Never-Published Ted Forth Dialogue

"You know how calico cats can get."

"Can you order the pizza, Sal? I get so jittery-twittery on the phone."

"A quick nuzzle to keep me warm until you come back?"

"Look, Sal! I'm caulking! I"M CAULKING!"

"I'm just so garrulous today."

"Let the the tea steep for three minutes."

"I can't stop trembing..."

"In the summer I tan to a fine nutmeg."

"Now THAT's a rammekin!"

"Oh, Nutter Butters. You'll be my downfall yet."

"I'm reading this amazing book on Olivia de Havilland..."

"Can you update my software, Sal? I'm just no good with electronics."

"Oh...Oh, God! They put milk in my latte..."

"That football tournament was wonderful. Simply wonderful."

"Mr. Sun's sure putting on a hot one for us today, huh?"

"I...I...I could have sworn Blue Velvet was the sequel to National Velvet..."

"Where are the tweezers?"

"Hammer time! Do, do-do-doo, do-do, do-do. More nails now!"

"MOTH!"

"If I ruled the world I would be making some bold color choices..."

"You gaze out on this beautiful autumn day and tell me it doesn't make YOU cry!"

"Something smells stinky..."

"Can you lead, Sal? I've just never been one for the dance."

"Delicious!"

See This Man Tonight!

If you live in the New York City area we strongly--strongly--recommend you see Will Franken perform his one-man show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater this very evening. An absolutely phenomal and signular comedian, Will did at our show last week and proved an absolute and necessary shock to the system, both in terms of sheer humor and almost unnervingly brilliant delivery.

"In a mere hour and 30 minutes, Franken manages to inject more thought, soul, and hilarity into such varied topics as the parents of murdered children or President Bush’s campaign to capture the 18th century than any other show I’ve seen...Aside from effortlessly mixing high culture (references to Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Milton, deconstructing television ads) with low (the most scatological ad for a woman’s empowerment symposium ever), Franken also manages to find a marvelous balance in his performance between precision and spontaneity. . . . It’s probably the funniest thing I’ve seen all year."--NYTheatre.com

"With respect to one-man comedy shows, there's funny, and then there's Franken-funny. A monster comic showman of truly prodigious talent, San Francisco comedian Will Franken fills up a performance space so naturally you'd think he could really only live on stage (without, anyway, seriously alarming the villagers).--San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Will makes me laugh as hard as Dubya makes me wretch, shudder and vomit. And that is saying something."--Dan Piraro, Cartoonist, Bizarro

Will Franken
TONIGHT! Thursday, September 28
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
307 W. 26th Street, New York, NY
8 P.M.
$5

Francesco Marciuliano's Eye Opener

Behind-the Scenes Trivia from Newly-Released Original Star Wars Trilogy DVDs
Francesco Marciuliano

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Sean Crespo Will Teach You Satire

More Crespotivational Posters
By Sean Crespo

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The Drink at Work Show is Tonight!Now with Even Less Dane Cook!

Just how funny is that Dane Cook, huh? Just how funny is he?!? Once, he got on stage on performed fellatio with his microphone for 12 minutes! Twelve minutes! Then he grunted. Then he did a riff about what it would be like to "make it with a dude." Then he got a three-picture deal and a series on both Comedy Central and HBO.

So just how funny is that Dane Cook? The answer is not funny at all. We as a nation die a little inside every time he wakes up. Whenever he opens his mouth another baby stops breathing in its crib. Every time someone buys a Dane Cook CD, goes to a Dane Cook show or even thinks "I like Dane Cook" the Earth moves one mile closer to the sun. Thanks to Dane Cook we will all be burned alive by December.

So now that we know we're all doomed we might as well laugh, laugh, laugh! right! So come on down to The Drink at Work Show at Ace of Clubs TONIGHT, September 25th, to catch such actually funny, talented comedians as:

Victor Varnado: Conan O'Brien, Premium Blend, Montreal Just for Laughs Festival
Sean Lynch: MTV
Max Silvestri: Invite Them Up
Maggie Lauren: Gotham Comedy Club
John F. O'Donnell: Check Your Cool, Crash Comedy
Ashley Strand: Gotham Comedy Club

Plus Drink at Work regulars Craig Baldo and Sean Crespo along with your MC Carol Hartsell.

The Drink at Work Show
Tonight! (And every Monday)
8:00 P.M.
Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones Street
(Below ACME)
$5 Cover

The Drink at Work Show--Our comedians don't kill people.

The Sith Went Down to Georgia

Actually, he went up to Canada. Video of Darth Vader Playing the Violin on the streets of Victoria, by Jodiferous.

Happy Third Anniversary to, Well, Us

Three years ago on this exact date we had a dream. And quite frankly, it scared the crap out of us. You see, in this dream we were being chased by a bear and the faster we ran the slower we moved. Then suddenly we wound up in Mr. Penino's AP History class only to realize it was the day of the big test, we hadn't studied all year, all the questions were written in tiny print on a blackboard three miles away and we were completely naked. Then we turned around to find every other student was carrying a much bigger sword than us, we were the only ones who couldn’t fly, a small hammer kept trying to pound a rubber spike into the ground but couldn't break the dirt, a train kept failing to get through a tunnel and a volcano prematurely exploded, causing the lava to flow and flow and flow while somewhere in the distance we heard the banging of a bathroom door and our mothers screaming, "What are you doing in there?!?"

We also had another dream--minus the Freudian imagery so obvious that our cats were laughing at us. And that dream was to launch a full-fledged humor site, featuring both original content and a focus on some of the best new talents in comedy. A lot has changed since that first day when the only visitors to our site were ourselves and one Bob Mangioni. We added comics. We added contributors. We greatly expanded our site to include comedy shows, films, photography and theater productions. We met incredibly gifted, hard-working, exceedingly funny people both online and in the New York comedy scene, many of whom we now consider family. But through it all--through all the changes, the improvements, the new-found sense of community--one thing has remained the exact same since we first went live on September 23, 2003: We have yet to make one fucking dime.

But that's a small price to pay for the sheer joy we get out of doing this. And that's only possible because of you. So we want to take this opportunity to thank you very much for making Drink at Work.com a daily/weekly/every month or so/ "Wait, that site is still up?" part of your life. This site is for you and, frankly, continues to exist because of you. So whether you come here to laugh or to see if Maryanne took a photo of your stand-up act last night, we greatly appreciate your visits, your feedback and your contributions. Thank you!

We'll speak again in another three years.

--Ces and Carol

And Then He Just Snapped

What's making the new TMX Elmo laugh like that?

*Denny's death on Grey's Anatomy.
*Drank 12 Natty Lights, realized he pissed himself.
*Found out what a "Dirty Sanchez" is.
*Anything to fill the sheer void in his heart and the utter silence in his fifth-floor studio walk-up.
*Dane Cook's inexplicable success.
*Only way to react to news Interior Department suppressed efforts to recover millions of dollars from oil companies cheating the government.
*Huffing.
*Intelligent Design.
*Saw an old lady fall down the stairs and land on a baby.
*He's manic. Ten minutes later he'll be sobbing uncontrollably, unwilling to leave his box and wondering why he bought 142 shiny things.

Two One-Person Shows. Tonight.Make Reservations Toot Sweet.

The Winner's Circle
The brilliant Ann Carr brings her outright fearlessness and ability to wholly inhabit eccentric personas to a night of original characters and their stories, many of which have already built a loyal following in New York's alternative comedy scene and garnered high praise from the likes of Jerry Stiller and Michael Showalter.

The Winner's Circle
Written and Performed by Ann Carr
Directed by Nina Morrison
Tonight, September 20th
8 P.M.
Red Room Theatre (Upstairs)
85 E. 4th Street (Btw. 2nd and 3rd Aves.)
$10, RSVP: 646-821-5115





Some Kind of Pink Breakfast
Actually playing tonight through Saturday, the FringeNYC critical-darling comedy Some Kind of Pink Breakfast extends its run as Chris Harcum brings to life 27 characters, the 1980's and his own remarkable childhood.

"Inspired by a visit to a class reunion website, Harcum's solo show relates a story from his sophomore year in high school back in 1986...The piece isn't just an '80s kitsch fest, however. The references are there to soften the blow of a sometimes poignant—and apparently true--story of a very awkward first romance between two outsiders, and how a relationship with a very troubled girl quickly overwhelmed the 15-year-old Harcum. It's a comment about how the happy, perky image we have of high school doesn't even come close to the chaotic and confusing reality that many of us faced--and ultimately survived."--nytheater.com

Some Kind of Pink Breakfast
Written and Performed by Chris Harcum
Directed by Bricken Sparacino
Tonight through Saturday
8 P.M.
Grand Frankel Theatre
24 Bond Street (Btw. Lafayette and Bowery)
$15, RSVP: 212-252-3989

Socially Awkward Robots

A new cartoon by your good friends at Drink at Work.com

Jeff Kreisler Wins "The Spirit of Bill Hicks Award"!

Comic Jeff Kreisler was awarded the second annual Spirit of Bill Hicks Award at last night's closing of the 2006 New York Underground Comedy Festival.

Founded by the Hicks family to honor, celebrate and encourage "thought-provoking comedy," the Spirit of Bill Hicks Award is yet another feather in the already full cap for Jeff, who just signed a book deal with Prentice Hall to write the corporate crime parody Get Rich Cheating: A CEO's Guide, continues to pen the very popular business humor column Funny Money on TheStreet.com (where he also does a weekly video podcast), has appeared on Air America and Sirius radio and headlines the progressive political comedy tour Comedy Against Evil across the nation.

Congratulations, Jeff!

The Drink at Work Show is TONIGHT!Yay! Yay! Yaaaaaaay!!!

Some of you may know that last week Drink at Work.com was ranked #4 in the list of Top 40 Blogs By and For Comedians, just behind Gothamist, Best Week Ever and Margaret Cho. You may also know that 15 minutes later we dropped all the way down to #5 when the person who compiled the list added Gawker. So, what did we learn from our brief yet breathtaking roller coaster ride from obscurity to the heights of Internet stardom to making ends meet with the occasional odd job in construction and solicitation?

For starters, make the most of your tenuous grasp on fame, because this may be your only chance to have a sex life uninterrupted by self-doubt or several years. Second, a life lived solely in the pursuit of fame is a hollow one to say the least. But a life spent grappling with loss of said fame is an emotional, mental and spiritual holocaust at best. And finally, no matter how bad it gets, remember you can't give up and the show must always go on. Literally, in our case. So please join us tonight, Monday, September 18th for the now-weekly Drink at Work Show at Ace of Clubs, featuring:

The Rob and Mark Show--Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions and Also There Is a Game, Spike TV
Rob Paravonian--Comedy Central, Life as a Comic
Jack Kukoda--Shark Show, Flicker
Andrew Wright--Here's the Thing
Rebecca Ciletti--30 Rock, Spike TV, Comedy Central
Sean Crespo--Cracked, Fuse, Drink at Work.com
DJ Hazard--Blackballed: The Movie, Gotham Comedy Club, Lock Up the Planet When You Leave

Plus:
A visit from West Coast comedy genius Will Franken, cited as the "Best Comedian" by SF Weekly and "Best Alternative to Psychedelic Drugs" by San Francisco Bay Guardian

Hosted By:
Carol Hartsell

So come, enjoy and drink to if not our fleeting success and comedy in general.

The Drink at Work Show
Tonight! (And every Monday)
8:00 P.M.
Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones Street
(Below ACME)
$5 Cover

Francesco Marciuliano's Eye Opener

Take Ye Heed, Watch and Pray: For Elmo Is Upon Us
Francesco Marciuliano

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"Annoying Hipster Douchebag"

An in-depth review of the Brooklyn hipster crowd at the recent Siren Musical Festival by one of their own, courtesy of New York comic Lucas Held.

Entries from Bobby Brown's Blog, Post Break-Up

"I don't need Whitney. I'm Bobby Brown! I can have any woman I want! Watch...Hey!...Hey, you!...Yeah, bitch down on the street! How about making it with me?...I'm Bobby Brown, that's who!...Bobby Brown!...BOBBY BROWN!...I'm Alfonso Ribeiro...Cool, I'll buzz you up..."

"With Whit out of my hair I can finally concentrate on MY music. What kind was it again? New jazz samba?"

"There's another Bobby Brown on the other side of this looking glass in the hallway. Handsome devil...but he appears to be snorting my coke. Yo, stop taking my candy!..No, YOU stop taking my candy!...No, YOU!...Oh, that's it. I'm getting the grenades!"

"You know what? Bobby Brown is going on tour! You hear that? Bobby Brown is going on tour! Fuck that. Fans will come over to my house for concerts! I'll sing to them in my kitchen. Make them omelets. They bring the eggs."

"For the record, I never hit Whitney. Captain Howdy did. Captain Howdy has done so many bad things. Maybe if I cut myself he'll leave through the opening in my skin."

"Hmm, seemed to have flipped over a double-decker tour bus on Fifth Avenue. Not sure how I got my hands on one of those or how I'm posting this blog entry right now. Probably because I'm Bobby Brown. Yeah, that's it...Hey, where did all these dead foreigners come from?"

"Called Whitney last night to give her one more chance. She said, 'Fuck you.' So I said 'Fuck me,' real sweet like. Then I woke up this morning on the front lawn yelling into some carp I stole from a neighbor's koi pond. When I finally hung up the fish I found the bank had auctioned off my house."

"Just moved into my new studio apartment. Got me a hot plate! Got me some soup! Gonna make me some soup on the hot plate! Man, I really should be writing these lyrics down..."

"You know what? Booby Brown is going to write a tell-all book! You hear that? Bobby Brown is going to write a tell-all book! Fuck that. Fans will come over to my bedroom and read me a book. We'll streak each other's hair. Wear Victorian dressing gowns. They bring the eggs."

"Caught a rerun of Being Bobby Brown on illegal cable last night. I appear to have been digitally removed from every scene. Guess I was too real for them...Wonder when we shot this series..."

"Mr. Montessano at Walgreen's said not to bother to come in to work again. Joke's on him. I'm already in jail."

"You know what? Bobby Brown is going to run for Senator! You hear that? Bobby Brown is going to run for Senator! Fuck that. Bobby Brown is just going to run. Hell, I'm already running. Shoes were slowing me down. So were the clothes. Run, Bobby! Run!!!"

Dead-Frog: Comedy News, Interviews and Exclusives

I've been reading and enjoying this blog Dead-Frog for a while now, and I have recently gotten to know Todd Jackson, the guy behind it, a little better. He's an excellent writer, a true comedy enthusiast and an exceedingly nice guy. His site covers the comedy world from top to bottom, from local alternative scenes to comedy clubs to television deals and dvd releases. Always timely and insightful, it's become a daily read for me, as it should be for any comedy fan. Stop by today to get an exclusive clip from Demetri Martin's new CD, These Are Jokes, and read some of Todd's coverage of The New York Underground Comedy Festival.

Sean Crespo Will Teach You Satire

Crespotivational Posters
By Sean Crespo

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A Quick Moment With Carol

Yesterday, I found out that the publishing group I work for is being sold by it's parent company. I'm not pleased about this. Not one bit. However, I have been laughing myself silly over one thought:

At exactly which point did an executive say, "Well, we shouldn't announce it on September 11th."

xoxo,
Carol

A Big Fish in a Niche Pond

This interesting list was just brought to our attention. Apparently, Drink at Work is ranked #4 on the list of Top 40 Blogs By and For Comedians, just behind Gothamist, Best Week Ever and Margaret Cho. Holy crap! I mean, I knew we were awesome, but I didn't know we were that awesome. Wait...no, I did know.

And now you know as well.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Of course, this makes me realize that I need to put a lot more work into this site to continue to justify such a lofty ranking. That Aziz interview is wicked old.

Ok, dear readers, as a thanks to you for clickity-click-clicking on this site so much, I vow to freshen up all these pages and links that have been sitting dormant for so long. New interviews, reviews and the like. As a mini-update, have you checked out the links page lately? Completely overhauled with a bunch of new stuff. Also, keep an eye on the Drink at Work Show page. I haven't gotten to update it in the last couple of weeks, but that's the place where I'll be blogging about shows, comics, producing and what not, as well as talking about our productions specifically. And of course, keep reading and responding to the preview of Aluminum Siding, the love child of DAW cartoonists, Francesco Marciuliano and Corey Pandolph.

One love.

Bigger Than Huge! Huger Than Big!Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions and Also There Is a Game Returns Tonight!!

There are comedy shows and then there is comedic genius on display. Such is the case with the undeniably brilliant, deservedly lauded and FREE weekly comedy-variety show Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions and Also There Is a Game, which makes its triumphant return to Rififi tonight.

Hailed in The New York Times, celebrated in The New York Post and repeatedly cited as a "don't miss" and "NYC's best comedy-variety show" by TimeOut New York, Giant Tuesday Night is a first-rate, four-star throwback to the glory days of the original Late Night with David Letterman, the original Saturday Night Live and the very original Ernie Kovacs Show. Written and performed by one of the sharpest comedy crews in New York--and headlined by Time Out's "Best Comic" Andres du Bouchet as host Francisco Guglioni--Giant Tuesday Night delivers a jam-packed show of fresh, hilarious sketch comedy each and every week. No snarky and pointless irony. No reliance on hipster cool or ephemeral pop trends. Just great skits, terrific characters, top-notch performances and comedy that plays to all audiences without ever pandering to one.

Don't believe us? Then how about a writer from Chappelle's Show?

“The great thing about the show is its total originality. There's so much sketch, stand up and improv to be seen on any given night in New York, but Andres and his partners blend all three of these in a way that makes it new again. The atmosphere is always congenial, and the writing is always clever. Many shows around the city will put up one guest stand up after another to make for a disjointed, inconsistent night, but you can always expect steady laughs from GTN because they never neglect the show as a whole. They work hard to make sure that every week is both cohesive, original and funny.” - Bryan Tucker, writer for “Chappelle’s Show”

So give yourself a reason to make it through Tuesdays again. Join us at Giant Tuesday Night tonight!

Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions
and Also There Is a Game
Every Tuesday, 8:00 PM
Rififi
332 E. 11th Street (between 1st and 2nd Aves.)
FREE with one drink purchase

Sean Crespo Will Teach You Satire

Leftovers 9: Electric Boogaloo
By Sean Crespo

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The Drink at Work Show TONIGHT!New Show. New Mission. New World Order.

Revolutions are almost always characterized by savagery and a drastic change to the power base that often results in further violence. Remember the Russian Revolution. Or the French Revolution. Ot that episode of the Smurfs when they overthrew Gargamel only to turn on each other and realize that 1) Smurfs turn into malt balls, not gold and 2) Harmony Smurf made Idi Amin look like Snuggles the Fabric Softener Bear by comparison. So much bloodshed. So many high-pitched screams. So many carcasses mistaken for crushed blueberries.

But we at Drink at Work have something else in mind. We seek to revolutionize the New York comedy scene, but not in a way that results in social disarray or such barbaric scenarios as "two-drink minimums" and jokes that start with "So I was buying a hoodie at Brooklyn Industries when..." But we need your help. We want to say goodbye to "cool" and to triple-digit bar tabs. We want people to laugh and relax on the cheap. We want to break down all structures of government and replace them with non-hierarchal institutions, each named after a different Care Bear. We have so many plans, but we're probably just going to focus on the first two.

So with that in mind, we invite you to join us tonight — and every Monday — for The Drink at Work Show at Ace of Clubs. Tonight, host and local agitator Carol Hartsell welcomes a stellar line-up of revolutionary comics, including:

Joe DeVito — Comedy Central, Montreal Just For Laughs Festival
Becky Donohue — Comedy Central, Girlcomic.net
Keith Farnan — BBC Television, Edinburgh Festival
Schaffer the Darklord — Killing Time with Schaffer the Darklord
Charles Star — Stay Free!

And, as always, performances by the leaders of La Resistance, Craig Baldo, Sean Crespo and Francesco Marciuliano, as well as an after party that kicks your work week off right—with a hangover.

Join us. Fear is a four letter word. Comedy is six. Think about it.

The Drink at Work Show
Tonight! (And every Monday)
8:00 P.M.
Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones Street
(Below ACME)
$5 Cover

What if You Threw a Parade and Everyone Just Thought You Were Delivering Produce?

Jon Stewart once said, "New York City has a parade-based economy." Truth be told, almost every weekend there is indeed another parade in Manhattan, celebrating a particular event, a particular culture or a particular organization. Always festive, often chaotic, the one thing these parades are never is dull.

That is until today. For happening right at this very moment, on Fifth Avenue along Central Park, is the annual (apparently) Teamsters Day Parade, a decidedly lackluster affair that can best be described as follows:

* Eschewing traditional floats, marching bands and balloons, the parade consists entirely of such crowd-favorites as "The Tropicana Orange Juice Eighteen-Wheeler," "The Liberty Moving Van," "Fleet of Propane Trucks," "Several Unmarked Tractor-Trailers" and "The Drakes Cake Truck." (In fact, for the first several minutes I just assumed I was watching "A Celebration to I-80.")

* What the parade lacked in live music it more than made up for by blasting "Glory Days" over the speakers again and again and again.

* While there were no official cheerleading squads present, there were several little girls in the parade who kept flailing their arms and chanting, "Defense! Defense!" (Whether that was in response to corrupt corporate governance or another, approaching parade could not be ascertained at the time).

* As one can tell from the above photograph, spectator attendance was exceptionally light. In addition to me the only other people watching the parade were some bored on-duty policemen, a confused family from Italy and a man dressed entirely in feathers with day-glo hair and beard and matching poodle in a baby carriage (he was asking $10 per picture. hence the truck photo).

* Judging from the marchers' turnout, most Teamsters chose not--or simply forgot--to attend. Most of those who indeed did show up could be seen asleep in the back of an open DHL truck.

* The official announcer for the parade called out a participating five-year-old for wearing "Commie red." He then went on to recap several Little League baseball games.

* In the ten minutes I watched the parade, the marching Teamsters stopped twice for breaks.

UPDATE: I've had several people ask me, so let me state for the record that this parade was indeed real and the above observations were indeed made.

One More Show Tonight I Forgot to Mention

Check out the brilliantly funny ladies of MEAT every Friday at 8:00pm in September at UCB.


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Music, Comedy, God's Eternal Love, Drinking...it's all coming over the next few days

There are a lot of great shows coming up in the next couple of weeks, so we wanted to highlight a few that we plan to attend.

Lolita Bras
Tonight at Union Hall
702 Union St. @ 5th Avenue (Park Slope), 8:00pm

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The Rob and Mark Show
Tomorrow at Parkside Lounge
317 E. Houston St., 8:00pm

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Pela
Saturday at Tonic
107 Norfolk St., 8:00pm
Sunday at Southpaw
125 5th Avenue (Brooklyn), 8:00pm

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God's Pottery
Sunday at Pianos
158 Ludlow St., 9:00pm, $8

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Lonesome Jack's Great Big Going Away Show
Sunday at Sine-e
150 Attorney St., 9:00pm, $8

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The Drink at Work Show
Monday at Ace of Clubs
9 Great Jones St., 8:00pm, $5

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Giant Tuesday Night Returns!
Tuesday at Rififi
332 E. 11th St., 8:00pm

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The Winner's Circle (with Ann Carr)
September 20th at The Red Room Theatre
85 East 4th Street (btwn. 2nd & 3rd), 3rd floor, 8:00pm, $10

Attention New York Democrats: Vote for Sean Patrick Maloney for Attorney General

Look, I don't mean to tell you what to do, but listen to me on this one. First of all, go vote in the primary. It's not enough to plan to vote for the democrat in the general election. As of yesterday, you have just THREE choices in the primary: Mark Green, Andrew Cuomo and the guy you've never heard of.

Let me tell you a few things about the guy you've never heard of:

His name is Sean Patrick Maloney

He is running for Attorney General because he believes the office is a key pillar supporting an active and progressive agenda that includes full equality under the law for everyone

He served as a senior West Wing advisor to President Clinton, where he became the youngest person ever to serve as the president’s staff secretary

He was also the highest-ranking openly gay man ever to serve on the White House staff

He is a corporate attorney who has specialized for years in complex criminal and institutional investigations

As a pro bono lawyer, he successfully obtained political asylum in the United States for Carlos Kellner, the well-known Honduran labor leader, and represents the family of Matthew Shepard, the victim of one of the nation’s most infamous hate crimes

He and his partner of 12 years live in New York City and have adopted three children together

Ok, so those are the vital stats from his candidate bio. But more importantly, let me tell you why I'm voting for him.

I met him, I heard him speak and he won me over. It's that simple.

He's smart, passionate and he listens to people. Plus, he can talk to anyone. He's what I like to call a populist progressive. He has a vision for the future and he wants to get everyone on board. He wants a government that serves all of it's people and he takes the idea of being the legal representative of all New Yorkers very, very seriously. He believes in justice, accountability and credibility, ideals that are sorely lacking in our political system.

I'm voting for Sean Patrick Maloney because the day I heard him speak he made me excited about the idea of voting. I haven't felt that since the first time I voted in a presidential election when I was 18. It's time we bring back the kind of leaders that can inspire and motivate us. Maloney can do that.

Please take some time this week to visit Sean Patrick Maloney's Web site and allow him to convince you. In particular, check out the videos section and watch the Maloney Minute and his debate clips. See for yourself.

Oh, and his hero is Atticus Finch. Seriously, do you need another reason?

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE NEXT TUESDAY!

Public Overhearsions™

Central Park, NYC. Very upbeat, excited Tourist Dad to his two young children.

Dad: Hey, let's go to Strawberry Fields...where John Lennon was assassinated!

Francesco Marciuliano's Eye Opener

Bionic Frog: The Wikipedia Entry
Francesco Marciuliano

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It's Not Just a Comic Strip. It's Another Comic Strip.

What does it take to get a new comic strip syndicated in newspapers today? Why, it takes persistence. It takes luck. It takes moxie. It takes a naked, unapologetic grasp for as much attention as humanly possible without resorting to bribes, blackmail or--how shall we put this?--any "Italian" connections.

Which brings us to the matter at hand...

From the people who brought you Barkeater Lake, Medium Large and Sally Forth comes the new comic strip Aluminum Siding, available for a limited time Monday through Saturday right here at Drink at Work.

Aluminum Siding is the story of the Burns and the Yates, two families and new next-door neighbors who have only one thing in common--a property line. It's also about small town/big city culture clashes, near-fatal lawn accidents, disturbing potluck dinners, unlicensed theatrical productions and the untimely demise of a teddy bear. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. To get the full story, please meet our cast of characters.

We have high hopes for syndicating Aluminum Siding but we need your help. If you like the strip, please tell others. If you have feedback, please share it. The comic will run daily for the next two months, to both generate interest and insight. Consider it an online communal submission process and should--miracle of miracles--the feature actually be picked up, you'll all have a special place in our hearts when we see it in print, between reruns of Peanuts and Fred Bassett, before it's eventually replaced with a tire ad.

Thank you and enjoy!
Ces and Corey

Corey Pandolph's Discouraging Word

Dogs > People
Corey Pandolph

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The Play's the Thing (To See this Week)

Of the 220 shows performed in this year’s New York International Fringe Festival, only 16 were selected to extend their runs as part of the FringeNYC Encore Series. Of those plays (all excellent productions, we are told) we strongly suggest you check out the return of Hermanas, Monica Yudovich's hilarious new comedy about Jewish Mexican-Americans living in Texas, complete with a great cast, terrific direction and Miss Universe 2001.

Don't want to take our word for it? Then check out these reviews:

"Hermanas has a soul to it, and it is a fully developed family comedy (not frequently spotted at Fringe). (It) lets one leave the theatre with a warm and fuzzy feeling, much like a member of la familia itself."--Josh Sherman, nytheatre.com

"This delirious array of outsized personalities is so well realized by these amazing performers in Monica Yudovich's play...Claudia Zelevansky's lemonade-crisp direction, equal parts raucous farce and considerate drawing-room comedy, gives the production the verve and fluidity it requires to sail effortlessly from one amusement to another."--Matthew Murray, Talkinbroadway.com

A full schedule of performances (beginning tomorrow, September 5th and ending Tuesday, September 12th) can be found here.

For tickets, go to TicketCentral.com, call 212-279-4200 or buy them in person at Theater Row Box Office.

So come and support a great, creative theatrical production that doesn't start with the phrase "Walt Disney Presents..." and end with someone muttering, "Why do people keep encouraging Elton John?"

Hermanas
Written by Monica Yudovich
Directed by Claudia Zelevansky
The Lion Theatre
410 West 42nd St. (Btw. 9th and 10th Aves.)
Tickets $18
Starts September 5th. Full performance schedule here.

Reflections on Fall

Sean Crespo Will Teach You Satire

The Darrens: Part 1
Leftovers #7 and #8
By Sean Crespo