Comments on How Theater Failed America

Come watch an overweight dude sit down, talk about a couple of things on his mind that have half-assed parallels with each other, wipe sweat of his forehead, and...no thanks. I already did that.

yeah, but i love joe's pub (if it's the same one in Times Square that is nothin' but boxing photos and normal-priced beers.)

oh, wow. not the same place at all. ignore. ignore.

sincerely,
diggum

*off.

Really, Mr. Poe, enough about your latest romantic escapades.

Besides, Mike is a helluva lot more entertaining, and interesting than that.

You are a fucking liar. You said I was good.

No, I said you MIGHT be good - if only you just would stop staring at yourself in the mirror, and doing that "pump you up!" flexing thing with your forearms.

Really, that doesn't turn us straight guys on at all.

I blame the blow. My dealer's been giving me garbage lately. Nothing but rat poison and ether.

The emperor has no clothes. Also, the emperor is a big fat sweaty guy who never stops talking about himself and seems to have six epiphanies a night.

And curtain.

He's like a fat Sean Nelson. Oh, but Sean Nelson actually has talent.

Yes, which is why he's making a living doing this, as well as regularly contributing to national publications such as Vanity Fair, Wired, as well as Slate, Salon & NPR, among others, appearing on Letterman, working at theatres all over the country - and you-all are just snarking on SLOG.

A) That isn't a point.
B) If I were contributing to Vanity Fair and appearing on Letterman, then I would be pressed to have someone shoot me in the face.
C) Pretty sure he could care less about my opinion, so you can calm down and stop defending your theater buddy.

He also happens to be a friend of mine, so it's a little more than just "defending (my) theatre-buddy".

And A) is sooo much the point...

I was hoping when he moved to New York that Mike Daisey would drop off the face of the earth...lord knows he's heavy enough to do so.

That's a terrible point. It can be reversed on you the next time you criticize anyone successful in their line of work, regardless of what their work may be.

Only if you're critizing them - for being successful.

Uh, no. But okay.