Today’s impressionistic shot is my friend and workshop-mate Andy Christie who took first place last night at The Moth Story Slam. The Moth is a story tellers competition where contestants, after geting their name drawn from a hat, have five minutes to tell a complete narrative on a predetermined topic. No notes are allowed and if the piece is too “stand-up-ish,” the judges will give it bad scores.
Last night’s theme was “squeaky wheels.” Andy Borowitz hosted and two literary celebrities also spoke, Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham and novelist Jonathan Ames. Andy went on last and promptly killed a packed house to win by a huge margin with a story about unfair gifts for siblings and a lost copy of Dante’s Inferno. Shit was tight.
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Site of the Day & Protest Report: The most volatile protests are expected today as part of A31. You can get up to the minute reports here. So far I haven’t seen anything, but I am in a cubicle in Soho.