Time: Thu, 01-Jun-2000 19:45:44 GMT     IP: 24.10.172.239

:...Exact location to be announced within 24hrs! 
:Eclamation point!!

Um, Chris?

Time: Thu, 01-Jun-2000 19:52:21 GMT     IP: 209.253.130.230

rumor has it that it will take place on the maibe stage.
tumor transit cat wiffle bake trace honda labia major.

Time: Thu, 01-Jun-2000 20:38:20 GMT     IP: 209.56.125.211

ANNOUNCING the first modern era SUMMER NO SHAME!!

Friday, June 2, 2000 @ 11:00 pm in Maibe!

Invite anyone you care to!  Pieces will be collected at 10:30 as 
usual!  Come!  Enjoy!  Exclaim!

(sorry for the tardiness--I hurt my knee and was getting it 
looked at and injected with drugs again.  Consequently, I have 
neglected my duties.  Sorry.  So very sorry.)

Time: Fri, 02-Jun-2000 19:10:42 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.149

:Friday, June 2, 2000 @ 11:00 pm in Maibe!

     Is that how to spell Maibe Theatre?  On the posters for 
"Summer No Shame" it says "E.C. Mabie Theatre"!  Whatta more-oon!

        Tit tit!
          Chris Stangl... maybie!

Time: Fri, 02-Jun-2000 19:25:01 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.149


       HAPAPAPA!  WILL YOU COME?
   THis summer, well have NO SHMAE!  Come to see its meny 
sketches.  What is this need for LAUGHTER human beings have?  
This anthropological display well tell you about this.  Nos 
hamne theater: two mikes to rub lotion onto your back!

        NOS! HAME!

Time: Fri, 02-Jun-2000 19:35:14 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.198

whoa there.  take a sedative.  see you at 11pm.  if it hurts, do 
it some more.

:HAPAPAPA!  WILL YOU COME?

Time: Sat, 03-Jun-2000 04:59:28 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.166

1)  The Sketch About the Baby by Edward "Mark J. Hansen" Albee
2)  Call to Arms by Carolyn Space Jacobsen
3)  Fathers' Day Closet by Aaron Galbraith
4)  I Watch Too Much TV by Michael Rothschild
5)  We All Got Busted by J. C. Luxton
6)  An American Tradition or Use Cream and It Won't Hurt So Much 
by Jessica Arendt
7)  The Standup, The Omlette, The Bike Pump, The Penis by Mose 
Hayward
8)   **nothing--a hole in the order***
9)  Abbot and Costello Eat Poop with Their Mouths a Play in Five 
Parts (Fillet Bin Dine Farts?) by James Horak
10) The Many Lives of Zachary HchMkopstyr by Arlen Lawson
11) This is the Way We Rock The Fun House of Cool by Jamal River
12) Pee by Neil "Ball" Campbell
13) Big Fat Dead Michelle A Romance by Al Angel
14) Clumpy Al and Jar O'Jar Jar by Jamal who throws rocks at 
retarded babies
15) Kevin Spacey by Chris Stangl

Sadly, I had to leave early, so if I got any of these wrong, do 
let me know!!  Great show everyone!

Time: Sat, 03-Jun-2000 11:31:00 GMT     IP: 62.153.7.216

So, hey! I was not in town to be at Summer Shame. I was in a far 
off land, and though tomorrow I am flying many hours away from 
here, I will still wind up in a land that is far away from Iowa 
City.

So.

I challenge you, tax-paying consumers, to write many reviews of 
the show. Mock it up. And please, send your pieces in to the 
website, so's that I can read them and sigh and remember how I 
were sleeping 'stead of being at Summer Shame. I know I've never 
sent a piece in, so you may think, "Who is Balls to ask this of 
me?"

You just may think that.

-Balls

Time: Sun, 04-Jun-2000 07:48:24 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.177

Well, Neil, what you missed was this:

:1)  The Sketch About the Baby by Edward "Mark J. Hansen" Albee

This was a sketch where Arlen played a man with a baby, and Mark 
tried to tell him a joke! I "shit" you not! You should have been 
there, guy! What a riot!

2)  Call to Arms by Carolyn Space Jacobsen

The title was something of a "pun", in that the piece itself WAS 
about arms, and not the arms like a gun and a knife, which is 
what "call to the arms" usually means. These were the kind of 
arms a person has growing out of their chest (i.e. nipples).  

3)  Fathers' Day Closet by Aaron Galbraith

This was about a man named Chris Okiishi who goes home for 
Fathers' Day, and as a special Fathers' Day surprise paints 
"Happy Fathers' Day!" inside his own father's closet. You can 
just imagine the brooo-ha-ha that followed! "What did you do?! 
Paint on my closet?! Noooo!!" Hah! 

4)  I Watch Too Much TV by Michael Rothschild

Michael Meddner Rothschild explained at length the pros and cons 
of an active TV watching schedule. On the pros, there is always a 
good show you can watch. On the cons, maybe there is not even 
anything on you want to watch. This piece got ME thinking about 
how sometimes _I_ watch TV. What can you do? There are no easy 
answers.

5)  We All Got Busted by J. C. Luxton

This piece was about a man named J.C. Luxton. HE got busted, as 
well as the others too! What a scream!

6)  An American Tradition or Use Cream and It Won't Hurt So Much 
by Jessica Arendt

Jessica says if you put cream in your eyes before poking at them 
with your fingers and fingernails that it won't hurt as much. I 
tried it and found it not to be true. I guess the joke was on me!

7)  The Standup, The Omlette, The Bike Pump, The Penis by Mose 
Hayward

This piece was just a list of Mose's favorite things. There were 
only the 4 things. (Somehow he still stretched it out to 5 
minutes. A good piece on the whole but could have used a little 
trimming down.)

8)   **nothing--a hole in the order***

I don't remember what this was.

9)  Abbot and Costello Eat Poop with Their Mouths a Play in Five 
Parts (Fillet Bin Dine Farts?) by James Horak

There were only _4_ parts that I counted, and they were the same 
4 as in Mose's sketch. I hope they planned that out ahead of time 
cuz otherwise that's a creepy coincidence. Yike!

10) The Many Lives of Zachary HchMkopstyr by Arlen Lawson

Arlen came out on stage with his BALLS hanging out of his pants! 
Then he insulted Meggie Magebie repeatedly. He kept calling 
Meggie onto the stage, and then pointing at his own rear end. He 
did that for like 5 minutes, and the whole time his Arlen balls 
where waving about. I was FLOORED! What was he THINKING?! Maybe I 
missed something, cuz I didn't understand the point.

11) This is the Way We Rock The Fun House of Cool by Jamal River

I led the crowd in a call and answer version of "Me And Uh Gun" 
by Tobi Amos. It got 'em pretty riled up. Jamal: "Who And Gun?!" 
Crowd: "Me And Uh Gun!" 

12) Pee by Neil "Ball" Campbell

A man (was he new? I'd never seen him) sat on stage and drank a 
gallon of milk for like 15 minutes. He kept shouting, "This is 
pee I'm drinking!" and then laughing. It was dumb, though, cuz 
obviously it was milk. Whatever.

All the rest of the pieces were about your butt, for some reason. 
They were all really good, though, so I didn't mind. They mostly 
weren't very funny, but they were really interesting, and I admit 
that one made a little tear come out of me. I never knew your 
butt could be so sad.

All in all, the best night of No Shame ever. Ever. Ever.

Time: Sun, 04-Jun-2000 16:24:35 GMT     IP: 152.163.213.177

   I have sent my sketch to Jeff.  You need only wait.  I think 
all people should send a thing to Jeff.  All.
   Throw a piece to NoShTh@aol.com, if you're too dumb in your 
head to know that.  I hear saving in HTML is preferred.  I hear 
a loud noise, like a hummingbird, but smaller.  No... even 
smaller.
   I would write a review of the show, but Jamal has said 
everything I wanted to say.
   It was a fun show to me.  It felt enough like No Shame in the 
summer that an audience the size of a little blue fetus (YOUR 
little blue fetus) wasn't bothersome to me.
   I smiled the first time I saw you.  I swear to God I smiled 
so big I nearly became the planet Mars.  But look at you.  With 
your Bartending Trident.  I don't like the smell of you,
                                                   Arlen
   

Time: Sun, 04-Jun-2000 23:01:31 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.186

1)  The Sketch About the Baby by Edward "Mark J. Hansen" Albee
        I remember liking parts and particular lines in this.  I 
also remember wishing that people would have laughed more at the 
funny parts.  Mark - you are a punny man.

2)  Call to Arms by Carolyn Space Jacobsen
        I liked the idea behind this (taking the first line of a 
bunch of books and putting them together and seeing if they make 
sense), but she kind of scared me when she went off about arms 
and legs.  For some reason all I could think about during it was 
spiders and how their legs are jointed backwards.  Yuck.  I hate 
spiders.

3)  Fathers' Day Closet by Aaron Galbraith
        This was my favorite piece of the night.  I loved Aaron's 
feminine side.  And the whole dads-hugging scene at the end was 
just beautiful.

4)  I Watch Too Much TV by Michael Rothschild
        Okay....I don't know about this one.  I mean, I remember 
it, but I don't think I "get" it.  Or maybe it was just dumb.  Or 
maybe I'm just dumb.  You think so?  Well, shut up.

5)  We All Got Busted by J. C. Luxton
        This guy was SOOO intense.  His veins were popping out of 
his forehead and his neck and he was angry and scary.  I liked it.

6)  An American Tradition or Use Cream and It Won't Hurt So Much
by Jessica Arendt
        EXCUSE ME!  My name is spelled with an H.  Ahrendt.  
German - lots of useless consonants.

7)  The Standup, The Omlette, The Bike Pump, The Penis by Mose 
Hayward
        The first time Mike said "Where's my damn vagina?" I 
began to laugh and I did not stop until halfway through Number 8.

8)   **nothing--a hole in the order***
        This one sucked.

9)  Abbot and Costello Eat Poop with Their Mouths a Play in Five 
Parts (Fillet Bin Dine Farts?) by James Horak
        You know....I don't remember what this was.  Uh-oh.  
Where's my Ginkoba?  Dang it.  I wish I could remember.

10) The Many Lives of Zachary HchMkopstyr by Arlen Lawson
        This was touching and I liked it.  And, Arlen, you are 
not fat and you should not be afraid to smile.

11) This is the Way We Rock The Fun House of Cool by Jamal River
        Was this the sketch where Chris kept yelling for Jamal 
and when he'd walk in Chris would present his butt and ask what 
Jamal thought of it?  If so, I thought it was really long and 
might have been funny, if it wasn't so long.               

12) Pee by Neil "Balls" Campbell
        Second favorite piece of the night, I think.  Jamal's 
performance = yay!

13) Big Fat Dead Michelle A Romance by Al Angel
14) Clumpy Al and Jar O'Jar Jar by Jamal who throws rocks at
retarded babies
        Were these the two songs?  If so, I liked them, except I 
couldn't understand the words.  I know you tried to fix it.

15) Kevin Spacey by Chris Stangl
        I liked the beginning of this - the Kevin Spacey trivia 
and letter to Kevin Spacey.  Chris is good at playing someone 
with psychotic tendencies.

It was a short show, but I enjoyed it.  Will it be enough to tide 
me over until August???  We'll see.
-Jessica

Time: Mon, 05-Jun-2000 20:50:58 GMT     IP: 209.56.60.2

I had a good deal of fun on Friday. I also just discovered I'm 
going to be in town again, for a precious few more weeks. 
Thereforthwith:

I am hereby proposing a bastard son of the summer shame, an 
illigetimate affair to be held outdoors this Friday. Since the 
board hasn't sounded so interested (that I am aware of) in 
sponsoring another of the immensely popular Summer Shame Series, 
this edition would be free of charge, unsupervised, held by the 
river or at city park.

Jamal "Frackle" Riverdart has seconded this motion, because he's 
just too "rad" butt.

All in favor?

--Mose Will

Time: Tue, 06-Jun-2000 01:25:56 GMT     IP: 205.188.197.186


All in favor?
 
Count me in! As well! And while i have your attention.... Thanks to heaps of help from Nick
Clark, my official website of myself is up and actually looks pretty decent. It stills needs loads of
other stuff, but there are fun links to be sure, and one or two surprises, or maybe none!! It is
www.angelfire.com/ma2/mhansen. Also let me know if you have any problems with it, technically
speaking, so I can fix them. So far I don't have a guestbook cuzI don't know how to make one, so
you can e-mail if you wanna.

Mark

Time: Tue, 06-Jun-2000 04:15:00 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.179

I am totally in favor, and on board as well. Like an on board 
motor, and I move fast too baby!!

What time are we thinking? Me say we start earlier, cuz it's dark 
at 11pm because there's no sun. How about we have food and drink 
and stuff?

mikey likes it

Time: Tue, 06-Jun-2000 21:30:33 GMT     IP: 209.56.97.49

Second Shameless Summer sounds splendid.  I am no longer in the city of Iowa City, Iowa, but
will gladly send in a dumb script or two for ya all to perform.

-prince stubble of galbraithia

Time: Tue, 06-Jun-2000 23:56:58 GMT     IP: 205.188.196.36

I am a NoShame Boardroom virgin, so please be gentle.  I had a 
great time at the first Summer NoShame and would attend another.  
However as an employee of Riverside Theatre I feel that I should 
remind everyone that 12th Night will be in City Park through the 
18th of June from 6:30 (preshow picnic) until at least 10.  So, 
if NoShamers are interested in City Park as a venue before 11 
this is something to think about; not only because we don't want 
to disturb another show, but because many regulars would not be 
able to attend because of their involvement in 12th Night.  So, 
not to be a stick in the mud, but that is what I have to say.  
There I said it. In the mud.  Now I am going to take a nap in my 
mud. Because I am tired. And a piggy. 

Oinkishly yours,
 Miss Piggy.

Time: Thu, 08-Jun-2000 19:29:00 GMT     IP: 128.255.107.230

So is it on? What's the dilly-yo?

mike

Time: Thu, 08-Jun-2000 23:28:31 GMT     IP: 24.6.203.121

:So is it on? What's the dilly-yo?
:
:mike

If you show up and perform, then it's on!

If other people show up then it's even on-er!

There's on-ity in numbers.

Time: Fri, 09-Jun-2000 03:06:06 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.64

Illegit Summer No Shame
10 p.m., Friday, Canoe House (by Iowa River outside theatre 
building)
No admission. No lighting. Nothing official ... but the fun! In 
a bun!
All are welcome. 
This will probably be more of an intimate sitting around and 
reading things rather than a "theatre event."

Having talked to about seven non-board regulars, that's the 
consensus. 
Hope to see a couple more of you.
Mose

Time: Sat, 10-Jun-2000 15:16:11 GMT     IP: 24.6.203.121

:Illegit Summer No Shame
:10 p.m., Friday, Canoe House (by Iowa River outside theatre 
:building).  No admission. No lighting. Nothing official ...
:but the fun! In a bun!

How'd it go?

-Adam

Time: Sat, 10-Jun-2000 17:58:25 GMT     IP: 209.56.60.63


:How'd it go?
:
:-Adam

Well I'd have to say it went... AWESOME! I guess I just loved it! 
The turn out was small, but NEAT! I think ALL pieces were GOOD! 
Man, thinking about it makes me wish it was happening RIGHT now. 
I'm having FUN now, but not THAT much fun. Oof! Summer Fake Shame= 
A-O.RAD!
-Bill Murray (the famous ACTOR!) 

Time: Sun, 11-Jun-2000 21:18:32 GMT     IP: 128.91.20.10

I'm finally back home at my computer, so here is a late late late 
review of last Friday's show (June 2).

First, I have to say that it was both confusing and intriguing to 
finally be putting faces to names.   Very very confusing.  So I 
find myself somewhat in the Thufir position, of hoping I get 
everything right.  I think that my sense from having just read 
piece titles over the past couple of years was that there was a 
lot of piss/shit/ass/fuck jokes going on, but it wasn't clear what 
else was going on, and I was really glad to see the inventiveness 
at work in a lot of the pieces for Friday.  It was a very 
entertaining show.  I laughed a lot, and a handful of moments have 
really stuck with me.  Thanks to everyone for being welcoming.

1)  The Sketch About the Baby by Edward "Mark J. Hansen" Albee
     I was concentrating on what I was going to do, so missed a 
lot of this.  I remember being confused about why the baby was 
being thrown off stage, which was probably intended.

2)  Call to Arms by Carolyn Space Jacobsen
     This went ok.  I was glad to finally get to use my fake 
intro--about my piece being created out of sentences taken from 
novels on my shelves.  It's weird to read to an audience who 
doesn't know me.  

3)  Fathers' Day Closet by Aaron Galbraith
     I've seen versions of this sketch before.  (The other strain 
of it involves parents insisting that their straight son is gay, 
despite his protestations.)  My favorite part of it was Mike's 
over-the-top absolute rejection of his son's revelation.  The two 
dads together was also good.

4)  I Watch Too Much TV by Michael Rothschild
     What does it meeeeean?????  Surreal No Shame.

5)  We All Got Busted by J. C. Luxton
     What's great about JC is that he's really that intense.  I've 
been reading parts of this play for a while now, and it's really 
funny.  I really like saying "A hobbled adolescent Malinowski" 
over and over.  It's probably funnier if one knows who Malinowski 
is, but it sounds good even if one doesn't.

6)  An American Tradition or Use Cream and It Won't Hurt So Much 
by Jessica Arendt
     I think message pieces can work--but this piece seemed more 
like the start of something rather than a whole thing.  I was left 
thinking, so if you hate shaving so much, then stop.  Which is 
pretty knee-jerk on my part, but I wanted something more 
complicated to respond to--something that really evoked the 
pressure put on women to conform to a certain image.  I liked the 
stats a lot, and the story of not shaving for two months in high 
school seemed to have a lot of potential.  I'm a sucker for a good 
story, and wanted to hear the details of this one--what was it 
like, how did the football team respond, what was it like finally 
shaving, etc.

7)  The Standup, The Omlette, The Bike Pump, The Penis by Mose 
Hayward
     I've been thinking about how stand-up might work at NS (since 
it usually fails so hard), and so it was fun to see this piece.  
It seemed a little rough at places, but a lot of fun.  By this 
point of the evening I had become a die-hard Mike Cassidy fan.

8)   **nothing--a hole in the order***
     What I liked best about this was its subtlety.  It didn't try 
to knock me out.  It just was.

9)  Abbot and Costello Eat Poop with Their Mouths a Play in Five 
Parts (Fillet Bin Dine Farts?)     by James Horak
11) This is the Way We Rock The Fun House of Cool by Jamal River
12) Pee by Neil "Ball" Campbell
     These three I can't keep straight in my head.  But one of 
them was the ballsack piece, and even though I've never been a fan 
of Balzac, I liked this just fine.  I loved the repetition. The 
long drawn out ending was really well done--I didn't want it to 
end.  And speaking of long and drawn out, Balzac himself was 
pretty funny.  One of these three was also the piece with the guy 
in the palm tree.  The urinating moment in this one was the 
funniest moment of the show for me.  Very funny writing and 
performing.  What was the other one???????

10) The Many Lives of Zachary HchMkopstyr by Arlen Lawson
     I'm glad this one was posted to the web so I could 
distinguish it from the others.  I think Arlen was the performer 
who most intrigued me the whole evening.  I really liked the "Can 
you show me what this face looks like" moments.   Made me really 
want to see him doing other things. I liked the rhythm and 
repetition of this piece.

13) Big Fat Dead Michelle A Romance by Al Angel
14) Clumpy Al and Jar O'Jar Jar by Jamal who throws rocks at 
retarded babies
     I always like music at NS.  I couldn't hear the lyrics all 
that well. But I particularly liked the bassline in the first.

15) Kevin Spacey by Chris Stangl
     Half of me wants to say this was my favorite writing of the 
night. The other half of me wants to say that this really needed 
to be edited.  (Like the way it opened with the recitation of the 
IMDB list . . .  I wanted that level of obsession to be conveyed 
in one quick sentence.)  This piece had the line of the night I 
most coveted, though.  The last line.  "And for this, I want it 
dark."  I'm very very jealous of this line.  I'm thinking of 
putting it into several pieces I wrote years ago, and then 
claiming it was stolen from me.

Time: Wed, 14-Jun-2000 17:48:21 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.208

I miss you, Jessica.

Time: Fri, 16-Jun-2000 22:03:50 GMT     IP: 209.56.60.62

I wish I was your butt. Cuz it SMELLS! HAHAH!

Time: Sat, 17-Jun-2000 05:41:39 GMT     IP: 205.221.255.42

Dearest George,
Ummm....gee....that must be a fake e-mail address.
Love and Hugs and Stuff,
Jessica

Time: Wed, 21-Jun-2000 03:30:29 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.95

I wish I WAS the butthole. That WOULD

Time: Thu, 22-Jun-2000 12:52:18 GMT     IP: 152.163.197.66


:Love and Hugs and Stuff,


Love and Hugs and Stuff?  For me?  Wow.
:sigh
george

Time: Fri, 23-Jun-2000 18:15:24 GMT     IP: 64.197.224.71

MEYER.  MEYER, goddamn you, get it right!  My balogna has a LAST 
NAME, and it's M-E-Y-E-R!!!!!!!  I am so offended!  I forbid you 
ever to post another message here!

Time: Sat, 24-Jun-2000 03:13:04 GMT     IP: 205.188.193.157

And I wish I was able to correctly use the subjunctive.

Time: Sat, 24-Jun-2000 05:55:07 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.177

:MEYER.  MEYER, goddamn you, get it right!

Okay, okay!  I'm SORRY!  Sheesh!  Calm down!  I tried to sing the 
song as I sat at my computer, but Y and I sound kind of the same 
and I couldn't remember which one it was!  I had a 50/50 chance, 
but I blew it.  I screwed up, coach!  Let me back in the game?  
Please?

Time: Sun, 25-Jun-2000 07:41:49 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.83

Well, I farted. I was sitting here reading the bulletin board and 
'fart'. _I_ farted. I guess I AM embarrassed. I guess I DON'T 
want to be made fun of for it, OK?! Jessica?! All RIGHT?! Other 
people probably DO fart when they read the bulletin board (or 
"B.B." as I like to call it that, not to be confused with 
"BoBo"). So why pick on me? Why do you think that is? Also, it's 
not like my fart is smeltable by you when you're looking AT this 
buttelin board, so why are you such complaining to me about it? 
Just let it go, man (lady). Leave it alone. Why do you poke at me 
where it hurts? That hurts! You hurt me again and again. A hurt 
for every fart. That's too many. Don't even ask it because the 
answer is N-O spells NO! 

Time: Mon, 26-Jun-2000 04:01:29 GMT     IP: 205.188.195.51

:Well, I farted. I was sitting here reading the bulletin board 
and 
:
'fart'. _I_ farted. I guess I AM embarrassed. I guess I DON'T 
:
want to be made fun of for it, OK?! Jessica?! All RIGHT?!

Hey!  You go ahead and fart all you want!  I'm not stopping you!  
And I'm not going to make fun of you either!  Go ahead!  FART, 
FART, FART!  And leave me out of it.  Thanks.

Time: Wed, 28-Jun-2000 07:45:20 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.189

:MEYER.  MEYER, goddamn you, get it right!  My balogna has a LAST
:NAME, and it's M-E-Y-E-R!!!!!!

Hey.....I was at Hy-Vee tonight and I passed the weinies and I 
just had to look.  YOU, Oscar, were wrong as well.  Now that's 
just sad.  For cryin out loud, a man should always know his own 
weinie.