Portrait of an Economy

Blogger/Author Rebecca Woolf started a blog collecting recession stories called Portraits of an Economy. You can see my entry here.

Little Victories

I'm not a comedian. That hasn't stopped me from participating in comedy shows. On Friday, Corey Cohen graciously allowed me to try a new character at Steal This Show. She was a 38-year-old library Aide named Beverly.

I find the mark of a successful character performance is being confused for the character after the show. When I first started doing "Little Jaime" at Bedtime Stories, I was approached by a fellow and his lady friend. She thought I actually was 12, and was concerned that I was drinking a beer. If I recall, I showed her an ID to prove that I was an adult.

Friday night, after a performance which culminated in my hitting on, then spilling a drink on Corey, offering to make casseroles for the gentlemen of the audience, and yelling out a fake phone number while dressed like Lily Tomlin in 9 to 5, a man I had never seen before started hitting on me. When I told him that I wasn't actually 38, he left awkwardly.

Hopefully there won't be any confusion this Wednesday, February 18, when Blaise and I will be performing in Bedtime Stories (now at the Ric Rac) with the help of the lovely Meg Favreau.

Mark Your Calendars

This March marks the year anniversary of the Toiling in Obscurity readings. Organizing and performing in these things has been the most (only) satisfying part of my creative life in the past year. It is with great pleasure, present to you:

TOILING IN OBSCURITY V
Friday, March 13th
7pm at The Dive

with Poetry from:
Sebastian Aguedelo
and
Giaco Furino

Fiction by:
Jaime Fountaine,
Christian Tebordo,
Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum,
and
Tabitha Vidaurri

and Music from:
Tim TeBordo

Radio Philadelphia

This past Saturday, The Sixth Borough, Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, and I performed "Something's Afoot in Southwark" -- an original radioplay that Jeremy and I wrote together -- for the Nexus Radio Project.

In addition, there were a few readings, a Sixth Borough performance, and in order to fill ten minutes that had been allotted for a no-show, an interview with "Angus MacAllister" a prop-comic, voiced by my brother.

Jeremy took some great pictures of the afternoon (and wrote a charming recap of the day) that you can see here.