• • Since Planet EONS is awash in depressives and designated mourners, here's a concept: a new Badge that combines comedy and cremation and cyber-doom.
• • Certainly, Planet EONS — — with its cutesy and cluttered layout — — brings to mind an online incarnation of the broken-windows theory [i.e., surface disorder begetting actual chaos]. And no wonder when you open a page, quite often the music’s already thumping, as if you’d stumbled into a beer-bash in someone’s cellar, a lower level wallpapered with funeral-parlor atmo and every ugly widget known to man.
• • Dr. Kevorkian would feel right at home. And I wish I had Jack on my FRIENDS list. That would strike a mood.
• • What would be the reigning aesthetic on the cyber-doom/ comedy/ cremation Badge? I envision part lava lamp and part flea market, in other words, a bunch of painted velvet doodads set ablaze in bubbly neon.
• • Nominations — — or Can I have the envelope, please? • •
• • What would be the deeds for which others would nominate an EONite for this new and soon-to-be-popular Badge?
• • How about regularly posting a blog about a near-fatal listeria infection you contracted from eating raw foods and unsafe sex practices? That deserves a nomination!
• • What about the other-woman-syndrome that is sure to bring about the madness of Ophelia not to mention a creepy cyber-doom? The other-women among us could post daily about their need to bed compulsive cheaters who are also attorneys (thereby ensuring the lawyer will screw several people each day). The clever other-women flag-carriers will have netted a divorce settlement larger than their ex-spouse's stamp collection, thereby guaranteeing hours of leisure on EONS posting glitter pictures in at least 62 groups.
• • There should also be bonus points for arousing EONites to want to shuffle off this mortal coil, for instance, because of uffish group managers who become brutish when enforcing age restrictions. This might be called the "comedy of terrors."
• • Well, as soon as we get this new Badge onboard, we won't need the HUMOR BADGE. We'll be too busy laughing at the flailing carcasses on YouTube posted by those wanna-be mourners.
• • And if I don't earn my Humor Badge soon, there will be more bloody posts like this one. Hah! Things could get lava lamp interminable around here — — as perky as (say) Héloïse's romantic turmoil after her lover, Abélard, was castrated. Bleak. You have been cautioned.
• • OKAY! Thanks to you very nice people who nominated me — — I earned my Humor Badge.
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• • How about a date?
• • Get ready to come up and see Mae onstage in New York City when the Annual Fresh Fruit Festival presents "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship and Secrets" (based on true events 1926 — 1932 when Mae West was arrested and jailed) under the direction of Louis Lopardi at the Algonquin Theatre [123 East 24th Street, NYC 10010] July 19th — 22nd, 2008.
• • "COURTING MAE WEST" opens at 6 o'clock on Saturday night July 19, 2008 at the Algonquin Theatre [East 24th Street and Park Avenue South].
• • "COURTING MAE WEST" — — showtimes
• • July 19th, 2008 — — 6:00 PM
• • July 20th, 2008 — — 2:00 PM matinee
• • July 21st, 2008 — — 6:00 PM
• • July 22nd, 2008 — — 9:00 PM
• • Tickets to COURTING MAE WEST are $18 per adult.
• • Theatermania.com sells the tickets — — view link
• • Group Discounts — Group Prices are available: write to artisticdirector@freshfruitfestival.com or phone 212-779-3051.
• • The play is 95 minutes.
• • Air-conditioned theatre has 99 seats.
• • SPECIAL: $100 - $150 donation — — donor gets name in the Program — — and 1 free ticket to the play.
• • $151 - $500 donation — — donor gets name in Program + TWO free tickets to the play and invited to all parties.
• • A non-profit group organizes this ambitious annual festival [now in its 7th year]. The two-week arts festival is a money-losing venture sustained by funds from The New York City Council, a culture grant from New York State, a stipend from Senator Tom Duane, and donations from good people.
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• • Mae West [1893—1980] returns, phoenix-like, in a new play "COURTING MAE WEST: Sex, Censorship and Secrets" — — based on true events during 1926—1932 — — heading to the Algonquin Theatre [123 East 24th Street] in July 2008 in New York City. In this serious-minded comedy with a cast of seven, Mae West is in her thirties when she is arrested and sent to jail for obscenity.
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online:
site:http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
site:http://CourtingMaeWest.blogspot.com/
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