Apr 16, 1999 00:56 from Booster Gold
I miss Megan Gogerty.
I loved her intro:
"Good evening and welcome to NO SHAME THEATRE!"
such enthusiasm is infectious!
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Apr 16, 1999 01:04 from Stubble
i humbly apologize for pretending to know what i was talking about in my
previous post in regards to the location of dead week.
my best of picks- ones that immediately come to mind are horak's getting laid
song, jamal's getting laid by 11 year olds song, erwins islam piece, and
something of dans- take your pick.  oh and how could i forget sarahs
heartbreaking mime piece.  that kicked the asses of many.  a ben schmidt song
would definitely be in order and maybe that art piece he did.  one that was
missed by many was a mark hansen piece performed on the week that the only
board members in attendance were kyle and sarah and i think kyle had to leave
before it was performed.  i dont remember many specifics about it, only because
it was so incredibly incoherent, which is really the reason for its genius.
the most memorable line was "whether you enjoy the frankness of a blunt, or the
bluntness of a frank".  anyway, if you guys dont put it in, then i guess ill
have to hold my own personal "best of" show this summer to put it in because it
rocked.  mark, is your ass sore from my kissing it yet?  also, a stangl piece
is very necessary, maybe the one he did last week.  and last of all to cross my
mind this evening is aprilles gaydar piece.  thatll hafta do for now, good
night all.
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Apr 16, 1999 08:23 from Whitewolf
 
Ah yes, the piece where Brad gets naked and I drip hot wax all over him. I
believe we called that piece "Norm gets high as hell and hallucinates bizarrely
all night while we paint swastikas on his forehead and laugh at him."
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Apr 16, 1999 10:06 from Thufir
...by Tasha Robinson and Bradley Trenton Maloy Quinn, esq.
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Apr 16, 1999 11:25 from The New Mexican
Actually, I think Dan's piece would work.  Remember, if all the planets are
aligned and we sell out again,  that will be exactly 400 people who haven't
seen the piece.
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Apr 16, 1999 20:02 from Skweetis
I nominate Sarah Greer's piece with the heart trading.  That was ... i mean ...
wow... I also would like to see Ben Schmidt's art piece again.  I'm going to go
to the webpage and look over the old orders and be back with more crap that i
like.
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Apr 17, 1999 09:37 from Ender
 
Don't forget to check out the order from Dead Week last semester when
considering pieces:
 
http://www.noshame.org/iowacity/ord9899.htm#Dec04.98
 
And the rest of the pieces up for consideration are listed at:
 
http://www.noshame.org/iowacity/ord9899.htm#Jan29.99
 
(as well as anything that was performed last night.)
 
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Apr 17, 1999 09:38 from Ender
 
May I just say that at least on Best Of contender appeared in last night's
show.  That bit about Mozart and Lenny Kravitz was a work of art.  And the
forward-rewind bit performed by Cassady/Galbraith/Horak was a blast.  And
maybe Chris' magazine/first date piece; I was in it, so it's hard to tell how
it looked from the audience, but I thought it was a lot of fun..
 
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Apr 17, 1999 10:31 from Mose
I agree that Mario sosa's god/mozart piece should definately be in best of. I
went through the old orders, and here are some of my other suggestions. I know
I've missed a lot of cool stuff though because I have a crappy memory, and it's
hard to connect some of the weirder titles to skits. Here's a few a do
remember, though:
From December, Jamal's Pooping in the dark grandpa poop definately stands out,
the skit where a guy accidentally wipes his butt with his grandpa's head or
something.
Matt Sacharski's Hey you. Yeah you. Do you have any marijuana to sell? was kind
of a classic, I think.
Black Market stuff should be invited to Best of, to do whatever they will.
Aprille's had some good pieces; the supermodel, telemarketed child slaves, the
"self-indulgent" piece, etc, dunno which I liked best.
Al Angel's Why I don't watch porn anymore was one of his more tightly written
pieces.
As with Mark Hansen's clever little radio piece with oedipus presley crying his
eyes out and other literary jokes.
Brad the juggler!! !~!!!!!!!!!!! !@
!
Chris Stangl--pick one... I liked Comedy is Funny, A five minute tragedy a lot,
but there have been other good ones.
Dan Brooks--the Dan piece that sticks most in memory is about his flight next
to an old lady and giving her a flower, which was just very lovely.
My stuff: While I cannot tell you how much I value feigned humility, over my
silence last semester the powers that be picked some of my more, er...
experimental... pieces. So my favorite of my own were the skit about how I lost
my virginity (the first one) by Alyssa Bowman and the elitist french, by me.
And I think Jamal's "Gay and Retarded" would make a nice closer for Best of and
the eclectic spring '99 season. Those are my thoughts. Do with them what you
will.
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Apr 17, 1999 13:17 from Carolyn
Taboo No Shame!:
 
Pooping in the dark grandpa poop, selling marijuana, black market, child
slaves, "self-indulgence", porn, oedipus.  What the hell is No Shame coming to?
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Apr 17, 1999 16:55 from The New Mexican
okay everyone, Here's the order of a really good show last night.
1) Periodic Influences by chris okiishi
2) Carnal Theatre Love Ode by mose 'alyssa bowman' hayward
3) How to Write a Joke or a Short Title for a Short Millenium by arlen lawson
4) Insert Clever Title Here by mike cassady
5) Museum as Muse by john hague
6) L and M by mario sosa
7) Anthony's Poem by dan brooks
8) We Could Be Heroes by james wolf
8.5) Mary sue Coleman's Hawkeye Talk by kyle lange
9) The Biggest But in the World by jamal river
10)
Work in Progress by al angel
11) Cannibal by matt sucharsky
12) The Preacher by chris Lake
13) My Self Help Seminar by rob merritt
14)One word to Describe Junior High by sarah greer
15) Hppily Ever Upon a time by aaron galbraith
16) How I Invented God by chris stangl
There it is, have at it!
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Apr 18, 1999 09:57 from Mose
Someone inadvertantly straddled my name and quotation marks over the skit by
Alyssa Bowman from last week. Miss Bowman informed me of this herself but as
she has not yet procured speaking rights on this forum she has asked it to be
known that she's a little irked. Judging from her demeanor, though, I'd call it
more "zizzled with fury." Woe be onto the next Dan Brooks who doubts her
authorial integrity in the announcements. Hint. Hint hint.
Hint!!
Also: One of the pieces I forgot to mention for Best of was Aaron's Happily
Ever Upon a Time. It was clever and funny.
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Apr 18, 1999 19:50 from Subotai
So yeah, Friday night...I was running the lights, and was very unhappy about
things that had happened earlier in the night, so I was the Light Nazi. You
might have noticed the lights dimming after 5 minutes on some pieces. That was
my way of saying "you're piece is 9 mintes long and I could have done both my
pices that wrote in that time". Not that I'm bitter. So I can't really comment
on the show, as I was dozing for a lot of itNobody's fault, I was just tired
and not in a fun No Shame mood.
as for best of, I don't realsly know. I'll go trhough the orders again, but I
can honestly say of my stuff, there wwere honestly only two or three that I
really felt strong aboutand would perform again. not that it matters what I
think...
mike
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Apr 18, 1999 20:31 from Ender
 
Actually, while a vote from the author of multiple pieces doesn't hold absolute
sway, it can be helpful to those making the selections for Best Of...
 
I noticed the five-minute dimming, and wondered if that's what it was.  Thing
is, when you're in the glow of the lights, I'm not sure if it's as obvious as
it is from the audience perspective.  If you really want to get performer
attention, maybe the booth op could turn a flashlight on and off a few times
when the performer is looking up.  But tactics are a moot point unless the
board decides to implement a five-minute notification.  In the past, people who
push it have simply been spoken to after the show.  And generally there is some
leniency if the work in question was really good in addition to being a little
long.
 
I think the five-minute rule and the fifteen piece limit act as
counterbalances.  I imagine there are pieces that overshoot the five minute
mark most weeks, but others that fall significantly short of it, so in a sense
"it all works out."  The best gauge, though, is if the show gets out around or
before 12:30pm, which allows fifteen minutes for announcements (!) and an
average of five minutes for fifteen pieces.
 
Ah, yes.  The quantification of art.
 
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Apr 19, 1999 00:15 from Crotch Monkey
allright...what a cock of a show we saw last friday night....i felt that my
translator piece was one of my best this semester, but i also felt that it was
totally overshadowed (in the best way possible) by my peurto rican lover mario
sosa, and his tale of leeny kravitz fucking mozarts "lilly white ass"...christ
that was incredible...and then stubble's (aaron galbraiths) backwards sketch
went over well, and was fun to be in......i love a night where i go away
jealous of other peoples shit.....well..you know...they're writing...not their
actual feces....because i bet that i can make just as good a shit as anybody
out there...and im willing to put money on it.....or atlast some crack....so
yeah...theres my thoughts.....read it and weep.....or atleast weep.....okay
just forget it......assholes......(its a compliment, i like assholes...but nt
in that way...um....er......i like....um...football.......and
........um.....breasts)....hehe....bye.
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Apr 19, 1999 02:22 from Amaranth
It was the best week this semester. Mose's whole "Boreusall" piece was riot and
evrything satire should be. Makes me almost wish I'd seen _Marisol_. About
halfway through it, I was wondering if I really wanted to perform my piece.
 
Mike Cassidy's piece was too long and could have used editing. I think for the
limitations of No Shame, five minutes is good. granted art cannot be
quantified, but it is based in discipline. I found the lights dimming a good
idea -- I think the five-minute rule is being abused too much this semester for
pieces that would benefit from being shorter. And I will be holding an editing
workshop. . .
 
Just kidding.
 
Mike's piece was funny, tho. It was an excellent imitation of Mr. Stengl on
both his part and Dan's. With a bit of a trim, it would have been a Best OF
contender.
 
The radioactive preacher part was the only real dragging piece, and it looked
that much worse for being followed by the self-help piece. They were much too
similar, and one had to go down in flames. John Hague's museum piece also
dragged -- interesting ideas, but he said too little in too long a time.
Incidentally, he is the front runner in the cheese bread challenge. He not only
brought three new people, they were all women. Does he know he is in the
running?
 
And I think Stengl's piece should be considered for Best Of. He is fast
becoming heir apparent to Dan's title primary audience offender.
 
I think after four years of this, I finally created a typical Wolf piece: a
fascination with the sacred and profane, two people talking -- one of special
abilities, and a few incomprehensible ideas thrown in.
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Apr 19, 1999 08:51 from Ender
 
Jim--I actually thought the ending was incomprehensible.
 
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Apr 19, 1999 09:46 from Ender
 
Then again, to clarify, it was comprehensible, but the delivery just sorta left
me hanging.  I was able to say "oh yeah, he must have been the guy that the
other fella was looking for," but the energy of a finale simply wasn't there.
 
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Apr 19, 1999 11:04 from Dan
And just for reference, I believe I abdicated the throne of primary audience
offender somewhere around second semester last year. I haven't offended anybody
in awhile. Maybe the Catalog Wife Piece.
As for BONS material, I second Adam's reminder that pieces from last semester's
dead week are well worth looking at.
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Apr 19, 1999 23:34 from Subotai
Even as I write this, the BONS pieces are being decided...or perhaps not.
Anyway, I went through the orders and came up with some stuff that I think
would repressent us well. And yes, represent was spelled wrong.
James Erwin: Parody #3 (the Islam rant), Greg M: Stratego, Jamal: the Gay and
Reatarded song, Dan: Kugelbrau monologue, Sarah: Lost and Found int the park
(the silent piece), Me (Mike Rothschild): Iron Fist of Zion, Al Angel: his MSM
song from 3/26, Brad Harris: Juggling (duh), Mark H. Radio Free Ferall, Chris:
After Bar, Jake Johnson "w", Gary's Rage (from dead week last semester),
Cassidy/Galbreath: My Urethra Aches (heckling w/ the huge Jewish Cock line),
Kyle: Super Human SOrority Girl, Aprille: Vendrella the SUper Model, A Ben
Schmidt song, Stangl: Comedy is Funny, Brad S. Listen and respond.
I know everyone is high on Mario Sosa's piece from last week, but I was reading
along (in the light booth) as he did the piece, and he was pretty good about
disregarding it...so who knows if he can do the same piece again.
But my absoulte favorite piece of the semster was from 2/19, number 10: "Title"
by Author. If it gets better than that, I don't want to know about it.
Mike
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Apr 20, 1999 08:08 from Jeff
Folkses,
Trying to reconstruct the order for March 26 before it becomes lost to the
annals of memory.  If you did a piece or know anything about a piece that was
performed that night, please post, or
email NoShTh@aol.com.
Here's what we know so far:
Brad Smith - "3 Characters in Search of a Blackout" - (performed by ... -&-
Mark Hansen)
Michael Rothschild - "The Iron Fist of Zion" - (performed by Mike Rothschild,
Mark Hansen, -&-
Mark Hansen - "Radio Free Ferall"
Chris Stangl - "Blue Room: A Song" - (performed by Chris Stangl)
And the following pieces might have been performed that night:
Kehry Lane - [title unknown] - (performed by Kehry Lane)
Mose Hayward - [something about loss of virginity]
Aaron Galbraith - [title unknown]
Ben Schmidt - [title unknown]
Jamal River - [title unknown] - [Jamal's old man sketch]
Aprille Clarke - [title unknown] - [Aprille's child slave labor bit]
Al's MSM
That dog sketch... (Al trying to lick his ass?)
Improv?
Something with "copper wants to lick her ass like an animal."
The radio skit (maybe same as "Radio Free Ferall")
Juggling
Opening bit with slow moving Necrophilliac gun wielding loony, and his Corpse
Jewish Mafia Bankers who are out to rule the world.
The its time skit
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Apr 20, 1999 16:46 from Crispy
James Irwin is your master
James Irwin is your sugar daddy
James Irwin is the choice of fine wine critics throughout the world
James Irwin has matza madness
James Irwin can probably take a midget
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Apr 20, 1999 16:50 from Prufrock
James Erwin wants very badly to meet this James Irwin.
He sounds pretty cool.
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Apr 20, 1999 23:31 from Crotch Monkey
james erwin/irwin is none of those things.  he is a filthy backstabbing liar
who smells like butts and has sex with little kids.  allright, so i was just
jealous that you said so many flattering things about him.  ive got to learn to
control my emotions.  or kill james......hmmmm..(mike cocks an eyebrow)
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Apr 21, 1999 09:28 from Trouble
 
  Nobody has mentioned James Horaks "Computer Solitaire" song.  I kinda think
that was a Best of type piece.
 
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Apr 21, 1999 11:47 from Quicheo
Okay, so I have the missing order, and will post it as soon as I remember to
bring it to work with me.
 
Also, be it known, that another "Best of" meeting has come and gone with
precious little bloodshed this semester.  Very cool.  Also, in going over the
pieces, I was struck by a couple of thoughts.  One--there have been an AMAZING
amount of really quality pieces, with that vast majority of authors out-doing
themselves on a weekly basis.  It was an extordinaryly difficult evening trying
to pare down a best of list, knowing that each piece we cut was likely
someone's favorite (our initial fantasy-everything-we-wanted order topped out
40 pieces).  I hope people are pleased, and that everyone gets the Best of word
out--remember--sell out=naked dan.  Two--there were a few curious threads of
commonalitiy running through the No Shame psyche this semester--no fewer that
five super-hero pieces.  At least four sodomy-as-the-core-of-the -sketch
pieces.  And, for whatever it's worth, an alarming decrease in poetry.  I'm not
sure what this all means...
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Apr 21, 1999 13:00 from Dan
It means, says I, that:
Superheroes are a natural topic by virtue of the mutability that is the
fundamental premise of their characters. In other words, the real-world
archetype is already art.
Sodomy is great.
Poetry is akin to the way the ueducated  think sodomy is.
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Apr 21, 1999 14:56 from Crotch Monkey
so...hypothetically, poetry about superhero's sodomizing each other could
quite possibly be the best no shame idea of all time.....ill get my people
right on top of that........or maybe illjust do it myself.....welcome to my
nightmare....love, mike "super sodomy poetry man" cassady
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Apr 21, 1999 15:13 from Subotai
methinks we've created a monster.
Roth
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Apr 22, 1999 00:03 from Amaranth
nd didn't it occur to everyone to do "Sodomyman"?
 
So what is the BONS order?
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Apr 22, 1999 00:32 from Dan
Funny you should ask that, Wolf! Assuming you think "funny" is a synonym for
"futile." The order for Best of No Shame will be announced at the top of this
week's show, as per tradition. Of course, I know what it is right now. I think
I'll just go ponder it for awhile. Hmmmm.
Heh.
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Apr 22, 1999 13:29 from Prufrock
I've actually taken the liberty of placing a copy of the Best Of order
somewhere along the coast of the Tortuga Isles, buried among boobytraps,
treacherous tidepool caverns, and the walking vengeful spirit of me boson mate
Slippery Ned. You're welcome to it if ye be of heart courageous and chastity
true.
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Apr 22, 1999 14:08 from Carolyn
or of heart true and chastity courageous.
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Apr 22, 1999 14:22 from Thufir
"Stand back, lest my moral set overwhelm thee!"
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Apr 22, 1999 14:22 from Thufir
(I suppose I should have spelled that "o'erwhelm")
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Apr 22, 1999 15:56 from Carolyn
Kiss my moral set!
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Apr 22, 1999 17:54 from Prufrock
I've spent years thinking up adjectives for Carolyn's set. Moral's a new one.
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Apr 22, 1999 20:31 from Dan
Oh, dear God. Oh my dear God.
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Apr 22, 1999 22:24 from Crotch Monkey
mike wishes someone would spend time thinking of adjectives for his set.
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Apr 22, 1999 22:24 from Crotch Monkey
no he doesn't
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Apr 23, 1999 00:08 from Amaranth
All this talk of chastity and sets is making me self conscious. I really have
to get a GF.
 
A shame I do not have a No Shame piece this wek (so far), as per my usual
birthday bull****, I have shaved my beard but have no forum for my naked face.
I realize some of you may think this is a good thing. . .
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Apr 23, 1999 09:07 from Thufir
I'd name Carolyn's set "Chastity and Integrity" but I think someone took those
already.  No, wait, they took Honesty.
 
Never mind.  This joke is so inside, it's akin to a small box locked away in a
closet inside an office inside a larger office inside a Matoshka doll.
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Apr 23, 1999 10:12 from Carolyn
Hey, can we leave the doll out of it, please?
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Apr 23, 1999 13:37 from Crotch Monkey
mike likes dolls
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Apr 23, 1999 13:37 from Crotch Monkey
no he doesn't! who keeps doing that? bastards!
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Apr 23, 1999 15:53 from Dan
Hey, just for reference, No Shame will be in Mabie Theater tonight. Still a
dollar, still high quality theatre, but not sold out. Bring it on, you ISCAnic
fuckers!
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Apr 23, 1999 17:52 from Amaranth
You are all a bunch of perverts.
 
 
That's why I like you so much.
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Apr 24, 1999 02:31 from Crotch Monkey
what a great show to prep the BONS show........and it was nice to get a
three-liner in before the semester came to a close.  next semester...ill
attempt a two liner....and someday, a one loiner may come into play...or even a
one liner...either way everyone has some fun.  -mike "oh...that kid" cassady
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Apr 24, 1999 13:52 from Dan
The order from the best damn Dead Week in recent memory:
1) Bouncing by Bradley Harris
2) No Shame Episode One: The Phantom Major by Mike Rothschild
3) Trample Over Me -- A Song by Kyle Lange
4) My Roommate Thinks I Don't Know What He Really Thinks of Me by Nick Clark's
Roommate
5) I Wrote This Sketch All By Myself With No Help From Anyone by Mark Hansen
and Arlen Lawson
6) A Song, Sort Of, by Todd Bowser and James Erwin
7) The Blackout Sketch by Danger Brooks
8) The Primary Non-Sexual Fantasies of a Recovering Education Major by Aprille
Clarke
9) A Gentle Farting in My Ear by Alyssa Bowman
10) Something by Chris Okiishi, Tom Burkart and Adam Burton
11) There Are Absolutely No References to Gorilla Semen in This Piece -- I
Swear, or My Name Isn't Washington Irving by Washington Irving
12) A Carribean Night by Havalah Backus
13) Unicorn by Mose Hayward
14) Song by Ben Schmidt
15) No Shame Episode One: The Phantom Major, Part II by Mike Rothschild
16) Damage to Space and Occupants by Chris Stangl
Nice work, y'all.
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Apr 25, 1999 04:21 from Crotch Monkey
allright,...who forgot our incredible performance as sketch number
15.5......SCREAM IF YOU LOVE ISCA????????  bastards........this friday will be
a blast.......im ovulating just thinking about it....btw...tonite i went to see
compnay done by the ic comm theatre,,,...oqwuishee......oockyshie....ocquishuie
...was great...and not a bad musicla either...their performance was
smooth,...well directed...and had some guy painted gold with glitter on his
bare chest.......now that's theatre.....oh yeah..kim bennish was also very
good......oh yeah...i wasnt in it but i was also very good.  thank you...that
is all.
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Apr 25, 1999 11:06 from Ender
 
Hey, don't forget--today at 4pm two 30-minute plays (one by Dan Brooks and one
by Michael Rothschild) are being performed at the little boathouse-thing beside
the bridge nearest the theatre building.  And they're FREE!  And Black MArket
Stuff will be doin' their improv thing at intermission.
 
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Apr 25, 1999 11:09 from Ender
 
(And the performer list includes the ever-remarkable talents of Brad Smith,
Mike Cassady, Kyle Lange, and then a bunch of folks with whom I'm less
familiar, but who are still actors in their own right, even if they don't do No
Shame...  and there may even be other No Shame actors in there, who I'll think
of later and say "doh!  Why didn't I mention him/her/them??!?" but I'm sure
they'll forgive me.)
 
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Apr 25, 1999 18:05 from Subotai
Hey kids. For the benefit of those of us who don't remember, and anyone who
doesn't know...what's the order for Best Of No Shame??
Also, the 4/23 show was great. I can't think of one piece I heinously disliked.
James doing Tom Waits is funny...(and by doing I don't mean, you know, doing).
I thought my two part piece went very well considering we never rehearsed it.
Dan makes a groovy lightsaber noise. I had thought about shortening it and
turning it into one piece but I could never cut enough to do it. I also think
the second part was a little weaker than the first because it was rooted in the
same place and didn't have the frenetic energy the first one did. But it did
have buttsex, and lots of it!
Mike
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Apr 25, 1999 22:35 from Fanky Maloon
I thought that was a pretty decent Dead Week, with a lot of excellent stuff.
But before I get into some specifics of what I liked, I must ask:
What's the problem with Kobe Bryant???  Seriously, I must know.  I've been out
of the NBA loop for a few years and am just getting somewhat interested (unlike
all you Bulls drones, I'm happier without that team around so THERE).  From
what I've seen, Kobe is, to put it quite distinguished, The Man.  Why must he
eat it at the hand of God??  (for the record, Ewing must take hike ASAP,
agreed)
 
Now, you know it's going to be a great Dead Week show when Bradley Harris kicks
it off with some Jugglin' action.  Rock.
 
Secondly, for a somewhat sparse-seeming Mabie theater crowd, I didn't feel that
any of the perforers had trouble with the space.  See if I've ever said that
about Mabie before, kudos!  Everyone was quite audible, it still felt good and
intimate in a Theater B kinda way, all the good stuff.  I was saying that
evening that I feel that the No Shamer performers lately are almost universally
really strong performers, whereas the performers from say a couple of years ago
tended to be better writers, IMO.  It's an interesting shift, anyone care to
discuss/berate/insult/villify?
 
Thirdly, James Erwin's Tom Waits impression song kicked so much booty that I
cannot handle it even this long after witnessing the spectacle.  If you saw the
piece and haven't heard any Tom Waits, you have no idea what you're missing.  I
think that Tom Waits himself would bust a gut if he were to witness it and
he'll probably want that song on his next album - he's just that kinda artsy
guy.
 
Fourthly (not just a King Missile song...) - Mike R - I dug the concept of the
Star Wars pair of pieces, but have to say I thought they dragged a bit.  Of
course keep in mind that I'm really into short pieces, so my perspective would
tend to produce this reaction.  But I guess to run with your post about your
debate, I probably would have preferred if it'd been cut into a single piece,
but hey.  It was still pretty good.
 
And Fifthly (a word?  now it is...) - does someone perhaps pretty please want t
(to) post the Best Of Order, perhaps with a VERY brief description of each that
got in?  I heard the titles, but was only able to connect a piece with a few of
them.
 
Sixthly - the look on Okiishi's face when playing the Foreign Dignitary each
time he gave the audience the "look" was pure gold, and was another part of the
night that I am still not through grinning and cackling about.  Not to mention
the script involving the classic section with Kyle assuming Chris called Mike a
homo completely regardless of Chris's statements.  Oh, me oh my.
 
Seventhly, I'm rather tired and am going to go away now.
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Apr 26, 1999 00:01 from Mose
1-bouncing by brad -- the greatest juggler ever, as always. dude, you guys
don't even know the half of it. i've tossed shit around with this guy more
informally, and let's just say there's a lot of cool stuff he has yet to show
us.
2-phantom major--i didn't get this because i haven't seen star wars or star
trek or whatever movie he was riffing on, but i still agree that the script
could have used some cutting. some fun acting.
3-trample over me--i like kyle! i couldn't understand what he was saying, but i
like him anyway.
4-my roommate etc. - it was ok. there were some funny parts. you know what?
just about the only downfall ever of a no shame theatre piece is that it goes a
little too long, it could use some cutting, that kind of thing, cause pretty
much everybody has been doing good gags recently (which is quite an
achievement) but some stuff could just use some polishing.
5-i wrote this sketch myself -- good funny parts, but it kinda seemed like a
dead-week inspired meshing of a bunch of odd jokes by some pretty talented
writers into something a little half-assed.
6-james erwin as tom waits! ha! funny! funny impression! ha!
7-blackout sketch by mr. danger -- this was very funny, and very well-timed,
and everything we've come to expect from mr. danger
8-aprille's fantasies -- i thought some of the fantasies were rather hilarious
and some were like, standard targets, like rush limbaugh. Progress report:
Nobody "gave me head" after the show. thanks anyway, aprille.
HEY!! WHAT THE CRAP??!! i think the juggling skit by me and brad got left out
of the order. i think it was number 5.5.
9-a gentle farting in my ear by alyssa bowman -- when they read the order, dan
brooks was also credited with writing this one. but his coauthorship didn't
appear in the order. could someone clear this up for me? anyway, i felt jamal
did another nice delivery. and it felt good to kill off the captain.
10-something by chris, adam, tom -- man, even though this piece was really well
done, as always from these guys, it was yet another skit about some people
sitting around trying to think up something for no shame, even if it was
self-referencially yet another skit about some people trying to blah blah...
11-gorilla semen--did he actually expose his genitalia? i couldn't tell from
where i was sitting. either way, it was good except for the ending.
12-a carribean night--there! you see? poetry, new people, exactly what you guys
have been begging for. i'd like to note that havalah's premiere was actually
last week, in a certain sketch written by ... well, i should get the credit for
it anyway. i forget who wrote my sketch last week.
13-unicorn--i'm rather interested to see what people thought of this. i was
trying something different. honesty, please!
14-ben's song--this was really really awesome. it was extremely immediate. it
affected me and made me think. when big weird stuff happens and you keep
reading about it from newspapers and pseudo newspapers like the DI you're kind
of dying to hear someone say something intelligent about it. thanks, ben.
15-more phantom--yep.
16-damage to space and occupants--yet another brilliant hilarious skit about
how chris stangl hurts inside. even though it was a dead-week-esque
odds-and-ends, it was cool.
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Apr 26, 1999 09:45 from Quicheo
A terrific night of No Shame, if you ask me.  (although no one did)
 
Highlights for me--James' Tom Waits thing still had me in convulsions as I
tried to explain it to Rick later that night (Rick had never heard of Tom Waits
so he just looked at me pained and told me to go to sleep).  Ben's song was
very moving, and apropo as hell.  I like that he got so caught up in the words
he lost the melody he had intended--thus drawing more attention to the words.
Very unplanned cool.  Dan's piece was brilliant, but like Meryl Streep and
Kevin Spacy, that really goes without saying.  (Although, it was nice to have
him writting for other voices than his own, and the quasi-feminist comment at
the end was really cool.  Made me jealous I couldn't be in the piece.  But that
was true of most of the evening...)
 
I got a kick out of the Star Wars parody, and agree with its author that the
first part was stronger.  Mose's "Unicorn" thing was perhaps my favorite thing
he did all year.  A nice balance between conventional monologue, and absurdist
commentary, with a perfectly pitched ending.  Bravo.  Mose will be missed
...needless to say.
 
I must say, I really enjoyed being in Aprille
's piece--she is always so kind to write me good little bits, and I really
enjoy being a pawn of her delightfully ideosyncratic world.  She definately
has her own voice, and in my opinion keeps getting better and better.
 
Kyle's song was beautiful as always.   I got enough of the words to get the
message, but I wish I had been able to understand more.  I'll have to work on
that.  I really enjoyed doing our piece, especially since we were able to drag
our friend Tom on stage for the first time in Iowa.  As Mose so aptly pointed
out, it was a little indulgent, and we feared it was so, but it was fun to do
anyway.  Juggling was cool--especially the unexpected virtuosity from Mose!
 
I would have liked more Sarah Greer, but that is almost always true.
 
For me, the best piece of the really good evening was Chris Stangl's.  Amazing
performance, terrific writting, totally knocked me on my ass.  Wow.  (Although,
if he would like to deal with his psychic pain in a more formal manner, I know
some really good counselors...)  When he described his contract of mutual
contempt with the audience--I got chills.  Very well controlled--well done,
Chris.
 
Lastly, Stubble and Whitebread went with me to the Mill afterward (where I
rudely abandoned them to chase after cheese bread...but that's another story,
and Aaron seemed involved in pursuits all his own...), and we all were
commenting on how much we would miss No Shame this summer (Mike even refered to
it as "four months of celebacy" later in the weekend--his mom was not so amused
by his analogy...).  So true.  This has been one heck of a semester--what with
our "Space Place" exile and all.  But No Shame not only survived, but prospers.
All hail..
 
Oh, one more comment before ending this ever-so-long post--I wasn't around to
note the evolution that Greg mentioned in his post--but I definately agree that
No Shame is developing quite an array of solid performers who consistanly
elevate whatever material they are given.  Perhaps some of the "old" writers
could submit some stuff for the "new" crop of performers?  Trans-generational
No Shame...hmmmm....
 
Enough from me, I think...
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Apr 26, 1999 21:18 from Wilsobn
Hey there! Is Best Of this coming Friday night? Cause I want to plan
accordingly. Thanks!
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Apr 26, 1999 21:22 from Stubble
yes the best of is this friday in maibe, ive been creaming my shorts over it
for quite awhile.  i should probably go clean that up
gotta go,
aaron
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Apr 27, 1999 00:25 from Crotch Monkey
chris....my statement was painfully true regardless of my mothers
reaction...and i fear it with a leery eye.  two leery eyes.  and a leery butt
too.  right, so this friday i may attempt to document as much as
possible....maybe with a camera even.....if i remember.....hmmm....anybody else
interested in getting some kind of group picture of the best of
performers/writers?  or maybe im a geek....either way...i think it would be
cool...and would give me something to autograph and give out to little
kids...or maybe not......time to stop talking again.  insincerely, M.D.Cassady
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Apr 27, 1999 13:22 from Ender
 
Well, I don't have the Best of No Shame order, but I do have notes from when
Chris first read it off to me.  Many of the titles meant nothing to me, so I
didn't always write them down.  Perhaps some of you can reconstruct what I'm
talking about from the following:
 
1.  Periodical Influences (magazine piece by Chris Okiishi)
2.  Aaron Galbraith's piece about starting in the middle, going a little
forward, and rewinding all the way back to the beginning.
3.  Bradley Harris doing Bradley Harris-type things.
4.  Planet of the Aprilles, by Aprille Clarke
5.  Dogs Are Stupid, by Megan Gogerty--except she can't make it
6.  Gary's Rage (dead week last semester)
7.  Title by Author (Aaron Galbraith's "I drive on..." piece)
8.  Dan Brooks' Conditioning piece
9.  SuperHuman Sorority Girl cut down to one 5-minute piece, by Kyle Lange
10. A James Horak piece I didn't see, so I didn't write down a title or
description (anyone?)
11. James Erwin's Islam piece
12. A Mike Rothschild piece I didn't see--title?  description?
13. Commercial Attack, by Mark Hansen
14. Skull Fractures by Chris Stangl
15. Picasso, by Ben Schmidt
16. Mike Cassady's piece about talking to his Diary
17. Dan Brooks' short piece about being on a plane (where he pulled Kim Benesh
out of the audience and gave her a mime flower, only she didn't get it)
18. Mose's True Story about Losing his Virginity (the first one)
19. Sarah Greer's silent piece
20. Jamal's Gay and Retarded song.
 
Hope this helps...
 
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Apr 27, 1999 14:38 from Stubble
rothschilds piece was a meeting between the real world leaders who all happened
to be jews and they discussed how they were going to continue ruling things
horaks piece featured he and i doing what we do best.  few people were there
that week and if you didnt see it i think id rather save the surprise for
friday...  oh god only 81 more hours!!!
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Apr 27, 1999 14:45 from Dan
Let's see if I can reconstruct from memory
2) Happily Ever After Upon a Time by Aaron Galbraith
3) Rings by Bradley Harris
6) Gary's Rage by Jake Johnson and Bill Bungeroth
8) Will the Last One Out of My Subconcious Please Turn Off the Lights by me.
10) The Vangelis Incident by JmaesHorak and Aaron Galbraith
11) Why We Fight by James Erwin
12) The Iron Fist of Zion by Iron Mike Rothschild
16) I don't remember the title of the diary piece, dammit.
17) What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? My Mom Married Him by me.
19) Sarah's Still Sick So This Will Be a Mime or something along those lines.
Dammit.
20) Ode to Lenny by Jamal credited to Mose
On a frightening note, if the number of random e-mails I have received from
people telling me they are bringing twenty friends is any indication, we might
actually sell out. Which means I might have to make good on my bet. Shudder.
Ann avaricious shudder, but a shudder nonetheless.
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Apr 27, 1999 15:33 from Crotch Monkey
mike isnt sure he wants to see dan naked, let alone talk about it in the first
person
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Apr 27, 1999 23:21 from Norm
 
Okay.. Two items...
 
1) I want a tape of Best of... get SVP to do this for me.. .I have like 49.95
burning a hole in my pocket for a video... and while I was going to use it to
buy the latest Private Adult Video Magazine... I will gladly use it to buy a
tape of the Best of No Shame...
 
to sum up.... I'm paying cash for a tape of Best of No Shame.
 
 
2) I have about 300.00 burning a hole in my pants to see Dan nekkid.
 
now, I will also be taking donations before the show to see Dan nekkid... If
everyone brings in $3.00 and we give one dollar to the fund, and two to the
actuall No SHame attendance.. we can easily see Dan Nekkid.
 
God, I live living cheap, and getting paid....
 
to sum up.... Dan will be nekkid at Best Of No Shame... Even if I have to write
the freaking check out myself.
 
 
( by the way, No cop outs, no screens to hide behind, no blackouts to hide the
evidence... no other people screening the audience... we wnat nude really
really nude... like I can see on the hidded camera in Dans hose that i have
been broadcasting over hte web..... )
 
 
.... In other news, people have decided that a bored Norm with Money is a very
very very very bad thing... I could give the money to charity... I could buy
cheese bread for everyojne for the whole next year..... but, no, I want to see
DAN...
 
.... DAn, your only hope is that I get hit by a speeding crazed volvo driver in
the next three days..
( and then the insurance will pay for it anyway.)
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Apr 28, 1999 13:40 from Amaranth
I like the idea of a group picture. I think A lot of talent comes out of No
Shame, and it would be nice to have a record of it.
 
Incidentally, I think Stengl has  the best title of the year las week (Damage
to space and occupants). The only weak link of the whole night was Aprille's
piece, but that is only because she has done much better. It would have been an
excellent first piece, but I had a feeling it was a clearing house for bits
that she didn't turn into anything or polish. Dead week seems to be a
clearinghouse for those pieces, and I have seen too many to be drawn in to
another. I am sure for those who are not used to them, it \had more impact.
 
And we had another piece from the guy who did the roommate sketch. He is quiet,
but hopefully you all will see more.
 
I;'ll be at BONS Friday (with a date? well, a female friend at any rate), but I
think with a new job, I will finally be breaking ties with No Shame and Iowa
City except for an odd trip or two. It was nice meeting everybody.
 
And let me re-iterate: pictures of performers are a good idea, especially for
the web page.
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Apr 28, 1999 16:36 from Dan
Okay, just to clear things up, if No Shame goes home with a full house or $1000
on Friday, I will be naked. I won't be obscured by any strategically placed
hats or curtains or Kyles, and frankly, my pride is a little injured that the
possibility of my reneging has been raised. I made the bet and I'm stickin' to
it. If and when it comes down, I will ask my mother to briefly leave the
theater (she picked this of all semesters to come and see No Shame) and that'll
be it. Me, the necklace my brother gave me that I'm always wearing, and contact
lenses. Nothing else.
You can't raise the cash anyway, suckers.
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Apr 29, 1999 00:21 from Amaranth
What is the fascination with embarassig parents by bringing them?
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Apr 29, 1999 08:00 from Quicheo
Okay, so here's the "official" best of order:
(Dan and Adam did an amazing job, BTW)
 
1)  Periodic Influences by Chris Okiishi  (w/ Aprille, Mary Fons and Adam)
2)  Happily Ever After Upon a Time by Aaron Galbraith  (the backwards piece)
3)  Ring by Bradley Harris (amazing juggling with rings)
4)  Planet of the Aprilles by Aprille Clarke (Aprille's psyche played by four
    actors, including herself)
5)  Dogs Are Stupid byt Megan Gogerty (I still have faith that she'll show up)
6)  Gary's Rage by Jake Johnson (dead week from last semester)
6.5)Title By Author (really by Aaron Gailbraith, accompanied by James Horak)
7)  Will the Last One Out of my Subconscious Please Turn Off the Lights by Dan
    Brooks (Dan riffs of several issues, including "conditioning")
8)  Super Human Sorority Girl "Saves" Iowa City by Kyle Lange (title says it
    all, with titular performance by Mary Fons)
8.5)Objects in My Pants are Closer Than They Appear or The Vangelis Incident by
    James Horak ("Chariots of Fire" like we've rarely seen before)
9)  Parody #3 or Why We Fight by James and the Family Erwin (Gleeming parady of
    WWII propaganda updated into current terms)
10) The Iron Fist of Zion by Michael Rothschild (tounge in cheek anti-semitism
    playing giddily with sterotypes)
10.5) Commercial Attack by Mark Hansen (commercial parody supreme)
11) Skull Fractures: A Fun Sketch about Love and Farts by Chris Stangl (Chris's
    character explains what he likes in a partner)
12) Picasso by Ben Schmidt
12.5)  Who Needs a Title with a Body Like This by Mike Cassady (Aaron writes in
       his journal, read by Mike, with demonic overtones, appearance by Erwin)
13) What Do YOu Do With a Drunken Sailor?  My Mom Married Him by Dan Brooks
    (a chance meeting on a plane provides a charming romantic moment)
14) The True Story of How Mose Hayward Lost His Virginity by Alyssa Bowman
    (but Mose says he really wrote it.  Again, the title says enough)
15) Lost and Found in the Park or Sarah is Still Sick, So this Piece Will Have
    No Speaking by Sarah Greer (Sarah gets dumped, finds love, all mime.  Gold)
15.5) Ode to Lenny by Mose Hayward (but really by Jamal River--the most
      over-the-top offensive song of the year.  I can't get it out of my head.)
 
 
So, there you have it.  Bring your friends.
 
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Apr 29, 1999 10:54 from Stubble
whats commercial attack by mark hansen?  is that the same thing as radio free
ferall?  or which ever one was performed march 26, when no one came.  cause
that one kicked ass.  36 hours and counting...
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Apr 29, 1999 21:32 from Crotch Monkey
dan.....ill soon be able to say that not onbly i, but my father has seen dan
brooks publicly naked.  wow, what a rush....some undetermined amount of time
and counting.........
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Apr 30, 1999 10:12 from Quicheo
Best of No Shamers--don't forget to bring a booth copy with lighting directions
clearly marked.  I'll bring a copy of your origional script, but if you want
more controll....
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Apr 30, 1999 10:56 from Mose
hi everyone. what are you guys all doing tonight? i was kinda thinkin we could
all get together somewhere and share miseries. plus, i've got some great fart
jokes i've been wanting to tell. we could all go watch freaks on the ped mall
or intoxicate ourselves and catch a show at dolls. except i heard there was
some big freak gathering/strip show going on tonight at theatre building. maybe
we should all check that out. let me know what you think.
--mose
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Apr 30, 1999 13:38 from Crotch Monkey
quicheo...i poseted no shame signs all over currier, voxman, and Iowa Citys
favorite second hand stores...goodwill....crowded closet....... and also mary
sue colemans house.........exceptfor that last part this message was the
closest to sincere ive come since being re-born into isca......yeah right..like
id post signs at goodwill.
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May 1, 1999 01:56 from Norm
 
I have to say, THANK YOU PEOPLE FOR ALLOWING DAN TO GET NEKKID.
 
and Dan, Thank you for the best slightly to the left Best of Ever.
 
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May 1, 1999 14:15 from Subotai
So Dan got naked...get over it, people. Really.
BONS was a really strong show, although to be honest, I thought my sketch )Iron
Fist of Zion) was MUCH better the first time we did it. I guess it was stale ro
something. The fact that it directly followed James' Islam sketch (which I
ripped off to write mine) didn't help, though it did show off what a fake I can
n be if I left myself go to far. I'm glad No Shame is over for the year, I'm  a
little burnt out.
Hopefully I can write some more autobiographical stuff next year. Any ideas
how?
mike r
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May 1, 1999 16:34 from Mose
I agree with Mikey that stuff is better the first time round. Almost all stuff.
That's why I did fart dance. What's great about No Shame is that it is, as
advertised, "cheap, raw, and unpredictable," all three of which are at least
slightly compromised at Best of. Nevertheless, a fun show. My mom was there.
Her review was pretty positive except she didn't get the jokes. And she wanted
to know why Jamal was singing "you're so gay and retarded," and why people
weren't offended. She also said jamal's "Fart, Fart, Fart ..." song "lacked
substance." So there, Jamal. I'm curious: I know other moms were there, how did
they like the show? Dan?
   James Horak was my favorite performer of the night. Funny! Also, I liked
everyone else.
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May 1, 1999 16:45 from Mose
I also heard that we didn't pull in near $1000. Is this true? Was Dan just so
itching to be naked by last night that there was no way to pull him back into
reality when the dollar intake came up short?
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May 1, 1999 17:57 from Avenue Player
i was just wondering who in the hell that guy who was taking money was.  does
anybody know him?  i know i'd never seen him before.
 
maybe he was just a crazed guy obsessed with dan.
 
mose dancing around wiggling his butt was one of the cutest things i've ever
seen, though i could have done without the hand-licking thing.
 
"gay and retarded" was a great way to end the show, too.  it started dragging
for me a little, but that could have just been because i'd seen almost all of
the pieces.
 
good show, everyone.
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May 1, 1999 19:37 from Dan
We didn't quite make $1000, but Rob (everyone's favorite huckster) did take in
enough money to buy up all the empty seats. The original one grand figure I
quoted took into account T-shirt sales, which did not occur last night, so I
just went with selling all the seats.
And just for reference, it is incredibly cold backstage at Mabie. Incredibly,
emasculatingly cold.
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May 2, 1999 06:26 from Jeff
Before this year's No Shames is lost to the recesses of time, don't forget to
send some of your scripts to the No Shame web library, so that future
generations can appreciate your genius.  Just send an email to NoShTh@aol.com
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May 3, 1999 05:56 from Trouble
 
   Yeah, I know him Aprille.  That was Rob, aka Norm, and Dan basically sealed
his fate by making such a public proclamation.  Rob lives for the absurd,
bizarre, and humiliating.  This is a man who once broke into my apartment for
the sole purpose of hiding all of our remote controls (which is quite a few,
tv, vcr, stereo, dmx, cable) in various places around the place.  Some we
didn't find for months (the one in the freezer was particularly insidious).
 
 
  As my roommate Tim once said, if you see Rob having fun, stop him.  For god's
sake.
 
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May 3, 1999 08:38 from Whitewolf
 
I thought Best of Dragged a bit too, even though I'd seen NONE of the pieces,
but this was partially because I'd been up since around 5:15 am and I started
nodding off toward the end. The lengthy Picasso piece, which was serious,
quiet, long, andrequired thought, really shouldn't have been so near the end of
the evening. And the Islam-is-evil and Zion-is-evil pieces definitely shouldn't
have been back-to-back, and probably not both in Best Of, for best effect.
 
But overall, it was a GREAT show, one of the stronger Best Ofs I've ever seen.
Superhuman Sorority Girl was a special favorite. So was "Gay and Retarded,"
which we all went home singing.
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May 3, 1999 08:58 from Ender
 
I'm STILL singing Gay and Retarded.  And the Fart Song makes cameo appearances
in my subconscious.  Them songs are built to last...  Seriously, though, I
thought Jamal's vocal projection and crowd-working on that last song (by which
time I believe the show definitely needed a boost) were very strong, and it was
a great way to wrap up the night.
 
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May 3, 1999 09:12 from Carolyn
How did Dan's nudity manifest itself?
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May 3, 1999 10:43 from Crotch Monkey
just as i had ridden my brain of that enchanting gay and retarded melody, you
people go and bring it up again...it'll be another week before i can sing
anything else.  i hope you're proud of yourselves. love, mike "god's favorite
little mistake" cassady
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May 3, 1999 12:59 from Dan
Carolyn> It manifested itself for the duration of the announcements. I was
wearing contact lenses, but that was about it. Every fibre in my being wants me
to include a witty remark here, but I just finished my final playwriting
project, and I couldn't construct a joke to save me life.
Eighty pages. Started with 23 yesterday at 5:00pm. I am a god among men. Also a
moron for procrastinating so much.
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May 3, 1999 17:57 from Thufir
I really really really enjoyed both Dead Week and Best Of.  And I'm not just
saying this because I've been slack about getting to my review and want to
dessert-topping-floor-wax y'all.  It's true.
 
I feel almost sad that I missed this semester.  No, scratch that "almost".  For
the first time since the early nineties I feel like the No Shame crew has
really jelled together as sort of a troupe.  The regulars are good as well as
regular.  People who used to be so bad I cringed every time they came on stage
come on and do quality shit... seriously good stuff.  No Shame Theater's next
generation has evolved, improved, and become a force all their own, and I'm
pretty proud of the lot of you.  I'm sure about three of you actually care, but
there's my class-H stamp, for what it's worth.
 
The thing that makes me particularly sad is that Mose Heyward is leaving never
to be seen again, and this bothers me because I pretty much missed everything
he did.  I saw a few of his early sketches and now bam, he's leaving, and that
sucks.  Piss on it.
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May 3, 1999 19:35 from Carolyn
(I had to double check who had written that last post.  Didn't sound at all
Thufir-ish.)
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May 3, 1999 19:35 from Fishcult
No Shame is over and I am less than happy about it.  I'd only just founf about
it.  That wasn't a typo.  I met founf.
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May 3, 1999 19:38 from Fishcult
"meant" founf.  I "meant" founf
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May 3, 1999 21:02 from Ender
 
Hey Thufir--you feelin' okay....?  :)
 
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May 3, 1999 22:50 from Norm
 
Okay.. I'll admit that I might at some point be blamed for doing things that
might cause people to go " Fuck you why are you so Weird "
 
But, If, by some strange quirk of fate you see me having Fun.. Please By God Do
not stop Me.
 
 
Now.. WHere can I get a T-Shirt? Infact, where can I get a half a Dozen
T-Shirts? since I have that Many Sold to People at the Moment..and they are
waiting and have Money and everything...
 
 
I want a T-Shirt...
 
and A Video..
 
 
and I want to thank the crowd that actually Gave extra to see Dan Nekkid.. It
was a pleasure to get your extra Hard Earned Cash.
 
Not that I have any experience at all getting Money out of people.
 
 
and I'm saying this now.. and I expect people to hold me to this..
 
I promise that I will preform at No Shame this Fall ..
 
 I'll even do the stuff that I have been sitting on for a while.. so, If you
think you might be offended by someone who is older and fatter than you please
avaoid my stuff.
 
Peace.
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May 4, 1999 04:58 from Thufir
Well, I do so much damn bellyaching, I figure I may as well give credit where
credit is due.  ;)
 
(Watch, I'll show up to every No Shame next semester, it'll suck major donkey
choad, and I'll be back to hydrochloric acid.  Don't disappoint me.)
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May 5, 1999 07:28 from Ender
 
Hey--for those who don't know, it's Plawright's Festival at the University this
week.  Tonight No Shamers Michael Rothschild and Aaron Galbraith will be
appearing in the 5:30 and 9pm performances of Doppel-Gang-Bang.  And although I
don't have the schedule in front of me, I know several No Shame regulars will
be in the lineup of short undergraduate works beginning at 5:30pm tomorrow
for free.  (The plays are $5 for students, $7 for everyone else, but Thursday's
staged readings are exempt.)  And there are also plays on Friday and Saturday
at 5:30 and 9pm (Fri:  Each Loop Like You Mean It, and Saturday: Sunday
Morning, Two Men Cooking Breakfast).
 
Does anyone have the inside scoop on Playwright's Festival shows?  I've heard
Saturday's play will kick butt, but haven't heard much about the rest..
 
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May 5, 1999 08:52 from Alethe
Saturdays' play is in fact suppsed to kick butt.  I also heard that  tongiht's
show is pretty funny or wacky or soemthing ( doppel gang bang).
and as always the undergrad cameos will rock.
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May 5, 1999 16:32 from Quicheo
SO nice to hear from Alethe (BTW--her Honors Project "The Way of Things" was
amazing!  The natural progression and amalgamation of her serious and comedic
No Shame pieces, well-constructed, honest, and occasionally scary in it's
observations of the inner workings of modern neurotics.  Really
cool--especially this section where a couple reherse their
"I'm leaving you" speeches--he in his car, she in the mirror.  Solid.)
 
 
As for T-shirts--I have plenty to sell--Mail> me your phone number, and we'll
work out a deal.
 
Great Best of everyone...
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May 7, 1999 00:20 from Amaranth
An interesting thought that No Shame has grown into a troupe. Although I never
felt as much a part of it as I had in years past, I do think this group was
above factionalism and devoid of the cliques that affected No Shame back in
those days when it was cancelled some nights for lack of scripts.
 
Well, every year is different.
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May 7, 1999 08:21 from Whitewolf
 
"those days when it was cancelled some nights for lack of scripts" was actually
several different dry spells over five or six years, usually about every third
semester or so. Some of those periods were much more cliquey than others.
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May 7, 1999 15:35 from Amaranth
I only know of the one stretch. But it seems to me from that experience and
similar experience with other groups that cliques kill anything. Cliques often
write for others in the clique rather than an audience (being stage or writing
or art), and excessive in-jokes and group references are the best way to boire
an audience.
It was nice to see the concern about lack of women and new members this
semester and the number of people who were invited to show at the Mill or the
Village Idiot after the performance. There was a feeling (to me) that this
round was more about No Shame than the people involved.
 
Whoops -- that should be "bore an audience."
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May 7, 1999 15:48 from Marphod
In my experience, over the last 4 1/2 years, its much as Whitewolf described
it.  Periods of abundance adn periods of scarcity, with how cliquey NS being
being a different measure, really.
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