Shannon Dapper

I have to say, Dirty Frank’s delighted me, because not only was the special was both irresponsibly cheap and surprisingly fruity, but it’s also referenced in one of my favorite standup bits ever told while sitting down. Nobody else took my reference.

Anyway, I got real drunk, but a particular kind of drunk where you wake up with a sleepy hangover and a bunch of new friends. A MaxFunCon kind of drunk, which is the best kind.

So. Earlier this week, Hodgman posted on Tumblr about a meetup after his show at Temple. The time and place were roughly set to 10ish and Bob and Barbara’s on South Street. They actually ended up being 11ish and Dirty Frank’s. This had the unintended effect of uniting everyone attending, because we’d all been hanging out in seperate little clusters at Bob and Barbara’s and were delighted to recognise all the same people with cool clothes and hair at the second venue. (You really must admit, our clothes and hair are all inescapably cool.)

These are my favorite pictures from this week’s Tight Six.

Caitlin watching the show

Dan Scully about to sing into the secondary mic (no band or recorded music in the second half of the show—all intros and exits were a cappella)

Brandon sitting down and yelling for pretty much his whole set, in a picture that looks like a buzz marketing campaign for Fergie’s Pub and Narragansett

19. Joe Bell

20. Mike Alloy

21. Mikey Garcia

22. Alex Pearlman

23. Garret Smith

24. ROCKING HORSE!!!!!!

11. Brandon T. Gorin

12. Brandon T. Gorin again, staring directly into the withered soul of anyone looking at this captured image

13. Pete Steele

14. There is a rocking horse on stage, by the way

15. Aaron Nevins

16. ???????

17. Dan Vetrano

18. Alex Grubard

Tonight, I went to the awesome open mic No. 2 (#2) (Number 2) at St. Stephen’s Green, went up fourth and did a short set because I didn’t actually realize I had way more time than I used. I did realize that, for someone aiming in the general direction of whimsy, I sure do write a lot of stuff about violence and murder and horror. Huh.

Anyway, I got tired and left after about 2 hours into the show, but I did take some sweet pics. I don’t actually know everyone’s name on here.

1. The band opening up, being all smoldering and guitar-weilding

2. Robert X in character as the man who invented Twitter, with a portable speaker he used to go into the crowd and rap about Twitter

3. Setoiyo

4. ???

5. ????

6. ?????

7. Bobby Lorello

8. Again with the Bobby Lorello

9. I swear, I could not get an unblurred pic of Chris O’Connor the whole time

10. ??????

21. Chris O’Connor taking over for Aaron on guitar

22. Carolanne Mitchell

23. Carolanne again, but with more attitude

24. The remainder of the Tight Six crew, closing out the show

25. The Spicy Angels

26. Things were getting kind of loopy at this point

27. Hey, Matt Pass!

28. Joe Murdock singing a downbeat version of the Flintstones theme song onstage after everybody left

Apologies for any fuck-ups and misattributions. I’m only a human.

11. Ruben Kramer

12. Pete Steele, obscured in a halo

13. Matt Pass, all like, whatever

14. David Piccalomini with a ghost hand

15. Jared Rissoto (Apologies for fucking the spelling up, probably)

16. Mikey summoning Caitlin Feeney to the stage

17. Caitlin at the drums

18. Jon Lalu

19. Jon Lalu again

20. For some reason, I got really good shots of Jon Lalu

1. Garret Smith (or Fuck yeah Batman!)

2. Rachel Fogletto, a goddess

3. The calm storm, Robert X

4. Rick Robotin

5. Geoff Jackson

6. Joe Bell, hosting it up

7. Out of phase Joe, and Aaron Nevins and Mickey Garcia as the house band whose clever name I’ve entirely forgotten

8. Mike Alloy, back again!

9. Mike Logan, looking—dare I say—dapper

10. Joe Murdock