Slog - Comments on Attention Salon of Shame Fans http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans If you don't already know, the Salon of Shame is a one of Seattle's best reading series. Officially labelled "Seattle’s bimonthly reading series featuring your worst teenaged writing," the Salon is described by its creators thusly: The idea is simple: Seattleites stand before you and read their middle school diary passages, high school poetry, unsent letters, and other bits of horribly shameful, and inadvertently hilarious adolescent writing. Founded in 2005, the Salon is cathartic for readers and hilarious for listeners. Everybody wins when it comes to embarrassment! (I have attended and I agree.) However, the Salon of Shame is... Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0800 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:16:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Travis Though they ripped the idea off from Mortified, no?

]]> Travis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893334 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893334 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:43:50 -0800 Comment by David Schmader Is that the New York one? If so, yes, and the Salon folks freely admit it (and are acquainted with the folks behind the original, I believe...)

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]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893379 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893379 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:57:06 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Mr. Poe: Almost everything you write now is homophobic and/or sexist....

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893398 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893398 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:02:53 -0800 Comment by Travis New York and San Francisco and a few other places, I think. I just remember talking to one of the guys who started Mortified and he did not like the Salon of Shame too well. Sour grapes though maybe. Also, didn't someone just dig up Mr. Poe's high school ramblings at the U of Kansas library? Wasn't he one of Mr. Paul's Associates back then?

]]> Travis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893400 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:04:12 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @8

Back when I was your age, yes. I was.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893465 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893465 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:28:50 -0800 Comment by Ariel Travis: The Salon of Shame is absolutely NOT an original idea, although the format was borrowed from Cringe (a friend's open-mic bar event in Brooklyn) and not from Mortified (which is an auditioned, touring stage show).

I hadn't heard of Mortified in 2005 when I started the Salon, although I've since spoken with Mortified's founder, David Nadelberg, and we're simpatico.

If you reeeeally want to quibble, the first diary reading event I've heard of was Teen Angst Poetry Night, which started in Vancouver BC in 2000, 2 years before Mortified began.

But at this point, the issue of ownership is pretty much moot: homegrown embarrassing teen diary reading events happen all over the country. No one owns shame. There's enough for everyone!

]]> Ariel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893496 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893496 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:52:30 -0800 Comment by Travis Welp, that's good enough for me!

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Just have to share this link of Sascha Rothchild reading from her slut diary when she was a teenager (from the Mortified show). Click on "Full Episode" then FF to the last 10 minutes. It's a scream.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=268

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893805 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893805 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:56:49 -0800 Comment by thalia Thanks for using my pic up there! Here's its flickrey home for those who care:

http://flickr.com/photos/kaleydavis/353634827/in/set-72157594472813164/

]]> thalia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893851 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/attention_salon_of_shame_fans#c893851 Arts Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:23:36 -0800 Comment by Paulus More photos of thalia/laura, please.

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