— August 2005 —
A reminder that TOMORROW night is the latest edition of WYSIWYG alum Bob Powers' How To Kick People: Missed Connections, which, if you're cool, you'll refer to as H2KP:MC. This special edition of H2KP will feature a Craig's List Missed Connections meet-up, live onstage. It will be like reality TV minus the cameras.
In addition to hosts Bob Powers and Todd Levin, talent will include:
- Jon Friedman (host/creator, The Rejection Show)
- Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central, VH-1)
- Jonathan Ames (author, The Extra Man & Wake Up, Sir!)
PLUS! music from Jesse Hartman (of the band Laptop)
And please note the new time and place. Don't want you getting late and lost on your way to great merriment:
Upstairs at Mo Pitkins' House of Satisfaction
34 Avenue A, between 2nd and 3rd Streets
Tickets: $8
34 Avenue A, (Between 2nd and 3rd Streets)
212-777-5660
In addition to performing at the next WYSIWYG on September 27th, we've learned that Carolyn Castiglia will be playing 5 out of the 10 characters in the new theatrical Walmart hatefest Anathemaville!
So if you're curious to see a pregnant woman playing a white, plus-size model from Sudan, check the details below.
Wednesday to Saturday at 7:30PM, Sundays at 7:00PM
Gene Frankel Theatre
24 Bond St. (between Lafayette and Bowery)
$15.00
Buy Tickets Online or call TheaterMania at 212-352-3101
The WYSIWYG Talent Show, the first-ever all-blogger series of readings and performances, feels your pain, New York. We’ve had the roommate who tried to pay his share of the rent with a K-Mart gift certificate. We’ve had the roommate who wandered around the apartment in what looked like brown panties – but weren’t. We’ve had the roommate who left porn in the VCR and suspicious-looking stains on the couch. We’ve had roommates just as bad as yours have been, and we’ve lived to tell the tales this September 27.
Tuesday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. at
Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave. at East 9th St.
Tickets: $7
WYSIWYG performers for September include:
* Frank Beekman of The Accidental New Yorker
* Rachel Sklar of FishbowlNY
* Carolyn Castiglia, Undiscovered Superstar
* David Hauslaib of Jossip
* Dashiell of The Precog Blog
* Jon Collins of Fabulous Jackass
... and, me! Of Uffish Thoughts!
Bonus feature for the September WYSIWYG show: Carolyn will only be a week from her due date, making her the pregnantest person to ever perform at the 'WYG! We're hoping her water breaks onstage. Just in case it doesn't do so from all the laughter, I'll have a pointy stick handy. Yeah!!
Who? Duh! Soce, slingin' Elemental Wizardry, dude!
The WYSIWYG faithful will remember Soce's loin-stirring performance of "S***ing D*cks" (hint: "Sitting Ducks" is incorrect) at the antepenultimate show in May. Since then he's been getting mad coverage in print and online, chez Richard.
Richard's piece on Soce is especially interesting in that it's also a piece on Forward Magazine...the piece is by the same journalist as the New York Press article, but it's been toned way down for a more, er, conservative audience.
Instead of refering to the song "Sucking Dicks" (there, I said it), Mr. Shinefield prefers "the most offensive song in his musical catalog, the title of which is a sexual act." The poor man's butt must've burned from the fence-sitting. You can just imagine the conflict: "I'd like to make you aware of the presence of a gay Jewish Rapper (yay!), but you'd probably be offended by the lyrics and would be wise not to investigate (boo!)."
Since that flurry of press coverage, Soce has performed at Knitting Factory on August, 17, as well as posted a new track, Wistful Breeze, for your evaluation and edification in anticipation of his upcoming album, The Lemonade Incident, due out October 22.
Hey kittens! While WYSIWYG is on hiatus until the September 27 show, we're busily working behind the scenes on the upcoming shows, and I have a lil' announcement about one of the things we're doing. Welcome Dagon, our first-ever WYSIWYG intern! Dagon will be MUCH better than me about posting here on the blog about upcoming events featuring past WYSIWYG performers, helping us identify possible new performers, and doing some publicity stuff that Andy, Dan, and I have had a hard time managing on top of our other 'WYG duties.
WYSIWYG veterans, this means that if you send me your event listings they'll actually end up getting posted, 'cause I'll just forward them on to Dagon and he'll do all that interny goodness. So let me know about your stuff!
He'll be posting here as "Tentpitcher." Dirty-minded boy! I think he's going to fit in just fine.
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