Phil (in fits of laughter) ....
At 04:25 05-06-99 -0800, you wrote:
>okay piktcha this - da big shew, rilly big...fantasy show - it is nice to
>see there isn't a sensible thought in the house today. :)
>diane
>_____________________
>
>ONE NIGHT ONLY:
>
>"Homos/Pomos/Socios _AT_ the Bidet: A Random Flush of Thought in a one
>night LIVE Performance"
>
> Featuring -
>
>
>1. Masticating GEE PEE EH?
>The Home School Cheaters Choir sings "How do you socialize the smarter
>children?" to the music of "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"
>(from _The Sound of Music_)
>
>2. Scaling Fish, Timing Space: A Food and Physics Duet Performance by
>Stuart Copeland and Philip Glass (NOTE: First two rows must be empty for
>this presentation)
>
>3. Bury My Texts on Subfloor D:
>Max Horkheimer Lips Syncs Grim Fairy Tales along with ASL Signer
>
>
>4. Riot? What Riot? - Part One (Denial)
>Theodore Adorno enacts a dance interpretation of dodging
>the thunder of texts being hurled from the audience onto
>the stage: he shouts "Ya he WAS a pretty grim fairy! He WAS a grim
>fairy!"
>
>5. Riot? What Riot? - Part Two (Submission)
>Adorno and Horkheimer ballroom dancing
>while enlightenment sparkles tumble from the sky.
>
>6. Dialing Lector (MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY)
>Antonio Gramsci pantomimes a phone call to his lawyer;
>Off-stage Adorno and Horkeimer chant: "Dial lector dialector dialector
>dialectic diaphragmic diagnostic i vant choklat!"
>Gramsci's lawyer arrives dressed as Emile Zola; Lector eats Adorno.
>Horkheimer locks himself in a crate.
>
>7. Hedge Money/Shrub Change/
>Roland Barthes spies a nickel in a shrub, crosses the street to
>pick it up and is hit by a laundry truck. Bertrand Russell is driving and
>laughing maniacally. He drives into a superconductor and is smashed into
>Foucault's apartment. He emerges in crinolins and a garter and begins to
>speak.He can only say, "Ceci c'est ne pas ma pipe...." before Lector eats
>Russell.
>
>
>ORDER NOW AND RECEIVE THIS FREE VIDEO:
>
>PART ONE: This Ain't No Salad
>Ludwig Wittgenstein's Verbal Salad Recipes with Logico Dressing
>(featurng Clay Gunter, the fourth cousin of Wittgenstein's dentist's
>sister-in-law)
>
>Clay reads " Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus " into a tape recorder
>and then plays the recording backwards while the audience is
>fed Alice B. Toklas's World Famous Hash Brownies. In the background
>Frederic Jameson and Hadyn White are dropping acid and making up latin words.
>Jameson shrieks, "Trope this ya little troll!" Lector eats Jameson. Spits
>out 14 female graduate students.
>
>PART TWO: CONCLUSION
>
>Hammered Mass, or E=MC Hammer
>Jurgen Habermas lurches drunkenly across the stage while
>The Home School Choir stand in a square and sings "Universal my Arse"
> Philip Glass tosses the salad into a Mass Communicator.
>He turns it on and a laser show spells out "REMEMBER THE ROSENBERGS"
>
>Cannibals: Lector comes out on stage and burps, spitting up Claude
>Levi-Stauss. Martin Heideggar comes out and stands at the microphone in a
>performance of Thinking.
>Levi-Strauss leaps back into Lector.
>
>Off-stage shouts of "Heil!" are audible. Heideggar blushes and stammers,
>"Er, ya, ok. Ya, ya,_ h'ill_ be zayr in a moment, ya? " He then sings
>"H'Ill be Seeing you" and is hustled off stage by Jacques Derrida, who is
>saying "Maudit Martin!!! Ferme ta bouche, s'il te plait!!!." Heideggar
>looks bewildered. Lector
>eats Derrida by mistake.
>
>The Home School Choir hums The Flight of the Bumblebees
>while Activity Theorists "get busy" in a syncronized concert of opening and
>closing doors -
>
>Two men in business suits run past each other with lit flashlights and
screaming
>"Mine's faster! Mine's faster!"
>Bruno Latour is lit center-stage with a blue spotlight and sings from a
>selection of Talking Heads hits.
>The Home School Choir join in for the final song, "Where are the women??
>Where are the women?"
>
>FINALE: Althusser strides on stage and as he starts to say, "I was
>interpe..." Lector eats him. Fanfare. Gilles Deleuze drops from the ceiling
>and hits the floor. A laundry truck takes the body off stage. Baudrillard
>is driving and laughing maniacally. His personalized licence plate reads
>"MASS-TAH" -
>Homi K. Bhabha, Frandz Fanon, and Edward Said insert Baudrillard under the
>laundry truck.
>
>(NOTE: Gayatri Spivak declined to appear in this year's show as
>"THE ONLY BROAD"
>but has indicated she will attend next year with a scathing critique.
>
>