closed
yesterday, BTW. And it was Harriet and blah blah Nyborg.
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Oct 21, 1999 17:16 from Garbage
i deserve a goddamn Caddilac.
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Oct 22, 1999 11:42 from Dan
Okay, so this seems like the most opportune time to post the order. I'm really
sorry about that, guys; I could run the laundry list of excuses, but it'd be a
lot more efficient to cut to I fucked up and this is the first time I've been
online since last week. So here you go:L
1) Mose Hayward is an Immature Ass by Jamal River
2) Kyle, Is That a Chip On Your Shoulder, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? by
Kyle Lange
3) How to Hide a Body by Justin Rose
4) Tables During the Afternoon by Willie Barbour
5) Super Villains Institute by Brooks Peck is my New Fucking Jesus
6) Thanks for Listening by Anwar Williams
7) Travis Robert's Trans Am by Danger Brooks
8) Super Villains Institute II by John Smick is my New Fucking Holy Host
9) Is the Plural of Gandhi "Gondola?" by Aprille Clarke
10) The Fetal Follies by Neil Balls Campbell
11) Knotty Pines, Pt. III by Mark Hansen
12) Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!!!!! by James Erwin
13) Shorn, a Fragmented Di-Monologue by Adam Hahn
14) Involuntary Reflex to the Cold Speculum of Comedy by Chris Stangl
15) How To Be Cool Like Me In Only 12,785,245.6 Steps by Al Angel
Note only 15 pieces! Note only six days late!
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Oct 24, 1999 00:12 from Quicheo
1.  ...And some more Mose Hayward, please.  By Jamal River.
    [song by Jamal]
2.  I can't drive, okay?  Now give me my fucking cigarettes!  By
    John "I wish I had a cool nickname" Hague
    [Monologue about trouble buying smokes without a driver's
     lisense, and the reasons thereof]
3.  Yet Another Title with the Word "Poop" in It.  By Al J. Angel
    and Mark J. Hansen.
    [Mark does Al and Al does Mark, only less pornographic than
     that sounds...]
4.  The Importance of Being Mike Rothschild.  By Mike Rothschild.
    [Mike explains the mechanics of his writing style, with
     examples]
5.  The Observer.  By Willie Barbour.
    [Memory monologue about strange friends and telescopes]
6.  Knotty Pines, Part Four.  By Mark J. Hansen.
    [The saga continues.  Rothschild gets the girl.]
7.  The Story of Karen.  By Kyle Lange.
    [A song by Kyle]
8.  Yer In the Golden Shower of Jesus' Love:  Santa Claus Pt. 2
    by Nick Clark.
    [A father tries to understand how a son managed to turn up
     auto-urino-erotic photos]
9.  Pink Octopusususes or The Blatant Rip-Off Sketch:  An Homage.
    by James Jamie Jimmy Jim Shamus Jaime Horak.
    [Three atempts at No Shame novelty, each tharted by the
     comedy police, or Balls with a pink octopus on his head]
10. Accorting to David Harman, This Monologue is All About Sex.
    by Adam Hahn.
    [Adam is tempted by another's laundry articles]
11. And Now, Ladies and Gentleman, For Your Viewing Pleasure,
   Life As Explained in a Series of Brief, Meaningful Sketches
   Even This Audience Might Understand or Mommy, Where Does
   Hamburger Come From?  By Arlen Lawson.
    [The title actually says it all]
12. Baby on Board.  By Christopher Okiishi.
    [Monologue about finding meaning through kidnapping]
13. Is That an Earthquake in my Balls, or Am I Just Happy to See
   You?  By Aaron Galbraith.
    [Aaron doubts the sincerity of others apologies.  He nails
     Balls to the wall]
14. Judi Dench, Promiscuous Whore.  By Neil "Balls" Campbell.
   [Herpes cautionary tale]
15. Dental Dam Over Good Taste.  By Chris Stangl.
   [A boy rhapsodizes about his love of three dead babies on a
    rope.  Really.]
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Oct 24, 1999 00:14 from Quicheo
The previous, if not obvious, is the order for 10/22.  Enjoy.
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Oct 24, 1999 23:09 from Thufir
I brought a friend to this No Shame.  We enjoyed it greatly, but were also
chemically altered, and I can't for the life of me determine whether the
chemicals in question helped or hurt my enjoyment of the show.
 
1.  I enjoyed it at the time, but I can't remember specifics now.  The best I
can come up with was that I remember thinking that Jamal was a reasonably
talented singer and I might want to take a look at his album.  He reminds me of
half of TMBG without the accordion.
 
2.  Weakest piece of the night as I recall.  The guy was nervous and stammered
a lot and generally didn't draw me into his piece.  But I was still stoned at
this point so my attention span may have been a touch less than usual.  Still.
 
3.  Inside joke.  Well, really, wasn't it?  Not terribly damn funny unless
you've been attending previous No Shames.  But what would No Shame be without
the inside jokes?  I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
 
4.  OK, OK, I liked this one.  I laughed and shit.  It was reasonably well
written and well done, and if the _premise_ was an inside joke of sorts, the
rest of the piece stood up damn fine on its own.
 
5.  About this time my head started clearing considerably.  This piece was
well-delivered, especially for a newcomer, and reasonably thought out.  For a
debut it was almost exceptional.  I wasn't terribly interested in the subject
matter though and my mind kept wandering.  Still, it was well done.  And
without a script even.
 
6.  Reasonably funny again, and well done.  Probably something that you had to
be following through previous No Shames, but like #4 it stood up enough well
solo.
 
7.  This one was just damn strange, and thankfully I don't remember much of it,
mostly Jamal lying in a strange position on stage in such a way where he could
have given himself a golden shower and now I have to stop thinking about it.
 
(Whoops, that should have been #8 above.)
 
The real 7, the song by Kyle Lange:  Wow, this guy is a surprisingly decent
guitarist and singer.  Honestly.  I really enjoyed listening to his shit.  A
nice interlude in the normally comedy-ridden No Shame venue.
 
9.  Another damn funny sketch, well acted and well written for the most part.
No complaints.  I was a bit fuzzy to be too critical about it.  I particularly
enjoyed the existential appearance of the guy with the octopus and rubber
chicken to stop the sketches.
 
10.  While it is impossible for me to identify with the situation in which the
writer apparently found himself, it was still exceedingly funny and well
delivered.  (Yes, another one.)  Good job.
 
11.  This one was a little off kilter.  I think it couldn't actually decide if
it was a comedy sketch or a serious sketch or ... well, I know, maybe that was
the _point_, but still.  It conveyed its stated goal well enough.
 
12.  Extremely well done.  Bravo good job etc.  Nothing further to say.  I wish
I could, I feel like this whole review has been this long string of patting you
assholes on the back.  Quit acting so damn well.  :)
 
13.  This is my favorite kind of No Shame sketch:  Short, heavy comedy with a
strong ending.  A classic.
 
14.  Strange but good.  Wasn't quite as strong as the preceding four or five,
but on the other hand, I'm starting to think that girl is really pretty damn
cute, so I'll let you guys slide a half point or so.  Seriously, it was good.
 
15.  While well acted and well written, this was a bit too heavy on the gross
out factor to sit well with me.  I _really_ wish it hadn't closed out the
evening.  I have nothing bad to say about it critically; I just didn't like it
personally.  Yech.  But it was high quality yech.
 
 
You guys are really good, overall.  Splendid job.  I missed Dan, but I always
miss Dan.  And I'm glad the only really weak piece was early in the evening so
I could enjoy the rest of it.  My friend was impressed, and I can see why.
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Oct 24, 1999 23:43 from Thufir
(Oh, and Chris, you did a bang-up job with the announcements.  Just to reassure
you, because you seemed nervous about it.)
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Oct 25, 1999 09:30 from Quicheo
Thanks, Thufir!  My self-esteem was waning...  You're my hero!
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Oct 25, 1999 10:21 from Ender
 
Wow..  Sounds like I missed one heckuva show.  There should be a satellite
uplink or a web broadcast or something for people who go out of town..
 
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Oct 25, 1999 13:52 from Ender
 
Random tidbit:  I just had a conversation with someone who told me they were in
a No Shame piece in the early 90s wherein a certain old, permanently
out-of-tune piano got knocked over for the sake of "art" in the course of some
offbeat improv music (sort of) thing.
 
This would be the same piano which brought about the practice of No Shame
having to pay rent for the use of the theatre.  I guess the idea was that the
fee would "cover damages in advance" or something?  I'd guess the approximately
$12000-$16000 that has been paid since thenhas put a reasonable dent in the fee
for fixing a piano that was nearing the end of it's life span anyway...
 
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Oct 25, 1999 14:25 from Crotch Monkey
hmmm....interesting.....
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Oct 26, 1999 00:02 from Frackledart
Thufrey: gee, your review is like looking at the back of my review's head. It's
a total 180, Mickey. To paraphrase the noble Lawson, the words "good" and "not
good" have traded places! It's the antithesis of my review.   Not really, I
stretch the truth a bit for dramatic effect. _BUT_! I did disagree with a lot
of stuff. 50%, perhaps? Perhaps. Like... you said "Eeek! Nick's piece is for
creeping me out!" I say, "Nick's piece is for loving it too much." You say,
"Chris? Stangl?! How did you get that gross?!! That is too gross for MY
opinion!" I say, "You have made the funniest skit of all, Chris!" And though
those are two examples where I enjoyed what you _DESPISED_!!!!!!!, the greatest
irony of all is that you found it to be a good show on the whole, and I found
it to be a poor show on the whole!  !!! Is it too much for you to believe?!
Yes.
Also, although I refer to you by the informal name "Thuffo", I do not know who
you are. I look and it tells me. It tells me "Thiffa=Greg". But still I do not
know. ... No.
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Oct 26, 1999 04:17 from Thufir
I'm the Lurking Critic of No Shame, apparently.  Normally I've been watching
too long to give good reviews.  Note disclaimer above about chemical alteration
if I seem to be waxing effusive in my old age.  But I think it was fairly
strong.
 
If I ever review something of yours too harshly and you want to gut my insides
or something, I think James and Adam still know who I am.
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Oct 26, 1999 04:20 from Thufir
(Part of the "problem", actually, is that you people really _have_ been
becoming better actors and so a lot of the beef I had about No Shame when it
was flailing around trying to find itself after Nekkid Percussion left has
dissipated into the sub-ether.  Now when you do shit, it's done well, even when
it's not done up to par.  Make sense?)
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Oct 26, 1999 04:35 from Prufrock
I still know who Greg is. S'true.
With some anguishing soul-searching, I will someday know who I am as well.
 
Back next week. Miss No Shame. No conjunctions. Too much hurt.
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Oct 26, 1999 12:34 from Whitewolf
 
I don't know who Greg is, but I claim to have hobnobbed with him at parties
'cause it increases my social standing.
 
Ender: I missed something. Are you talking about the piece where the piano was
initially damaged, or a subsequent piece where someone knocked the same piano
over deliberately?
 
As to the No Shame rent, it started back in the days where any No Shame
decision would be said to have four different causes, depending on which clique
you asked, and each clique would think the other one was lying. So I cannot
speak for The Truth. But I was always given to understand that the No Shame
theater rent was meant to cover minor wear to the space, electricity during the
extra hours the building was open, etc., not to accrue against some theoretical
later damage. IIRC, after the piano was destroyed  there was a "Best of No
Shame" fundraiser, but then No Shame continued to be free for at least another
year except for the year-end Best Of. I don't think the rent started
immediately after the piano was damaged in direct response to that event.
 
But shit, it was 10 years ago, what do I know.
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Oct 26, 1999 14:18 from Thufir
Whatever, they take the money after the show and go drinking.  Or maybe they
buy some kind bud and toke it up in the board room.  There's a thought.
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Oct 26, 1999 15:07 from Ender
 
Whitewolf:  You definitely speak with more authority on the matter than I
do--I've been working from second- and third-hand information at best.  The guy
with whom I spoke about the piano was probably in the second piano incident.  I
never knew there were two before, and considering the piano wasn't the cause of
rent being charged, $100 a night starts to sound even less called-for.  I don't
really know what is involved in terms of lighting costs for a theatre for 2
hours, but I would expect it's less than that.  And damage has been negligible
in general.
 
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Oct 26, 1999 16:51 from Subotai
Board room? do you mean the BORED room? Like when a bad piece is going on? Oh
yeah, Friday's show was boffo.
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Oct 26, 1999 17:20 from Prufrock
Yes, the board room. That's where we keep the priceless treasures and relics
that No Shame has accumulated. Upon the many fluted pedestals carved from
gigantic four-foot pearls are urns from Atlantis, the skull of St. Jerome, the
Heavenly Scepter wielded by emperors of the Shang Dynasty, the secret
correspondence of George III and Thomas Jefferson, the original manuscript of
_Oedipus Rex_, and the last breeding pair of Carolina parakeets. We gather on
the eve of every waning moon and drink faery wine from the skulls of manticores
while we eat bunyip caviar and bagels flown in every day from Alf Moskowitz's
Deli on 41st and State. You should come along sometime, Greg. But be prepared
to offer up three virgins to the Secret Powers of this world.
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Oct 26, 1999 19:58 from Fishcult
Every word James says is true.  Not that I'd know, or anything.  But I'd like
to think that every word was true.
   Also, long live Serio-Comedy!!!  Eh?  Can I get an Amen?
   Oh, well.  At least people are (Or maybe "one person is") starting to say
good things about my No Shamin' on the website.
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Oct 27, 1999 09:12 from Quicheo
Arlen--I think you and your pieces are super-swell!  (There!  A rave on ISCA as
well...)
 
BTW--Where's Turfir gonna find three virgins at No Shame, James??
 
(Glad to hear you're back this week...)
 
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Oct 27, 1999 11:05 from Whitewolf
 
Well, is rent for No Shame still $100 a night? Again, that was word-of-mouth I
recall from quite a while back, and I don't know if it's still valid.
 
As to whether it's a valid amount, well ... does the University allow any other
group to come in and use its facilities in a similar way? I recall West Side
Players repeatedly trying to get theater space in the Theater Building and
being turned down, and they're an actual SGA group.
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Oct 27, 1999 12:32 from Ender
 
 
Still $100 a night, yep.  But we are a little more symbiotic with the Theatre
Department than any other group.  While it's not an official student group, and
you don't have to be in Theatre to be there, there are typically several
theatre students involved on a regular basis and on the board---and when No
Shame gets press, the Theatre Department often does as well.  The publicity
around the tenth anniversary show included a Department staff member talking
about how valuable this resource is for their students.  That would be David
Thayer, whose opinion counts even if they named Theatre A after him instead of
Theatre B.
 
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Oct 27, 1999 13:21 from Whitewolf
 
I'm not implying the Theater Building should necessarily open up to other
groups. I'm implying No Shame has a special relationship with the theater
department that no other group shares, and the $100 theater rental sounds to me
like a sweetheart deal that's part of that. Whether it represents fair market
value of the space may be questionable, but if the department isn't offering
the theaters out to any other ad hoc group for any price, then fair market
value is irrelevant. Given the dearth of good, available, central performance
spaces in IC, I'd say No Shame is getting a good deal. I just hope the rental
fee goes toward good causes.
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Oct 27, 1999 14:16 from Dan
Because this has become a subject of occasional public discourse on the No
Shame stage, and because it's very nearly on-topic in here, I just thought I'd
toss out some handy No Shame financial facts.
1) We pay $100 a night in rent (as many people have pointed out.) That boils
down to $2400 every year, which we pay in full after Spring Best Of. Anything
left over is kept by NS for the following year's rent.
2) Extra money does not, contrary to popular belief, get anywhere near any of
the No Shame board members. No one has ever gotten paid for No Shame. No one
ever will.
3) Also contrary to popular belief, No Shame is not privately amassing a great
fortune. The most we've ever had left over at the end of a year (as far as I
know) is about $1500. That year, we gave $1000 to the Theatre department for
playwriting scholarships.
4) Yes, it would be possible for No Shame to run out of money and not be able
to afford Theater B anymore. That would suck. However, under the brilliant
leadership of the current No Shame board, we don't have a lot to worry about.
5) The common housecat has a barbed penis.
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Oct 27, 1999 14:13 from Skweetis
good stuff:
#6 knotty pines pt 4
police...roxanne...sunnuvabitch!
made me pee my pants when i read it.
well written hansen comedy.  love that style.  will try to the best of my
ability to rip it off.
 
#7 karen song
kyle, you are an awesome guitar player and singer.  if only i could hear the
words you was singing, i would worship you.  keep it up.  we need to jam
sometime.
 
#10 panties with flowers
we've all been there at some point in our lives, admit it guys.  good stuff.
hope you keep coming back.
 
#12
babies is cute, ain't they?  very well written, as usual, chris, and very
touching and funny as well.  yet, somehow weird  when in the same show as
stangl's baby on a rope bit
 
#13
you kill me stubble.  no really, i'm dead now.  that sketch gave me a heart
attack.  i am really the ghost of james horak.  boo.
 
#15
long long long, but good good good.  the nintendo shirt made the sketch.
 
 
bad stuff:
#2
not hague's best stuff by far.  good writing, but didn't fit well with his
deadpan dennis-leary-on-nyquil delivery.
 
#5
i didn't get it.  skinny fucked up guy looking through telescope...big
punchline, left the lens cap on.  good writing, but didn't accomplish what i
think willie intended, which was to be funny.  long build up, then i was
like..."that was it?  left the lens cap on?  that's the joke?"  i guess i'm too
used to slap you in the face with a wet sock humor to get the subtle humor in
the piece, and the punchline at the end detracted from the piece, because it
was trying to be blatantly funny.  or maybe i'm completely missing something
and it was supposed to be a serious piece...dunno...
 
#14
balls falls?  it was tre funny, don't get me wrong, but i guess that i didn't
find it as funny as some of balls' (balls's?  ballses?)  earlier stuff.  hope
hope?  wha?  i hate isca.  anywho, his  writing is funny.  But this wasn't up
to balls par.  yeh.
 
other stuff:
i was wondering, how do you all think that segue at the end of my piece went?
how it turned into adam's sketch?  the audience seemed kind of
bewildered...like they couldn't figure out when the piece ended, or why it
ended, or if it ended, or poo.
comments?
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Oct 27, 1999 14:41 from Skweetis
even the girl house cats?
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Oct 27, 1999 16:30 from Prufrock
Well, doy.
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Oct 27, 1999 18:33 from Crotch Monkey
actually, even some common house-wives have barbed penises.
and thats a fact *subliminal message-overthrow the government*
-cassady
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Oct 30, 1999 03:14 from Quicheo
1)  Mose Hayward is a Yellow Fellow by Jamal Ribba
2)  We've Got Your Family's Values in Sight by Aprille Clarke
3)  Who Wrote This Shit?  By Kyle Lange  -Oh.  (Thanks for the title Sarah!)
4)  The Spaces Between Words by David Harman
5)  I'm "Monkey-Huge" on You by Adam Hahn
6)  Six Angry Sketches by Markamus Hansen
7)  Brett Deckers:  Highly Excellent by Dan Brooks
8)  Son of Night Raid on the Planet of the 10 ft. Rabid Killer Chickens Returns
and the Revenge of His Bride part II or Yet Another Pudding Sketch by Arlen
Lawson
8)  Eat This Fat Monologue by Cash Money Rothschild
9.5) The Short Order Skit by Mike Schmidt
10) A Robust Sky Blue Something by James Horak and Jenna Zielinski
11) Things That Go Hump in the Night by Neil "Balls" Campbell
12) Part II  (writer unidentified, but did part one some weeks ago)
13) A Sonnet by Aaron Galbraith
14) Invisible Woman, Visible Uterus A Hallowe'en Story by Chris Stangl
14.5) Rub-A-Dub-Dub by Christopher Okiishi
15) An Ode to Mom by Mike Cassady ad Stubble Galbraith
16) Fifteen Reasons Why I Hate Little Children and Three Reasons Why I Love
Their Mothers by Al Angel
17) Gun-Toting Corporate-Clad Clowns from Hell vs. the Christian Coalition by
Don Deeley
18) A Song by Ben Schmidt
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Oct 30, 1999 03:14 from Quicheo
The previous was the order!  Go to it...
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Nov 1, 1999 00:15 from Quicheo
Gosh, a silent forum!!  What up?
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Nov 1, 1999 03:12 from Thufir
It was terrible.  I hated everything I saw.
 
OK, you got me.  I didn't go.
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Nov 1, 1999 10:44 from Avenue Player
the website, on the other hand, is hopping.  i recommend that you go visit it.
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Nov 1, 1999 15:46 from Ender
 
Um, random plug for local politics--if you're a registered Iowa City voter,
then it would be way-cool if you happened to vote today at a satellite polling
station (like the Public Library until 5pm) or at your official voting place
tomorrow.  The turnouts at the primaries were so low that even a few votes
would have made a big difference, and chances are the same will be true if
voter apathy is the continuing trend.  Why am I posting this in No Shame?  I
guess 'cause it is a local phenomenon.  All discussion should go to Locals> of
course.  But if you're wondering how you'd vote if you were me, you're welcome
to check my profile. :)
 
 
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Nov 2, 1999 10:22 from Whitewolf
 
Overall quality Friday night was high, although it seemed to be the night of
skits that just got longer and more disorganized and less rehearsed as the
night wore on ... and on ... and on. It was also the night of extensive
cocksucking.
 
I must say, I was really perversely fond of the "Invisible Woman" horror story
and Dan's Brett Deckers monologue.
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Nov 2, 1999 15:16 from Crotch Monkey
that monologue was highly excellent.
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Nov 3, 1999 09:04 from Whitewolf
 
Yup. It fucked me in a different hole that no one will ever find again because
they are not highly excellent enough.
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Nov 3, 1999 15:47 from Quicheo
Oh, the imagery--my eyes!  My eyes!
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Nov 5, 1999 08:11 from Ender
 
So, a referesher on the announcements.  It's great to hear what's going on, but
by the end of the show I never remember what's when or where unless I knew it
already.  For example, when is Dan's show?
 
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Nov 5, 1999 08:57 from Quicheo
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, if memory serves...  Supposed to be really good.
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Nov 5, 1999 09:28 from Ender
 
Duh, it's Brett Deck--uh, I mean, Dan Brooks.  I assume you mean Mon-Wed of
next week?  What time?
 
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Nov 5, 1999 14:44 from Crotch Monkey
8:00 curtain mon tues and wed.  lovely, lovely play.  you like laughy? you like
play.
love,
-cassady
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Nov 5, 1999 17:55 from Friskee
Is "The Whistler" Cassady performing tonight??
He performs, I go.
He is God.
Must see Cassady.
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Nov 7, 1999 02:11 from Ender
 
Jeff Goode posted on the web board letting people know they should submit their
scripts to him (as text documents or HTML files) at NoShTh@aol.com for
inclusion on the web site.  If you're sending scripts as attachments, please
send only one per email since his email program does funny things to multiple
attachments.  He also requested that you note the performer names for each
piece when possible.  (In the past he has addressed copyright concerns, and his
rationale why there is little to worry about in this regard; I can report that
here if such concerns are causing serious hesitation re: submitting scripts.)
 
My addendum to his post:
 
For those of you who are concerned about having your work posted online, it is
still important that your work be preserved in some form for the record.  If
for no other reason than because the web site really doesn't come to life when
it's just a list of titles and authors.  A suggestion:  You could compose a
brief synopsis of the piece, and perhaps even give an indcation of how the
performance went (what worked, what didn't, what accidents happened, what
serendipity made it better, whatever).  Otherwise years from now you may look
back at the web site and be just as confused as everyone else when you see
titles that just don't remind you what a piece was about, even though you wrote
it.
 
I did the piece-by-piece synopsis of the show myself a few times, but for one
person to encapsulate a whole night takes about as long as the show itself.  If
you'd each just send your script for posting or compose and send a synopsis,
well, that would simply kick ass for the web site.
 
And lastly, let me second the recommendation for including performer names.
This too helps jog the memory years later, and is a nod to the fact that No
Shame goes through writer-centric and performer-centric phases.  Just because
writers rule the day doesn't mean people won't wanna know what pieces that one
performer was in at some point in the future.
 
-Adam B.
 
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Nov 8, 1999 00:41 from Quicheo
Hear, here.
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Nov 8, 1999 04:08 from Amaranth
Hmmmn, no listings or comments yet?
 
Trivia question for last Friday's performance: How many accents did Wolf use
during that one monolgue?
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Nov 8, 1999 04:13 from Amaranth
It was nice to see pieces to the point and pared down.
 
Stengl is fascinating to watch -- technically accomploished pieces that are
about offensive subjects. I get the feeling he is trying to see how much he can
tax the audience without losing them
 
I hate to say it, but I was disappointed by Dan's piece. ALthough it was good,
it struck me as a "typical Dan piece" that we had seen done in one form or
another before. I liked it but have come to expect more from Dan.
 
For the exorcist skit: uusing the cards as a special effect for vomiting was
genius. it had excelent parts, but on the whole it could have used extensive
editing. The ending was obvious, and a shorter piece would have made that
forgivable.
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Nov 8, 1999 05:21 from Jeff
Okey dokey, please help reconstruct the order from this week.  Here's what we
know so far:
#8      Adam Hahn - "Chris Stangl Should Like This Monologue Better Than Last
Week's"
#?      Al Angel - "Humility"
#?      Nick Clark - "Arlen Lawson Plays 'Horp' In This Skit by Nick Clark"
#?      something by Mike Rothschild - (Mike Rothschild's short Dumb Magazine
bit)
#?      something by Mark Hansen - (Arlen's one-eyed monkey monologue)
#?      something by Mike Cassady or Balls Campbell
#?      (the one serious piece about killing the lady; which Aprille screwed up
by unceremoniously diving onto the table)
#?      Kehry Lane and Chris Sobbing - (the exorcist skit)
#?      something by Arlen Lawson - (the gun shop skit)
#?      something by Chris Stangl
#?      something by Dan Brooks - ("typical Dan piece")
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Nov 8, 1999 07:55 from Ender
 
Why do people keep spelling Chris Stangl's name "Stengl"?
 
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Nov 8, 1999 12:09 from Avenue Player
i don't know.
 
i wrote one too, though.  it was number 5.  that's all i remember about
anything.
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Nov 8, 1999 12:28 from Mindcrime
#10 - I Can COntribute Homophobic Innuendo too! -Nathan Bergom
#15 - Eyelid Movies - David Harman
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Nov 8, 1999 13:00 from Amaranth
I did #7, titled "Welcome to America."
 
I thought the one-eyed monkey skit was solid and enjoyable.
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Nov 9, 1999 16:36 from Fishcult
Dear Mr. Wolf, I have no idea which part of the Lane/Sobbing ending you are
referring to.  The only piece of the ending I can remember is the Kehry/Sheila
switch and that was both very interesting and not at all obvious.  Unless you
mean, "I figured out how they did that. It wasn't magic.  Also, the vomit was
cards."  But I don't think that's what you meant.  Love and Kisses,
                                                             Arlen
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Nov 10, 1999 01:48 from Amaranth
I thought the switch was obvious sometime when he started getting closer to the
audience (for the record, so did my lady -- maybe it's an age thing, we old
farts saw it coming). The cards-as-vomit was probably the best "special
effects" I've seen at No Shame. I also enjoyed the "C is for Cookie" response
from the possessed "girl."
 
I think the whole piece would've benefitted from editing, though. It had very
memorable parts but was not remarkable as a whole. I think if it had been pared
down, the ending would've  been more effective. I'm not saying it wasn't good,
but it's flaws showed thru and didn't need to.
 
And thank you for calling me "dear."  ;^)
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Nov 10, 1999 11:23 from Ender
 
Hey, all...  don't forget to check out Dan's show "The Lobster Play" in Theatre
B, 8pm, $1.  Tonight's the last night.  And if he doesn't turn a profit, he's
gotta name his first child "Dramaturgy."  This is serious stuff, folks.
 
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