New Revue, Venue for Gag Reflex Austin

Gag Reflex Austin will present their newest sketch comedy revue, "MY BIG, FAT, GAY WEDDING (or: Seven Brothers for Seven Brothers)" at 8pm Saturday, June 12 at Arts on Real, 2826 Real Street in Austin, one mile east of I-35 off MLK Blvd. Tickets are $10 each.

This is the group’s first new revue since New Year’s Eve’s "Spamlet," selections from which earned the group a "Best of the Week" award at FronteraFest.

This time out, Gag Reflex turns its eclectic, pointed pens toward — among other targets — same-sex marriage, office politics, invasion of privacy, after-school specials, legalese, outsourcing, Raisin Bran and terminal illness.

New songs lampoon folk music, mornings after, the joy of marriage and the mysterious allure of a one-legged girl.

"We’re really happy to be bringing a buttload of strong, new material to the Arts on Real stage," says group member Clay Askew. "The New Year’s show was hands-down our best ever, but this group is now really hitting its stride and we’re all expecting ‘Gay Wedding’ to be even funnier."

"We know that Arts on Real is a popular venue and we’re really hoping to bring in our regular crowd as well as a lot of people who haven’t seen us before," adds group hottie Julie Fontenot.

In addition to Askew and Fontenot, the Gag Reflex Austin cast includes Jed "Dino" Duesler, Rose Mitchell, co-founder Joe Stafford and director Dale Roe. Additional material comes from members of Gag Reflex's Chicago company.

Tickets can be reserved by calling 512-733-1414 or by visiting the Gag Reflex Web site.

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So what do I do when the BlogBug doesn't bite? Here I am not on the work side of a long weekend during which I could have spent some quality blog time. True I spent time with my family. I spent time working on some other forms of writing (prose and scripts mainly). I spent some time asleep...But blogs keep one alive. They are the pith..The stuff of writing. It's writing ALIVE! It's... Anyway, you get the point. (I will, just for the sake of a tangent point out that the term BLOGS isn't recognized by Blogger.com's spell checker.)

So now, because I want to blog and stay connected with my throngs of squealing, creaming fans, I must find something to blog about. I have noticed that most bloggers utilize a method I call "most recent petty bitch session" at this point. You know, when you have nothing better to say...fill your readers minds with your complaints. Teen girls do this a lot. Oh and teen boys. Oh and blogging adults with the maturity of teens. And blogging adults who have run out of decent things to say. (And genetically engineered baboons with the same problem). But I'm not going to say something like "so I pull up to the ATM and some retard has smashed a double cheeseburger into the card slot." (Okay. That's not a good example. I wouldn't mind a rant about that.)

I suppose the irony of this blog is that I am blogging about not being able to think of a blogTopic and bitching about not wanting to bitch.

So what other options are open? I could spelunk my archives. Find some tidbit of hilarity that doesn't fit anywhere else. Done that a lot recently. I could review something...but with my current entertainment habits I could really only review the "Blue's Greatest Gift" Blue's Clues episode...since it is played ad nauseum in my house. (Or I could write a proposal about a museum of things that repeat all the time and call it the Ad Nausuem Museum.)

Maybe I'll just lie down. My boss is gone and no body really comes to my cubicle anyway.