We bring you another installment of the free-form question, comment and improvisational voicemail art project, 312-DRY-TOFU (312-379-8638). Give us a call to share your perspective on anything and everything! Tell us about your day, improvise a monologue about a local event, or sing us a song. If it can be captured on the phone, we want to hear it.

In this episode we hear a wonderfully delightful rendition of a nursery rhyme, the favorite parts of the Kentucky Derby, a little historical preaching of Richard Stallman starting the GNU System, Cameron’s obscene birthday observations, an unknown acoustic song, how to save water damaged books, a story about a pejorative princess, freezing books when floods are inconvenient to your schedule.

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April 30th is our next experimental performance at the Knickerbocker Saloon.
Collaboration at 7PM.
Show starts at 8PM.

Title: A Rocket to the Moon
Assignment: Bring your tales of travels.
Battle: Journey vs. Destination

Add yourself to the pool of Write Club Battle Contenders or become a member of our mailing list! Please sign-up here.

We are looking for artists, satirists, playwrights, poets, actresses, short story writers, actors, novelists, extemporaneous creators, instrumental musicians, comedians, audience members, and anyone else who loves creativity!

Come out and see some local theatre, poetry, prose, and all around stage hijinks.

We are looking for artists, satirists, playwrights, poets, actresses, short story writers, actors, novelists, extemporaneous creators, instrumental musicians, comedians, audience members, and anyone else who loves creativity!

A big thank you to Alexandria Nightengale for providing the art on the tables. If you would like your art displayed during the performance, please contact us.

Knickerbocker.
March 26th.
Extemporaneous? 7PM.
Show started at 8PM.

Write Club Performances

Write Club Battle: Electricity vs. Plumbing MP3 | OGG

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Can’t make it to a Monday? Call our voicemail art project, 312-DRY-TOFU (312-379-8638), to contribute via the phone. We will play your audio contribution on stage (pending audio quality). All calls will make it into our 312-DRY-TOFU show.

This past March we conducted interviews with people who tabled and patroned the Chicago Zinefest.

Enjoy the meanderings with True the F Up, A Day in the Air, and everyone else.

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TheMediaCollective.org presents…

a Bored? Let’s Play… production

DSM-IV the Game!

This is a work of serious. Get it?

Introduction:

A beautiful way to engage and learn about yourself, family, and friends. An ice breaker at your next holiday gathering.

Hold a mirror to yourself and others.

Items Needed:

DSM Access (books or Wikipedia)
One literate person
People for which to analyze.

How to Play:

1. Choose a disorder from your DSM source.
2. Read the criteria for the selected disorder aloud.
3. Depending on which style of play you are using (next page), proceed accordingly.
4. Continue through the remaining criteria or until you or the group want to explore another disorder in the DSM.
5. The game session ends when one hour has elapsed.

Solo Play: Self-diagnosis

On a sheet of paper, take notes about how you feel regarding each of
the criteria and numeric value for how much you display that symptom. At
the end of the disorder, add up your score, divide by the number of
criteria you evaluated yourself on. This your disorder index. Continue
through the disorder.

Multi-Player: Group Therapy

Go around the circle in a designated order. Verbally discuss each player’s
exemplification of the current symptom. Give examples of incidents
when these were symptomatically displayed. Continue through the
disorder.

Multi-Player: Psychiatrist(s) and Patient

Played in the same manner as Group Therapy, except one individual is chosen as the focus for the disorder. Bonus: If a player feels another player exemplifies this disorder, the focus of the current session can be switched to them by way of range voting. Continue through the disorder.

Two Sample Disorders from Wikipedia:

Major Depressive Episode

The player reports a depressed mood/appears depressed to others. They express feeling sad, depressed, empty, “down in the dumps,” hopeless. The player is in denial about these feelings, yet appears to be on the verge of tearfulness, has a depressed facial expression and disposition, or appears to be overly irritable.

Delusional Disorder

The player expresses an idea or belief with unusual persistence or force. The individual tends to be humorless and oversensitive, especially about the belief. An attempt to contradict the belief is likely to arouse an inappropriately strong emotional reaction, often with irritability and hostility.

Download the PDF. || Learn to fold your copy of DSM-IV the Game!

Please let us know if you plan a DSM-IV the Game! Night.

Here is another installment of the free-form question, comment and improvisational voicemail art project, 312-DRY-TOFU (312-379-8638). Give us a call to share your perspective on anything and everything! Tell us about your day, improvise a monologue about a local event, or sing us a song. If it can be captured on the phone, we want to hear it.

In this episode we hear a popular song from the 1980s rendered by a mouth, a choppy poem of digital significance, an apology for last night, a British person trying to start a journal and doing things half-way, another exploration by someone’s mouth, Mayor John Dennis follows through on one of his campaign promises; the staycation, someone trying to order dry tofu, bar atmosphere while getting day drunk, a rant about transportation, a new technology called Thunderbolt and compact devices, people commenting about people hanging in a house, a quick blurb about rotating around in mouth form.

Please join us for the next episode by calling and contributing to 312-DRY-TOFU (312-379-8638)!

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After spending several weeks trying to secure an interview with Harry and Jake of Harry and Jake Speak Politely, we managed to conduct a short interview.

January 21st, 2012. A superb evening of music (High School Girls, Broken Light, Mid-American) at the Knickerbocker Saloon in downtown Lafayette. High School Girls finished their set. Broken Light was adjusting the stage for theirs. I bumped into Harry and asked again for the interview. He agreed. Jake showed up a few minutes later. This is the second part of our initial encounter with these two independent media creators, Harry and Jake

We learned that despite the environment, it was not too loud to conduct an interview, what Harry and Jake Speak Politely is about, their lack of microphone stands, preferred beverages, why names are important to the interview style of Harry and Jake, the enchanting power of television, what level Harry and Jake are on, and their love of editing.

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After spending several weeks trying to secure an interview with Harry and Jake of Harry and Jake Speak Politely, we managed to conduct a short interview.

January 21st, 2012. A superb evening of music (High School Girls, Broken Light, Mid-American) at the Knickerbocker Saloon in downtown Lafayette. High School Girls finished their set. Broken Light was adjusting the stage for theirs. I bumped into Harry and asked again for the interview. He agreed. Jake showed up a few minutes later.

We learned that despite the environment, it was not too loud to conduct an interview, why Harry and Jake Speak Politely was created, what happens when the microphone is turned towards one of our News Channel Internet journalists, First Amendment rights, how you find out about other people, how Jake influences Harry, Jake’s super smart phone, and Jake’s habits with a mobile Internet device.

This is the first installment of the series with these two independent media creators, Harry and Jake.

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Download the interview, Harry and Jake Speak Politely – 2012-01-21 – Part 1 (4:46) in MP3 or Ogg.

Here is another installment of the free-form question, comment and improvisational voicemail art project, 312-DRY-TOFU (312-379-8638). Give us a call to share your perspective on anything and everything! Tell us about your day, improvise a monologue about a local event, or sing us a song. If it can be captured on the phone, we want to hear it.

In this episode we hear a tragedy of flat tires, a valentines day about asking out a girl (well, sort of.) for an awkward time brewing flowering tea, soundscapes of the Super Bowl held in Indianapolis, wonderful days making art, birdies bonking their little heads, the 4th anniversary of the Black Sparrow, Christmas well wishes, observations of TO-FU, grandfather figures (Felix Stefanile) and their poems.

Please join us for the next episode by calling and contributing to 312-DRY-TOFU (312-379-8638)!

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Bridget Johnston. Lover of scotch whiskey, dogs, photography, skirts and dresses. Lives vicariously as a New Yorker through Woody Allen to fulfill her childhood dream of living in the city. She decorates her walls with art by Pollock, Ginsberg poems, posters of Mile Davis, cards, and cut-outs from magazines (which she subscribes to none). She fears becoming crotchety, being over bodies of water, dreading her job, and terrible accidents to loved ones. She was a features editor for the Purdue Exponent. She recently moved to Washington to start an internship at the glorious media empire known as C-SPAN. We spoke with Bridget recently over Skype to get her story.

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