News from the Literary Cafe

Lara interviews Kenn and Andy about their website Spongi.com  which had just won a SXSW interactive award in the TV/Movie category. It’s amazing how dated all this sounds only five years later. The ‘net has progressed a long way since then.

Finally I’ve put up a talk Show video where Lara was the host. As time goes by there’ll be plenty more. She was enthusiastically at the helm as host of the show from 2000 ’till 2004. In fact some of her shows were the first ones that I put up on the ‘net back in the days before Youtube. I’d get the “deer in the headlight look” from people when I told them they could see the show online.

The Lara years saw the show perhaps become a bit more polished and professional. A combination of  my technique improving and my wife and Lara aggressively going after higher profile guests more often. Having said that this interview was from a taping session where I purposely stripped the production down. The interviews take place at the bar amongst the patrons. I used a boom mic and a lavalier. Unfortunately the lav was fed into a camera that was recording at LP instead of SP. Upon ingest the synch drifted. Impatient I never took the time to mix it into the final mix. So there’s a little too much bar noise for my taste in this interview. FWIW the lav probably wouldn’t have helped much anyhow. In short this isn’t the best from the Lara years.

The band was: Steve Mastroianni, Tom Zubal, Mike Zubal and John Scully. Recorded April 5th, 2003 at the Literary Cafe in Cleveland.

Tags: 00's video, 2003, Lara, spongi, Talk Show

Originally uploaded by theereilly
This video cracked me up.

Tags: cat, Flickr video

The Pretentious Artists model stood them up last week so Tim took one for the team and modeled for them all.

Tags: Drawing, Friday nights, Portrait

Bill Munroe pretty much was the star of the show this past Saturday night. He was loopy when he first got in, so much so that he forgot why he originally came in. He tried to dominate the bar conversation by yelling er talking  loudly. He kept saying HEY ANDY COME HERE AND LET ME TELL YA ABOUT MY DAYS AT WEST TECH.

When I asked him how his brother George was doing he remembered  why he had come in. He was ticked that I had censored his brother’s and his poetry reading here back on the 13th of June.

He calmed down once [moderated by administrator] If and when the [moderated by administrator] …..under enormous pressure…. [moderated by administrator] bad words, swearing and what not.

Most memorably other than the Munroe fiasco this weekend was [moderated by administrator]. Approved  [moderated by administrator].

Tags: , censor, poetry, Pron

Switch to Satellite view on map to see the golf holes.

Hole - Highlights
10 - 2 drives, 1 layup 4 putts
11 - 2 drives, 1 chip, 2 putts
12 - 5 drives, two of which were shanks, 1 chip, 2 putts
13 - 3 drives, 1 shank, 1 Chip, 3 putts
14 - 1 drive, 1 chip, 2 putts
15 - 2 drives, 2 shanks, 1 chip, 2 putts
16 - 2 drives 1 shank, 1 chip, 3 putts
17 - 2 drives, 4 chips, 2 putts
18 - 2 drives, 1 layup, 3 chips, 3 putts
Total Score = 63
The 7 chip shots on the last two holes held me back from breaking 60 which was my goal. Overall I hit pretty good off the tee. My slice came back today which kind of pissed me off but the wide fairways lessened the ill effects of slicing. Off the fairway was not so good for me with 6 shanks and two layups. Hitting out of the rough is tough on this course. The grass is stiff and I had a difficulty judging how hard to hit out of it especially with chip shots.

Tags: golf, relaxation

The Literary Cafe will be closed on July 4th, 2008.

On a lighter note, we’ll be open for you to get fucked up the Thursday before and Saturday after July 4th, 2008.

Tags: American way, Holiday

Tags: 90's video, Flickr video, France, Rhodin

Recorded at a special Literary Cafe Poetry reading on 6/13/08. Approved by the Tremont Arts censors.

Tags: censored

I intended to do some ascent riding up Jennings road through Brooklyn Heights, Seven Hills and Independence to Pleasant Valley Road taking that down to the Tow Path and home.
At mile 8 I got a flat on Crossview road. After repairing the flat I realized I didn’t have enough time to go as far as I wanted. I only had a 2 1/2 hr. window in which to ride. Linda is having a colonoscopy tomorrow and she was to start drinking the Golytely to clean out her bowels at 2 p.m.. It was 1:06 p.m.. Continue Reading »

Tags: bicycle, open road, weather

I walk through the bar and arrive at the back room where the Pretentious Artists were drawing Charlie.

Tags: art, Charlie, Drawing, Flickr video, Pretentious Artists, Tim Herron