Speaking of Salon Saloon, please enjoy this blinding animated GIF by our technical director Elliott. It depicts me on our most previous show, self-medicating with Pepto Bismol, which I had poured into a shot glass. Even lingering stomach flu cannot hold me from my hosting duties.
It’s the 21st Century art version of sitting you down for a timeshare sales pitch, but it’s got to be done. Please take a moment to view this short video for Salon Saloon’s Kickstarter campaign for Volume 7.
As you know, I am very proud of the work Colin, Shanai, Jake, Katie, Claire and Elliott do on the show, on a pretty shoestring budget. Kicking us a few dollars will help us continue to do it into the future, and see that more of our staff and guests are compensated for their hard work.
And some of the prizes are pretty good! For $25, you’d get a tote bag. Who wouldn’t want a tote bag? They’re really nice-looking; I designed them myself, using computers. You’ll be the most envied person on your bus or train with a Salon Saloon tote bag. You’ll make all the other riders with public radio and podcast-branded tote bags look like total chumps. “Man, I got to get with it,” they’ll think to themselves. “I’m advertising my affiliation with some dippy comedy podcast when I could be advertising my affiliation with a live-action arts magazine in Minneapolis?” And they’re right!
For $40, you’d get the bag, and you can get Salon Saloon: The Middle Years, a compilation CD of performances from the show by musicians like Chris Koza, Aby Wolf, and Brute Heart, as well as beloved writers like Dobby Gibson and Anne Ursu — it’s the first time we’ve ever made Salon Saloon recorded material available to the public. And it’s not just any Chris Koza performance. It’s Chris Koza singing a Jesus Jones song! And he sings it gorgeously! Surely that’s worth $40 to you.
Have I persuaded you? I hope so. At least enjoy the video. It’s a nice snapshot of what the show looks like. Pledge away, friends!
A few action-packed Salon Saloon photographs from 2011. Imagine if you’d seen all these moments in person! More photos here. Watch the website for next season’s schedule.
Editor’s note: S. 12th will, from here on out, consist solely of photographs of me dressed up in “outfits” for various “projects.”
This was Salon Saloon, obviously. The last of the season, until Fall. Thanks to Lolo for sending the In-n-Out accessories from sunny California, and to Zoe Prinds-Flash (the best name for a photographer I have ever heard) for taking the shot.
Well, we invited him. But I don’t think he’s is coming — someone deleted this invitation from his wall right after Shanai posted it. Maybe Bill himself?
But you can still come to the Salon Saloon Bill Clinton Show. It’s Tuesday, April 26 at 7:00 p.m. at the Bryant-Lake Bowl. RSVP here!
Shanai’s blurry cellphone pic of Brute Heart’s performance on last night’s Salon Saloon. A sell-out show! That must be why I look so smug.
The cult of Salon Saloon, partially assembled in Colin and Shanai’s kitchen. Maybe a quarter of the 60+ guests we’ve had on the show since 2009, and a few more showed up after this shot was taken. Look how proud you’ve all made old Grandpa Andy here.
Top row: Michael Fallon (Baseball Show), Peter Hajinian (Wisconsin Show), Shanai Matteson (producer), Patty Healy McMeans (Wedding Show), Maggie Ryan Sandford (Portland Show), Chris Koza (Portland Show), Sam Gould (Portland Show), Bill Lindeke (Portland Show), Peter Schilling (Baseball and 2010 Shows),
Middle row: Molly Balcolm Raleigh (Feast Show), Brooke Hajinian, Jake Mohan (house band).
Bottom row: Claire Tiller (house band), me, Colin Kloecker (producer).
That’s right, OnStar.
Join me at the Bryant-Lake Bowl tomorrow evening for Salon Saloon’s Portlandia Portland Show, with guests Chris Koza, Maggie Ryan Sandford, Bill Lindeke and Sam Gould.
Plus, it’ll be your only chance this year to hear the Wipers arranged for solo piano.
Salon Saloon’s first annual Heavy 100 (a designation stolen from Esquire magazine in the early 1970s) show last night at the Bryant-Lake Bowl was as smart, funny and bizarre as I could have hoped for. Seven amazing guests — from left to right, curator Masha Zavialova, chef Chris Olson, writer Anne Ursu, visual artists Megan Vossler and Carolyn Swiszcz, Mt. Holly mayor Mike Haeg and journalist Peter Schilling — selected the hundred best whatever-they-could-think-ofs of the year. We presented it all over the course of two-and-a-half hours, and I mixed grasshoppers in a blender onstage for everyone, like a fancy butler. Colin kept it all running smoothly, plus spent the previous two days pulling together 100+ images for the presentation slides. I know I say this all the time, but what an amazing city, and what amazing people live here!
We’re going to post the full list on the website soon-ish. Next year, we’re taking the show on the road and coming to see you where you live.
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