{"id":432,"date":"2008-09-18T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/avant-nerd\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T05:56:37","slug":"avant-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/avant-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-Nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure quite where to file this but my brain is definitely not the right place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohole.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radiohole<\/a>&#8216;s benefit on Monday and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_LeCompte\" target=\"_blank\">Liz LeCompte<\/a> &#8211; fearless leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoostergroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wooster Group<\/a>. (if none of those names mean anything to you you can ignore this one. I realize this post only targets a niche market of like 2 people).<\/p>\n<p>While the show wasn&#8217;t really my bag, I have to say the pre- and post- shows were unforgettable.<\/p>\n<p>The post-show consisted of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kate_Valk\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Valk<\/a> MC-ing the benefit auction. I can&#8217;t even begin to describe it. Hypnotizing.\u00a0 That woman can really do anything.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind the <em>pre<\/em>-show consisted of Liz LeCompte walking in, making a B line for the bar, grabbing a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Shaw_wine\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Shaw<\/a> (Chuck to his friends) Red and waltzing right back out the door.<\/p>\n<p>On the way out she paused and (I guess feeling a slight twinge of guilt) shouted to one of the women running box office, &#8220;Hey, how much for this? Will $10 do?&#8221; Not particularly waiting for a reply she slid her hand into her pocket, pulled out a crumpled $10 bill and tossed it on the counter. She then continued out the door, stopping only to collect a couple of friends before heading across the street.  For the next 20 minutes the patron saint of avant-garde theatre could be found on 19th St. on the stoop across from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kitchen<\/a> hanging out with some friends and throwing back a bottle of wine together.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I really love this city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure quite where to file this but my brain is definitely not the right place&#8230; I was at Radiohole&#8216;s benefit on Monday and saw Liz LeCompte &#8211; fearless leader of the Wooster Group. (if none of those names mean anything to you you can ignore this one. I realize this post only targets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[185,183],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatron","tag-liz-lecompte","tag-wooster-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}