Say Wha?! April Recap

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picstitchSara Bynoe (aka me!) told us why she’s still single by researching how to make men love her by reading the half finished book 14.5 Things Women Shouldn’t Do by Mr Things and the How to Make a Man Love You by Grant J Hall. What we learned: it’s because she’s too darn funny/goofy for a men to find attractive. Sad but true…and still amusing!

Michael Unger schooled us in the art of heavy metal band names by lecturing from All Known Metal Bands. We learned there’s a lot of vomit in metal.

Kyle Fines spent some time in the children’s section of the VPL and brought us back to our youth (or someone’s youth) by sharing The Boxcar Children Mysteries. FUCK YOU BENNY! Also, never trust a guy with a red sports car and rolled up sleeves.

Riel Hahn read from The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation (studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts) by Marion Woodman.  Which she stole from her mother’s library.

Capping off the night was Kevin L. Smith substituting ’a word he got from the audience (Badger) for any word of the male anatomy in his reading of Wanderlust: Homoerotic Tales of Travel.  

Next Say Wha?! show is May 15 at the Cottage Bistro, 4468 Main Street.

 

Comedy Waste Presents … Say Wha?!

Comedy Waste is part of Music Waste

Comedy Waste…is a series of comedy revues featuring Vancouver’s best alternative comics, improvisers, and sketch groups.

June 7, 2012 at the Cottage Bistro- 4470 Main Street

Say Wha?! Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing

2 Year Anniversary Show/ Party

Vancouver’s only Literary/ Comedy show

Have you ever read a poorly written novel and thought to yourself, who publishes this crap? Or come across a hilariously out of date self-help book in a thrift store? Perhaps you read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and were more hilariously appalled by Anastaisa Steele graduating university without owning a computer than any of the adventures from the Red Room of Pain. Well, that’s what Say Wha?! is all about.

At Say Wha?! comedic performers put their spin on some of the most cringe-worthy, embarrassing and painfully earnest writing in print.

Readings by:
Rachel Burns
Sara Bynoe (host)
Leigh Eldridge
Devon Lougheed
Stu Popp
Steve Rondeau

Come and celebrate our two year anniversary show! There might be cake!

$5-10 (sliding scale, cash only, at the door)

Facebook Event

Sex, Lies and Leprechauns … Say Wha?!

While doing my Say Wha?! research I came across this great blog Evil Librarian Supervillian and her post Bodice Rippers: 21 Of The Most Ridiculous Romance Novels…EVER. One of the titles in it is Sex, Lies and Leprechauns.

At tonight’s Say Wha?! Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writting I will be reading from that blimey title. Here’s the summary:

Sex Lies and Leprechauns
Author: Renee Roszel

BEGUILED… — Sex: Okay, so what if Devlin Rafferty was as handsome as the devil, and sexy and charming to boot! Laura Todd was a woman on a mission–to find a missing heir in Ireland. And if that wasn’t reason enough to avoid Devlin, she’d vowed to steer clear of men after having her heart broken…twice. — Lies: A little pleasurable diversion with Devlin couldn’t hurt, Laura rationalized. Except it was becoming too darn pleasurable–and threatening to become a lot more than a diversion.

Leprechauns: Faith and begorrah! Dare she believe in Devlin’s declaration of everlasting love for her at first sight? Yeah, sure, and soon she’d be believing in leprechauns, too!

SHOW INFO:

Say Wha?! February 15

Cottage Bistro – 4470 Main Street

Show starts at 8 pm ends before 10 pm
Post Valentine’s Day Love and Romance themed readings by:

Riel Hahn
Barbara Kozicki
Aaron Mccallum
Sam S Mullins
Robyn Volk

Pay at the door with a sliding scale to suit your budget: suggested $10 minimum $5. 

Say Wha November

I know you’ve seen this poster before, but I can’t get enough of it. Did you find the Unicorn yet?

The next Say Wha?! show is this week Wednesday, November 16. I will be hosting another group of fantastic readers sharing the worst and most Say Wha?! books they can find.

If you haven’t been yet, this is a great one to catch. Two newbys (Jimmy Barnes and Lesley Ewen) two pros (Chip Ellis and Lauren McGibbon), two second timers (Ivan Decker and Jen Neale) and myself will be reading. I’m also hoping to get all you working-folk home at a decent hour and end the show before 10pm. You can either go home early or we can have some mingling time after all the bad books have been laughed at – stay for the mingling! 

Remember the Cottage Bistro has half price tapas from 4:30-6:30 pm, also high balls and domestic beers are on special. I think they’re less than $4. As if you needed any more incentive to come out. So save the date, ask someone out on a date and see you at the show!

Say Wha?! Preview Post

Hard to believe but such a book was actually published. Copyright 1996.

Here’s a review from Amazon:

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars a topless club is a place of business, June 22, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Pick Up Topless Dancers (Paperback)

i’m a stipper and i get this s*** all the time. a topless club is my place of business, not a place i go to because i want to meet men. i don’t like getting cheated out of my money. i don’t like men hanging around the door when i leave trying to get me to come to breakfast. there are women who’ll go home to party with these men, but not for free. we are all working women, not free sex toys for joe blow. if a guy wants to earn our respect, just pay us. these techniques are guarenteed to make strippers not like you. i wish guys didn’t buy and believe this book because it is a crock of s***.

There’s also this one:

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It did not really do the trick for me., March 15, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: How to Pick Up Topless Dancers (Paperback)

Sure, the title sounds great but I found (through many painful experiences) that you need more than just a book to pick up on beautiful women who strip for a living. Sure it’s my dream but I think it will have to stay just a dream. The tips in the book sound convincing when you’re at home reading them but when you actually go to the clubs and try it out you just get dissapointed. There were a few girls that seemed kind of with it at first but after trying out a few more things from the book, they just got creeped out. Now, I cant show my my face anymore in some of my favorite establishments and I even (get this!) wound up with a restrainting order from one girl. All this stemmed from the tips in this book. I could scare girls easily enough on my own without the book. The book also fails to adequately describe the violence that bouncers are willing to exhibit upon someone who bugs the dancers. Ouch.

I’m both saddened that there was a) a market for this book and b) a publisher willing to print this garbage. However, it’s got plenty of ridiculous advice that I’ll be sharing this Wednesday at the Cottage Bistro- 4470 Main Street. That’s right misogyny and creeps are fodder for Say Wha?!

Say Wha?! The Vimeo

You must watch this!

Rotten Writing from Tom Weston on Vimeo.