Well kids, it’s edited highlights only tonight cause this old body needs to rest up for #2 Big Volunteer Event tomorrow. Tonight’s The Hand that Feeds hosts appeared in proper bureaucratic outfits (are you allowed to use those two words in the same sentence? Is my computer going to blow up?) (despite 90 degree heat) to present a series of numbered professional artists who each had to answer the same canned questions before presenting their wares. The evening's sponsor, The Stoof Foundation (which may or not be real - I can't tell from the website) sent several letters of support for the Scream's events, one of which referred to Canada as '...our pliant northern concubine' (the letters were clearly art but the website? I dunno...)
But back to the stage - Karen Hines blew the lid off the Pilot with a reading from Drama, her play in progress about a ‘content provider’ writer grovelling before a TV buyer. Remind me to keep an eye out for this content when it gets off the page and onto the stage.
And Angela Szczepaniak’s history of a bureaucrat’s life as seen through the forms filled out about and by him (Memo to: self. From: self. Re: Note to Self) was hilarious food for thought as presented by a diminutive administrative assistant.
Oh yeah – and the Form Slam? The thing where you spend valuable time filling out a grant form and the sons a b’s pick somebody else’s over yours? Well, it happened again. I don’t even know why I bother.
Is it possible that it is even hotter in here tonight than it was TuesdayÈ By the way, the large E with the accent after Tuesday is my keyboardès way of saying question mark…
See you tomorrow for more Screamy fun at the book-length reading of Margaret Christakos' Excessive Love Prosthesis at 23 Prince Arthur.
Nighty night.