Next Week

Next week is a big one. For example:


Or, you know:

Something's Afoot Finally

Hey, remember that radioplay that Jeremy and I wrote and performed with the Sixth Borough six months ago? No? Well, here it is, available for your listening pleasure.

The Name Game

As I have probably told many of you already, after the last Toiling in Obscurity (of which one can find more pictures here) Erin the bartender offered me the opportunity to do a monthly show, starting on May 12.




I have enlisted Giaco’s help so that I do not go completely insane from my scheduling disease. We already have a couple of readers and theme (stories from the service industry*) for the first show – you see, it’s going to be more compact, more controlled, more conversational – but if you’d be interested in participating in this or future shows, you should get in touch with me. You should also help us name this thing, because right now, our best bets are:

Fresh Paper
and
Bildungsroman and Beer

What do you think?

*If you’re interested in reading or performing at the first show, get in touch with me by mid-April. I already have a few people on the list. The second show, which should be the second Tuesday in June, will be "Genre"-themed. While that one is Giaco’s baby, I will be happy to put the two of you in touch.

Gratitude

Sebastian asked me on Friday night why I put together the reading series. My first answer was, "Because the only way I can get people to pay attention to me is to make them." It was a joke, but I meant it, too. After a year and five shows, each better than the next, I can only thank those involved for helping me scream louder and longer than ever.

Poster by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum

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.

Reminders and Remainders

I've been busy. And not just because I've spent a lot of time looking up Partridge Family videos on YouTube.

As you know, Something's Afoot in Southwark, the radioplay I'm co-writing with Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, premieres this Saturday. We will be presenting it, along with several fiction and poetry readings, and a radio show by The Sixth Borough, between 12 and 3 pm, on Nexus Radio 1650 AM.

In addition to all that, I've spent the last week or so writing about fictional music and Wild in the Streets on Space Junk.

I've got more up my sleeve, but it's a secret for now.

Announcing

Updates

In addition to ongoing work at Space Junk for Space Punks and next Friday's Toiling in Obscurity, I will be performing in Bedtime Stories on Wednesday, December 3, at the Shubin. I am also really into making crackers right now.

Oat Cakes:

2 c. Oatmeal
3/4 c. Flour
1/4 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Salt
4 tbl. Butter, melted
Boiling Water

Preheat oven to 400.
Pulse oatmeal in blender for a smoother texture.
Add wet to dry, using only as much water as is necessary to form a workable dough.
Roll flat and cut into circles.
Bake 10 - 15 minutes.

You can tart these up however you'd like. I made some with Rosemary (crushed, then worked into the dough), and some with Honey (1tsp. for a half-batch). They are delicious.

TiO IV: Further Updates

My comrades in the next Toiling in Obscurity will be, as follows:

Giaco Furino
Gregg Gethard
Ashley Jerome
Alejandro Morales
Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum

Lineup subject to change.

Toiling in Obscurity IV: Up for Consideration

Past Readers, or Future Reading Hopefuls,

If you, or someone you know would like to read at the next Toiling in Obscurity, to be held on Friday, December 5th, please send a writing sample with a note of intention (as in what you'd want to read and for how long) to jaime.fountaine@gmail.com by this Friday, November 14th.

I hope to hear from and disappoint many of you.

Jaime

Toiling in Obscurity IV

The next Toiling in Obscurity reading will be held on Friday, December 5, at 7pm at The Dive.

Toiling Obscurity Mentioned on the Internet; Tourists Rejoice

I was recently interviewed by Meg Favreau for the Philadelphia Greater Tourism and Marketing Board's blog, uwishunu.com. Though their spelling choice offends me, it's worth reading the article because she said really nice things about me.

http://www.uwishunu.com/philly-writers-jaime-fountaine/

It's also possible that you, having read the aforementioned interview, are now looking to this "blog" for some sort of information or entertainment. I swear, there will be some of that eventually.