Day in the Life of Asheville Show is up!

If you are in or near Western North Carolina, you must make a special trip to our downtown library, Pack Memorial Library. There, you must walk down the long hallway next to the library and admire the gorgeous 111 photographs taped to the windows, representing a Day in the Live of Asheville, April 14, 2007. There is also a nice display of fotogs shooting during the day plus an explanation of the project and press. It's amazing. DILOA rocks!

(crossposted from Edgy Mama)

Doing Anything After Drinking Liberally Tonight?

Just a quick heads-up/shameless plug: tonight at Fred's Speakeasy (122 College St. in downtown Asheville) I'll be part of an electronic improvisational duo performance with Winston-Salem's own Michael Thomas Jackson, along with The Trapper Keepers, DJ Mr.TheBest and a whole slew of other performers as part of an evening called the Asheville Sound Soiree.

The show starts @ 10:00, and Michael & I will most likely be going on early. I'm not sure how much the cover is, but if it's more than $5, I'll be surprised.

So, instead of either heading home or retreating to Hookah Joe's after DL, why not check out some of what NC's experimental/noise scene has to offer? (If you do decide to come, one word of warning: it's going to be loud. And be sure to use the restroom beforehand. Anyone who's ever used the facilities @ Freds knows what I'm talking about.)

Under normal circumstances I would keep any of my artistic endeavors segregated to my own pathetic, barely-updated piffle of a blog, but this is exciting enough to share!

Take Me Out!

Scapegoat Theatre Collective

is proud to present. . .

Take Me Out ! ! !

This smash hit, by Richard Greenberg, is winner of the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play! In it, sports and sexual politics collide when a star baseball player "outs" himself in a press conference. With both humor and hard-hitting questions about masculinity, sexuality, and race, Take Me Out hits a home run that invariably delights baseball fans and theater-goers alike!

WHO: Scapegoat Theatre Collective
WHAT: Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
WHERE: Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Avenue

WHEN: April 26,27,28 & May 3,4,5 8:00PM

HOW MUCH: $15 General Admission each show except:

Thursday April 26^th Preview/Pay What You Can Minimum $5

Friday April 27^th $35 Tailgate Benefit Party 6:30PM, Show 8PM

TICKETS ON SALE: Malaprop’s Bookstore or online at www.scapegoattheatre.org

INFO: Call (828)333-0399 or visit www.scapegoattheatre.org

*For mature audiences: show contains adult situations and language.

Join us for the Tailgate Party April 27^th at 6:30pm!

This shindig will feature all-American games, music, complimentary Green Man Ale and refreshments you’d find in the Baseball Park! Tickets $35.

Proceeds benefit I-RISE! Game starts at 8pm!

Notable Quotes from ‘Take Me Out’

Darren Lemming: "Oh, so you had this sorta neo-comfy image floatin' through your head, I see. Kinduva Hallmark card with sodomy. Sorry. Not happenin'.....Maybe someday."

Mason: "Play is suspended for a celebration. A man rounds four bases, and if he's with the home team, the crowd has a catharsis. And from the way he runs, you learn something about the man. And from the way they cheer, you learn something about the crowd....And it seems to me that to conduct this ceremony not before a game or after a game but in the very heart of a game is...quite...well, does any other game do that? That's baseball."

Where the Mum don't shine

Keeps Being Funny

DILOA is up!

Check it out, y'all: the DILOA pictures are going up thick and fast and wow, we have some amazing photographers in our little mountain town.

mygothlaundry needs a crib

Copied from What The Hell?

"The Hangover Journals is being evicted, thanks to skyrocketing Westville property values. Do you know of anywhere affordable for her, two kids, two dogs, and an awesome blog to live?"

Monkeying with Mumpower

Rain or shine....snow or sleet...

More than 50 folks armed with cameras will be hitting the streets of Ashvegas in just a few hours for the "A Day in the Life of Asheville" project.

For more information, visit our hawt Flickr site.

Please extend all possible courtesies to our photographers. See ya out there!

Open Mic at The Dripolator

New Open Mic @ The Dripolator, 8:20 PM

If you are reading this tonight... come join the two dozen peoples hanging out, singing, reading, listening to beautiful souls at The Dripolator. We'll be here for another two hours.

Blow the Man Down....

A pirate’s life for he: Suspended “pastafarian” speaks out

Jason Bugg at the MtnXpress writes "Bryan Killian is a lot like any other 16-year-old. The North Buncombe High School sophomore enjoys music, computers and hanging out with his friends. But when he decided last week to come to school dressed like a pirate, his life took a decidedly different turn, placing him at the center of a whirlwind of controversy over freedoms of speech and religion.

At first, Killian wore both an eye patch and inflatable sword (the kind offered with a Happy Meal at McDonald’s, where Killian works). When school staff asked him to shed the swashbuckling regalia, he put the sword away, but kept the patch—and continued to wear it even after administrators told him not to.

Killian says that, unlikely as it may seem, his patch is a matter of principle. He professes devotion to “pastafarianism” (the tenets of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster), which holds that pirates are deities.

But school officials didn’t see the eye patch as a true religious symbol, and they suspended Killian for refusing to lose the “disruptive” attire, causing an instant media frenzy that has ricocheted around the Internet and even the international press. ("Student Punished for Spaghetti Beliefs,” read the headline in one British newspaper.)

Buncombe County Schools officials released this statement about the matter: “As far as we are concerned, our decision to discipline this student had nothing to do with religion or religious beliefs. All of our schools adhere to dress codes. Clothes and items that are deemed to be inappropriate or disruptive to classroom instruction are prohibited. The student was warned four times to remove the attire. Punishment was administered due to the student’s decision to repeatedly disobey the administration’s directive.”

Now Killian’s back in school, where, most of the time, he keeps the patch in his pocket. But he’s still got plenty to say about the pirate hubbub. Last week, Xpress interviewed him over a burger and fries at his workplace.

Below are excerpts from that conversation..."

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Reason 1,289 that I love Western North Carolina! I'm glad he picked Pirates, Ninjafarian just doesn't do it...

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Jason Bugg wrote more about this encounter at his blog, So Much For Tact.

Good read!

Asheville bloggers in The Matt Cave

Gordon, Sam, Jason and Forrest (right, corner).
Not shown--brainshrub.

Local talk radio celebrity, Matt Mittan (right, wearing black ear buds)

The roundtable aired between 5 - 6 PM and seemed to fly by rather quickly. We weren't able to discuss local issues in great detail--but briefly covered a few items. It was more like an on-air workshop as to what is blogging and why is it relevant.

Blogger Roundtable on AM 570

The Blogger Round Table is now available at The Matt Cave podcast archives. However, I am experiencing "server" difficulty in downloading the mp3. Look for:

4/04/07, Hr 3, Round table discussion with local bloggers!!! Listen live weekdays 3pm-6pm at mattcave.us

[cross posted from 1000 Black Lines]

Blogger Radio Correction

The previous post stated the incorrect time. I just called the Executive Producer who said the Blogger Roundtable will be from 5 to 6 PM on AM 570 WWNC's Take A Stand radio program.

Blogger Radio

Mountain Radio megastar, Matt Mittan, is hosting the first ever 'Bloggers' Roundtable' on his show, Take A Stand, this afternoon at 4pm. It's my understanding that Mx Mulder from 1000 Black Lines and sw from the on-hiatus West And Center as well as a couple other folks will be there.

Maybe Susan Boyer will show up, eh?

Whether The Boyer is there or not, I'd love for y'all to tune in, call in, and whatnot.

570 AM WWNC website
Webcast
Archives - Podcasts of Take a Stand

Talk Line (828) 240-WWNC(9962)
Toll Free Talk Line (800) 570-WWNC(9962)

Scrutiny Hooligans Sets Up New Digs

The Hooligans have moved out of the blogspot ghetto into a deluxe Wordpress apartment in the sky. Syntax, the architect, has made the place a real dream. Go by. Say hello. Tell us what you think. There will be continued tweaking of the banner, sidebars, etc., but the general structure is there.

Please change your links to relect our new fancy address: www.scrutinyhooligans.us

Nuestra casa es su casa.