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86′ed Stories: Tommy Tucker

Jennifer Blowdryer — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:25:13 +0000

Tommy Tucker, as Tommy Diventi, published a lot of Baltimore and some New York poets on Apathy Press. Their logo is a brain with wings, which he has tattooed on his upper arms. Now he works on a road crew and has a band as Tommy Tucker. He has a giant heart but sweats the small stuff. • April 13th, 2009
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86′ed Stories: Stories about being kicked out of or banned from various establishments.

86′ed Stories: Stephanie Sabelli

Jennifer Blowdryer — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:16:00 +0000

Comedian Stephanie Sabelli talks about being 86ed from bars and about trouble customers when she herself worked as a bartender. • June 19th, 2008
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86′ed stories: Stories about being kicked out of and banned from various establishments.

86′ed Stories: The Bouncers

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:36:35 +0000

In this episode, Blowdryer talks to bouncers about their experiences 86ing people. First, she interviews Frankie Clinton, who has been a bouncer at many NYC night clubs. In fact, Blowdryer first met Clinton when he was bouncing one of her friends. Then she talks to Robert Prichard, who was a bouncer at the legendary Pyramid Club in NYC in the 1980s. • June 16th, 2008

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86′ed Stories: Stories about being kicked out of or banned from various establishments.

86′ed Stories: Kelly Beardsley

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:28:54 +0000

Kelly Beardsly is a substitute school bus driver in San Francisco. Here, Beardsly tells about getting three kids 86ed from the bus. • June 25th, 2008

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86′ed Stories: Stories about getting kicked out of or banned from various establishments.

86′ed Stories: Rev. Jen Miller Part 2

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:22:20 +0000

In this episode, Reverend Jen Miller talks about some of her adventures with the Dance Liberation Front (DLF), a group she started with Robert Prichard and other friends to protest Rudy Guiliani’s aggressive enforcement of New York’s cabaret laws. These laws prohibit people from dancing in bars unless the bar obtains an expensive and hard-to-get cabaret license from the city.

At the end of the episode, Prichard adds some details to Rev Jen’s story about when the DLF visited the Cuban embassy. • July 14th, 2008

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86′ed Stories: Stories about getting kicked out of or banned from various establishments.

86′ed Stories: Rev. Jen Miller Part 1

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:16:58 +0000

Blowdryer interviews New York Lower East Side icon Reverend Jen Miller, Patron Saint of the Uncool, Sex Symbol for the Insane. Part 1 of 2, in which Miller discusses going to FAO Schwartz dressed as Doo Doo, the fifth teletubby, and performing her musical Rats outside the theater where Cats was showing. • July 6th, 2008

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86′ed Stories: Stories about being kicked out of or banned from various establishments.

86′ed Stories: The Cabbies

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:10:41 +0000

Blowdryer interviews three former cab drivers about their experience kicking people out of cabs. First is Phil Ford, a San Francisco cabbie who had three rules for his customers, and one customer broke all three instantly. Joe Donahoe also used to drive a cab in San Francisco and tells about one of his most memorable kickouts. Finally, a Dallas cab driver who preferred to remain anonymous tells about a customer that just made him uncomfortable, and his instincts turned out to be correct. • July 21st, 2008
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86′ed Stories: Stories about being kicked out of and banned from various establishments.

86′d stories: Rob Shapiro and Jeff Dickenson

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:30:55 +0000

Rob Shapiro, twin brother of comedian Rick Shapiro, has been kicked out of so many places he could record an audio walking tour of New York City and its surrounding area. Rick keeps it together much more than Rob, who is chronically homeless but always fun to run into. Rick, whose last job was as an unsavory uncle on the short-lived HBO show Lucky Louie, has a favorite gag about how he manages to maintain: “I don’t have a personality, I have side effects.” Although Rob didn’t feel in top shape, I was able to sit him down at the small bar upstairs in Mo Pitkins, on Avenue A, a place that claims to have been envisioned and created for neighborhood wits such as ourselves, but was probably aiming for a cut above. The Sunday night bartender was pretty nice, though, and I believe most of what Rob says here to be true – albeit slanted towards his own relative blamelessness in many of the incidents and affairs recalled. Who among us doesn’t try for the same retroactive innocence?

Listen Here: Jennifer Blowdryer talks to comedian Rob Shapiro and musician Jeff Dickinson about their experiences being 86ed. • May 25th, 2008

Here’s a link to the interview on fanzine.com

86′ed Stories: Stories about being kicked out of or banned from various establishments.

Drunks on a Plane

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:40:09 +0000

I just want to call attention to this website, Drunks on a Plane. One day I’m going to interview a former comedienne who works as a flight attendant now, because its always interesting when people can’t follow the boundaries of airplane behavior for the required amount of time. Decades ago a starlet called Joey Heatherton was escorted off a plane brandishing a pair of scissors, and more recently Mo’Nique, one of my favorite comediennes ever, tried to use a first class compartment to store her hairdo equipment, then accused the stewardess of getting racialist when she was told you can only do that if you’re actually sitting in first class. Mo’Nique and her entourage were escorted off the plane, and she went on one of those shows like Extra telling a sympathetic tabloid reporter that she had been treated just like an ‘animal.’

–Blowdryer

86′ed Stories: G-Sus

Jennifer Blowdryer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:37:49 +0000

G-Sus was born and bred on Avenue C, NYC, and he’s the only poet I know who makes money for it, and gets hugs, on the street. I caught up with him in Tompkins Square Park, never a hard thing to do, for this little 86ed interview, March 26, 2009

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