Recently, he posted a video from Weird America of a man obsessed with hot dogs. A guy who devotes all of his creative energy to hot dogs. Don writes:
With our esoteric devotion to what has become, like opera or ballet or jazz, the province of a small, SMALL portion of American society (more people have webbed toes than see live theater monthly in this country) and our deep belief that other people will care if we only could reach them, aren't we much the same as Hot Dog J. Frank - The Willy Wonka of Meat?
Watch the hot dog video, then read Don's post.
Then read it again with the following substitutions:
Replace "Fringe theater" with "storytelling."
Replace "live theater" with "storytelling."
Replace "theatre artist" with "storyteller."
1 comment:
Tim, I feel much better. I was having eggs withdrawls. LOL.
Go to the food channel.
Replace their "cook" with our storyteller
Replace their "cooking" with our storytelling
Replace their "audience" with our "What? People make a living with storytelling? Oh, I saw one at Walmart this weeekend reading Dr Suess books to kids? Oh, wait, that was just a store employee? Okay, wait, people tell stories for a living?"
That channel has much to teach us.
Into the wind,
Sean
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