BUSTER FREAK’S POETRY CIRCUS

Performance Poetry, Music and Stories
With Edgar Pace as Easy Eddie
Kathleen Romana as Crystal Destiny
Deborah Pegues as Hot Tamale
Special appearance by The Hippie Gypsy
Featuring Joe Brundidge as Element 615, the Ring Master of Thought, Time and Space
Performance Poetry, Music and Stories
From Some Time and Place
Presented in One Space.
Friday & Saturday September 17 & 18 9pm
Café Caffeine 909 w. Mary st. 512 447-9473

Edgar Pace has worked in theater, radio, and as a touring musician. Currently he is engaged as a performance poet and producer of Buster Freak’s Poetry Circus. According to legend, he is the last person to have seen Buster Freak before his disappearance from Austin in the summer of 1969. The CD Two Edgars: Edgar A. Poe by Edgar E. Pace has been critically acclaimed. Friend Edgar on Facebook

Kathleen Romana expresses thought in poetry, and form through art. Her poetry has been performed in formats from festivals to radio. Her performances have musical arrangements that are dynamic and intimate in the imagery evoked.

Joe Brundidge is adept at sardonic performance. Whether it’s as host of the popular poetry and music venue, Spoken & Heard, or as a solo performer explaining why chickens are jealous of people, Joe will have you doubling over with laughter. People sip their drink during his act for fear of spraying their companion. He also has a serious side that conceals a dark secret. Joe departs January, 2010 on a multi-state tour in support of a forthcoming CD.

Deborah Pegues has been a writer for 20 years, only recently indulging one secret passion: performing. Following some acting classes, she created the character Hot Tamale in order to express poetry that, in her words, “You can feel with all your senses.” More than one man in the audience has been seen to make a note of her second secret passion: goat’s milk candy.

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Later, Edgar
Peace, Love & Woodstock

Bob Favor can be reached at his email address, Bobfavor@gmail.com

On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, Bob Favor will stop by to speak about his new book, My Rangering Days.

Bob Favor is a retired Texas Ranger who was born in the midst of the great depression. After serving 4 years in the navy, 9 years as a Highway patrolman and 25 years as a Texas Ranger, Retired Lieutenant Bob Favor has a story for every minute of the day.

Bob has been married to one lovely lady named Beth for over 55 years.

He is a father of four lovely daughters with spitfire tongues, grandfather of seven, and has a brilliant Siberian Husky named Ziegen who can unlock any lock he sets his mind to!  Bob enjoys participating in chuck wagon events, explaining the value of Ranger stories to youth, speaking with social and community service groups about his Texas Ranger experience and has been found drinking coffee with his friends at the local funeral home in Clyde, Texas.

Mr. Favor provides private detective services for select clientele.  Bob has been working feverishly with his granddaughter, Rachel, on the newest edition of My Rangering Days.

We invite you to join us for another Live WRITING ON THE AIR show this coming Wednesday from 6 till 7pm Central Texas Time on 91.7 FM if you’re in Austin, Texas, or on KOOP.org anywhere else in the world!

Our guest this Wednesday is Joe Shaffer:

Joe Shaffer is a standup comedian from Austin, TX. He has been performing regularly in the Austin, San Marcos, and San Antonio area with a style that could best be described as observational nonsense. Joe is a two-year standup veteran with a lifetime of trying too hard to be funny at school, jobs, and parties.

Joe also created a comic strip called Slow Children at Play that won the University of Texas’ Eric Bellanger award, performed with the Mascot Wedding group, and formerly edited The Daily Texan Comics page, The 21st St Co-opulator, and Lawless Comix.

Joe also hates unicorns. Them things ain’t right.

You can find out more about Joe on these two websites:

BogFancyProduction.com
FaceBook.com

See you Wednesday on the Air!

Francois

Franchesca’s web blog is www.blossomingink.tumblr.com

Our guest this evening is Franchesca Alamo.

Bio -

Franchesca Alamo, a seventeen-year-old Houston native, is a high school senior at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart; there, she is president of the Student Council and co-president of the school’s Literary Magazine organization. She wrote her first poem in second grade at age eight, and has been a member of Poets Northwest since 2004. She enjoys reading, writing, drawing, surfing the ‘net, and listening to many different genres of music. Franchesca has been published in multiple anthologies and has won several poetry awards since 2004. She was the featured poet at the First Fridays Poetry Reading Series in June of 2008; she, around that time, published in her own personal chapbook titled “House of Wonder.” She and her mother were the featured poets at Poets Northwest in August of 2009 and in 2010, her poem, “Winter,” won third place in the student category of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies awards. In September of 2010, she will be the featured poet at Gulf Coast Poets.

Please join us this Wednesday as we discuss journalism, blogging, writing in general, the creative process, and giving back to the community with Bob Kinney & Eileen Flynn.

Bob Kinney is a journalist, photographer and publicist who moved to Austin to enjoy its music scene in the fall of 1978.

Bob did communications work at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin for almost 24 years. During that time he worked with co-guest and friend Eileen Flynn when she was a full-time faith writer at the American-Statesman newspaper.

A believer in giving back to community, Bob served on the Wheatsville Food Co-op’s board of directors for fifteen years – most as board president.

He writes about the eclectic range of live music in Austin and posts his photographs of music shows on his Austin Music & More blog at bobkinney.wordpress.com

Eileen Flynn is a longtime journalist who specializes in religion coverage. She was the religion beat writer for the Austin American-Statesman from 2002 to 2009 when she left daily journalism to raise her daughter.

She continues to write a twice-monthly faith and beliefs column for the Statesman and teaches the course Journalism & Religion at the University of Texas. She was twice selected as a fellow in the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland.

You can learn more about Eileen Flynn by visiting her blog: http://eileenflynn.wordpress.com/

See you Wednesday on “Writing on the Air” from 6pm till 7pm live Central Texas Time 91.7 FM if you live in Austin, Texas; Or you can stream us live on KOOP.org.

Thanks!

Francois Pointeau

Brad Whittington will be in studio on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 to discuss his new novels Endless Vacation and The Vacation.

Guest : Brad Whittington, Author and Screenwriter

BIO

Brad Whittington was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on James Taylor’s eighth birthday and Jack Kerouac’s thirty-fourth birthday and is old enough to know better. He lives in Austin, Texas with The Woman. Previously he has been known to inhabit Hawaii, Ohio, South Carolina, Arizona, and Colorado, annoying people as a janitor, math teacher, field hand, computer programmer, brickyard worker, editor, resident Gentile in a Conservative synagogue, IT director, weed-cutter, and in a number of influential positions in other less notable professions. When he isn’t writing he does what he can to impact the productivity of his fellow workers in the telecommunications industry. He is greatly loved and admired by all right-thinking citizens and enjoys a complete absence of cats and dogs at home.

Tony Beckwith was born into a British family living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He spent his formative years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before setting off to see the world. He came to Texas in 1980, and lives in Austin, where he works as a writer, poet, and translator. His poems and stories are regularly featured in publications in the States and in various parts of Latin America.

Trey Moore is a fourth generation carpenter from San Antonio, TX.  His first full-length book, Some Will Play The Cello, was published by St. Mary’s University’s Pecan Grove Press.

Rachel Jennings was born and raised in East Tennessee. Currently living in San Antonio, Texas, she has been a participant in the Macondo Writing Workshop. Her poems have appeared in the Appalachian Journal, RE:AL, Concho River Review, San Antonio Express-News, Texas Observer, and other publications. She has published a book of poetry, Elijah’s Farm (Pecan Grove Press, 2008), and a poetry chapbook, Hedge Ghosts (LaNana Creek Press, 2001).

Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in France during WWII and has been an Austin resident since 1977. She writes in English and French. In 2001 she won first prize for her poem /House of Bones/ in the Austin International Festival Anthology. Her poems have been published in several poetry magazines (Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Rio Grande Review, Iodine Journa, l Mobius, Gival Press Anthology 2008 and others). Her first book , Organza Skies, was published in 2005.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Liliana Valenzuela is an adopted tejana. An award-winning literary translator, poet, and essayist, her work has appeared in The Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, Tigertail, and other publications in the U.S., Mexico, Spain, and Argentina. She is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros in San Antonio, and will join the Inaugural Canto Mundo Master Poet Workshop in Albuquerque this summer. Through workshops, symposia, and public readings, Canto Mundo provides a space for the creation, documentation, and critical analysis of Latina/o poetry. A guest editor for Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review., she is currently working on a memoir.

Jon Clinkenbeard and the Radio Players will be performing Doctor Cowboy on Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Bios

Jon Clinkenbeard (Biff Nails, Announcer 2)

Over the past 5 years, Kafka Jon has slowly morphed into a professional writer, penning books, blogs, articles, short films, radio plays, and sketch shows, most notably for the famed Second City in Chicago. Jon presently has quite a bit to keep him busy; a new Maximum Decision!® book series coming out soon (the first of which is The Pirate Treasure of the Himalayas), a website of free short stories at http://jonclinkenbeard.com, and a secret involvement with a panel of doctors who will answer any question at http://www.facebook.com/askadoctor. He is exactly one-fourth of Happiness is a Choice, a mind-blowing experimental team of scientists, which performs Thursdays in July and August at the New Movement Theatre. Doctor Cowboy is not only a radio western, it’s also the name of Jon’s full-service production company. You can find more information and samples of work at http://doctorcowboyproductions.com. And finally, if you enjoy Doctor Cowboy’s radio adventures, you’ll love Jon and Jono’s upcoming Dracula trilogy, because it’s totally radical… to the EXTREME!

Jono Frank (Conroy, Narrator)

Despite being responsible for numerous projects over the past 10 years, Jono hasn’t a mind to list them all, or any for that matter.  It’s rumored that he once created 1,000 different characters in a few hundred one-acts and shorts, then destroyed the works to encourage himself as a writer.  It is undetermined whether this has worked, but sources state that at least 48 watered-down versions have been recreated lazily into a sketch-opera.  When he’s not writing, he enjoys thinking about concepts that haven’t ever been done and despises water polo.  Before getting into writing, Jono was a freelance Billboard Critic who frequently submitted articles for various magazines and newspapers across the country.  After learning about how ghosts can possess video cameras, like in that movie Poltergeist, Jono funneled his energies into creating radio fiction.  With a slew of inspiration, spanning over three decades (post-Depression Era), he set to work creating various themes and genres from Sci-Fi to Horror-Westerns to Dracula.  He is also a huge fan of criticizing comic books.

Kacey Samiee (Claribelle)

Kacey graduated from UT in 2005 with a skip in her step, a song in her heart, and an automated lighting design and technology degree under her arm.  Since then she has found out that her degree isn’t as useful as she would have hoped, but it has given her the ability to do some pretty cool name-dropping if given the opportunity.  Luckily the song in her heart and the skip in her step have proven to be quite useful in her 7ish year ongoing membership to GGG.  In total (as of 2010) she’s had a 10+ year improv career and has been in countless AWESOME Austin improv shows. She also spends copious amounts of time doing yoga.  Seriously. She’s a fanatic.  Other activities include photography and modeling, the ever continuing battle of learning to knit, sewing some pretty cool stuff, running, indulging her sweet tooth, running again because she indulged her sweet tooth, lusting after mini dresses, film acting and stage acting (which is really just going to ridiculous commercial auditions), and studying for the GRE.  That last one has been really freakin’ hard…‘cause who wants to study?…especially when you have yoga to go to…and improv to do…and tiny dresses to buy.  Sheesh!  But seriously…she needs to study. She will.  She promises.  Right now….after this yoga class…

Michael Thomas (Doctor Cowboy)

Michael Thomas is a local improviser and costars in Dusk: Improvised Teen Erotica, based off of Twilight. He is a renaissance man.
Or something like that. I’m in NYC dude, I gotta run – I’m shirtless in Times Square.

Kareem Badr (Charlie, Announcer 1)

Kareem Badr is a founding member of the award-winning improv troupe Parallelogramophonograph and is one of the owners of The Hideout Theatre. He has performed and taught at improv festivals across the continent, and can be seen performing every Friday with PGraph at The Hideout Theatre. He will be representing the men in the upcoming Battle of the Sexes Improv Showdown at The Long Center on July 17th.

Jason Vines (Tex, Sheriff)

Jason is a member of Improv for Evil, and will appearing as FDR in the upcoming Zilker Summer Musical production of Annie.  He is also appearing in The Andersons, an improvised 1950s sitcom, at The Highball every Sunday night in August.

More can be found of Daniel at DanielWhittington.com

Please join us this Wednesday July 7th, from 6 till 7pm Central Texas Time LIVE on 91.7 FM ior KOOP.org.

Daniel Whittington is very talented singer-song-writer. You can learn more about him on his website: http://rhodesaudio.com/.

This is going to be a fun music filled show! So make sure and tune in!

Francois

Listen to the podcast of the interview.

PRE-SHOW Information

On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, They Speak Youth Poetry Slam visited and slammed the studio.

The executive director of Texas Youth Word Collective, Sheila Siobhan,  and the members  of They Speak Youth Poetry Slam, Sheenika Me’dard, Shanitria Harris, and Zachory visited with Dillon McKinsey and Lee Davis today.

More information on the group can be found at www.txywc.org.

www.bravenewvoices.org is the website for the competition the team will be participating at in Los Angelos, CA.