When people ask us how we met, we take turns telling parts of the story, because it's so fun. There's a version of this that I'd post that is twice as long and perhaps I will someday, but this is the version that I used earlier this week when telling it to a hundred strangers at Oberon for another Moth Storyslam. Earlier in that evening, a woman ( Read more... )

Joe had arrived at Passim a few minutes before me, and when I sat down, I noted that he was furiously scribbling some notes and passages on the back of a sheet of paper, then crossing them off, then scribbling again ( Read more... )

It was at a dinner party on Tuesday night, where a bunch of us had gathered at Citizen's Public House to feast on a pig roast and I had leaned over to joeyfresh and said to him, "hey, dude, there's this story slam going on Monday after next. You said you were interested in checking it out. You should come ( Read more... )

The brief pitch for the evening was ( Read more... )

What do you get when you fill a bar with a bunch of champion storytellers? Loud conversation is what. The after party for the Massmouth StorySlam championship, the Big Mouth Off, was filled with voices of "That reminds me when ..." and "Did I ever tell you about ..." and "This one time at ..." They were big, confident voices used to projecting ( Read more... )

I had arrived at the event late, delayed by a fishtank, and the third storyteller had just finished up her turn on the stage. The venue was that old church in the South End that was now a community center. Friends have held events there in the past, and it's always a little interesting to see the way the place can wear different crowds. I had ( Read more... )

Tuesday night, I was at Oberon for the January Moth storyslam. mishak was there, as was Linder and an ex co-worker, LaBadassita and her boyfriend B. The theme for the month was Outgrown and I had thrown my name in the hat, but we had gotten through five storytellers, to intermission without my name being called. Linder asked, "so do you have to put up ( Read more... )

I realize that I've sort of fallen off in my frequency of updates, and I have a few entries that I need to finish up and post, but for those of you who were interested in the story slam stuff, I'm just posting to let you know that I'm planning attending the Massmouth "Bankrupt" slam at Passim on January 21, and The Moth's "Outgrown" slam at Oberon ( Read more... )

"Hi, my name is Cris and the story that I'm going to tell is about a road trip that I took thirteen years ago. I was twenty-four, a couple of years out of college, in that point of time in one's life where you're making friends, meeting new people, forming the surrogate family that you've chosen. That summer, a few friends of mine and I decided ( Read more... )

My Moth ambitions have been crushed by the travel gods. I'm in Vancouver and my return flight was cancelled. New flight gets in to Boston at 7pm which is when the show starts, so that's not happening. Ah we'll, there's always November.

There's also a travel story slam next week in Boston. It isn't part of the "circuit" but might still be fun ( Read more... )