Demi’s demise (TWG on May 16th)

Posted by Luke on May 15, 2011 at 06:13 AM
That's Weird Grandma TWG Weekly Update

Friends of the internets,
That’s Weird, Grandma continues to swell with greatness. We took out Untitled (Beach) because, let’s face it, does anyone even know who Demi Lovato is anymore?
I don’t. But I never really did. Demi, we never knew ya.
Joining the show this week are:
I am a Dragon
And
The Limo Party. The Limo Party has a lot of celebrity appearances, but they are more recognizable celebrities to a 20-37 something crowd than Demi Lovato.
I’m sorry, Demi Lovato. I don’t know what you did to deserve my ambivalence on this blog post, except star in a Disney Channel show I’ve never seen cause I can’t afford cable.
Password for $2 off this week is “Demi Lovato”.
Be there.

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There will be no quiz, but there will be A CHALLENGE!

Posted by Brennan on May 12, 2011 at 04:07 PM
School Shows After School Program

Good Night and Good Luck,

    Right!!? 

    All right now, be real everyone. 

  So.  In an effort to stay focused on the topic at hand—that being: Poetry Show Sweetness —I have made an official Poetry Show Viewer Checklist.  (ps—Was it a weird or a regular thing that throughout my boyhood schooling, I was always taught that the way to write was “Ayn Rand Style?”  Which really just meant that, in order to stay organized with your ideas, you wrote your sentences in this order: fact-opinion-opinion, fact-opinion-opinion.  Over and over again.  This brings up a couple of questions.  One, why did that teaching fail in such a large, large way?  (Please see current attempt, and immediate failure, to stay on topic.)  And two, why would that be called Ayn Rand style?  Are all one million of the pages in Atlas Shrugged fact-opinion-opinion?)  (Last note:  There is an 87% chance that I am remembering this incorrectly.  Stay in school kids.  Don’t do drugs.) 

  All right.  Welp, here’s two opinions for you, Ayn.  The Poetry Show rules.  Boom, one.  But whoops, that was also a fact.  It was both.  And two, if one were to come and see the Poetry show, this person would feel like an awesome tree had fallen on them and smashed their ribs, but they would like it, because an awesome tree is nothing like a regular tree when falling on a person.  An awesome tree fills whatever part of your body it lands on with strength and hope.  You telling me you don’t want ribs full of hope, Ayn?  Ok then.  You think about it. 

    Let’s get to it.  The following is a checklist for you to print out and bring with you to the Poetry Show this Saturday.  Then you play a game kind of like looking at license plates and shouting out what state they say on them, and kind of like being on a scavenger hunt while sitting in a chair.  The game is called: spot all of the checklist items up there on the sweet Poetry Show stage. 

  Without further nonsense: 

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Poems are cool now, by the way.

Posted by Brennan on May 8, 2011 at 08:33 PM
School Shows After School Program

Boy oh Boy.

I feel like I want an intro phrase.  Like “Good Night, and Good Luck,” but I would say it at the beginning of every blog.  Then we would all know that we’ve started, and nobody would miss anything because maybe they aren’t paying attention.  Or maybe they’re kind of just skimming this because they have to check it as part of their job, to make sure I don’t use any swears, or try to start intense political debates, (because people be a CRAZE when they decide it’s time to comment on a political story on the internet), but mostly what they’re doing with their brain is watching this on the other half of their computer screen:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwqPn2tmIkE&feature=related

  So anyway, they might need an announcement that it’s time to start paying attention….

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Good Days for a Cave with Cats—TWG May 9th.

Posted by Luke on May 8, 2011 at 01:10 PM
That's Weird Grandma TWG Weekly Update

Friends and fans even remotely considering seeing TWG tomorrow,

You should.

I’ve just come from our Sunday morning rehearsal. We’ve rehearsed the two new stories that will premiere on Monday night and they are great.

First we have Untitled (Cave with Cats) where nearly every species of cat, plus a bird pouncer, live in a cave together.

Then, there is Good Days, a dialogue from Dixon school where Lil D and Lil JJ ask Shreana and Micah to go to the movies. The girls are reticent at first, but then decide to go and all is well.

Plus, if you say “Good Days” loud enough for the people at the box office to hear you, your ticket is $2 off.

You will like it.

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Concert Full of Fun

Posted by Oona on May 6, 2011 at 02:10 PM
General Other Performances

It was a concert full of fun,
Everyone’s excited—don’t you know?
It’s so amusing, there’s no refusing,
Come along and see the show!

Hi Monkey fans!
Tomorrow we are throwing our much-anticipated, long-awaited, first-ever KID-FRIENDLY FUNDRAISER! We are so excited to be producing Barrel of Monkeys’ first ever CONCERT FULL OF FUN, for kids and the tall people who like to hang out with them.

CFOF features our very own Erick Deshaun Dorris, frontman for EDD and the Bored of Education. They’re gonna be the house band, and they’ll be backing up some great Monkey and friends-of-Monkeys singers, including Mike Mahler, Kate Staiger, and Brad Brubaker.

The show will be MC’ed by Joseph Schupbach and there will be plenty of other Monkey performers along for the ride, not to mention our very favorite local superstar, ROBBIE FULKS!

The Concert Full of Fun is TOMORROW at noon at the Viaduct! Come rock out with the Monkeys! All pertinent details here!

Face painting! Paper chains! Stroller valet? What, I ask you, could be more full-of-fun than that?! Hope to see you there!