Time: Sat, 09-Sep-2000 07:30:29 GMT     IP: 24.9.193.222

Here we go:

1)  The Wizard of Lonliness by Jamal River
2)  The Audition Piece by John "You Dirty--Bastards!" Hague
3)  Sushi by Willie Barbour
4)  Nozebone the Band by Nozebone the Band featuring Bob-Ghengis 
Kahn and Maxine of Arc
5)  Burgertime by "Mose Hayward" aka Alyssa J. Bowman
6)  Slurry Walls by Mark Hansen
7)  Ouch!  There's a Gorilla in My Ass!! or Ouch in My Ass!! 
There's a Gorilla!!  by Mike Cassady
8)  Elephant Memory and Cauliflower Ear by Arlen Lawson
9)  Give Your Dead Baby to Kyle Lang and He Will Eat It The Saga 
of Karen by Al Angel and The Seven Silly Cerebellums
10) More To Love by Aprille Clarke
11) Honey Down the Drain by Neil "Balls" Campbell
12) A Letter Of Apology by Christopher Okiishi
13) The Jumping Bean Wedding by Chris Stangl

Great night, all!  Not a weak piece in the lot, and, dig it, a 
WAY MORE THAN OKAY crowd! 

Time: Sat, 09-Sep-2000 15:11:17 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.67

Lifted directly from the ISCA forum...
Great show to start the new year, everybody!  woooooohooooo.  
there were really
no clunkers at all.  too bad those two newcomers chickened out, 
but oh well.
13 pieces was a really nice number...just the right length.

since the order's not posted (who's gonna do that, anyway?  I'd be 
glad to when
I'm around), i'll remember the best I can and make a few comments.

1.  jamal's piece:  since it went first i don't remember exactly 
what happened,
but it was the one with the dancing at the end, right?  it was 
funny and I
laughed.  it wasn't the one with the almost-kissing, right?  that 
was Alyssa's
(and rumor has it it was really alyssa's).  but anyway, i remember 
liking
jamal's even though i don't remember what happened right now.

2.  i don't know if it was really 2 or not, but the next thing i 
remember is
John Hague's.  this was my favorite thing he's done to date, i'd 
say.  good and
short--his pieces sometimes get a little draggy, but this one had 
great energy
and was quick and to-the-point.  nice work.

3.  Willie's?  for the life of me I don't remember what Willie did 
except that
it was a monologue.  i'm sorry.  i was kind of tired last night.  
It was
probably well-written and well-acted.

4.  the Gnosebone duet:  funny but too long for a song that was 
supposed to be
bad.  (right?)  amazing technique on that little weiner guitar or 
whatever it
was, though, Nick.  and mark is always a treat on the melodica.

5. i don't recall much else before Mike's, because i was in it, 
and it was
funny.  that was the William H. Macy hobo thing.  some great lines 
in there,
especially ones pertaining to the ages of the respective hobos.  
good and
short, too.

6.  once again, not really number 6, but the next thing i remember 
is Alyssa's.
i'm so proud of her for writing!  it would have been better if the 
actors had
picked up the pace a bit since it dragged somewhat, but a great 
start (we can
definitely tell whom she lives with by whose style is rubbing off 
on her).

7.  Chris Okiishi's was in there somewhere--wonderful in his 
trademark way.
make 'em laugh, sock it to 'em, make 'em laugh again.  i bet he 
has to deal
with a lot of crap like that when he practices.  isn't it weird 
that he's a
doctor yet he hangs out with us?

8.  Arlen's:  probably my favorite of Arlen's work to date as 
well.
wonderfully delivered, well-assembled, amazing images (the 
roasting elephant,
kids throwing glass bottles, sliding on phone wires, etc.).  way 
to go.

9.  Neil's:  this was the one where Stubble's pants were all hiked 
up.  funny,
great delivery by Mike on his lines.

10.  Mark's monologue about...something.  oh right, the lightbulb 
thing.  good,
but i think Mark's strengths lie in scene-writing with witty 
reparte (i don't
know how to spell that), and it's hard to have witty reparte with 
yourself.
great classic mark moment, though, in the motionless description 
"it looked
something like this" (or whatever the direct quote was).

11.  Chris stangl:  too bad the Southern Comfort got foamy, 
because i don't
think it really does that.  well-written and delivered, of 
course...not my
favorite of his that i've seen, but that doesn't mean i didn't 
like it.  i've
seen his butthole so much for someone i've never even slept with 
(i was gonna
say "someone i've never even kissed" but i think he's kissed most 
people).

ok, mine was in there, and there's obviously one more i'm not 
remembering.  oh
well.  sorry if i forgot to say anything about yours, whoever did 
that one.

once again, great show and great crowd.  can't wait for next week!

Time: Sat, 09-Sep-2000 18:19:24 GMT     IP: 24.9.193.222

Also lifted directly from the ISCA forum...
:
I have to agree with Aprille that John Hague's and Arlen Lawson's 
pieces were the best they've ever done, and that's saying 
something, because I really liked John Hague's "Four Horsemen of 
the Apocolypse" piece and I still think about Arlen Lawson's "I 
Broke Your Fucking Face" piece and it gives me chills.  So--well 
done.

And, though I've said it to her in person, I really enjoyed 
Aprilles play on beauty, weight, race and culture, and other 
preconceived conceptions that keep us at mocking distance from 
others.  Well done.

And I went to a wedding today and thought of Chris Stangl's 
grandfather character exploding with mexican jumping beans, and 
what a great metaphore for the inexplicable charge love can give 
you, if you let yourself feel is.

And, Aprille, in response to your sweet question, I think it more 
amazing that even though I'm this old doctor, you all will still 
hang around with me.

Time: Sun, 10-Sep-2000 01:19:58 GMT     IP: 205.188.193.39

   A wonderful night of No Shame Theatre.  Was it the enormous 
and fun-loving audience
or was it a wealth of pent-up summer creativity?  Well, I can 
tell you I wrote mine Friday
afternoon and that, from what I hear, "pent-up summer 
creativity" at No Shame is a myth. 
Thirteen pieces and no Dan Brooks.  Still good.  Maybe No Shame 
will survive.

   Here is my review.  Before I start, I want to get a few 
things out of the way.  First, I
have decided to try my hardest to be constructive in my reviews 
this semester (though on
a night as good as this one, it is a little hard to find areas 
for improvement that can be
easily pointed out in a review, especially by an amateur 
critic.)  Second, though I've said
this before, I would like to reiterate that a person doesn't 
have to be good at something to
know what's good and what's not.  You don't have to be a writer 
to be a critic.  Everyone
with an opinion should write a review. 

   Now then... ahem... 

The Wizard of Loneliness - Jamal River was responsible for 
this.  Four ways of describing
it is what you are asking from me?  Raucous, nonsensical, stream-
of-consciousness,
perfect.  A great way to start a No Shame show.  A great way to 
start a No Shame
semester.  I love you, Jamal.

Audition Piece - of John "Silly Nickname" Hague.  This was fun, 
funny.  It is the best
thing I've seen him do, as well, though I haven't seen 
everything he's done.  I don't know
if it was written better than his other pieces.  This was a 
great piece, but that may have
stemmed solely from the energy of the performance, which was 
wonderful.  There was a
bit, wherein the same joke was thrown into different settings a 
la SNL and stand-up
comedy, that might have made me cringe had said energy wavered 
and that the piece
might have been better without, but the energy didn't waver and 
the piece was great on
the whole, a crowd pleaser.

Sushi - Whodunnit?  Willie Barbour done it.  Willie describes.  
He describes a night, a
scene, some people, some ideas, some voyeurism.  He doesn't go 
anywhere with it,
though, and that makes me sad.  Maybe if there was a moment of 
resolution, a moment
when something else happened, when it all meant something, this 
could have been
wonderful.  Willie Barbour writes prose well, and this was no 
exception, but he has done
much better than this.

Nozebone the Band -  Well, they're Nozebone the band.  I loved 
this.  Nick and Mark. 
Nick and Mark.  This was novel and wonderful, also musically 
funny in a way that jazz
never is, despite a million pretentious people who will try to 
tell you otherwise.  A fun
moment for me was when they said that Nozebone wouldn't have 
guitar, bass, drums,
etc., or, in other words, everything I'd asked for in the 
announcements at the beginning of
the show.

Burgertime - Alyssa's first real sketch.  It is wonderful and 
cute (despite the fact that it is
about a dog dying and love as based on beauty) and makes you 
wonder why this is the
first sketch Alyssa's written for No Shame.  Maybe some of the 
cuteness came from every
actor onstage delivering his lines in a cute way.  In any case, 
I hope she writes more.  I
can't seem to remember if she said she would or not.

Slurry Walls - Who is this Mark Hansen and what is this I hear 
about him writing a surreal
comedy monologue?  Very funny moments.  Interesting things in 
here, too.  Mark Hansen
writes a unique and quirky monologue, interesting and 
memorable.  His performance
shares those attributes.  I like to watch it.  

I Vomited a Gorilla Onto the Stage.  That Gorilla Grew Up to Be 
a Supreme Court
Justice and I Wrote a Sketch About it. -  The author is Mike 
Cassady.  The sketch was
funny.  Brad shows us why you should cast him in every comedy 
sketch you ever write.  A
couple nights ago, a drunken train-riding hobo bumped into me in 
the Ped Mall, then
forced me to the Mill to buy me a Guinness with a twenty he had 
for some reason or
another, along the way sharing his insights about how the two of 
us, he and I, would one
day own the Sheraton hotel and already owned the night sky.  I 
was terrified the whole
time and he spilled half of his Guinness under the bar.  On 
purpose.

Elephant Memory and Cauliflower Ear - I wrote it!!!!!  Arlen 
Lawson!!!!!  I was thinking
of casting Neil as the fella I played and myself as the older 
man, but, when I tried it at
home, I found I could not do the old man well.  Maybe I should 
have cast Neil and Chris,
but I don't have it in me not to put myself onstage.

Grrrrrrr.  Kyle Lenga!  Saga of Karen - Al am Gel.  When he told 
me about this piece a
long time ago, he wasn't shouting, just pretending that it was 
amazing and interesting.  I
loved it.  This piece didn't need as much energy as he decided 
to put in it this time and
would have been better, more oddball wonderful without it.

More to Love - Aprille "Wrote a Monologue About Fattish Girl on 
a Novelty Postcard
and the Father who Put Her There" Clarke.  Neat.  Weird.  
Funny.  From time to time,
uncomfortable.  I assume intentionally so.  The sort of audience-
chastising, almost preachy
parts were the uncomfortable parts, by the by.  Overall, a 
clever, interesting monologue.

Honey Down the Drain - And the piece goes to... Neil "Testicles, 
Guts, Rubber/Leather
Orbs and Toys" Campbell.  Awesome.  Like always.  No Shame is 
back.  Neil Campbell is
funny and back.  Magnificent and interesting visuals using only 
human bodies and faces are
back.  Neil Campbell, ladies and gentlemen.  Neil Fuckin' 
Campbell.

A Letter of Apology - from the desk of Chris Okiishi.  This was 
great for holding my
attention.  Chris O. did well rallying and rousing the audience, 
and the sincerity of his
emotion in the monologue's loosely related tangent was very 
touching.  Was this a real
letter, a real situation?  I can not tell.

The Jumping Bean Wedding - What can you say about Chris Stangl?  
Chris Stangl owns
No Shame and if anybody ever says anything bad about him, he 
will close it down.  Long
live No Shame.

Time: Sun, 10-Sep-2000 18:07:11 GMT     IP: 128.255.56.5

Was that a great show?  I would like to say "Yex".  Though there were only 13 pieces.  I so wish
those 2 new fellows would not have chickened out and ran away.  The show's content of nothing
but pieces starring people who have been regulars for several years reaffirms the audience's
mistaken notion of NS as an elitist 'clique'.  No Way!  "Regulars" love new people.  Especially if
their piece is good.  First pieces are generally good because the writer/performer feel obligated to
produce something worthwhile.  Getting up on the NS stage for the first time requires bigger balls
(sorry to use this expression gleaned from our phallocentric common parlance, but I think you
know what I mean) than all subsequent NS appearances combined.  Big groovin' salute to Alyssa
for finally writing a thing.  More on that in the review found underneath.

The Wizard of Lonliness by AJM River --  Yes!  I feel that Jamal, when he writes a thing like this,
half plagiarizing the work of his freinds and half writing any random crap that should occurr to
him is in his 'sweet spot' as a writer.  But it was the Performances that made this a real treat. 
Because they performed good.

Audition Piece --John Hague:  I agree that this was Hague's rockinest piece to date.  I attribute
this, as Arlen does to John Boy's unwavering energy.  I would have given him a part if this had
been his audition and I had been an audtioneer, on account of it really was a swell performance,
very well memorized and internalized.  Also, it was something a big chunk of the audience could
pretty easily relate to.  These things made it great.  The writing itself made it only good.

Sushi -- Willie Barbour: Not my favorite Willie Barbour mono to date, but then, if you had to pick
a favorite Beatles album, could you?  Maybe, but you'd always be thinking "Shoot, Revolver's
probably better than Rubber Soul, Oh, but what about thye White Album"  Willies pieces are like
Beatles albums.  Each one is quintissentially Willie, yet explores new territories and textures in
bold and exciting ways.  That was how I felt about this monologue.  Willie brought in all the
colors and sounds and textures of the big city, witout sexy waitresses or youthful reminiscences,
and it was completely Barbourian.  A great piece.

Nozebone the Band - Starring Bob Ghengis Kahn and Maxine of Arc:  What we did here was to
set ourselves up as a novelty band that only goes up on stage to play songs that will get laughs. 
This is the kind of mistake that Jewel Kilcher ('Jewel' as it says on her album covers) averted when
she refused to include any of her yodelling on any of the albums she has released so far.  Despite
the fact that she is a very tallented yodeller, she felt that including her rendition of 'Chime Bell' on
Pieces of You would pigeonhole her as a novelty act, and she was right.  My point is that
Nozebone the Band introduced itself by playing a song that people could laugh at in a comedic
forum.  This sets us up to be laughed at a lot in the future.  Even more so than Jamal, whose
"Magnus" got big giggles, even though it was not really funny at all.  Nozebone has some really
great and really serious lyrics coming up, and I hope that the fact that we neither own nor can play
real instruments will !
not prevent an audience from
appreciating them.  p.s.  if anyone knows where I can find any sort of recording of Jewel
yodelling, please let me know.

Burgertime - Alyssa Bowman:  A mega-rock 'n' roll first sketch which I loved to see.  It made use
of a few No Shame cliches, or perhaps simply comedic elements which are constantly on the boil
in the River, Bowman, Stangl household, but despite its obvioususe of forms which were proven
to get a laugh, it came off as fresh and really fun.  It made me want to flirt with a dead puppy.

Slurry Walls -- Mark Hansen: I think I would have liked this more if it hadn't ha' made such a blip
on my internal Mose-O-Meter.  It really seemed like the mose hayward style of comedic
monologue - words and actions so carefully intertwined that the author is the only one who can
deliver it to any comedic effect.  I like the work of Mose that looks like this, but to be honest,I
could get sick of seeing this sort of Mosalogue every week, even if it was Mose who did it
(especially if it was Mose who did it).  Mark's peice was funny, and it represented the most
effective work of Mark's to date of acting in his own work - which usually seems to be a
weakness of his.  Not this time.

I Vomited a Gorilla Onto the Stage.  That Gorilla Grew Up to Be 

a Supreme Court

Justice and I Wrote a Sketch About it. --

MC Fenstock: The writing was very good.  The acting was pretty good.  It was not the most
memorable piece of the night, but it definitely deserved its place in the order.  Have you been
doing extensive research on Hobos, or what?  This seems very believable as Hobo behAvior. 
Only funnier since they're onstage where you can laugh at them.

Elephant Memory and Cauliflower Ear -

Arlen:

The gradual revelation of information in a sort of reverse order is a rhetorical device often
employed by Mr. Lawson.  It works very well for him, I feel.  Stangl's performance was great, but
a little off-putting, since it seemed like a character Stangl could have written, but clearly didn't.

Al Salad -- What this piece really had going for it was the same thing Okiishi's "An Attempt to do
As Dan Suggested..." had going for it.  It was a very brief personal monologue.  What it lacked
that "Attempt" had was any sort of insight or payoff for having listened to this short thing, and
Adam Burton interpreting it for you.  I do not think that A.B. is neccesarry to make such a piece
great, but I do think that extra-brief monos benefit from interpretaion by their non-authors.

More to Love -- Aprille Clarke: no matter how disturbing an Aprille piece seems, it always finds a
way to get much more so at the very end.  She is truly gifted at working in the final 'twist' which
transforms the whole landscape of the piece and turns stomachs.  In this and many other of her
pieces, the final, more disturbing twist comes from the piece's transformation from comedic to
serious:  suddenly the husband stabs his wife to death, suddenly we find out that this is a real
woman, not just a stereotype in front of us, and it empowers both the characters and the piece
immensely.  As well as this strategy works for Aprille and as much as I love to see it, I like peices
where she explores other forms to break up this pattern and prevent it from becoming predictable
(ie Why the Russians Hate the French).

Honey Down the Drain -- D.J. Balls:I will review this later when I remember what it is.

A Letter of Apology - from the desk of Chris Okiishi: This was simply gorgeous.  For one thing,
there is not one thing more beautiful than a man crying REAL LIVE TEARS onstage.  I had this
overwhelming compulsion to get up out of my seat and give Chris a big hug.  I hope he really sent
this very letter to this woman.  Of course, there might not really be a ritalin woman.  Though you
would have to run me over with a truck to convince me that there is not a friend who stopped
breathing.  The thing is that Okiishi so seamlessly interweaves the autobiographical and the fictive
(even the outrageous - such as stealing a baby from a grocery store) like the author of a really
great Japanese shishosetsu that it becomes impossible and irrelevant to make the distinction in his
pieces.

The Jumping Bean Wedding -- Chris Stangl:  This was yet another Chris Stangl character
monologue done in pretty much the same style, using pretty much the same structure and type of
humor as almost every other Character Monologue he has ever given us.  Needless to say, it was
great.  Yet...  I feel like Stangl sells himself and the audience short by not presenting more skits or
radically different pieces.  he has proven to us that he 

Time: Sun, 10-Sep-2000 18:21:09 GMT     IP: 128.255.56.5


 Stangl:  This was yet another Chris Stangl character monologue done in pretty mu
ch the same style, using pretty much the same structure and type of humor as s al
most every other Character Monologue he has ever given us.  Needless to say, it w
as great.  Yet...  I feel like Stangl sells himself and the audience short by not
 presenting more skits or radically different pieces.  he has proven to us that h
e is talented enough to do so, so why not stir it up a bit?  I must say that seei
ng the Reverend Stangl at the very end of almost every show, telling jokes in the
 same format is reassuring and reminds us that No Shame still rocks and will do s
o next week, but I think his formula is going to wear out soon.


                                               Thinking of You, Rev Nick Lucre

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 03:24:31 GMT     IP: 206.230.237.70

As a loyal No Shame fan, I feel the undying need to comment on 
my festivities on Friday.  I, of course, came to No Shame 
completely plowed and I do believe that this was the deciding 
factor in my decision to grab Cassady's ass and romp him like a 
monkey train on skates.

My apology is as follows: Sorry I grabbed your ass, Mike 
Cassady, but it was the most luscious ass for as far as my eyes 
could see!  After passing out in the fourth row last Friday, I 
woke up during April's piece and realized that I was sitting in 
Al "Big-Cock-but-can't-write-for-shit" Angel and that I was 
drooling heavily on my hot back-tie shirt that I bought at 
Express.

DAMNIT!  Buy the CD for the love of God!

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 14:15:27 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.74

:stangl:  too bad the Southern Comfort got foamy, 
:because i don't think it really does that

A) While Le Comfort Southerne does not "foam" spontaneously, when 
shaken, it will get a little bubbly.  Iced tea in a bottle, 
however, will form frothy whitecaps.

C) Shhh. The back rows couldn't see any so-called "foam."

                     -Chris "Lil' Thufir" Stangl

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 14:38:50 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.59

i think friskee is mike's mom.  evidence:

1) friskee loves No Shame and attends often.  Mike's mom loves No 
Shame and attends often.

2) friskee loves Mike and sometimes caresses him.  Mike's mom loves 
mike (presumably) and sometimes caresses him (presumably).

3) friskee seems to love Mike in a sexual way to some degree.  
um...

discuss.

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 17:15:11 GMT     IP: 32.101.20.219

mike's mom is frisky, i can personally attest to that much.

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 18:25:15 GMT     IP: 216.159.105.197


:C) Shhh. The back rows couldn't see any so-called "foam."
:
:                     -Chris "Lil' Thufir" Stangl

*raises hand*
Chris, don't fibber.
I was sitting up in da' rafters and I saw foam! I'faith, in the 
lighting grid we were discussing your oddly foamy beverage.  We 
had decided it was root beer, not iced tea. :o)  

~Adam

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 18:27:41 GMT     IP: 128.255.109.138

:I was sitting in Al Angel and that I was drooling heavily on my 
:hot back-tie shirt that I bought at Express.

What the hell does that mean????

Time: Mon, 11-Sep-2000 18:46:48 GMT     IP: 64.197.224.32

:Al "Big-Cock-but-can't-write-for-shit" Angel

A) my cock is not so big.
B) while I actually can write for shit, I can't write for beans.
   also, I simply do not write for peanuts.

Time: Thu, 14-Sep-2000 06:17:03 GMT     IP: 205.188.197.186

::Al "Big-Cock-but-can't-write-for-shit" Angel
:also, I simply do not write for peanuts.

If you don't write for peanuts, avoid the theatre world at all 
costs. Best to avoid it anyway.

mr

Time: Fri, 15-Sep-2000 16:09:22 GMT     IP: 128.255.17.177

Chris,
     I know you were disappointed by the audience's lack of
response to your Marat/Sade joke, but it was one of the best
jokes of the night. Most of us just took a second to realize it,
and by the time we could start laughing you'd already apologized
for telling it and moved on.
     Unlike most No Shame humor, which requires little to no
thought on the part of the audience, you expected us to be at
least partially literate and to be awake enough to make a
connection on our own.
Next time, don't apologize.
     Your monologue was great, as were Aprille's and John
Hague's. I have forgotten all else but Stangl's ass.

Adam

Time: Sat, 16-Sep-2000 08:11:25 GMT     IP: 64.197.224.220

Extracted from ISCA, September 9:

:I really wish that Al "HotNutz" Angel would write something 
:decent.  When I say decent, I mean FUNNY jokes about shit and 
:fart and uteruses (uterii-plural).

Done and done.

Fuck you!!

--Al

Time: Sun, 17-Sep-2000 15:44:32 GMT     IP: 24.9.193.222

And it is:


1)   "Stay our the Bushes" and Other Catchy Political Phrases by 
Kyle Lange  
2)   Tingly Wingly Twirls and Pearls by Willie Barbour
3)   Suck Shit and Farts Outta My Ass--Your Fucking Uterus--You 
Stupid Bitch , Friskee, Die, Fucker, Die, Die, Die.  by 
Al "Friskee = Bad" Angel
4)   Come to No Shame Theatre and See Antics Like These (TM) by 
Mike Cassady
5)   Widower Moon!  The Dance Craze That's Sweeping My Bedroom!  
by Nozebone the Band w/ Bob Genghis Kahn, Maxine of Ark and the 
Duke of Ted
6)   Pants:  The Musical by Tommy and Spencer
7)   Putting It Off by Sean Johnston
8)   Pinker Than a Baby's Butt When the Baby Has a Mild Case of 
Diaper Rash by Aprille Clarke (accompanied by Elton)
9)   Homemade Surgery by Arlen Lawson
10)  Duck Hunt by Alyssa Bowman and Jamal River
11)  The Romantics by Chris Stangl
11.5) Nursary Rhyme Preacher by Pookman
12)  erlenmeyer by Neil "Balls" Campbell
13)  Come Again?  by Christopher Okiishi
14)  Buffalo Chips Ahoy!  by Aaron Galbraith
15)  Twenty Five Cents by Chris Stangl

There you be.  Discuss.

Time: Sun, 17-Sep-2000 19:49:54 GMT     IP: 206.230.238.147

Al-

Stalk me.  I double dare you.  NO!  I fucking triple dog dare 
you.  

I heard your piece Friday night was fucking spectacular.  
Congratulations on using my criticism as the only source of 
motivation for you to write a semi-decent script.  Next time 
let's work on the delivery.  I bet Mike Cassady and Balls could 
have put it together.

We should have coffee and hang out at the Java House so that I 
can tell you how to suck guys off the right way.  Lova ya.

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 01:16:23 GMT     IP: 24.4.252.112

I'm leaving town! Pulling up stakes! Striking the band! Striking 
your mother! Ha! I wouldn't really strike your mother. I think. 
I don't know why I wouldn't like her. Bring her closer. We'll 
find out. 

So yeah. Away I go. My friends, I'm having a going away party on 
Wednesday night at Joe's Place, starting at 9. I have known and 
loved you for years. Please come. Buy me beer! Watch my sloshing 
antics! Or, buy me Mountain Dew and get much the same effect 
plus better diction. 

Ta!
Erwin

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 02:05:07 GMT     IP: 4.4.120.234

Where are you going, James? James? Why? Come back! I miss you! 
James! ...JAMES?! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

-Your Lovey Jamal

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 04:04:10 GMT     IP: 24.4.252.112

I have no money to stay in town. Hence, I leave town and find 
employment elsewhere.

I won't tell you not to vote for my former employer Bob Simpson. 
But hey, I'm not telling you _to_ vote for him.

I miss you too, Jamal. I hug you.
James

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 04:14:13 GMT     IP: 128.255.60.150

I have questions:

1.  What is this "Joe's Place?"
and
2.  Will they let me in considering that
     a) I am but 18 years of age, and
     b) It is unlikely that I will be willing to 
peform sexual favors in exchange for 
admittance?
3.  Won't you please strike my mother?

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 18:54:04 GMT     IP: 24.4.252.112

Merideth-

Joe's is a bar. And it is unlikely they will let you in. poo.
I will be at Blimpie's round 8:30 too, if you wanna stop by there 
and say bye.

And I won't strike your mother until she gives me a good reason. 
What kind of world would this be if Asians went around at random 
striking people's mothers? Anarchy, I tell you. ANARCHY!

James "Smash the state and the state's mother" Erwin

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 20:44:14 GMT     IP: 152.163.206.198

Well, that makes me weep uncontrollably.  And I'll still be at 
work 'round 8:30.  Poop is what I say.  I think you should stay!  
You can live in the spare closet in my dorm and I can feed you 
with what I sneak out of Burge Food Service.  Allison says she 
wouldn't mind as long you are house trained, don't make too much 
noise at night, and stay off her bed.

M

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 22:19:23 GMT     IP: 152.163.201.208

James,

Allison retracts the stipulation that you stay off her bed.

M

Time: Tue, 19-Sep-2000 23:26:39 GMT     IP: 24.4.252.112

:James,
:

:
Allison retracts the stipulation that you stay off her bed.
:

:
M

Temptresses!
But see, then I couldn't use the shower without being in the 
presence of many young, unclothed females. I'm sure they wouldn't 
mind, but that whole atmosphere would cloud my thinking and delay 
my eventual ascension into Nirvana. 

James 'rub my belly and you draw back a bloody stump' Erwin

Time: Wed, 20-Sep-2000 23:45:58 GMT     IP: 128.255.106.116

AL, what is the address of your webpage?  The post where you say 
where it is is gone, and when I go to "Who's Who at Noshame"  I 
get this:

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page, sir.

-$

Time: Thu, 21-Sep-2000 01:16:09 GMT     IP: 64.197.225.55

Why do you waste time reading here?  Quick!  Tell me where is 
Joe's Place!!!!!

      Arrlen

Time: Thu, 21-Sep-2000 01:31:49 GMT     IP: 205.244.161.99

Quick!  it is across the street from Phillips Hall on Iowa Avenue.  
Quick!

:Why do you waste time reading here?  Quick!  Tell me where is 
:Joe's Place!!!!!
:
:      Arrlen

Time: Thu, 21-Sep-2000 16:07:30 GMT     IP: 63.25.167.23

why hasn't anybody reviewed the show? how sad...

quick, do it now then!

it's not too late.

Time: Fri, 22-Sep-2000 18:36:36 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.72

                   Luminous Beings are We, or 
                "Here is a mean review, whine-ass."
                       by Chris Stangl

1) Lange- "Stay out the Bushes"
  Easier target than a premature baby strapped to a tree, and 
really didn't get at the real problems with boy-groups (i.e. the 
music is and stinks like a basement of sewage backup, not that 
they talk like... do they even talk like that?). Fun anyway, just 
not Wise And Fun.

2)Barbour "Tingly Wingly Twirls"
  I think this disturbed the audience. I don't know if there's 
something inherently unfunny to me about rhyming jokes, or if I'm 
just picky.

3) Angel- "Suck Shit... Friskee"
  I wonder if the Series of Blackout Gags format would be 
stronger if there were some thematic link or variation-on-a-theme 
thread. Chuck Jones' "Roadrunner" cartoons, for example, are 
usually in this format, but feel coherent in the end.  I am 
apparently in a poor mood for writing a review. Fine as Pieces, 
unclear on the Whole.

4)Cassady- "Come to No Shame"
  Incomprehensible delivery, overlong. I read the script before 
the show, though. Based on that: I think the best character 
studies- from "The Elephant Man" to "Saturday Night Fever"- have 
iron-rod powerful narratives to prop them up.

5)Nozebone- "Widower Moon"
  Very sweet and inventive. You know the flaws, and that is 
probably why you were laughing... even though the song wasn't 
funny.

6)Spence -&- Tom "Pants: The Musical"
  Remember that "The State" sketch?  The one called "Pants! The 
Musical!"?  Er...

7) Johnston- "Putting It Off"
  PROJECT your delivery.  Also "focus," because first this 
drifted into vagueries immediately, and by the end, somebody's 
dying and I'm supposed to care, but I dunno who why how where.

8) Clarke/ Elton- "Baby's Butt"
  Funny songs I am biased against.  Also straightforward 
political protest.  Also never disclaim or apologize for your 
work... if you're going to say "dirty Cuban," have the CONVICTION 
to say "dirty Cuban" proudly. Also I like Elton's soothing 
guitaring.

9) Jar Jar Lawson- "Homemade Surgery"
  "You did a Dan Brooks piece and Arlen did a Chris Stangl piece" 
says this person in the audience to me.  So I say "Okay, but 
Arlen needed another rewrite, by which I mean a 'fat trim,' and 
also he ruined the piece I was going to do next week, so I have 
to make a new one, so... the first half could've been a worse 
screw-driver to the teeth than it was, and the second could've 
missed the reindeer joke and ended with 'Hey Fisher, did you 
cry...?' and it would've been the first Best Of piece of the 
year."  Then I had sex with him in the nose.

10) Bowman/River- "Duck Hunt"
  I think the funny dog should have laughed when I got a Fly 
Away!!! "hot jammy"

SEE ATTATCHED...

Time: Fri, 22-Sep-2000 18:57:52 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.72

11) Stangl- "The Romantics"
  Merideth did not want to say the words to this piece.  Jar Jar 
heard Merideth being too not-loud and was also not-loud.  Could 
you hear my funny jokes? Of course not! I stole the jokes from 
"Webster"! (I didn't really)

11.5) Pookman- "Nursary Rhyme Preacher"
  Well, this was a terrible Pookman sketch by Pookman, but I want 
to get "physical" with him. "Pookman" is the Name of the Night! I 
got the feeling when I took his script that he didn't have his 
own copy to read off of. I hope I didn't "fuck him up"!

12) Balls- "erlenmeyer"
  Not at all like that episode of THE X-FILES "The Erlenmeyer 
Flask."  A "healthy direction" for Balls' writing, also, where he 
didn't fall back on his crowd pleasing antics... the horrid 
little dwarf.

13) Okiishi- "Come Again?"
  Honestly standard-issue Everyday Non-Sexual Topic Becomes 
OverExtended Metaphor...FOR FUCKING! premise (see "Girls Who Eat 
Cunt" and "Kyle Lange Puts His Dick In ISCA"), but like Henry 
VIII said, it's all in the execution. As a PERFORMANCE my 
favorite Okiishi acting since The One About The Refrigerator.

14) Galbraith- "Buffalo Chips Ahoy!"
  TV parodies aside nice format-busting, and I'm a perpetual 
sucker for the Moment It all Clicks Into Place, no matter how far 
off you saw it coming.  Also I'm a perpetual sucker for the 
moment Cassady's Australian accent became a Tennessee accent.

15) Stangl- "Twenty Five Cents"
  So I'm doing this piece, right? And there's this complicated 
special effect, and I ask poor Balls to be my tech support, 
without a rehersal or even unrolling the roll of quarters for 
him, and he does a pretty good job anyway.  Thanks "Balls".  
"Balls".  The bread store in Des Moines actually gives all the 
day-old to the Door Of Faith mission downtown.  The Dolly Madison 
Store does not, and discounts the old Zingers.  "Zingers."
             -Catherine "Stevens" Stangl

Time: Sat, 23-Sep-2000 00:37:19 GMT     IP: 205.244.160.182


:5)Nozebone- "Widower Moon"
:  Very sweet and inventive. You know the flaws, and that is 
:probably why you were laughing... even though the song wasn't 
:funny.


I was not laughing.  What were the flaws?

-$trum$nick

Time: Sat, 23-Sep-2000 20:04:38 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.66

NO SHAME THEATRE 9-22-2000

1. "LA nights in almost white satin" by Willie Barbour
   (W. Barbour. Unmetered, rhyming, seriocomic poem re: sex, 
drugs, redemption.)
1.5. "Surprise!" by Brad "Juggly" Adita "Harris"
   (B. Adita juggles balls, walks tightrope, audience goes 
"apeshit".)

2. "Argg!" by Kyle Lange
  (K. Lange. Outmoded, frustrated pirate voices complaint in 
comic monologue form.)

3. "The Creation of Culture by 1979 Computer Programmers Through 
A Moving Yellow Dot and his Enemies Pinky, Blinky, Kinky, and 
Sue.  Also an envious Ape." by Neil Van Gorder
  (C. Sobbing, N. Van Gorder, J. River, A. Galbraith, J.J. 
Lawson, B. Campbell, others. Live-action sketch comedy enactment 
of "Pac Man" videogame, with murderous twist.)

4. "PICK UP STICKS" by JP
  ("JP"[?]. Character monologia concerning lawnmowing mishap.)

5. "I Wanna Be A Rock -&- Roll Band" by Nozebone the Band
  (Nozebone [M. Hansen, N. Clark]. Musical performance.)

6. "Maybe Grandma was the Big Bad Wolf" by Kehry Lane
  (K. Lane, C. Sobbing, M. Cassady, A. Galbraith. "Grandma 
was... a narcoleptic nymphomaniac" in antic and oddly affecting 
sketch.)

7. "Why I Like Mose, or Dudes With Attitude" by Alyssa Bowman
  (N. "B." Campbell. Fellow accidentally drowns Mose Hayward in 
bathtub in comical monologue.)

8. "A Bottle Up Kyle Lang's* Ass: my legacy" by Al 
"Arlen=Roomate" Angel
  (A. Angel, M. Hansen, B. Smith, N/B. Campbell. Despite 
oralsexing Boy Scouts, test tube babies, "DJ Phatty" cannot 
guess The Secret in sketch of comical nature.)

9. "Ode to a Headless Thompson Gunner or Drugs, yes?" by "The 
Arkham Brothers"
  (cast of dozen lights 76 cent lighters for length of song in 
haunting, comic piece.)

10. "The Castle of Pain" by Jamal River
  (J. River plays his song "Leave me Alone")

11. "What Became of Tom Thumb?" by Arlen "Jar Jar" Lawson
  (AJJ. Lawson. Three point comical monologue tale concerning a 
flaming old woman, a "ridiculously well hung yellow midget" made 
of wax, and "Born in East LA".)

12. "THIS IS YOU" by Neil "Balls" Campbell
 (N. Campbell. Tear-away sheet non sequitur monologue becomes 
gradually touching/ comical. Topics: blood poisoning, deaf 
mutes, corn chips, obsessive love.)

13. "Melancholy Monday Morning" by Thomas Kovacs
  (T. Kovacs. 18 stanza rhyming poem of working lad's thwarted 
quest for "coff-EE". Allusions to Poe's "Raven")

14. "One Reason Why My Girlfriend Doesn't Think No Shame Is 
Funny or Pat Robertson, Please Save Us" by "The Arkham Brothers"
  ("Arkham Brothers". Straight-up comedy sketch tale of conflict 
over esoterica of Dungeons -&- Dragons. Art by J. Easley)

15. "Where Were You When JFK's Head Exploded?" by Chris Stangl
  (C. Stangl. Dr. C. Crenshaw describes inadvertant violation/ 
reanimation of JFK's fresh corpse interspersed with an Oswald-
sympathetic variation on old Zen riddle. Monologic/Comedic.)


Please tear to shreads with cruel, unwarrented criticism.
-C. Stangl, HM SH

Time: Sat, 23-Sep-2000 21:21:52 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.52

::5)Nozebone- "Widower Moon"
:I was not laughing. What were the flaws?

     Nozebone was not laughing- the audience was.  Actually 
Willie Barbournozebone laughed a bit, as spurred by said 
audience.  My sole point is: audience will laugh at non-comedic 
song if being performed by, as we in polite society say, "naive" 
musicians (ie Da. Johnston, Shaggs, C. Stangl, W. Willis).

                -Sassy Stangl

Time: Sun, 24-Sep-2000 00:21:06 GMT     IP: 205.188.199.198

James:

Glad to see you're getting out of IC. Everyone should get out of 
IC, some sooner than others. Good luck and safe journey. Where 
are you headed?

Rothschild

PS. I'm starting Taylor over Martin at running back. Worth the 
risk?

Time: Tue, 26-Sep-2000 20:08:20 GMT     IP: 128.255.107.111

:NO SHAME THEATRE 9-22-2000
:
:1. "LA nights in almost white satin" by Willie Barbour
good
:1.5. "Surprise!" by Brad "Juggly" Adita "Harris"
fun and good
:2. "Argg!" by Kyle Lange
good ending
:3. "The Creation of Culture by 1979 Computer Programmers Through 
:A Moving Yellow Dot and his Enemies Pinky, Blinky, Kinky, and 
surprisingly amusing
:
:4. "PICK UP STICKS" by JP
good (?)
:5. "I Wanna Be A Rock --&-- Roll Band" by Nozebone the Band
better than previous songs
:6. "Maybe Grandma was the Big Bad Wolf" by Kehry Lane
very good
:7. "Why I Like Mose, or Dudes With Attitude" by Alyssa Bowman
good
:8. "A Bottle Up Kyle Lang's* Ass: my legacy" by Al 
:"Arlen=Roomate" Angel
wierd and good
:9. "Ode to a Headless Thompson Gunner or Drugs, yes?" by "The 
:Arkham Brothers"
surprisingly amusing
:
:10. "The Castle of Pain" by Jamal River
damn good
:11. "What Became of Tom Thumb?" by Arlen "Jar Jar" Lawson
sick but good
:12. "THIS IS YOU" by Neil "Balls" Campbell
sweetly wierd good
:13. "Melancholy Monday Morning" by Thomas Kovacs
would have been better shorter
:14. "One Reason Why My Girlfriend Doesn't Think No Shame Is 
:Funny or Pat Robertson, Please Save Us" by "The Arkham Brothers"
obvious but good
:15. "Where Were You When JFK's Head Exploded?" by Chris Stangl
formulaic but good

Time: Tue, 26-Sep-2000 22:26:30 GMT     IP: 128.255.107.200

   Thank you, Joey Ramone, for that enlightening, detailed review. 
 It is clear to me exactly how much thought you must have put into 
it.  And I want to thank you for it.  Thank you.
   Heather MacFombaComba

P.S. God Bless us Everyone

Time: Thu, 28-Sep-2000 19:41:32 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.139

Rev- you Like A Hurricane.
An act of cruelty by Chris "Kotch" Stangl

1.Barbour- "LA nights"
     Like a BE Ellis novel set on Occasional Rhyme, sex, 
drugs, ennui but AT WHAT COST?  This was actually ripe with 
stuffs in harsh Barbourspeak, but I dunno what the stuffs were 
doing.  Willie's gift for vivid, vulgar language is obvious, but 
here it didn't swirl into something beautiful like Henry Miller 
(or the spinal meningitis piece) or build its own horror-planet 
like Bukowski, on account of being too vague, too vague.

1.5. Juggly Brad "Surprise!" 
     Brad can walk a tightrope!  How awesome for us!  Best 
Of, Best Of!

2. Lange "Argg!"
     Kyle's character monologues tend to start well, 
inventively, then force the character's Quirks n Schtick into a 
predictable runway landing.  It satisfies his narrative's arc, 
but wrecks the surprises.  What I mean is: you want him to yell 
"Feelings Vulnerability" about 12 fewer times.  Here the SNL-
sketch dialogue at the opening was at odds with the monologue.

3. Van Gorder- "Moving Yellow Dot"
     I was squealing and clapping through this piece, 
author's intentions notwithstanding. Highlight: three guys come 
on stage.  Who are they?  Script reveals: "cops."_!  Huh? Yay!
     
4. JP- "PICK UP STICKS"
     Says Balls in Rules every show: TYPED SCRIPT.  The typed 
script, see, is so we can remember what your piece was, esp. 
since nobody uses "relevant" titles, come time for Best Of 
selection_ time.
Dull, is-there-any-other-conclusion-at-which-this-could-even-
POSSIBLY-arrive? set-up yeilds no surprises.  Also rips off Mose 
Hayward monologue from two seasons ago, about removing child's 
head with lawnmower.

5. Nozebone- "I Wanna Be A Rock -&- Roll Band"
     One joke played straight like it's not funny so that in 
the end it's not a joke, it's just stupid cool, like a Ramones 
song.  Sounding, in this case, like a They Might Be Giants Dial-
a-Song w/ better fidelity.

6. Lane- "Grandma"
Except for the last dialogue (best writing of the night) and 
Chris Sobbing backing his muff into a doorknob, better written 
than delivered.  Snotty tip: read out loud before a final draft- 
the expository paragraphs were well-composed on paper, but as 
Harrison Ford said to G. Lucas "You can write it, fine_ but you 
can't SAY this shit."

7. Bowman- "Why I Like Mose"
Best Alyssa Bowman piece.  Next steps for you, A. Bowman to 
consider as a NS writer: use space, character, challenging 
structure.  That is, fuck it up with pretensions you got from a 
book/ other NS'ers.

8. Angel- "Bottle Up Lang's Ass"
     I like the Situation "Two guys sit at a table," because 
as a Guy, I dunno the last time I was just sitting at a table 
with another guy, probably it was never.  It's supposed to be 
nondescript, nonchalant, but it's actually weird.

9. Arkahm Bros. "Headless Thompson Gunner"
Is the nom de shame a DC Comics or Lovecraft reference?_ It's 
geeky either way!  Deceptikon bit w/ Kyle reprimanding from 
audience tricked me, but so what?  Quality because it was 
dumbfounding, boring and creepy in equal turns.

10. River- "The Castle of Pain"
     One of the more enduring songs off Squashed, sounding 
church bell clear.  I like the sickened electronic lurch of the 
studio version, but it sounded pretty thrilling ringing out 
brightly through Theatre B.  Says King Toad website: the bridge 
("Christmas time is here again") is nonsense but here no- it was 
clean and loud like brand new snow, where the record is like 
that brown slush at the side of the road.  Both "good."

11. Lawson- "What Became of Tom Thumb?" 
12. BALLS!- "THIS IS YOU"
     You loved these both in the same way, really: because of 
the fractured structures and inventive prose style at expense of 
character, but the pieces were opposites.  See, Balls threw 
curveball soundbites until you saw he had a big stack of 
something cool (you can't stop thinking about this), and Jar Jar 
cut-and-pasted big prosy chunkstyle paragraphs until it snapped 
into place and dissolved into thin air ("I gave Lovable a high 
five!")  Jar slowly drained all the compassion and weight until 
he was left with lightheaded idiocy (THAT was the trump card) 
and Balls frantically cemented together a big brick wall slab of 
Heavy.  Way to use the fucking space, lads (even if Jar Jar was 
improvising).

13. Kovacs- "Melancholy Monday Morning"
NOTES ON KOVACS' "Melancholy Monday Morning"
a. Parody of "The Raven" begins and ends entirely with the rhyme 
scheme/ meter and a couple lines at the beginning and end.  The 
three pages in-between do not parallel, reinvent, subvert, 
satirize or even reference Poe, save for passing, puzzling 
mention of "Lenore."
b. Alliteration rampant.
c. Actual "plot" (search for "cofFEE) of mammoth piece not even 
introduced until EIGHTH STANZA.
d. Entire piece obviously meticulously squeezed and forced into 
meter, but virtually no line actually fits meter when accent is 
placed on proper syllable.
e. _especially the refrain "no coffee," repeated some 12 times, 
all of which require pronunciation: "no cof-FEE!"
f. Closest thing to joke ("at least my mom don't dress me") from 
popular pickup truck bumper sticker, often next to "You Gotta Be 
a Bitch Like Me to Love a Bastard Like Him."
g. All in all second only to "Smooth Yellow and the Fellow."

14. Bros. Arkham- "Girlfriend Doesn't Think No Shame Is Funny"
Straight-up old school comedy sketches, with a Topic and a Plot 
Arc and Characters aren't fashionable, but this was fine as 
those go.  Point?  Nerds are "dorky"!(?) Says anonymous audience-
fellow to me: "If it didn't entail admitting one listened to Dr. 
Demento, one might come forth with accusations of plagiarism in 
that joint.  I mean piece."  No comment.

15. Stangl- "JFK's Head Exploded"
     I do a run-through with the cigarettes_ WHY not a run-
through with the doctor jacket and decide NOT to take the jacket 
off every paragraph?  Same reason the Warren Commission didn't 
bother to listen to reliable witnesses who heard at least four 
shots: Stupid mistake leads to idiotic tragedy.
             -Stangl "Three Tramps" Stangl

Time: Thu, 28-Sep-2000 21:06:44 GMT     IP: 24.183.162.188

1.5) "Surprise!" by Brad Harris
Fun, though I was disappointed he could not stay up on tightrope 
longer.

3) "The Creation of Culture. . .  Ape." by Neil Van Gorder
Great concept, poor execution: this piece should have been on and 
off the stage in no more than forty-five seconds, leaving the 
audience to figure out what was going on just in time to give a 
standing ovation.
Instead, we all sat through a lot of awkward pauses while the 
actors tried to figure out what to do next and Arlen tried to 
figure out if he was dead.

4) "Pick Up Sticks" by JP
Not dull, but lackluster. How did a lawnmower that couldn't cut 
through a green twig make such short work of child full of bones 
and rubbery conective tissue?
I definitely wanted more from the conclusion than, "so I ran away 
to Mexico. . . "

5) "I Wanna Be. . . " Nozebone
My favorite of the Nozebone songs so far, which isn't saying much.
This one was good, but is this Nozebone thing going somewhere?

6) "Maybe Grandma. . . " Kehry Lane
On paper, probably my favorite of Kehry's pieces so far, which is 
saying much.
It suffered on stage, not because it was undeliverable, but 
because Kehry delivered it like he was reading it for the first 
time.

8) "4 Guys Doing Chris Stangl Impressions" Al Angel
One of those pieces far more appealing to the hard-core regular 
performers in the front row than it is to anyone else.
That doesn't make it bad.
That doesn't make it good, either.

9) "Melancholy Monday Morning" Thomas Kovacs
Overlong, seriously diminished by author slouching with an "I'm 
trying to recite a poem" half-grin on his face.
Anything to create a mock-ominous feel or make the author seem 
more interested in what he was saying would have helped.

14) "One Reason. . . " Arkham Brothers
I am not ashamed to admit listening to Dr. Demento. When this 
piece started, the first thing thought that came to mind was "Oh 
look, a rip-off of the Dead Alewives' 'Dungeons and Dragons.'" The 
peice continued, and I reconsidered.
IF the authors have heard the Alewive's piece then their set-up 
wasn't particularly original, but that doesn't make them 
plagiarists.

16) "James Erwin Not Being There- James Erwin Perhaps Never Being 
There Again." Let's Blame Bob Simpson
Just shitty.
Sorry I missed the going-away festivities.

That is all.
Adam Hahn

Time: Thu, 28-Sep-2000 23:12:11 GMT     IP: 24.183.162.220

It's important to remember that claiming plagarism, whether or 
not it's done blamelessly through an anonymous audience member, 
can be a dangerous thing.  For a writer who considers himself to 
have any integrity whatsoever, it can have a visceral equivalent 
to someone screaming "rape," whether the charges are founded or 
not.  

Mark Twain once said:
"Nothing is ours but our language, our phrasing. If a man takes 
that from me (knowingly, purposely) he is a thief. If he takes it
unconsciously -- snaking it out of some old secluded corner of 
his memory, and mistaking it for a new birth instead of a mummy
-- he is no thief, and no man has a case against him."

Kurt Vonnegut once said:
" . . . it was a movie about American bombers in the Second World 
War and the gallant men who flew them.  Seen backwards by Billy, 
the story went like this.
     American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses 
took off backwards from an airfield in England.  Over France, a 
few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets 
and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen.  They 
did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and 
those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.  The 
formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames.  
The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous 
magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical 
steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of 
the planes.  The containers were sotred neatly in racks.  The 
Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were 
long steel tubes.  They used them to suck more fragments from the 
crewmen and planes.  But there were still a few wounded 
Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair.  
Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made 
everything and everybody good as new. American fliers turned in 
their uniforms, became high school kids.  And Hitler turned into 
a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed."


Chris Stangle recently said something very similar.

                                                  -Geiger

Time: Fri, 29-Sep-2000 08:45:10 GMT     IP: 24.4.166.243

1. "LA nights in almost white satin" by Willie Barbour
It wouldn't be a Willie Barbour piece if it didn't include sex 
in some capacity.  I don't know why but I always like a piece 
done Willie style.  He paints the picture well for the audience 
and I admire that.  Not my fav but good.

1.5. "Surprise!" by Brad "Juggly" Adita "Harris"
What can be said about this amazing fellow.  Firstly, it's good 
for the person running lights because he/she has the opportunity 
to fully take part as a voyeur.  Always delightful to watch, and 
never has a problem building immediate rapport
with the audience.

2. "Argg!" by Kyle Lange
Good beginning.  I have yet to see a piece by Lange that I 
didn't like.  I don't feel that it was as strong as some of his 
past works, but how can you beat something like "The Coolest 
Cambus Driver Ever"

3. "The Creation of Culture by 1979 Computer Programmers 
Through A Moving Yellow Dot and his Enemies Pinky, Blinky, 
Kinky, and Sue.  Also an envious Ape." by Neil Van Gorder
I didn't know what to think of this piece.  It had a few 
technical difficulties (ie. Cap gun didn't do shit) and appeared 
to me as general chaos on the stage.  Something including so 
many people is a difficult to get cultivate without sufficient 
preparation prior to the event.  Entertaining bit.

4. "PICK UP STICKS" by JP
This one was hard to follow.  It's hard to hear anything very 
clearly from inside the confines of the light booth ESPECIALLY 
without a script.  Insert disapproving glare here  The 
audience seemed to find much of it funny...  Just bring a script 
next time so the board operator has a clue as to what is going 
on.


5. "I Wanna Be A Rock --&-- Roll Band" by Nozebone the Band
Again, it's hard to hear exact lyrics from the light booth 
without a script to fill in the gaps.  Also I was not paying 
attention *sorry* because I was concerned about my upcoming 
piece.

6. "Maybe Grandma was the Big Bad Wolf" by Kehry Lane
Oy!  What can I say that hasn't been said already.  I had been a 
little apprehensive about performing the piece
without anytime to prepare with the people I was working with on 
stage.  That, exhaustion from a 4 hour rehearsal and my own 
obvious lack of preparation amounted to a poor delivery.  I was 
displeased during and after I went on BUT people after the show 
and here have said that they like the writing a lot and that is 
what is more important to me.  Thank you for you encouragement 
and honesty about the performance and script.

7. "Why I Like Mose, or Dudes With Attitude" by Alyssa Bowman
I was still a little on edge after my piece so I wasn't devoting 
my full attention to the piece.  I remember bits that I did like 
very much, but not enough to make an informed review.

8. "A Bottle Up Kyle Lang's* Ass: my legacy" by Al 
"Arlen=Roomate" Angel
Al is a nut.  The piece was very strange but great to 
read/watch.  Al's humor is unique.  Again, not the best to come 
from the writer, but damn good.


9. "Ode to a Headless Thompson Gunner or Drugs, yes?" by "The 
Arkham Brothers"
This was torture for me to watch.  I was tired, and started out 
trying to find a point to the peice.  After realize that there 
really didn't seem to be one I found myself eagerly awaiting the 
songs end.  Not enough action to make it engaging enough to hold 
my attention.

10. "The Castle of Pain" by Jamal River
Jamal is a badass... And so is his guitar.  Love it.  I love his 
comedy bits/sketches but I like his songs a great deal as well.  
Sing more you fool.

11. "What Became of Tom Thumb?" by Arlen "Jar Jar" Lawson
I still think back on his piece with the old man crashing his 
plane in a circus and chuckle.  This too was excellent.  He has 
a flare for telling the story, and it holds me to what he says.  
Great imagines.

12. "THIS IS YOU" by Neil "Balls" Campbell
At first this struck me as a good comedic monologue with the 
oddity of a music stand and pages being thrown tied into the 
piece.  As it progressed I began to like what was initially off 
putting.  It wrapped up to magnificent being by the end.

13. "Melancholy Monday Morning" by Thomas Kovacs
Clever.  I didn't care for it though.  I admire the work that it 
must have taken to make such a lengthy semi-parody of a famous 
poem, BUT it was lengthy.  I think about 1/3 of the length would 
have done the piece wonders.  I hope to see more from this 
fellow and see where he goes.

14. "One Reason Why My Girlfriend Doesn't Think No Shame Is 
Funny or Pat Robertson, Please Save Us" by "The Arkham 
Brothers"
Although this was a little long I was impressed because they 
managed to make a sketch about AD-&-D humorous to a larger 
audience.  Most pieces based on RPGs seem to fail because the 
things that are talked about are not general knowledge and the 
audience usually emanates a general feeling of "lame".  This one 
however got several laughs and I found much of it funny as 
well.  It too long I think as well..  It needed to be pruned 
down just a bit.  Keep writing fellas..
 
15. "Where Were You When JFK's Head Exploded?" by Chris Stangl
A Stangl monologue is always looked forward too by me.  I often 
think that they are long and there is a certain formula to them, 
but still enjoy them each time.  Always filled with unique ideas 
and images.  To take something as well known as the JFK 
assassination and do something fresh with it is quite a 
challenge, and in that regard this piece succeeded greatly.  
There was not a moment of "I've heard this all before" sentiment 
for me.  A+... And sorry again about the initial Light flub.

Time: Fri, 29-Sep-2000 17:47:56 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.40

:It's important to remember that claiming plagarism, can be a 
:dangerous thing.

    Nobody did, though.  All I know is an audience fellow- let's 
call him "JJ"- JJ says to me "say Chris Stangl, that 'Arkham 
Brothers' sketch is reminiscent in some way of some thing you 
don't know about, often played by music historian/ record 
collector Barry 'Dr. Demento' Hansen on his syndicated novelty 
record program."  "Oh, yeah?" says me, "Huh."
  
:Kurt Vonnegut once said:
:"...Second World War... Seen backwards by Billy..."
:Chris Stangle [sic] recently said something very similar.

   Nice catch, Yogi Berra. I was actually inspired by a Gumby 
cartoon wherein Gumby enters a mirror in search of a lost coin, 
and has to do everything backwards, "even talk backwards!"
   Only sci-fi cult novel I was conciously ripping off was RA 
Wilson/ R. Shea's "The Golden Apple": "Then they saw a hallway, 
and Oswald-Laurel was led out between two policemen.  Suddenly 
Jack Ruby, with the face of Oliver Hardy, stepped forward and 
fired a pistol right into that frail little body.  And then Ruby 
spoke the eternal words, to the corpse at his feet: 'Now look 
what YOU made me do,' he said."
              -Christopher Garrison Stangl

Time: Fri, 29-Sep-2000 17:57:31 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.40

:I was disappointed [Brad Harris] could not stay up on tightrope 
:longer.

      ?

:3) "Live Action Pac-man" by Neil Van Gorder
:Great concept, poor execution

   Not such a hot concept, given that the week before Alyssa 
Bowman's "Duck Hunt" took on the even funnier task of staging a 
live-action "Duck Hunt."  The inept/ illegible staging was what 
"made" the piece for me.

:is this Nozebone thing going somewhere?

   "Going somewhere?" You mean like a punchline? It's not a 
comedy bit, it's a BAND.  "Is this Paul Revere and the Raiders 
thing going somewhere?"  Nozebone is going somewhere: TO THE TOP 
OF THE FUCKING CHARTS!

        -Chris "fucking chart" Stangl(e)

Time: Fri, 29-Sep-2000 19:00:34 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.199


1. "LA nights in almost white satin" by Willie 

I'm sorry to say that Mr. Willie has not lately delighted me as 
he once did.  His writing has not gotten less good, I don't 
think, and he's been doing some different kinds of pieces, but 
it seems as though his style of delivery changes little.  It 
might take something either more ear-capturing or just very 
different to keep me interested enough to enjoy the pretty words.
I can't say much about this specific piece because I sort of 
zoned out after the first couple lines.

1.5. "Surprise!" by Brad "Juggly" Adita "Harris"
  Neato! 

2. "Argg!" by Kyle Lange
 Best parts of this funny thing: use of words "plunder" and 
"booty."  We should incorporate these words into our daily 
speech.

3. "The Creation of Culture by 1979 Computer Programmers Through 
A Moving Yellow Dot and his Enemies Pinky, Blinky, Kinky, and 
Sue.  Also an envious Ape." by Neil Van Gorder
 Some people who were right said this would have been better as 
written if it had ended before Mr. Kong or the police came in; 
however, ad lib by ghosts and cops made the otherwise lame 
second half funny.  Seeing this didn't remind me of Alyssa's 
"Duck Hunt," so the seeming originality was not diminished for 
me.

4. "PICK UP STICKS" by JP
 Lackluster delivery made me bored.  Hey Egg, can you tell me 
what the difference is between dull and lackluster?

5. "I Wanna Be A Rock --&-- Roll Band" by Nozebone the Band
So good!  I wish I had a popsicle of Nozebone the band!

6. "Maybe Grandma was the Big Bad Wolf" by Kehry Lane
  Yay for how gross and funny this was.  The delivery wasn't so 
bad, and the piece itself was good enough to overcome any 
delivery-type horribleness.  The end reminded me of how my 
grandma has a lot of cancer and will die soon, and even though 
she's a perfectly normal, kind, and decent grandmother unlike 
Beaver Shot Grandma, I don't really care.  And made me wonder if 
I'm going to hell for that.

7. "Why I Like Mose, or Dudes With Attitude" by Alyssa Bowman
 I don't remember so much of this almost a week after seeing it, 
but I do remember laughing a whole whole lot.  Alyssa Bowman's 
ability to write so so funny proves she isn't really a girl! 

8. "A Bottle Up Kyle Lang's* Ass: my legacy" by Al 
"Arlen=Roomate" Angel
Someone would have to be having a sexual fantasy about Chris 
Stangl at the time he watched this to think "this is Chris-
Stangl-impression-like," instead of "Al seems to be growing as a 
writer, and this is funny."  Mark's laughter and Brad's being 
goofy were the best parts.

9. "Ode to a Headless Thompson Gunner or Drugs, yes?" by "The 
Arkham Brothers"
 This was something neat and different that I liked.  I liked it 
a lot.  I have found that a lighter gets unendurably hot on the 
thumb if you hold it lit for that long.  Were there special, not-
so-hot-on-the-thumb lighters, I wonder?  

10. "The Castle of Pain" by Jamal River
  Jamal sings and plays like I ought to buy that CD, because it 
must be good with Jamal singing and playing.

11. "What Became of Tom Thumb?" by Arlen Lawson
  Another opportunity for you, people who aren't Arlen, to be 
reminded that you will never be as cute as he is.  

12. "THIS IS YOU" by Neil "Balls" Campbell
  This was really cool.  All the good things other reviews said 
about this were true.  "Radio Song" made me giggle.

13. "Melancholy Monday Morning" by Thomas Kovacs
 This was too too long and pretty unoriginal and boring and the 
delivery was sort of absent.  Why does a man read a poem 
sounding so bored with his own work?  Why should I be interested 
if he isn't?

14. "One Reason Why My Girlfriend Doesn't Think No Shame Is 
Funny or Pat Robertson, Please Save Us" by "The Arkham Brothers"
 Not half as cool as the lighters thing, and a couple of the 
annoying voices got really bothersome by the end.

15. "Where Were You When JFK's Head Exploded?" by Chris Stangl
 Hooray for riding a dead national hero!!!  Jacket issues didn't 
bother me much.

Time: Fri, 29-Sep-2000 19:33:30 GMT     IP: 128.255.107.47


::is this Nozebone thing going somewhere?
:

Thank you for standing up for the band, Dr. Stangl.  I appreciate 
the support, and I too had to approach this inquiry with an oddly 
quizzically miffedly confused expression on my head.  Yes, I 
definitely think it is going somewhere.  Even Egg admits that the 
songs have been getting progressively better.  We started with no 
talent, no instruments and a lame song, and we have no choice but 
to go somewhere - to make good songs and gain some playing ability.  
We are going wherever talentless musicians without real instruments 
with the ability to write great lyrics usually go.  We are going 
right into the footsteps of the great Daniel Johnston.  If we 
played real instruments, we could be the next Shaggs, Sebadoh, Beat 
Happening or Mountain Goats.  As it is, we just might be the next 
Residents or Pianosaurus, once we start putting our stuff on four 
track.  Or we might go right down the tubes and never be heard of 
again.  It all comes down to Marketing.  

love Rev. Nick Lucre.

Time: Fri, 29-Sep-2000 20:13:07 GMT     IP: 128.255.109.158

   I was very mad at Egg's review when I read it, yesterday.  I 
spent what felt like nearly two hours writing a response to it, 
to every thing he said that made me angry. Then I thought to 
myself "What will happen if this accidentally gets erased?"  In 
order to prevent that, I highlighted it all, preparing to copy it 
and, instead erased everything I had just written with a single, 
misguided combination of keys.  Close attention, mid-nineties 
alt-rockers.  This is ironic.
   I will not rewrite it.
   I will bring up one thing, though.
   Yes that is what made them plagiarists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   The only dictionary I access is m-w.com and about "plagiarize" 
it says,

   intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as    
   new and original an idea or product derived from an existing   
   source 

   Recent examples of plagiarism right here at our very own No 
Shame

Will Howard-McKinney's "Seriously" plagiarized:

*http://www.theonion.com/onion3604/sucking_my_cock.html
*also, apparently, "Brain Candy"

Tommy and Spencer's "Pants: The Musical" plagiarized

*"The State" first season sixth episode - A sketch called "Pants! 
The Musical!" (Stangl's comment+My own research=this example)
*Five Iron Frenzy, a Christian Ska band, no less, who, after the 
eight or so listed tracks on their EP "quantity is job 1" gave 
their listeners a special treat with the Rock Opera "These Are 
Not My Pants," nearly doubling the length of their album

Arlen Lawson's "The 'Archie' Comic Strip From Tues. May 11, 1982" 
plagiarized:

*The "Archie" comic strip from Tues. May 11, 1982, though it was 
credited, as in the strip, to Bob Montana who died a number of 
years before the release of Pac Man, I believe.  I am confused.
*Chris Stangl's brainchild from the semester before, "Teen Wolf"

The Arkham Brothers' "One reason..." plagiarized:

*The Dead Alewives "Dungeons -&- Dragons," (Thanks, Egg, for the 
author and title.) from the lead in, to the opening scene, right 
down to the derivative vocal characterizations for Corn's sake.  
Tell me they haven't heard that radio sketch!  Tell me!  Does 
adding a twist to something make it yours?  Does telling a joke 
in your own way make it yours?  Does supplementing beans for corn 
make it yours?  Or, in their case, does continuing it until 
something new happens make it their own?  

   Any one of these cases, of course, could be coincidence.  A 
thousand monkeys.  And maybe I should have said that at the 
beginning, before I offended anybody.  Also, by "any one of these 
cases," I mean "Pants: The Musical"
   And plagiarism happens.

   On a different note, Kehry Lane, I loved your title.  Its 
relationship with the piece is very neat.


                                    Arlen

Time: Sat, 30-Sep-2000 16:36:08 GMT     IP: 205.217.148.79

This is not the official order, but here's a spotty review as I 
can remember it.

1.  that guy JP doing that thing with his fake weiner hanging out 
like he was some sort of corporate trainer at NCS:  good energy 
and delivery; not especially strong writing.  not super-duper 
memorable.

2.  i don't remember what this was
Hey wait, maybe i do.  was this the one where Aaron "Stubble" 
Galbraith's big pink nipple showed?  that was pretty funny.  there 
were some really good lines in there as i recall; obviously 
somebody took care in the writing, because it didn't seem thrown-
together.  Rachel (the wife) looked just right in the part except 
she giggled a few times.  ben as horse:  hehehe

2.5 Chris and Arlen like a psychiatrist and patient.  good and 
short, kinda lackluster delivery.  nice last line.

3.  was this that one that was badly delivered...some new guy?  i 
can picture the guy but i can't remember his piece.  he looked 
like the title character of the show "Blossom."

4.  Nozebone:  wrocked!  i especially enjoyed song number two.  it 
was funny and touching and great.
 
5.  my LesBeDazzler thing

6.  Alyssa's thing with the old man and Chris running around 
wildly:  absurd and delightful, much like Alyssa herself.  What 
with all the damned monologues these days, it's refreshing to see 
a good goofy nonsensical comedy.

7.  i no longer have any recollection of the order, so i'm just 
going to write about pieces as i think of them.
 
--the bad monologe about getting hit by lightning on a dance floor 
while you fall in love:  tired metaphors, tired delivery, sappy, 
grammatically suspect (or maybe that was the Blossom guy who was 
grammatically suspect--i don't remember for sure).
 
--the piece Neil delivered (i can't remember who wrote it) that 
was a little bit about the same topic (finding love or something) 
but was much better delivered and written--i enjoyed the internal 
rhymes and breakneck speed.  i'm glad the other guy went first.
 
--the one Al wrote about Arlen's face cancer.  merideth should 
know i did not actually kiss her boyfriend's mouth, i just put my 
face sort of near a part of his face sort of near his mouth.  and 
also merideth should know that he was very against it so you don't 
have to be mad or anything.  it's all for art!
anyway, the piece was good--great delivery on Arlen's part, great 
job making out by Sheila and Neil, good timing all around, good 
writing.  probably my favorite Al piece to date.  Al's writing has 
really gotten strong lately.
 
--"getting it on"--lesbian innuendoes.  tired joke, been done, and 
been done better.  it dragged on way too long, and while i wasn't 
sure what the punchline was going to be specifically, it was 
pretty obvious what its general nature would be "It sounds like 
we're talking about lesbian sex but it's really a metaphor!  
hahahaha!"  anyway.  not that i have any problem with lesbian sex 
(as IF, dudes!)...i just wasn't impressed with how this piece was 
crafted.  and i was going to say "Well, at least women wrote it," 
but really that's no excuse.  i don't like women's writing for its 
own sake; i like it when women prove they're good writers.  so i 
hope somebody does soon (like Alyssa, who is my girlfriend).
 
--Mike Cassidy delivers a monologue by someone else:  horrifying 
yet beautiful; great, subtle facial expressions by Cassidy along 
the lines of Greta Garbo (who is also my girlfriend).  the image 
of the poor fat kid falling in the bathtub full of acid was just 
wonderful.

--Arlen's thing about paste-eaters: fresh surprise ending.  good 
tension built up with just enough humor to keep me paying 
attention.

--Ben Schmidt's song:  when ben sings songs i pretend he wrote 
them about me.  i realize he probably didn't, but it makes it more 
fun.  this was another such example.  craftily written, pretty 
guitar as always, and with some snappy bounce bounce bounce.  an 
excellent example of his talents.

--Chris's monologe:  oooh retarded children are so funny, 
especially if they're only mildly retarded so they seem almost 
like everyone else but not quite.  the mouth-ful of AIDS girl 
cracked me up...lots of wacky images, but perhaps they didn't 
congeal quite as well as some others of his i've seen.  still 
funny, though, with great energy. i liked how it was mostly 
delivered with the audience viewing Chris's profile.  profile-
actic!   oh wait no.

hey, i might have just mentioned every single piece.  woohoo!

Time: Sat, 30-Sep-2000 19:52:30 GMT     IP: 24.183.162.188

: Lackluster delivery made me bored.  Hey Egg, can you tell me 
:what the difference is between dull and lackluster?
:


     Spread your arms as wide as you can. Now imagine your armspan 
is the continuum of dullness. From the middle of your sternum left 
is "Dull," from the middle of your sternum right is "Non-Dull," 
with everything beyond your right wrist qualifying as "compelling."
Chris Stangl's "is-there-any-other-conclusion-at-which-this-could-
even-POSSIBLY-arrive" estimation puts "Pick up Sticks" somewhere 
between your left elbow and thumb. "Lackluster" is a region 
spanning from the border of "Dull" as far as your right shoulder.
     To put it another way, Central/Latin America is dull, JP was 
in Texas.

Time: Sat, 30-Sep-2000 21:06:01 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.181

Your definition of lackluster is suspect.  I don't think there's 
any warrant to place lackluster in the range of non-dull, since 
dull and lackluster are practically synonyms.  Something non-dull 
would necessarily have some luster.  Anything lacking luster 
could certainly be called dull.  I think that you misappropriated 
lackluster to express that you didn't think the piece was as dull 
as Chris did, when you might have just said that.

Anyway, you're wrong: It was dull.

Time: Sat, 30-Sep-2000 21:09:39 GMT     IP: 152.163.207.181


Horse/Redneck thing by . . . Mike Cassidy?
This was delightful in many ways.  The Ben-horse was great and 
so was the script.  The girl-wife did a good job with her not-
lines.  Aaron's performance was good, but I think it might have 
been better if it had been more rednecky.

Tapeworm man:
Was this the same boy who did the raven poem?  If yes, this was 
a much much better effort, but was still too long and not very 
well-written.  It needed some serious trimming and I seem to 
remember that the delivery was sort of slow and unexciting.  In 
all, this was not worth the effort of all the tape application 
and removal it must have required.

Love is dancing monologue:
Aprille says things about this that are true.  But at least 
everything about this was better than:

I worked as a telemarketer monologue:
Both writing and delivery were early-middle-school-esque at 
best.  The whole thing was very disorganized.  And things were 
said like "People did either THIS or THAT.  I did not do THIS.  
The thing I did was called THAT."  . . . the last sentence as 
though it were our first introduction to the word THAT.  What 
was the point of the monologue, and how did any of the content 
contribute to the expression of that point?  If the man who 
wrote this is in college then I have lost all faith in the 
admissions system.

Balls talks really fast   By Stubble?:
This was really good.  Both the writing and the performance were 
great.  The high speed worked, but sometimes I missed lines or 
couldn't tell what was going on, and that makes me sad.  

the one Al wrote about Arlen's face cancer.
This is the best thing I have ever seen by Al Angel.  Cancer is 
so funny!  I could not stop laughing when my mom had it!  Great 
performances by all.  Kiss broken by page turn so funny.  
Aprille, I really don't care if you or anyone else kisses my 
boyfriend's mouth on stage.  In fact, I think it might have 
improved the ending if you had. 

"getting it on"
Once again Aprille says everything that is right.  I too 
predicted the ending very early. Even if it hadn't been 
completely predictable, the dialogue was still boring and 
trite.  The one redeeming thing about this piece was how the 
exchange was supposed to have taken place just before, and the 
end was the beginning.  That was sort of neat.

Arlen's thing about paste-eaters: 
I saw several people jump at the end of this.  It was neat.  I 
liked how things unfolded and how Arlen almost imperceptibly 
built up to the strangulation while other people's lines
were going on.  I liked how the hitchhiker man got creepier and 
creepier. 

Ben song: 
Ben is a very talented musician, singer, and writer of songs.  
And yet, I was bored.  The music to this song sounded almost 
just like several other Ben songs I have heard.  So did
the lyrics, for the most part.  It was a sweet song that I would 
listen to again if I could, but I'd like to hear something a 
little different.

Stangl monologue:

Why do you go in disguise to buy a fence?  No one knows!!  I 
enjoyed the Joshua Clones concept.  Chris whipping his legs 
about as clone hit bumps was neat.  

The pieces I have not mentioned were each delightful to varying 
degrees.  I can't think of things to say about them other than 
that.

Where were Willie Barbour and Chris Okiishi?  And Kyle Lange? 
Why was Jamal too sick to do anything?  Is there a God?


Merideth

Time: Sat, 30-Sep-2000 22:33:03 GMT     IP: 63.25.167.125

In regards to last nights's show:

Mike Cassady wrote EQUUS 2.0, the monologue Aaron performed 
about the horse

I, Neil Campbell, wrote NECKTIE SINCLAIR, the monologue Mike 
performed about hanging a kid

And Aaron Galbraith wrote WRAP THAT RASCAL, the monologue I 
performed about fast food and girls and driving and shit

Also, the overalls that Aaron wore belong to me in real life.  
He was not wearing underwear, but I will not wash those overalls!

Finally, Alyssa Bowman is borrowing my cowboy hat this week

This has been Balls

Time: Sat, 30-Sep-2000 23:07:11 GMT     IP: 4.4.74.53

It is funny that Aaron had no underwear. I know someone else who 
wore no underwear to the show (it is for a secret who, though), 
and so the coincide-ance strikes me. Hard. (Unless it was just a 
joke, then it makes a frown.)

That nose bone song was the best, man. The best. 

Other stuff was good, too. 

I looked in a dictionary and it seems lackluster and dull really 
are the same. Wow. This is not what I had originally believed, 
but luckily I checked before I said anything, so now you'll 
never have to know that. Only I TOLD YOU! Get it?! Do you see 
that I have FOILED myself?! OK!! I UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON 
AROUND ME! RIGHT NOW! 

JAMALKSALSLS