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Calling Dr. Giggles

TheOldMole Oct 02 2007 01:03 PM

Calling Dr. Giggles: a Laff Riot for Young and Old *Tad Richards* *In an evening of the comic in poetry and song* *Featuring his own work and that of* Andrew Marvell Annie Finch Billy Collins Don Marquis Dorothy Parker Fred Koller John Prine Ogden Nash ROBERT HERRICK Sheb Wooley Tom Lehrer And selections from his new book, /Take Five: Poems in 5/4 time/ *Wednesday, Oct. 3* *6:30 PM* *Humanities 312* *SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY*

seawolf17 Oct 02 2007 01:07 PM

ROAD TRIP!

cooby Oct 02 2007 05:29 PM

Neat! Are you the person that knows John Prine? It seems like somebody here does. And Old Mole, I know you are a lot younger than she would have been but have you ever run into anyone that knew Shirley Jackson?

TheOldMole Oct 02 2007 07:01 PM

I've met him. Don't know him. I do have a good story about meeting him. I would guess if I worked on it, I could probably manage about two degrees of separation from Shirley Jackson -- she was at Iowa, but long before I was. But that's as close as i could come.

cooby Oct 02 2007 07:05 PM

That's pretty close though :) She fascinates me. I took out every one of her books from the library last summer and read them until I'd finally had enough. Some of her work is very strange, others hilarious. Tell your John Prine story! My only recollection of him is that he wrote a song on a John Denver album that I didn't like, though I forget what it was.

soupcan Oct 03 2007 08:10 PM

I saw John Prine at the Newport Jazz Festival some years back with Lou Rawls. No idea who Shirley Jackson is - unless she's the one who played David Cassidy's mom on 'The Partridge Family'.

cooby Oct 03 2007 08:12 PM

You know, Shirley Jackson -- "The Lottery" and stuff

soupcan Oct 03 2007 08:17 PM

Nope.

cooby Oct 03 2007 08:20 PM

Yes! Birthday gift for soupcan idea!

Edgy DC Oct 03 2007 08:21 PM

Scary-ass American prose writer. There are some say ol' Shirl' was the scariest ever was. Shirley is the answer to, "Who scares Stephen King?"

cooby Oct 03 2007 08:22 PM

yep.

soupcan Oct 04 2007 08:37 AM

Ooh. Not sure I'd want to be scared shitless for my birthday.

cooby Oct 04 2007 06:03 PM

I'll get you M R James then. And a scarf. So, how did it go, Old Mole? Especially the you-doing-Dorothy Parker part?

TheOldMole Oct 04 2007 06:17 PM

My first time in Nashville, I made the acquaintance of a guy named Art Sparer, now sadly no longer with us, who became a close friend, and whose "writers' couch" I stayed on during my subsequent visits. Art knew everyone, and would introduce you to everyone -- "Tanya (Tucker), I'd like you to meet Tad Richards" -- whenever we were out together. Anyway, this first night, we ran into a drunk-out-of-his-mind John Prine, who said, "Hey! I'd doing a recording tomorrow! Why don't you stop by?" and he gave me the address. So I did, nervily enough - especially when I got there and found out that the address was the home and recording studio of "Cowboy" Jack Clement, a Nashville legend, writer and producer of early Johnny Cash stuff and much much more. But I went in, and hung around for the recording session. The song was "Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian," written by Prine and Fred Koller. By coincidence, a few days later a music publisher put me together with Fred Koller, who was to become my best friend in Nashville, and a frequent collaorator.

TheOldMole Oct 04 2007 06:24 PM

I did a very short Dorothy Parker poem. I think it went well...I never know. I did sell two books.

TheOldMole Oct 11 2007 04:15 PM

This has to be read to be believed.... http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ The "Turns Out I'm a Genius After All" entry.

Edgy DC Oct 11 2007 05:33 PM

You don't need no six-word poem to pass off your genius credentials around here. But great job.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 12 2007 09:20 AM

Great poem.

metirish Oct 12 2007 10:17 AM

Fascinating , Grumman makes perfect sense of it.