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MC Chris The Monster Hunter Tour 2012 at The Knitting Factory



Here’s my full review + heckler story + info on his recent reddit drama.

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MC Chris The Monster Hunter Tour 2012 at The Knitting Factory

In a middle of the act, a young woman in a Batgirl T-shirt threw a plastic cup in the air close to the stage. An empty cup had been tossed onstage earlier, but this one had liquid which reflected blue in the stage lights as it burst through the air.

“You don’t throw a cup at digital Woody Guthrie!” the performer exclaimed.

The crowd was torn with boos for the woman and cheers for mc chris. He instructed the audience to clear a path so the woman had an exit route for the door. The woman instead climbed up onto the stage and appeared to ask for the artist for a hug, but he brandished a portable stage fan defensively to “blow away the stench.”

Read more at Suite101: MC Chris The Monster Hunter Tour 2012 at The Knitting Factory | Suite101.com http://suite101.com/article/mc-chris-the-monster-hunter-tour-2012-at-the-knitting-factory-a410081#ixzz2176M8u8D

Overheard in Brooklyn Tweets #3

July 18, 2012 1 comment

I got retweeted by MC Chris! I feel like I’ve been touched by a Nerd God. @HeardinBK  Send me your hipster quotes!

“Yeah, I do want to say something to you. As a Batgirl, you’re disappointing!” –@_mcchris to drunk heckler being led out of@KnitBrooklyn

Candice HallCandice Hall ‏@sexmysobriquet

“You don’t throw a cup at digital Woody Guthrie!” –@_mcchris at drunk heckler.

Retweeted by Overheard Brooklyn

“I thought ‘Pynchonian’ was a type of lunch meat.”

“Going to the dentist is like going to Cirque de Soleil except I’m always going to get mauled by tigers.”

“I never preheat my oven. I’m a rebel.”

“I just used ‘ceteris paribus’ in a text message. Yeah… I’m a nerd.”

#overheardinbk “it was great! i really got to experience the cultural anonymity of dressing barn animals in old-timey people clothes.”

“Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence would be a great indie band name.”

Overheard BrooklynOverheard Brooklyn ‏@HeardInBK

“Dolphins Rape People. Band name or PSA?” At Norman ave and Jewel st, Greenpoint.

“I saw a girl with a brass-colored leg and my first thought was “what a great steampunk outfit.”

“Sometimes when I’m bored on the train I play ‘Who in this car would I most likely fuck.’ ‘Me too.'”

Previous collections of “best of” tweets are Here and Here.

 

 

More Overheard in Brooklyn Tweets

Eleven days into my new project and I haven’t given up. Pimp my Twitter. Pimp my Twitter. Pimp my Twitter.

23% follower to following rate. Could be worse.

You know what’s more important than followers? Retweets. It’s hard to do on twitter if you’re not in a tweet circle jerk. Do me a solid, guys, and check the page and retweet your favorite quote. And comment if you have suggestions!

Overheard Brooklyn

@HeardInBK

Tag me in your hipster quotes and I might retweet you.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 

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“I would like to thank the fine denizens of the Internet for inspiring my wireless network name. ‘BonerHitler.'”

“My love life is a Jungian soap opera.”

“You’re raping the cows! You’re raping the cows!” [at icecream truck]

“He’s like Thoreau but with Tourette’s.”

“They rhymed ‘Vietnam’ with ‘Bambi’s mom.'” #garfunkelandoates

no matter how many people think of a stoner dating site, it will never get built

Retweeted by Overheard Brooklyn

“How do you say ‘take my pants off’ in Esperanto?”

Overheard in Brooklyn @HeardinBK Twitter

I have a new project.  There’s a few other “Overheard in Brooklyn” websites and blogs, but they’re all dead. Don’t let this Twitter die like my Anthony Weiner Tumblr died!

My life goal is go viral on the Internet by ripping off other people’s ideas. (My parents didn’t love me.)

Send me your Hipster quotes and retweet any ones you like.

“My dream is to make a living writing dick jokes for people that have been to college.”

“Goddamn, I need a man purse.”

“Feminist mime class. Help! Help! I’m trapped under a glass ceiling.” –@TheRealDictator

“She bought a shower curtain that says YOLO on it.” “This shit has gone too far.” #YOLO

“We’re living in a Dystopia!”

Twitter as a Medium for Fiction? “Black Box” by Jennifer Egan

Follow @NYerFiction for “Black Box,” which will appear in ten nightly installments, from 8 to 9 P.M. E.T. If you miss it on Twitter, you’ll find each day’s installment collated here on Page-Turner.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/jennifer-egan-black-box.html#ixzz1vueU8F3k

The latest evolutionary mutation of literary mediums is here–short stories on Twitter.

I’ve never been impressed with Twitter, except for its ability to propel the hashtag from IRC networks to colloquial diction. I follow two comedians regularly and the rest of the people get spot-glances from my homepage whenever I log in, which is about once every 3 days. Nothing says, “I was the attention-starved middle child,” like regularly using Twitter.

Twitter is annoying. It’s a way to blog that’s as random and incoherent as writing on a bathroom wall. To use it to present staggered fictional prose, one 140-character-or-less sentence at a time, makes it more annoying. Serialized fiction deadens the reading experience and is done mostly for the profit of the publisher.

Sorry, Jennifer Egan. Tweeting your work is like painting in period blood. The final product still matters more than the unique means of production.  (Also, in my elitist opinion, this “story” is too meh for The New Yorker. Try turning it into a T.S. Eliot poem.)

Fail Whale.