— Putting the "hung" in Mwangaguhunga —
That was fun, yo!
Last night's WYSIWYG Talent Show, "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," was a blast, starting off with Rich Villar's heartfelt ode to Puerto Rican home cooking. Guy Brighton wanted us all to know that his blog is ALL fiction, especially if anyone he knows offline is offended by things he says about them, and Jenny Francois's tale of high school longing was nicely punctuated with lots of music and a fine Lloyd Dobler moment. Jon Collins dealt with high school crushes too, except in his case the story was about being the crushee, with a girl who was SO barking up the wrong tree.
Perhaps the most unexpected delight of the evening was Ron Mwangaguhunga's story (Ron, if you don't have a name for the piece yet, I'd like to suggest "Me and My Shadow"). As Jon mentions on his blog, Ron definitely "uses his shyness as a comic weapon" -- here was this quiet, unassuming guy, shy as can be, stock-still and expressionless save the occasional half-smiling twitch at one corner of his mouth, delivering a gut-busting story about streaking through a snobby college ahhhrt pahhhhrty, laden with pop culture and art references. He name-checked Oscar Goldman, even! Loved it.
And the show ended with a bang as the very gezellig Carolyn Castiglia rapping in Dutch. That girl is a frickin' HOOT! (Miss Carolyn, this site might be useful to you in future visits to your hubby's homeland - and I am SO with you about the poop shelf!)
So far Jon's the only one to post his story from last night, although I was also able to find the blog entry Rich expanded upon for his piece last night. As always, I will continue adding links to any pieces from last night that get posted on the peformers' sites, as well as any reviews we find.
* Update: Ron's story is here!
* And Carolyn's story is here!
* Somehow I missed that Carolyn also posted her rundown of the evening and even Googlismed us back!
* Jenny hasn't posted her story, but she does have her own rundown of the evening (complete with post-show MAJOR naughtiness) here!
And one more time - huuuuuuge thanks to Liza and Nichelle for putting this month's show together for us!
The show was amazing! Thanks so much for everything and to everyone involved. I finally posted my story... got a late start today... ;)
Rock on, y'all!
Posted by: Carolyn at January 26, 2005 04:02 PM
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