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| angry about, funny links, literature, melbourneindymedia, whitehouse.org, dazedand confused, president, israel podcast, ascii art, drunk driving law, independent media, company benefits, sledging(cricket), excellent, jokes, jerusalem blogs, with, weblog, erotic, give, dirty, a, rape videos, review, | it was funny, but not ha-ha funny. and it had lebsbians. afterwards TMBG played "bangs," which it turns out was based on smith's story in the first sumbissions place. and then, oh, and then... dave sumbissions eggers did a 30-minute monologue called "mrs. gunderson" that changed my life. that man is the messiah of humor. it had sumbissions everything: pure slapstick, situational absurdism, high- and low-burlesque... and fit together seamlessly. it was like a gabriel garcia marquez novel, only it makes your face hurt because you're laughing so hard. and at the same time it was a really honest and insightful look at the mindset of a 13-year-old boy discovering sexuality and his place in the world. just... so... GOOD! he was signing books after the show and i wished i had brought my copy of staggering genius. |
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| lots of tension. a lot of people actually left at intermission once the readings were over. the company benefits show started out with "older" and "the ballad of timothy mcsweeny," which i hadn't heard before. there was a foreboding podium on stage left. after the two songs dave eggers came out, and he an john flansburgh gave company benefits a hilarious explanation about how the mcsweenys / tmbg company benefits collaboration came about. then dave introduced this social commentator person named sarah vowell, who gave a talk about her morbid fascination with the darker parts of american history, particularly the salem witch trials (did you know that the founder of salem was john flansburgh's 12th great grandfather?). the band was on stage the whole time, and they played a song called "gallows hill and andersonville" which was based on her monologue when she was done. they then played another song, after which sarah came back and introduced zadie smith, an author, who read a non-comedic short story of hers called "the girl with bangs." |
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