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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Theater / Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz This Friday at Spin the Bottle, Someone Will Smash a Pie in My Face

Posted by on Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM

A few months ago, Bret Fetzer (of Annex Theater and Rain City Projects, a local playwrights' organization) asked if I would donate my face for an RCP auction:

Hey Brendan:

Would you be willing to let me auction off the opportunity to throw a cream pie in your face? Right then, right there, you choose the flavor of pie.

I couldn't make the auction, so we postponed until September's edition of the variety show Spin the Bottle. Which is this Friday.

Since the auction item was all about people paying to make me look like an ass, I offered to up the ante by writing and performing a song about the odiousness of theater critics (it only seemed fair that I should be forced to write and perform something for a hostile audience of people I've criticized for the things they've written and performed) that would conclude with the pieing—a "Brendan Kiley humiliation package."

It sold.

Mr. Kiley,

Your contribution to the Rain City Projects Ukelooza Auction was the high-money item, provoking the fiercest bidding and finally peaking at $350, purchased by Rebecca M. Davis. (I cut her the additional deal that she could come up with an opening number before you.)

The city's most expensive pie will meet my face Friday night at Annex Theater sometime after 11 pm. I will sing a stupid song, Rebecca M. Davis will sing a lovely song, and then it's pie time.

 

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COMTE 1
For the record, I would have paid much more for the privilege, but I was talked out of a final out-bid of the lovely Mmmmmmmmmmms Davis.
Posted by COMTE http://www.chriscomte.com on September 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM
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There will also be a drink special in honor of Brendan Kiley!
Posted by NutMeg on September 1, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Fried Worms 3
man, that's some good sportsmanship. give credit where credit is due, y'all.
Posted by Fried Worms on September 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM
4
And Mr. Kiley (and friend) will be drinking on my tab at the bar.
Posted by Stephen McCandless on September 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 5
OMG I *heart* Becca.
Posted by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot http://lifetimesshortnow.blogspot.com on September 2, 2010 at 7:37 AM
Gurldoggie 6
Wouldn't it more appropriate to smash half a pie in your face, and leave before the second half?
Posted by Gurldoggie http://gurldogg.blogspot.com on September 3, 2010 at 12:28 PM

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