January 2012
1 post
Next Reading: February 4
Theme: BAD DESIRE
Color: MAUVE
Song: “Maggot Brain” - Funkadelic
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December 2011
1 post
November 2011
2 posts
Hearth Gods XXXIII
Saturday, Nov. 12, 9pm
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POET: One more year, one more layer in my carapace of sadness, one more--
BEER: DUDE.
BEER: DUDE.
POET: What is that...are you talking to me?
BEER: ...
BEER: DUDE.
POET: Sometimes I think you don't understand me at all.
BEER: DUDE!
POET: Fine, that's too strong, but you know what I mean.
POET: I am giving you art and you are just...
BEER: DUDE.
POET: Exactly.
BEER: IT IS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING
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YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE HEARTH GODS 6TH ANNIVERSARY ESPECTACULO!
Featuring:
- Knud Adams
- Lucy Alibar
- Patrick Barrett
- Chas Carey
- and Little Lord (a theater company)
September 2011
4 posts
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
Hearth Gods XXXI
Saturday, July 16, 9pm ******************************
POET: To learn is to open the mind’s eye / To teach is to open the mind’s heart— BEER: TO DRINK IS TO OPEN THE MIND’S MOUTH AND PUT BEER IN IT
Next week: four lectures from eminent scholars in such fields as: - Ayn Rand Studies - Shattered Skeletons - Rare and Unique Beers of...
May 2011
3 posts
Hearth Gods XXX
Saturday, May 21, 9pm
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POET: The Queen is coming! The Queen is coming!
BEER: QUEENS IS COMING!
POET: Close down the traffic, seal off the manholes
Place a flag in every hand!
BEER: QUEENS IS COMING!
POET: In the lock-down of our hearts
Let the royal party start.
BEER: THE QUEENS IS COMING!
March 2011
4 posts
Next Reading: May 21
Hearth Gods IXXX
Saturday, March 12, 9pm
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POET: O buds O premature birdsong O premature flip-floppers O grass and
the greening of things O tender thaw O pain O springtime--
BEER: OMG ITS SO NICE OUT RIGHT?
...
POET: Sometimes I think you lack delicacy of sentiment.
BEER: O PRECIOUS SEDIMENT O POET O FEEEELINGS
February 2011
1 post
Next Reading: March 12!
Romantic love, in the full sense of the term, is an emotion possible only to the man (or woman) of unbreached self-esteem: it is his response to his own highest values in the person of another—an integrated response of mind and body, of love and sexual desire. Such a man (or woman) is incapable of experiencing a sexual desire divorced from spiritual values. — Ayn Rand
January 2011
2 posts
Hearth Gods XXVIII
Saturday, January 22, 8.30 pm
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Age Appropriate Items for Human Beings Age 28
DRESS: Non-Distressed ("Calm") Jeans; Casual Bondage; Halter Tops; Halter Bottoms; Wide Wale Corduroy; Best Buy Uniforms
DREAMS: Flying; Floating; Turning into a Cat; Strip Scrabble; Getting Caught in an Avalanche and Digging Yourself Out, Only to Discover Your Wife Has Remarried; Remarrying; You Are a Pie; Sex
ACTIVITIES: Hearth Gods No. 28, January 22 at 9pm.
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
3 posts
Next Reading: January 22
Theme: STITCH, BITCH, AND GET BLASTED
Actual Theme: The European Monetary Union: A Failed Experiment?
Dress Code: Casual hazard gear (men) / Dress mauves (women) / Fur (animals)
Hearth Gods XXVII - The Five Year Anniversary...
Saturday, November 20, 8.30pm
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POET: So it was: five years ago, the first words were spoken, the first poems were read, the first wine was had--
BEER: FIRST BEER
POET: Well, to be historically accurate, it was wine back then. Carlo Rossi White Zinfandel.
BEER: ...
POET: With the little handles for easy pouring.
BEER: YOU CHEATED ON ME
POET: O, we had so little back then, only our happiness, only the gutter spark of our happiness...
BEER: YOU CHEATED ON ME WITH CARLOOOOOOO
(Silence.)
POET: Happy anniversary.
BEER: WHY CARRRRLLLLLOOOOOOO WHYYYYYYYYYYY
October 2010
1 post
June 2010
3 posts
Hearth Gods XXVI - School Night Edition
Thursday, July 8, 8pm
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(The clock strikes 8pm.)
POET: Wherefore this early hour? It displeaseth me.
BEER: Sorry, it's just that I have a client meeting early tomorrow.
POET: Friday morning?
BEER: Can you believe it? It's like, did I get my MBA for this?
(Laughter. Silence.)
POET: You have an MBA?
BEER: I was going to tell you. There wasn't a good time.
April 2010
3 posts
Swamp Cat at Hearth Gods - February 20, 2010!
Hearth Gods, No. XXV - Spring Yearnings!
Saturday, April 10, 9pm
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POET: Apollo!
BEER: Dionysius!
POET: APOLLO!
BEER: DIONYSIUS!
POET: APOLLO!
BEER: glr*#&#$g!
...
POET: What.
BEER: hungover gru#$&(lga
...
POET: Apollo wins again.
February 2010
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XXIV
Saturday, Feb. 20, 9pm
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POET: Against any inclemency of sky, yes
I will be your shelter from the storm--
BEER: SNORM
...
BEER: SNORM! SNORM! SNORM!
POET: ...shelter from the snorm.
BEER: That's so moving, oh my god. Wow. Yes.
POET: ...
BEER: snorm
November 2009
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XXIII
Saturday, Dec. 5, 9pm
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POET: It's that time of year. The rats are singing
The servants are nailing up the tinsel
The air is pregnant with religious feeling--
BEER: WHERE IS MY EGGGNOG?
POET: Right here. Under the, uh...the mistletoe.
[ They lock eyes. ]
BEER: YOU POET -- YOU HAVE MY HEART
POET: You have an eggnog mustache.
October 2009
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XXII - Fourth Anniversary...
Saturday, Oct. 10, 9pm
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POET: Four years of thankless toil, and no reward, no recognition--
How could they let a man's honest sweat go for nothing?
BEER: ME!
POET: Nothing and beer.
BEER: BEER AND NOTHING!
(Pause.)
POET: You're right.
June 2009
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XXI
Saturday, June 13, 9pm
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POET: Death is the mother of beauty.
BEER: Beer is the father of beauty.
March 2009
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XX
Saturday, March 14, 9pm
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POET: I just think we're at a point in our lives when it's time to get serious. We're in our twenties now. Everything's changed.
BEER: My body's changed.
POET: This is serious. This is our lives now. This shit is real.--
BEER: I'm frightened.
POET: It's like...life is the guy on the beach selling beer and watermelons, and all these years you've been afraid, you've been underage. But now he's coming around again and this time you have to stand up, you have to say, "Yes, I want that. Yes, I want that beer. Come over here and let me give you five dollars BECAUSE I WANT TO LIVE."
January 2009
2 posts
Hearth Gods, V-Day Edition
Featuring Chas Carey, Kat Parker, Erica Wright... and a love-play by MYC!
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POET: I'm working on a poem for Valentine's Day.
BEER: IM WORKING ON A BEER FOR VALENINES DAY
POET: "Rotting is the soundtrack of America.
Rotting and singing to cover up the sound of rotting."
BEER: YES VALENTINES DAY YES
November 2008
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XVIII
Saturday, Nov. 8, 9pm
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POET: If the economy gets any worse I think I will succumb.
BEER: DON'T SUCCUMB!
POET: I can't help it. I'm going to succumb.
(POET succumbs.)
(Pause.)
BEER: WOE! IT'S THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY READING!
September 2008
2 posts
Hearth Gods, No. XVII
Saturday, Sept. 6, 9pm
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BEER: Where have you been?
POET: I HAVE BEEN EATING EAGLES.
BEER: What?
POET: ALLITERATION! ALLTITERTATION!
BEER: What?
...
POET: OMG I THINK THEY SWTICHED OUR DRINKS!
June 2008
1 post
Hearth Gods, Vol. XVI
POET: I heard that Jimmy's is closed because the Buildings Department said--
BEER: JIMMY!
POET: I understand, but without the proper entrance and egress, there's no way--
BEER: JIMMY!
[Pause.]
POET: Fuck the Man.
BEER: FUCK THE MAN!