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SHAPPY'S ONLINE DIARY:
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I have been alive 14,425 days
I've outlived Che Guevara by 64 days.
If I make it 99 more days, I will outlive Malcolm X.
Age at Death Days Alive Days
Diff. Name
47 17179 2754 Judy Garland
46 16978 2553 John F. Kennedy
42 15561 1136 Elvis Presley
42 15539 1114 Robert Kennedy
40 14670 245 John Lennon
39 14523 98 Malcolm X
- 14425 0 SHAPPY SEASHOLTZ
39 14361 -64 Che Guevara
39 14324 -101 Martin Luther King, Jr.
36 13243 -1182 Bob Marley
36 13214 -1211 Marilyn Monroe
posted by Shappy at 6:34 PM
Monday Sept 8th, 2008 8pm to 10pm
St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street
New York , NY 10003
Main Sanctuary
Poetry Turn On !
An evening of poetry readings by poets: Miguel Algarin, Mahogany Browne,
Regie Cabico, Steve Cannon, Michael Cirelli, Brenda Coultas, Sam Diaz, John Farris, Merry Fortune , Celena Glenn, Lois Griffith, Bill Kushner, Jill Magi, Filip Marinovich, Chris Martin, Stephen Motika, Amy Ouzoonian, Eve Packer, Kristin Prevallet, Shappy, Moonshine Shorey, Rachel M. Simon, Tracy K. Smith, Stacy Szymaszek, Clare Ultimo.
This incredible group of poets come together to present their work and represent five of the numerous poetry organizations and venues that serve New York City and the World poetry throughout the year: The Bowery Poetry Club , A Gathering Of The Tribes, Nuyorican Poets Café, The Poetry Project and Poets House.
A reception in the Parish Hall will follow the reading, and serve as an opportunity to meet the poets, purchase books, become a member, and celebrate this year’s HOWL !
Festival.
This reading is FREE and Open to the Public.
Websites for the participating organizations are listed here:
www.bowerypoetry.com
www.tribes.org
www.nuyorican.org
www.poetryproject.com
www.poetshouse.org
Contact: nathanielsiegel@nyc.rr.com
posted by Shappy at 5:24 AM
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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posted by Shappy at 12:38 PM
Monday, August 18, 2008 Greetings from Delaware, Ohio! It's my last night with the Seasholtz fam and I thought I should update since it's been 2 weeks and much has happened! First of all, the Urbana Slam Team won the first ever Group Piece Finals in Madison! We brought home a first place trophy and won $500! We were the #1 team for the first 2 nights of competition but got knocked down to 25th after taking a 3 in our 2nd bout. It was a heart-breaker but winning the Group Piece Finals eased that pain. The Nerd Slam was a pretty big success and was held in a lecture hall which was pretty nerdy. I also made quite an impression at the Slam-Master's slam. Our flight was delayed going back which sucked cuz I really missed Cristin. I worked Tuesday and Wednesday and headed to Ohio on Thursday. Had big sandwiches with my brother and saw the kids and gave them presents. Ernie picked me up the next morning for Gen-Con which is the biggest gaming convention on the planet. D&D, Video games, Live Action Role Playing were all there in full force. It was the largest gathering of nerds I have witnessed in some time! Ernie and I were there to pull off a live re-anctment of Monty Python & The Holy Grail. We hit the dealer's floor and I got some vintage board games and cool t-shirts. Later we got foam swords and coconuts from a large evil box store and sawed coconuts in two for horsey cloppers. We ended up getting a room that was half the size we were promised but the nerdcore Python-heads showed up anyway and it was pretty cool. I got to play the middle head of the 3-headed knight and the leader of the Knights who say "ni!" and Herbert's father. We also had a attack rabbit puppet which was played play a 6 year boy with a purple mohawk! We got a lot of it on video and Ernie's gonna post it someday. I also got to meet all of Ernie's gaming buddies from his High School days many of which certain characters in FANBOYS are based on. We came back to Ohio and partied at the Seasholtz compound til the wii hours. (we played Wii, get it?) and passed out watching Star trek in hi-def! The Seasholtz men all went out and saw the Clone Wars together which was pretty cool although my nephew said it wasn't scary enough but it was still pretty awesome. I leave tomorrow and start working my ass off at the BPC. This is shaping up to be my NERDIEST YEAR EVER! More to come. . . posted by Shappy at 10:46 PM
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Fanboys is coming out September 19th! Mark your calendars and check this out on youtube-COMIC CON 2008: “Finishing Fanboys” Featurette - Youtube Link. You'll get to see Ernie at Skywalker Ranch! Jealous!
I leave monday for the National Poetry Slam in Madison, WI. I'll be hosting the Nerd Slam on Thursday, August 7th from 2:45 to 4:45 at the University of Wisconsin Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St. I'm super excited to announce that I got in touch with the local comic shop there, Westfield Comics, and they have agreed to sponsor the event which means free comics for all!
I'll also be doing Karaoke @ Cafe Montmartre, 127 E. Mifflin Thursday, August 7th from 12-2 AM!
I also just found out there is a PONDEROSA STEAKHOUSE near the hotel! God bless the midwest!
Our month of fundraising slams want really well this year! Thanks to all of these fine poets who featured for us in our time of need-Phil West, Celena Glenn and Anis Mojgani! You guys really helped get asses in seats and I loved seeing you guys back on our Urbana stage!
The team is looking sharp and is hungry for VICTORY! For the first time in many moons we won the NYC Slam Regionals which makes us #1 on these mean streets! We are going to rock it at NPS! I'll do my best to keep you all posted here! Wish us luck!
posted by Shappy at 11:42 PM
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED FILM “FANBOYS” TO HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE SCREENING ON JULY 24TH DURING COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL 2008
Tickets to be Given Away to the First 300 People in Line at the Lucasfilm 7th Annual Star Wars Movie Challenge Awards held in San Diego.
Trigger Street Productions and The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that the highly anticipated film “Fanboys” will have an exclusive screening of the film during this year’s Comic-Con International Convention. Tickets will be given away to the first 300 people in line at the Lucasfilm’s 7th Annual Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Awards, held on July 24th at 8:30pm in Ballroom 20 at the San Diego Convention Center. During the Awards Ceremony director Kyle Newman will introduce select footage from the film, providing fans a sneak peak of the full-length feature to be shown at 10:30pm that same evening.
In the preceding months, Star Wars fans across the globe had generated a remarkable grassroots campaign, demonstrating unanimous support for the main character’s battle with cancer to remain in the storyline of the film. In response to this widespread zeal, the filmmakers incorporated extensive feedback into the final cut.
“I could not be more excited that ‘Fanboys’ is being released this September and is the version of the film that the fans want,” said “Fanboys” producer Kevin Spacey. “I am enormously grateful to Jedi Knight Harvey Weinstein for having allowed Trigger Street to restore “Fanboys” to its original story and am thrilled that it will first screen during Comic-Con. We believe in this film and are honored that George Lucas and all his team gave us permission to film Skywalker Ranch and let us have so much fun with Star Wars. We also have a couple of surprises in the film that I think will bring added enjoyment to all the fans of Lucas’ great and epic movies and Trigger Street is proud to have produced this film and to have kept the dark side at bay.”
“Speaking for everyone involved in the project, we are truly grateful for all the passion the fans have shown the film,” stated director Kyle Newman. “Their support has been nothing short of phenomenal and I couldn’t think of a better place in the world than San Diego during Comic-Con to unveil the final cut of ‘Fanboys.’”
“If this movie doesn’t show that Lucasfilm has a sense of humor, nothing will!” said Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing. “We were happy to give them permission to have some fun with Star Wars and salute our incredible fans at the same time.”
Set in 1998 the film, starring Jay Baruchel (“Knocked Up,” “Million Dollar Baby”), Tony Award Winner Dan Fogler (“Kung Fu Panda,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”), Sam Huntington (“Superman Returns,” “Not Another Teen Movie”), Chris Marquette (“The Girl Next Door,” “Another World”), and Kristen Bell (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Pulse”) is a heart-warming comedy that follows a group of young, passionate Star Wars fans on a cross-country quest to break into George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch and watch “Star Wars: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace,” before it’s released.
“Fanboys” is a production of Trigger Street Productions and Picture Machine. The film is directed by Kyle Newman and produced by Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Evan Astrowsky and Matthew Perniciaro. The script was written by Ernest Cline, Adam Goldberg, and Dan Pulick. Kevin Mann served as executive producer.
posted by Shappy at 1:17 PM
Monday, July 07, 2008 Been a busy summer! June just zipped by! Cristin and I got to spend some time with her family at Lake Taconic in upstate NY. We did some hiking and me and Cristin took another stab at canoing. The water was very still and calm. We had some big storms that cam and went. We enjoyed lots of good food and the company of Kevin, Katie, Ingrid and Jessie and of course, Cian! I also attended the Big Apple Comic Con early in June with Matt the doorguy from the BPC and Jaimie a young nerd poet who performed with me at the NYC Comic Con earlier this year. I scored lots of awesome DVD's and a set of cd-rom's that let's me play all of the old arcade games on my new Dell computer which arrived in late May/early June! I got it all set up by myself! We've seen almost all of the big summer movies so far, mainly for the air-conditioning! The nerd slam went pretty well despite the lack of nerdy poets in NYC. We did manage to get Soce, The Elemental Wizard to come out and a couple pf comedians delivered some damn funny monologues. Phil West did a fine feature and Geoff Trenchard won with a great Nightcrawler persona poem. We continue to march on to raise funds to go to Nationals which is coming up real soon! Check out the upcoming shows page for details! posted by Shappy at 12:20 AM
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Reverend Jen’s Really Cool Neighborhood
Episode Two: “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Written by Reverend Jen
Directed by Robert Prichard
Starring Reverend Jen, Reverend Jen Junior, Faceboy,
Mangina, Mike Amato, the O’Debra Twins, Shappy,
Moonshine, Lloyd Floyd, Courtney Weber and more…
Featuring live music by The Clean Teens
Saturday, May 28th at 10pm
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
take the 'F' to 2nd Ave. or the '6' to Bleecker
five dollars
What show features a dancing unicorn, a talking roach,
time travel and a one-legged man in a prosthetic
vagina? You guessed it: Reverend Jen’s Really Cool
Neighborhood, a live-action TV show! Saint Reverend
Jen, is joined by her Chihuahua co-host, Reverend Jen
Junior and a slew of eccentric art star friends who
just “happen to be in the neighborhood” to present a
show of unparalleled grooviness. It’s a show that’ll
make you wish you still did acid and had walked in the
door peaking!
In episode two, “Rock ‘n’ Roll” Reverend Jen builds a
time machine out of cardboard and plutonium and
attempts to travel to the 1960s along with Mangina,
the neighborhood mailman. When they accidentally end
up in Salem in the 1660s, trouble ensues; trouble
that’s compounded when friendly neighborhood
policeman, Officer Frenulum (Mike Amato) goes looking
for the 610 kilos of plutonium reported missing from
Los Alamos! Along the way, Jen meets a unicorn, does
interpretive dance and drinks beer with a giant roach!
Fittingly, the rock ‘n’ roll episode features live
music by garage rockers, The Clean Teens
(http://www.myspace.com/cleanteens ).
posted by Shappy at 3:15 PM
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Hey everybody!
Sorry not have updated in so long! We have been busy and now we are in Austin chillin' with Ernie and Susan and Libby! We rocked the house at the Austin Slam last night and we are looking forward to Cristin's book signing at Book People here in Austin. Check out aptowicz.com for details!
Here's details for the Spoken Nerd show on Friday-
Okay, so nobody should be at home this Friday night. First off, you can head over to Book People at 7 pm to get in on the booksigning for "Words in Your Face" which will feature a reading by Cristin and a special (and hilarious) three-round slam featuring many fave Austin slammers from today and yesteryear.
Then... roll over to the big show at 501 Theater:
SPOKEN WORD II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO & SPINNING THE BOTTLE
First up at 8 pm, catch the one-woman tour de force, SPINNING THE BOTTLE: an Existential Comedy for the Cynical Romantic, featuring our homegirl KRISSI REEVES. Two-time alumnae of our slam team, Krissi moved up the road to Dallas and has been rockin' em like we knew she would. Spinning the Bottle won two awards at the recent DFW Fringe Festival. Come see why.
Then, we get our nerd on. SPOKEN NERD, PEOPLE!! This showcase will feature a whole bunch of poems about a whole bunch of nerdy stuff. Our guests from NYC will lead the pop culture-infused charge, and you have a rare chance to catch a featured set by Austin slam legend ERNIE CLINE. As if that wasn't enough, there will be an all-star cast of local nerds. Mike Whalen? Tony Jackson? Phil West?Erin Livingston? Element 615? Oh yes, just to name a few.
Plus musical guests STRANGE POWERS and the newest, flyest, geekiest hip hop crew in town, SHOW ME TIGER! featuring Austin slammer SUZY LA FOLLETTE. Yes friends, raise your hands in the air and wave them as if there were no repercussions...
Plus trivia, giveaways, video, and more. The venue for this nerdy joint is 501 THEATER (myspace.com/501theater), which is located at East 5th and Brushy, only one block east of I-35. Parking lot a stone's throw away.
Alrighty. There ya go. Hope to see all y'all.
posted by Shappy at 8:46 PM
Thursday, May 08, 2008
My niece and nephew have gotten so BIG!! 
And Luke is a t-ball champ now?! What has become of my young nerdling?!
Time to schedule a visit! Bring him back to NERD SIDE!!
posted by Shappy at 12:21 AM
Sunday, April 27, 2008
RVSP for the NYC-Urbana Finals on FACEBOOK! CLICK HERE!!
posted by Shappy at 8:58 PM
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Great news for my pal Ernie Cline!
'Fanboys' scribe's 'Thundercade' gets pickup
By Leslie Simmons and Borys Kit
April 8, 2008
Lakeshore Entertainment has picked up "Thundercade," a comedy spec from "Fanboys" co-writer Ernie Cline.
Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi are fast-tracking the project and producing it along with Cline's manager, Dan Farah of Farah Films.
"Thundercade" follows a video game junkie facing a midlife crisis who learns that a young punk had broken a record he set as a teen. He and two lifelong friends embark on a quest to reclaim his place in video game history and win the world's ultimate gaming championship, Thundercade.
Cline, a self-proclaimed lifelong video game addict, said he was inspired to write the screenplay by his nephew, who would trash talk him while the two played Xbox games.
"I fell in love with the idea of pitting older 'classic arcade era' gamers from the '80s against teenagers -- the Atari 2600 generation vs. the Xbox 360 generation," Cline said.
A spotlight has been cast on Cline's "Star Wars"-themed "Fanboys" because of a public dispute with the Weinstein Co. and filmmakers over competing versions of the film and whether it will see a theatrical release. Supporters of "Fanboys," including the "Star Wars" fan club known as the 501st, staged demonstrations at screenings of the Weinstein Co.'s "Superhero Movie" in March to protest the latest version.
Farah's producing credits include "Armored," from Screen Gems, wihch is in postproduction.
Cline is additionally repped by attorney David Feldman.
posted by Shappy at 1:41 PM
Friday, April 04, 2008
GREETING from glamorous ALBANY, NY!!
Where Shaptowicz ROCKED the Neil Helman Library on the campus of the College of Saint Rose -- what what!
Actually, it was a really great gig -- especially with what we worried would be an overly quiet library crowd! -- and we got to lecture in two of Dan Nester's classes to boot!! I was looking quite PROFESSORIAL!! NICE!
And the Albany press was oh so kind to us:
ALBANY TIMES-UNION
ST. ROSE CHRONICLE
And speaking o' poetry, our poems are slowing going up on the WNYC website (as well on the air) so check them out here:
MY STUFF:
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/95873
CRISTIN'S STUFF (poems forthcoming):
http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/95905
And "I AM THAT NERD" is on INDIEFEED today, while Cristin was interviewed for the BEST AMERICAN POETRY BLOG. And WORDS IN YOUR FACE got reviewed in the School Library Journal.
Next on the schedule: the NEW YORK COMICON's NERD SLAM, the BPC's own Leticia Viloria's wedding and a gig at THE KELLY WRITERS HOUSE in PHILLY!!
YAY for National Poetry Month!
posted by Shappy at 11:12 AM
Monday, March 24, 2008
QAPARHA!!!!!
My pal ERNIE CLINE has a big article written about him in the latest issue of WIRED!! The online teaser for the story includes the above pic of him and me DUKING IT OUT with our lirpas on the set of FANBOYS!!!
Check out the whole article here:
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/multimedia/2008/03/ff_fanboy_ss?slide=1&slideView=4
SAVE FANBOYS!!! posted by Shappy at 8:02 PM
Thursday, March 20, 2008 Hey everybody! I'm still trying to write up our tour diary (updated below). Cristin and I have been busy! We recorded for NPR yesterday and I did Rev. Jen's show as well! Just wanted to let everyone know that my pal Ernie Cline is in the new issue of WIRED which just hit stands! It's got the whole FANBOYS saga within! Also, Ernie tells me we might have a picture on the on-line version of WIRED so keep checking their webpage! posted by Shappy at 4:12 PM
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