May 1, 2000 15:07 from Kangarooboy
I performed once this year and got in...but due to circumstances wasn't able to
perform at Best of.  I've performed before but I wasn't like the every week
type person.  *shrugs*  I don't know.  Why bitch about it when you're paying a
buck for good entertainment.
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May 1, 2000 16:49 from Dan
Actually, one-time performers (or new ones) tend to have a better chance, for
the simple reason that we usually try to get people to come back. Plus, BONS is
usually embarassingly regular-heavy, and we like to present the illusion of
fairness.
Your deposed dictator, who once ruled you with an iron fist and now sits in
house mountain cell and plots a grisly return to power,
Dan
(That should be "his" mountain cell. Damn phonetic-associative disorder.
End parentheses.
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May 1, 2000 18:16 from Y And F
So to reiterate my question, Is there nothing to satisfy our appetites for
sketch comedy and original musical renditions during the summertime?
I know what  "i" said but I can still hope
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May 2, 2000 03:40 from Jeff
Congratulations to everyone on the completion of another fun-filled and
exciting year of No Shame.
Before you go away for the summer, (but perhaps *after* you finish finals),
don't forget to preserve some of your pieces for posterity by submitting them
to the No Shame Web Library.
Simply save your script as an ASCII text file, or HTML, and email 'em to
NoShTh@aol.com
(Pieces in web library for archive purposes only.  Authors retain all writes to
their work.)
...Jeff
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May 2, 2000 08:22 from Ender
 
Y and F -- I think no one is answering because no one has yet decided to be the
person to officially "make it happen."  Presumably a board member or two or
three would need to be involved.  And someone would have to ask the Theatre
Department if we could be there during the summer, or maybe discuss a Friday
night rental situation with Riverside Theatre--anywhere with light controls,
'cause lights are cool.  Or else people say "screw it we'll go back to the
roots of the thing" and bring a pickup and flashlights.
 
One summer a bunch of people got together and wrote a four-hour play (one hour
each Friday) called the Theatre of Treacherous Intent, and performed it at the
Unitarian Church.  It kicked big butt.  There were several threads running
through it, each written fairly independently, and by week 4 the various
authors had collaborated enough to have it all wind up in one neat, bizarre and
wonderful package.
 
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May 2, 2000 10:40 from Quicheo
Sorry to be away durring all this exciting chat!  I'll look into the "Summer of
Shame" idea and get back to you soon.  Otherwise, I agree with everyone about
everything, and that's all I'll say about that...
 
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May 2, 2000 12:08 from Y And F
Yuo know, if you are worried about attendence and/or space maybe it would work
out better to do it every OTHER week, or even once a month.  Plan those times
and days around the most convenient ie. dead for the theatre in the area.
What might be really cool is to perform in City Park at that new theatre about
to open.  It's managed and facilitated(lights, etc.) by Riverside Theatre and
maintained by the city.  Since the city has gone in on it (also funded by them)
they are more likely to offer it up than a strictly private facility and I
heard they were even looking to book some weekends.  An audience might be even
easier to get as people  in the park would be likely to give a listen.
(only poss. bad point- Nudity may not be allowed and it seems like you guys
really like your nudity)
 
No Shame in the Park- how cool does that sound??
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May 2, 2000 13:06 from Corvis
Sounds very cool. Except that Riverside has an agreement with the City of Iowa
City that no adult theatre company can use the space for the first few years.
You could try, but I'm guessing that Riverside wouldn't let it happen.
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May 3, 2000 12:14 from Y And F
That may be but everyone knows that no Shame is far too juvenile for anyone to
accuse it of being "adult thaetre"
We  should give it a shot   :)
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May 3, 2000 12:37 from Corvis
Definitely give it a shot.  I'd be really interested to know what happens.
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May 4, 2000 14:06 from Patrick
 
I think those who might even consider the possibly of nudity in an outdoor
theater during the Iowa summer will find that the crowds would most certainly
welcome it.  That is, the crowds of mosquitos.
 
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May 5, 2000 12:38 from Prufrock
I recommend smoking. Mosquitoes hate the taste of nicotine.
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May 5, 2000 17:43 from Carolyn
"Friday, June 2 would be a great day to have some sort of summer No Shame," she
said, clutching her newly-purchased airplane tickets with an intensity that
made her listeners fear for her sanity.
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May 5, 2000 23:18 from Dan
Monday, June 5th would be the day my job starts, so depending on exactly where
I live, Friday might very well be the last day I'm in the state. Course, No
Shame can happen just fine without my retired ass.
See, now I can just be a crochety veteran.
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May 7, 2000 16:12 from DarthMaul
Hello Carolyn, hello all. This is Shannon. I too would be intrigued by a summer
No Shame, perhaps on dates profered by Carolyn, perhaps on others, as I will be
in Iowa this summer from oh, say May 15 to about July 1. Most of this time will
be spent at my parents building them a new house. Ah, labor. But an Iowa City
visit or two might be in the works, and a SummerShame would be a big mondo
enticement. Also, Aaron Cain should be in IC for Memorial Day
weekend, and it would rock for old-timers like us to see what the new-timers
are doing, in addition to cooking up some new material. Cain and I, btw, were
involved in the Theatre of Trecherous Intent, and if anyone is interested in
logistics of where we performed, how we organized it, etc, feel free to contact
me. Adam of course also knows most of this stuff, so he's a good local source
of info. Have a great Best Of everybody.
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May 8, 2000 00:22 from Subotai
Yeah, I'd be in form Summer Shame. As long as it was kept kinda low key, I
guess.
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May 8, 2000 12:19 from Prufrock
Consider me also fully committed to Summer Shame. Well, as long as I could mail
pieces and have someone else do them. I'm too frickin busy these days. I found
myself this morning fretting over how I'd be able to shave. So why am I on
ISCA? Good question.
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May 10, 2000 03:27 from Trouble
 
James, I'm not shaving your back and that's final!!
 
  I am not so much interested in the logistics of ToTI, as I am in getting a
copy of the script.  It was quite brilliant in it's own way, and I'd like to
recall it to mind properly.
 
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May 10, 2000 08:45 from Ender
 
Unfortunately that's a potentially touchy issue as so many authors were
involved, and I've seen some of them react in a proprietary manner at the
mention of it.  Which would be cool if it meant they were going to put the show
on again, but if it's just collecting dust then it's just too bad.
 
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May 12, 2000 09:48 from Carolyn
Hey--there was some kind of a feminist fund raiser at Clapp Hall in the Music
Building this week, and as part of the event, there was a play put on, written
by someone in the Playwrights Workshop.  It was about a woman who is insulted
by a man in a car and how she responds.  Can anyone tell me who the playwright
was?  Thanks.
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May 14, 2000 20:25 from Subotai
Ok folks, I'm all about getting summer No Shame going. If you're interested,
drop me an email at michael-rothschild@uiowa.edu, and I will compile them all
and set up a database. but do it asap, before I lose my initiatve!
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May 15, 2000 09:29 from Quicheo
Okay, so I haven't discussed this with the other board members or nothin', but
there seems to be a consensus that June 2nd would not suck as a Summer No Shame
date.  Any thoughts before we proceed to venue?
 
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May 26, 2000 16:01 from Quicheo
It's awfully quiet around here!  Hey, does anyone know how to get in touch with
Scott Smith or Megan Gogerty??  No Shame CD is a burning, and it'd be lovely to
get their input.  Any other suggestions of folk who could be easily found, do
let us know soon...
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May 26, 2000 18:15 from Lammam P Yrruf
Megan Gogerty has an ISCABBS account. She is Starlet.
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May 26, 2000 18:43 from Ender
 
Nope, that's not her anymore.  That's a different Starlet.  But I have passed
Megan's email address on to Dr. Quicheo..
 
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May 26, 2000 18:44 from Ender
 
(..but congrats on having such a good memory..)
 
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May 31, 2000 18:33 from Brandos
No Shame CD? *blink blink*
where do I sign up?
so yeah, 5 years on ISCA and I just now discovered No Shame>. Go figure.
So I'm completely out of the loop here, has BONS happened yet? If so, did the
feather duster skit happen? Tales of that skit have spread across the country
by now.
I didn't realize Riverside was that bitchy...might be worth asking if people
are gonna do Summer Shame though. Weird.
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Jun 1, 2000 08:59 from Carolyn
So, is NS happening tomorrow night?  Should I bother to finish the sketch I'm
working on?  Will there actually be an audience, or should I just plan to shout
what I've got to the ducks from the steps of the Theater Building?
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Jun 1, 2000 15:39 from Quicheo
YES indeedy there is a Summer No Shame!  Will be tomorrow, June 2, in Maibe in
the theater building.  Bring your friends.  Ususal submission rules apply.  and
Carolyn, hopefully there will be more than ducks in attendence, though maybe
not more than regulars...
 
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Jun 1, 2000 19:55 from Carolyn
I think the ducks will have a better chance of knowing who I am than the
regulars will.
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Jun 1, 2000 21:46 from Lammam P Yrruf
yep.  ducks might live five years or so.  college students grow and move away,
like all the little jackie papers they are.
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Jun 2, 2000 09:18 from Carolyn
Where is that phrase from?
 
I did see signs posted about tonight's No Shame downtown in IC.  So some
non-performers might be there.
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Jun 2, 2000 13:13 from Lammam P Yrruf
puff the magic dragon.
 
"then one day it happened, jackie paper came no more..."
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Jun 2, 2000 18:48 from Carolyn
Oooooooh yes.  I knew I knew that from somewhere.
 
Thanks.
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Jun 3, 2000 14:08 from Ender
 
The order for June 2, 2000 (as posted by Chris Okiishi on the web board):
 
      1)  The Sketch About the Baby by Edward "Mark J. Hansen" Albee
      2)  Call to Arms by Carolyn Space Jacobsen
      3)  Fathers' Day Closet by Aaron Galbraith
      4)  I Watch Too Much TV by Michael Rothschild
      5)  We All Got Busted by J. C. Luxton
      6)  An American Tradition or Use Cream and It Won't Hurt So Much
      by Jessica Arendt
      7)  The Standup, The Omlette, The Bike Pump, The Penis by Mose
      Hayward
      8)   **nothing--a hole in the order***
      9)  Abbot and Costello Eat Poop with Their Mouths a Play in Five
      Parts (Fillet Bin Dine Farts?) by James Horak
      10) The Many Lives of Zachary HchMkopstyr by Arlen Lawson
      11) This is the Way We Rock The Fun House of Cool by Jamal River
      12) Pee by Neil "Ball" Campbell
      13) Big Fat Dead Michelle A Romance by Al Angel
      14) Clumpy Al and Jar O'Jar Jar by Jamal who throws rocks at
      retarded babies
      15) Kevin Spacey by Chris Stangl
 
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Jun 6, 2000 17:26 from Mose
There's a discussion going on at the website's boardroom about a Summer No
Shame Revival, to be held this Friday, sans legitimacy. Thought you all should
know.
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Jun 11, 2000 16:28 from Carolyn
I'm finally back home at my computer, so here is a late late late review of
last Friday's show (June 2).
 
First, I have to say that it was both confusing and intriguing to finally be
putting faces to names.   Very very confusing.  So I find myself somewhat in
the Thufir position, of hoping I get everything right.  I think that my sense
from having just read piece titles over the past couple of years was that there
was a lot of piss/shit/ass/fuck jokes going on, but it wasn't clear what else
was going on, and I was really glad to see the inventiveness at work in a lot
of the pieces for Friday.  It was a very entertaining show.  I laughed a lot,
and a handful of moments have really stuck with me.  Thanks to everyone for
being welcoming
 
1)  The Sketch About the Baby by Edward "Mark J. Hansen" Albee
        I was concentrating on what I was going to do, so missed a lot of this.
I remember being confused about why the baby was being thrown off stage, which
was probably intended.
 
2)  Call to Arms by Carolyn Space Jacobsen
        This went ok.  I was glad to finally get to use my fake intro--about my
piece being created out of sentences taken from novels on my shelves.  It's
weird to read to an audience who doesn't know me.
 
3)  Fathers' Day Closet by Aaron Galbraith
        I've seen versions of this sketch before.  (The other strain of it
involves parents insisting that their straight son is gay, despite his
protestations.)  My favorite part of it was Mike's over-the-top absolute
rejection of his son's revelation.  The two dads together was also good.
 
4)  I Watch Too Much TV by Michael Rothschild
        What does it meeeeean?????  Surreal No Shame.
 
5)  We All Got Busted by J. C. Luxton
        What's great about JC is that he's really that intense.  I've been
reading parts of this play for a while now, and it's really funny.  I really
like saying "A hobbled adolescent Malinowski" over and over.  It's probably
funnier if one knows who Malinowski is, but it sounds good even if one doesn't.
 
6)  An American Tradition or Use Cream and It Won't Hurt So Much by Jessica
Arendt
        I think message pieces can work--but this piece seemed more like the
start of something rather than a whole thing.  I was left thinking, so if you
hate shaving so much, then stop.  Which is pretty knee-jerk on my part, but I
wanted something more complicated to respond to--something that really evoked
the pressure put on women to conform to a certain image.  I liked the stats a
lot, and the story of not shaving for two months in high school seemed to have
a lot of potential.  I'm a sucker for a good story, and wanted to hear the
details of this one--what was it like, how did the football team respond, what
was it like finally shaving, etc.
 
7)  The Standup, The Omlette, The Bike Pump, The Penis by Mose Hayward
        I've been thinking about how stand-up might work at NS (since it
usually fails so hard), and so it was fun to see this piece.  It seemed a
little rough at places, but a lot of fun.  By this point of the evening I had
become a die-hard Mike Cassidy fan.
 
8)   **nothing--a hole in the order***
        What I liked best about this was its subtlety.  It didn't try to knock
me out.  It just was.
 
9)  Abbot and Costello Eat Poop with Their Mouths a Play in Five Parts (Fillet
Bin Dine Farts?)        by James Horak
11) This is the Way We Rock The Fun House of Cool by Jamal River
12) Pee by Neil "Ball" Campbell
        These three I can't keep straight in my head.  But one of them was the
ballsack piece, and even though I've never been a fan of Balzac, I liked this
just fine.  I loved the repetition. The long drawn out ending was really well
done--I didn't want it to end.  And speaking of long and drawn out, Balzac
himself was pretty funny.  One of these three was also the piece with the guy
in the palm tree.  The urinating moment in this one was the funniest moment of
the show for me.  Very funny writing and performing.  What was the other
one???????
 
10) The Many Lives of Zachary HchMkopstyr by Arlen Lawson
        I'm glad this one was posted to the web so I could distinguish it from
the others.  I think Arlen was the performer who most intrigued me the whole
evening.  I really liked the "Can you show me what this face looks like"
moments.   Made me really want to see him doing other things. I liked the
rhythm and repetition of this piece.
 
13) Big Fat Dead Michelle A Romance by Al Angel
14) Clumpy Al and Jar O'Jar Jar by Jamal who throws rocks at retarded babies
        I always like music at NS.  I couldn't hear the lyrics all that well.
But I particularly liked the bassline in the first.
 
15) Kevin Spacey by Chris Stangl
        Half of me wants to say this was my favorite writing of the night. The
other half of me wants to say that this really needed to be edited.  (Like the
way it opened with the recitation of the IMDB list . . .  I wanted that level
of obsession to be conveyed in one quick sentence.)  This piece had the line of
the night I most coveted, though.  The last line.  "And for this, I want it
dark."  I'm very very jealous of this line.  I'm thinking of putting it into
several pieces I wrote years ago, and then claiming it was stolen from me.

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Jun 20, 2000 23:10 from Stubble
hi shamers.  lonely archduke stubble of the kingdom of stubbalia, wishing all
well from dodgeville.
 
 
that is all.
 
 
bye.
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Jun 21, 2000 00:21 from Piper Alpha
Hi!
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Jun 22, 2000 20:42 from Dan
Similar greetings from the ascending viceroy of Washington Heights, Manhattan,
New York, USA, Earth. Will let you know when I assume the kingship.
So tired.
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Jun 23, 2000 15:58 from Quicheo
DAN!  So good to hear from you!  How's the island?
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Jun 24, 2000 16:56 from Dan
The island is good, but like most great big interesting things it can be really
frustrating. Getting an apartment out here is a stone cold bitch. Out here they
have these festering, pus-and-grease-covered parasites on the human experience
called "brokers", and what the brokers do after they coalesce out of the last
living exhalations of the damned is they set themselves up as exclusive
middlemen for about 90% of the housing in NYC, and if you want to move into
any of that housing you have to pay a "broker
's fee" which is what they call the ridiculous amount of money that they charge
you for rendering absolutely no services whatsoever except for giving you the
lease to fill out and running a credit check (which they charge $100 for
anyway.) I scored a major coup when I talked a broker _down_ to a $2000 fee.
That's ridiculous. So I've dodged the fee for the time being by subletting for
the next two months, and in the meantime I'm looking for something more
permanent. I refuse to give some fuck in a fitted t-shirt two grand.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is to get a checking account out here, too.
(Two forms of ID, proof of address in the form of two separate utility bills in
your name, a major credit card.) And anyone who wants to hear me whine for 45
minutes can call me and ask what it's like trying to switch your Iowa driver's
license to a New York state one.
But beaurocratic nonsense aside, New York is very, very good. Work is fun and
ubiquitous, and the city itself remains mad fly. There is no No Shame here,
which sucks ass, but there are a couple of abandoned churches in East Harlem
that I'm looking into invading, so the no No Shame phenomena could end soon.
And now I'm just babbling. The condensed version:
New York good. Still smells terrible.
Real estate market bad.
Abandoned real estate market surprisingly good.
Work good.
Parents divorcing, grandfather recently dead. Stress bad.
Pizzeria across street good.
Dan (good)
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Jun 28, 2000 02:51 from Tootles
Ummmm....so this is ISCA?  What a confusing creation.
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Jun 28, 2000 08:36 from Whitewolf
 
So did Summer Shame give one big talented cough and then die, or wha? This
room's been dead since that promising first summer show.
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Jul 18, 2000 18:03 from Stubble
i want some stanky on my hang down.
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Jul 18, 2000 18:52 from Stubble
now!
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Jul 19, 2000 03:08 from Prufrock
I have no idea what that means. I enjoy that.
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Jul 19, 2000 08:57 from Whitewolf
 
I'm pretty sure it's a subtle reference to mangos. Or possibly roofing
equipment.
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Jul 19, 2000 13:46 from Alice From Hell
I thought for sure it had to do with spackling.
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Jul 19, 2000 18:34 from Norm
 
My review of the first No Shame of the Fall season .
 
I'm not exactly sure of the order of things since I was high on Coffee-Mate
creamer products..
 
 1) as I recall, this skit seemed to short at the time .
 
 
 2) catchy title, but it didn't seem to go along with the rest of the piece..
and besides.. Goats are so Passe.
 
2.5) at least the powers that be waited awhile before giving into the
temptation to squeeze in a .5 skit.
 
  3) while I can appreciate singing and guitar playing when it is done well..
say by Ben or even by T-Bone I refuse to believe that Brad Quinn will ever
become and I Quote from his Lyrics " the red hot Cowpoke of your Anal Dreams."
 
 4) Dan submits an Audio Monologe that is acted and mouthed out by Chris.
Humm..
 
     If only Chris had actually done this in the Nude... *sigh*
 
 5) interperative Dance just bores me to tears..... unless like in this case it
was done by Mose.
 
 
6 ) Two Words .... could have been trimmed a bit .
 
 
 7)  there was no piece seven at this time .  ( I was out taking a dump and
missed it.. I could give a review of how it felt when I was having Poo falling
into the clear water.. but I think that excrement jokes are probably beneath
this crowd
 
 8) I didn't get it ... but others seems to like it a lot .
 
 
9) Big Eyes Small Mouths.... Yeah !!!!! Woo !!!!!
 
  10 )  I rememebr the tile of this bit being longer than the actual bit
ittself.. which is probably a good thing. since the joke was entirely in the
title and the actors were reading along with the rest of us from really big
cliff notes.
 
 
11) well.. there was really no skit or joke or any music at all in this bit...
but, at least it was very clean.. certainly uncontaminated by and actual skit.
 
 
12) skit 12 actually took place at the Mill after everything was said and
done.. and I'm sure that most of the people missed the subtle nuances of the
bit and instead focused on the amount of Hard cider that was chugged ..
 
 
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Jul 20, 2000 15:30 from Carolyn
Clint Shame>  This was serveral years ago, but maybe some folks in here will
remember this.  I didn't see the actual show--which was a benefit Clint Corley
put together for himself.  (Based on something Brett Neveu did years earlier.)
Someone taped it for me, and sent me a copy of the tape, unlabeled, but since I
didn't have a TV, I stuck it in a box.  Now, I'm getting ready to move, and was
going through my tapes and watched it for the first time.  It was really good.
All pieces Clint had written for No Shame, including some excellent ones I had
never seen, including the "Pants" sketch, and the sketch about the laundry
puppet--where a laundry basket on stage turns into a laundry creature.  Clint
was hardly recognizable as human in it.  Really well done.
 
And something else that was really wonderful about the night was all the small
bits they had created to accompany the changing of sets.  Lots of gags, like
lots of people chasing a nun across the set (a joke from the time that
"Remembering Heloise" was being put on by the Theater Dept.), a group of
workers in hard hats with their butt cracks showing, etc.  Really well
done--and the whole night went so smoothly.
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Jul 20, 2000 15:38 from Carolyn
And in more nostalgia news, I just got an email from David Smith, who helped
run No Shame a few years ago, and who did an excellent piece about nipples.
(He mentions being referred to as "Nipple Guy" by strangers in Iowa City in the
email he sent.) He's living in St. Louis.  Cool out-of-the-blue email.
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Jul 22, 2000 15:12 from Avenue Player
i hear from Dave rather often, and he says hello.  i owe him an email,
actually.  he has sort of hairy nipples.  i hope he didn't mind me saying that.
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Jul 23, 2000 14:56 from Ender
 
They were pretty cute nipples, though, no doubt about it.
 
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Jul 23, 2000 14:57 from Ender
 
(I say this only as someone who, along with the rest of those in attendance,
saw from the audience.  Wouldn't wanna start any rumors..  :)
 
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Jul 23, 2000 22:31 from Prufrock
I had no real opinion on Dave's nipples. Well, they aren't bad, I guess. Better
than mine, truth be told.
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Jul 25, 2000 02:59 from Y And F
is there any way a copy could be made of Clint's Shame. I REALLY enjoyed it.
MEN!!!  Actually I just want to see 'Clint's Butt' because it had healing
powers on me as well.
feel free to respond either here or in my private mail
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Aug 5, 2000 22:10 from Crotch Monkey
will the real slim shady please stand up?
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Aug 5, 2000 22:12 from BothHandz
I'm slim shady, yea I'm the real shady
all you other slim shady's are just imitating...
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Aug 8, 2000 05:12 from Dan
Goddammit. As if morning, noon and night blaring outside my window weren't
enough.
Paranoid conspiracy theory #437: How much did Mars, Inc. (maker of M&Ms
chocolate candy treats) pay Eminem to make that his name?
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Aug 14, 2000 20:08 from Tootles
His name is, his name is, his name is Marshall Mathers.  I'd rather be referred
to by a name that evokes images of candy-coated milk chocolate than be called
Marshall.  Wouldn't you?
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Aug 15, 2000 10:24 from Prufrock
My name reminds me of milk chocolate. And Turkish delights.
You can come up with your own punchline. I'm tired of holding your hand and
walking you through every goddamn joke.
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Aug 15, 2000 11:24 from Lammam P Yrruf
Yeah.  When I hear "Erwin," I think "Melts in your mouth."
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Aug 15, 2000 12:19 from Alice From Hell
When I hear James Erwin, Super Genius, I think "Good to the last drop."
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Aug 15, 2000 12:22 from Friskee
When I think of little James Erwin, I wonder why he never calls me for those
booty calls anymore.  I also wonder if being a sheepherder is a tax-free job?
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Aug 15, 2000 12:45 from Lammam P Yrruf
see, that just loses the whole candy metaphor.  unless these are like... malted
milk sheep or something.
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Aug 15, 2000 12:47 from Alice From Hell
Marshmellow sheep!
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Aug 15, 2000 12:49 from Lammam P Yrruf
and that loses the sexual metaphor.
 
somehow we must find a happy medium.
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Aug 15, 2000 12:50 from Alice From Hell
How about I draw a sheep with Liquid Candy on James's peepee?
Does that cover everything?
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Aug 15, 2000 12:54 from Whitewolf
 
Probably not, unless he has a very small pee pee or you draw a very large
sheep.
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Aug 15, 2000 12:55 from Alice From Hell
A little Liquid Candy goes a long way.
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Aug 15, 2000 13:01 from Ender
 
I don't even wanna know.
 
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Aug 15, 2000 13:12 from Lammam P Yrruf
I think the only >real< question here is "who's writing the script?"
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Aug 15, 2000 21:30 from Prufrock
I'm aghast. But somehow also proud.
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Aug 15, 2000 22:53 from Whitewolf
 
I'm not a ghast, but I am a migo. But I'm not your amigo. Little Lovecraft
humor there.
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Aug 17, 2000 01:00 from Prufrock
Lovecraft humor is never little. Lovecraft humor is huge and Gothic and
overblown. Like the one with the punchline, "When Yog-Sothoth rises from the
steaming depths with her gibbering minions, alive with the writhing tendrils of
smoke that rise from the tortured souls trapped within their bowels, curl their
talons around the palpitating throats of those who oppose the Great Old Ones,
and wrench the very lifeblood from the twisting agonized flotsam that was once
that happy town, that oasis, that very paradise afloat, Boston. Or the first
Sunday of the month, whichever comes first." I love that one.
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Aug 17, 2000 05:51 from Dan
Of course, one must be careful never to tell that particular joke in the
company of Armenians. Because of the setup, of course. Hoo boy. Always make
sure they're not Armenian.
How many eyeless children of Nyarlothotep does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
None! The eyeless children of Nyarlothotep can't fit in a light bulb, nor any
earthly prison constructed to contain the unholy offspring of The One Who
Shambles in the Strangling Forest!
Laffy Taffy.
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Aug 17, 2000 11:47 from Prufrock
I would like to point out that when I said Yog-Sothoth, I really meant
Shub-Niggurath. And when I said "Your mom," I really meant Kyle Lange. And when
I said, "Of course I'm sterile," what I really meant was "I am resigned to a
life of constant x-rays."
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Aug 17, 2000 12:30 from Whitewolf
 
When I said "I'm not your amigo," I meant "I am part of the howling gibbering
Outer Darkness of the Gods that descends to devour your soul with the emptiness
of cyclopean meaninglessness so nyah." And the article "a" in the previous
sentence actually meant "I wonder when No Shame starts up this year?"
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Aug 17, 2000 20:57 from Dan
Oh, shit! I've gotta have a board meeting and get posters figured out
and...hey, wait a minute! I'm just going to have a beer and go to bed. That
felt good.
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Aug 17, 2000 22:49 from Prufrock
I, personally, feel empty. And hollow. I think I'll just write a bunch of
scripts and post them here and have my own little No Shame.
 
1) Cruel, Cruel Summer by James Erwin
2) Sex That Donkey! Tijuana's Favorite Game Show by James Erwin
3) Omissions, Emissions, and other relationship mistakes by James Erwin
4) Hey! You Got Your Thoroughbred Horse In My Wife! No, You Got Your- No, I'm
Sorry, I Did Get My Thoroughbred Horse In Your Wife by James Erwin
5) Unbearable Confessions and the Ontology of Suck by James Erwin
6) Adventures in the Second Person by James Erwin
7) The War of Jenkin's Ear by James Erwin
8) James Erwin Rocks You Like a Hurricane, But James Erwin Has Reservations
About Rocking You Steady Until the Break of Dawn, by James Erwin
9) Title or Title or Title by James Erwin
10) And That's the Order! One More Time- Really Fast by James Erwin
11) Hunt For Red October- The Musical by James Erwin
12) Confrontations in the Key of Cheech Marin by James Erwin
12.5) Dies Irae- three haiku, this title being one by James Erwin
13) The Tang Rant by James Erwin
14) On The Seventh Side of This Rubiks
Cube Called Life by Jimmy "Spumante" Erwin
15) The Tagalog Gangsta Skit by James Erwin and the Manila Gentlemen's Dueling
Club
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Aug 17, 2000 23:46 from Prufrock
Maybe I'll just do a couple.
Actually, maybe I'll go to bed.
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Aug 18, 2000 09:27 from Whitewolf
 
Dance for us. We command you.
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Aug 18, 2000 10:20 from Alice From Hell
And don't forget to wear the pasties!
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Aug 18, 2000 10:46 from Whitewolf
 
Though I'm not sure where the best place to get pastries is now that the
Cottage is gone. Panera Bread in the Coral Ridge Mall makes some pretty good
scones, but getting those to stick to your nipples is difficult, believe you
me. Hint: use the orange-frosted ones, not the dry raisiny ones.
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Aug 18, 2000 10:52 from Alice From Hell
Mmm. Pastry pasties!
I call dibs on eating the left one!
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Aug 18, 2000 13:08 from Norm
 
James.. If you are willing to do a skit in Tagalog.. I'm willing to be there to
translate it for you . sicne I am willing to bet that most people don't speak
weird Phillipino languages.
 
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Aug 19, 2000 01:19 from Prufrock
First- the Cottage is now in that new parking garage/soulless corporate facade.
Second- I refuse to pander to the monolingual demands of any audience, no
matter how much I love them. If I wanted them to understand, I would write in
English. Unless I was addressing a Tagalog-speaking audience, in which case I
would write in !kung. I imagine Tagalog-speakers have less experience with
!kung.
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Aug 20, 2000 23:08 from Prufrock
Than with English.
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Aug 22, 2000 11:16 from Y And F
OK Dumb ousider question #4a:
When is the first No Shame and will the Marlon Brando no pants rule be in
effect for ALL audience members or just those performing???
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Aug 22, 2000 12:29 from Lammam P Yrruf
The first No Shame was many years ago.  I'm afraid you're late.
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Aug 22, 2000 13:48 from Prufrock
A week from Friday, I'd assume.
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Aug 22, 2000 15:19 from Avenue Player
Nope, the first No Shame of the new semester (fall2k, that is) will be
September 8, the week AFTER Labor Day weekend.
 
just so you know.
 
love and kisses to your butthole.
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Aug 22, 2000 19:10 from Prufrock
My butthole thanks you. I stand corrected.
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Aug 22, 2000 19:49 from Stubble
i stflickety correctumed
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Aug 23, 2000 09:46 from Crotch Monkey
but she couldn't pay that bill!!!!!
-god
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Aug 23, 2000 11:02 from Friskee
There better be some fucking nudity if I have to wait another week is all I
have to say!
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Aug 23, 2000 11:28 from Ender
 
I bet they'd draw the line at fucking, but nudity, it could happen.
 
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