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This is how life works.

At a TYW meeting about a month ago, we were all messing around at one of our favorite diners instead of actually working, and somehow, Trevor weaved in a reference to King David into the discussion, and this conversation happened:

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Shamrock Shuffle ‘09!

This is one reason why I love Chicago. People still go out for the Shamrock Shuffle even in heavy snow.

I missed my chance to run it this year. I didn’t remember about registration until it was already full; you have to get it early, and I was not early enough. Like Guns ‘n Roses tickets in 1988.

Anyway, kudos to all who ran the first official race of the now officially open running season in Chicago. I think I’m going to do the Ravenswood Run this year. Also, in case you didn’t know, our very own Trevor will be running the Chicago Marathon a la the AIDS Marathon program. If you haven’t donated yet, please do! He’s also doing the Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

AFSP Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk
AIDS Foundation of Chicago Marathon

This is a great cause and Trevor is a true American hero for doing this. Please donate.

Alert: Flaming Microwave Popcorn

This week I received quite possibly the best e-mail from the corporate people at work:

Flaming Microwave Popcorn!

Just when I think my job is too boring to go on working there, something like this pops up and keeps me going for a few more weeks. Or less than that. Time is irrelevant there.
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Go Back to Maxico!

Is this still available? No one has any Avants here — idiots. We don;t want any damn silly SUV.

nockoff you bitch

if the fucking car is sold take the son of a bitch off here i know what you did just because i said i did not have the money up front you siad you sold it that is ok i just hope your place and all of your cars burns to the ground bastard

Your full of shit bitch, Imma tell everyone about your fucked up car lot and service, you sand nigger.

hi sweetheart

you cheap Shit ,Milage over 130,000,and even no picture.

fuck you!!!!!!!

look i have crap for credit what do i need down i have a job i want this car

fuck you!!!!!!!

I am Mr Christina, i came across your advert place on net, that you want to sell your CAR, which i am highly interested in it. I have a shipper who takes care of the shipment, so shipping will not pose any problem, but before payment will be made i need to be sure of who i will be dealing with if you are going to be honest and sincere throughout the transaction. So to start with, signify your interest by forwarding to me your Final Asking Price as well, and your email address, after which we can continue with the transaction and i promise if all conditions and agreement are accepted and reached on time, payment will be made out almost immediately. hoping to hear from you. Respectfully. Kindly send me your reply on this email (*********_********@yahoo.com) or call me on this number +4470******32 Best regards, Urgent response needed

fuck you!!!!!!!

pile of crap

nice picture of the ass end

David Spuglman. Blow me. If you don’t like my offer why don’t you counter or keep your crap to yourself. You said my offer would have insulted you had it been in the ball park? So if it was in the ball park you would have been insulted? If you are going to try to be witty at least make sense. After all it was only one sentence.I am sorry if my expectation is to high. I should remember that you are flogging used cars for a living for a reason. Bottomline is that I will be buying an 07 mdx in the next week or so. Maybe I will end up paying $40k or more. I know one thing though and I bet even you can figure it out too. I sold my 03 mdx yesterday to someone who started far below what I wanted yet very quickly we made a deal we could both be happy with. If only I had your keen people skills and shrewd business sense I could have pissed him off, sent him packing, and still have my 03 up for sale instead of sold and gone. Do you teach this technique or do you keep your secrets closely gaurded? I hate to be taking this tone but I feel I am only responding in kind. You advertise a vehicle for sale and I initially offer %90 of your asking price and you insult me? Ask for help pulling your fat head out from your likely equally fat ass and have a nice day yourself. Signed One pesky customer with money down, untold numbers to follow. Keep up the great work.

fuck you!!!!!!!

where do you live? i’ll will give you 0 dollars for the car this is Josh Decker i have a big ass head and i will shoot your house and neighborhood up if you don’t give that car for free bitch……

Hey, buddy. I was just wondering if you could hold for me. I dont have the money right now, but i will after christmas break. I am going to work my ass off to earn 1,688 to pay you buddy. i MAY THROW IN A LITTLE GIFT JUST CALL 1(800) BLOW-JOB :) I will take care of the expenses.

i heard you sell fucking junks at your ripoff dealership. sorry I do not deal with scumbags

hello jefrry i like to buy your car for my customer i calld you but you bussy call me please lets mack deal

Hey this is tracy, the guy u sold a 2001 dodge Stratus to back in march…just wanted to say thank you so much for selling me a car that within 9 months of purchase is in the shop for work that is going to cost me about two grand…radiator….head gasket… hoses…all kinds of crap. Now i know i cant do anything about this except bend over and take it but just wanted to say you shoulda at least took me out to dinner if u were gonna screw me…..

The Game of Contact

ANNOUNCEMENT! (Now with graphic enhancements! See below.)

Tip Your Waiter Productions is please to present The Game of Contact, a night of unprepared performances of prepared scripts. Local playwrights may submit scripts, which will be laid on a table and picked up by any willing audience member, and before anyone even has a chance to look at the pages, these short plays will be performed for the amusement of the rest of us! It’s as new to the actors as it is to the audience, which tends to make things more exciting than usual.

This is a one-night-only event taking place on Monday, April 20, 2009 at the Signal Ensemble rehearsal space, located at 1802. W. Berenice Avenue in Chicago.

THIS EVENT IS FREE!

Hands

Seriously, this is going to be super-fun. We’re all very excited. Hope to see you there!

The Game of Contact promo

Running for My Life

Rather than carry on the way I normally do and preface this entry with loads of backstory and ancillary details that relate in no way to anything else, I’ll be direct: in just over a month I will begin six months of training for the Chicago AIDS Marathon to be held on October 11th, and along the way I will also be participating in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk. This is hugely out of character for me and I’m absolutely terrified, but paradoxically this is precisely why I have confidence this is the path I need to take.
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It’s better live (and with purpose).

Yesterday, Trevor and I had the pleasure of attending a performance organized by Arts at Large, a Chicago non-profit which “unites emerging artists with underserved audiences.” I really enjoyed all of the performances, and I always forget how much more immediate music is when it’s in the room with you.

It was also a time for reflection: the concert was on the top floor ballroom (across the hall from the pool) of The Carlyle, which is at the top of the Mag Mile where Michigan Avenue meets Lake Shore Drive. We had a view of Oak Street beach, Streeterville, and the Lake stretching out to the east as Anne Breeden, AAL’s Executive and Artistic Director talked about some of the reasons she founded the organization.

Anne talked about the first concert she organized with her brother, both pianists, for the convalescent home where her father was recovering from cancer, and the outpouring of thanks and genuine appreciation for their gifts they received. Sitting in a room full of older, presumably wealthier music patrons, I couldn’t help but think about the difference in responses between people who can purchase something beautiful because they have everything, and people that are given something beautiful because they have nothing.

It served as a reminder and a refresher about why I love doing what I love, who I really want to do it for, and how I should do it.

Sequestered

It’s that time again! Yay! Shameless Plug time.

Yes, my current acting project, “Sequestered” at Dream Theatre is opening this very weekend. Thursday, in fact. March 12. Get your tickets now! Thursday through Sunday until April 5…

Sequestered

Something Unexpected [draft]

So here’s a little bit of a departure. I’m breaking my (unintentional) several month silence by posting a poem I’m working on. If you’ve got ideas or comments, I’d love to hear ‘em: post as a comment or e-mail me. Here it comes after the jump!

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Go Back to Maxico!

I am VERY disappointed in the way that you do business. If someone makes and appointment to see a vehicle and the car is no longer available, the very least you can do is to call the client to let them know that the vehicle has been sold BEFORE the client makes the hour long drive for the scheduled appointment….You dropped the ball with this one.

This car is listed at $10K over everyone else, why? Hmmmm. But I have experience with you guys, you sold me a C32 AMG for $10K over value when I was in there one day - YOU GUYS FUCKING SUCK! Fuck you, prick mother fuckers.

hello. how much is the last price I paid cash. (I speack spanich)

why don’t you please take this shit off this site you r a disgrace to the ***.com shame on you and your fucked up junk car.

I’d rather have a GT but I’m still interested. I had to enter a fucking phone number to do this. If you call me I will come down there and rip your lungs out through your nose.

HOOK THIS CAR UP LOAD WITH EVERYTHING U CAN PUT ON IT OK I GOT MONEY…..OUT THE ASS NO HOMO BUT IM RICH BITCH

quit listing cars with no fucking price

Your selection of cars sucks ass! Where are all the cool BMW’s??

I Love this damn car, man she is a beauty!!!!

this car is a piece of shit and the dealer is a rip of

fuck uuuuuuu benjaminnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

That is not electron blue dumb ass.

hey go fuck yourself.

What the fuck !? Bait and switch before you even hit the lot, huh? 7 grand cash, and if I was a car dealer I’d never admit it. 7k, all in, and i don’t like you at all but I like the jeep.

Alright you reeled me in, now whats wrong with it? cash deal. i promise. if its the transmission or engine give me a rough estimate when it will crap out. so i know when i can expect a huge expense. THANK YOU

YOU GUYS MUST BE TRYING TO RIP ME OFF YOU AIN’T NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF CROOKS FUCK YOU

if i pay cash. i want sombary callme in spanish

Wow that price is high!!!!!

Dude 61K?? u need to get off the crack pipe. my bull semen is worth more that that piece of crap sign bronco billy

al give u 4,000 ugly as color chip rims FUCK MAN

What kind of bizniss is this???

STICK UP ASS

HERES A IDEA ANCER YOUR E-MAILS AND CALL,S JUST A HELPFULL NOTE.

YOU SUCK $2000. DOWN LUCKY I DIDNT DRIVE THERE I WOULD HAVE TO KICK SOME SERIOUS ASS!!!!

you dont offer test drives what the fuck kinda retard would buy a car from you thieves thats totally ridiculous you guys should be shut down

this is a piece of crap u should die lambhorgini beats all suck one

hello, please am intrested in your fabullose good please i want you to bill dawn the price to 3,500 dollars then am goin to pay in cash pls do something to the price is very urgent. Thanks,

i am looking to purchase van for my child care business in the near future. i am not a criminal.

How about don’t fucking call me………….

hello how are u ? I interesting your car,if you get for me discount we will make trade . excuse me what is your last price?

bitch

nice car. total fucking ripoff. thats wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyabove the blue-book value

why u bitch dont know how to sale a car…that honda accord not ex.. that one lx why u gay stupid brain…u need rebuild ur website

YOU ARE ASKING 24000$ FOR THAT SHIT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. YOU MOTHER FUCKER. why dont you put that shit up someweree-

you people suck, this search is for cars $ 3000.00 and less. get your fucking add off here or you will be sued!!!!! you can reach me at ***-***-****

offer based on additional $3995 down payment cash/trade so the price is 21k then not 17 nice bamboozle…you dick

One recommendation, next time someone comes to look at this vehicle,get the hell outta youre office and act like you wanna sell cars…..or close.

the kelly blue book value on a 1996 mustang cobra fully loaded is only 9,210 dollers for 73,000 miles. So this car is WAY OVER PRICED. I WOULD NEVER TRAVEL THAT FAR FOR THAT PRICE. ANYONE THAT DOES IS FUCKING STUPIED. GOOD LUCK FINDDING A SUCKER. I AM A HUGE MUSTANG FAN. BUT I WILL NOT PAY OVER KELLY BLUE BOOK VALUE AND I HAVE HAD MANY SPECIALTY MUSTANGS IN THE LAST NINE YEARS. AND NEVER ONCE HAVE I PAID OVER KELLY BLUE BOOK PRICE.

Just wanted yo9u to know I love my New car,however I wish it would have been detailed before I took it home, I found some NASTY ASS THROW UP in it. Can I bring it back and have someone there clean it? Just as a courtesy?

HELLO, DO YOU SMELL ANY MILDEW WITHOUT THE SMELL GOOD COVERUPS?

dont be a cheap ass, sell them for sticker

Not here to jew or beat around the bush. Here to make a straight offer and would prefer to see pictures.

TEST TEST TEST…..IS THIS DAMN THING WORKING?

HAHA thats not a neon! its a fucking chevy cavilair! HAHA good luck with that sale better off in the junk yard made into a cube

Why ths fuck haven’t you responded to my interest in this Lamborghini?!?!!!!!!!!! Fucking contact me!

This car is a piece of SHIT!!!!

people are loosing there ass on titan pick - ups and your ads state 39,655 , I bought a 2005 titan , its only worth 7,000 . what are u smoking.

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