DUDE: Hi, my name is Don? I’m from the San Diego Puppet Insurgency?
SELF: (What?)
DUDE: And, uhm, we’re all so pissed off about what happened between Starbucks and Diedrich’s and we’d like to do a street theatre about it?
SELF: (What??)
DUDE: Like, the idea — well, it’s my wife’s idea, really — is that we’d have, like, these babushka dolls — you know the kind where they keep getting smaller? — and then, well, one would be Starbucks and then the little ones would be … uhm … uhm, well Diedrich’s, I think — no, maybe they’re more Starbucks and —
SELF: (What???)
DUDE: — and, then we’d open them up and stuff, see? And, uhm … yeah. So, whaddya think?
SELF: (Seriously. WHAT???)
tracey, the answer is in the name of the puppets. San Diego Puppet Insurgency. that says it all. i mean, come on.
::dies laughing::
hahahahahahaha
I am loving how your question marks increase with every “what”.
Yeah, and it all sounds so menacing, right?
THE SAN DIEGO PUPPET INSURGENCY!!
Like, “Oh, we are going to give you SUCH a puppeting!!”
It’s like: “I really really want to protest something, and I want to make it look really cool, but I don’t have any well-formed ideas AT ALL.”
“And we’d open them up and stuff, see?”
I’ve found that “and stuff” is kind of the hallmark of sloppy plan-making.
I have two words for you: DEMAND ROYALTIES!
This is sure to be a hit. . . just like that musical about Rasputin that I saw at an investors’ preview a few years ago.
John Waters and Tammy Faye Baker both cut their teeth puppeteering. So you never know. The insurgency could take us all out.
Though with puppeteers’ arms thrust high in the air up the bumbershoot of an army of googley-eyed, poly-fil dolls, we’ll most likely know they’re coming.
WG-
I’m betting they’re papier-mache. The medium of choice of serious protest puppeteers everywhere.
[protest puppeteers]
Like the Bread and Puppets theatre company. They make these 3 story tall Staypuf Marshmallow Men (in Ghostbusters) puppets – and they’re maneuvered by ribbons like a Maypole – or long sticks. It’s a whole business.
Very silly – I could write a book on my thoughts about organizations like Bread and Puppet (and I have met some of those people – so I know of what I speak) – but the puppets are actually really cool.
HOWEVER.
No CEO of a corporation has ever changed his plans for his business just because he looks down the road and sees a huge puppet on stilts staggering towards him.
Never gonna happen.
Oops. That was me, sheila. I am schizophrenic today.
red, totally wrong crowd. like you would ever need to tell us who the Staypuft Marshmallow Man is! 😀
“Sir? The protestors are coming!”
LET THEM COME! Not by the hand of man shall I fall!
“But sir – no men are they! They’re puppets!”
Puppets?!?! Fly! Fly for your lives!
sarahk – hahaha I meant: the HUGE one not the little guy … hee hee
and Nightfly – hahahaha It reminds me of that New Yorker piece I posted a while ago where kids and teenagers imagine what grownsup are saying.
President of the United States: “Wow, a bunch of hippies are getting naked in the mud and having a music festival against the war … THESE PEOPLE ARE SERIOUS.”