This is the omnibus version of the story I told in the Story Slam MN 2012 finals. The theme was Road Warrior: Adventure Stories and I shared one of the seminal events of my existence. It involves my traumatizing transition into middle school, Pee Wee Herman, an asylum, and my mother going so far above and beyond the call of parental responsibilities it was illegal.
If you downloaded the podcast on iTunes and the audio is wobbly, well, that happened. I'm not sure why but through randomly fiddling with stuff I managed to fix it (don't ask me how because I don't really know). If you delete that wobbly version and download it again the audio should be fixed.
The scene and events at the finals are a story unto themselves. So I've wrapped my adventure story with the story of the finals. That is to say this very long podcast is in fact two related stories: the Story Slam MN 2012 finals and the story I told there. If anyone out there were to feel I'm being persnickety and cramming way too much into one thing I wouldn't argue with you (even though you're wrong).
In pre-deference to those who feel that way (aka Raser) the adventure story starts at 8 minutes, 56 seconds and runs for 23 minutes. That's right, I spend almost as much time talking about the finals (19 minutes) as I do telling the adventure story. Call me a completist if you must, which would be fair because I have that tendency. I also took the extra step of building chapters into the story that you should be able to use if you're listening to this via iTunes.
If you don't use iTunes and the player above either doesn't work or doesn't appear, this link should take you to a page where you can listen to it:
http://ia601600.us.archive.org/3/items/4PeeWeeTheAsymumMomAndMe/PeeWeeAndMe.m4a
One last thing, this is what I looked like when the story took place. To give you sense of how out of touch with reality I was, I thought I looked like a hooligan striking fear in the hearts of all who crossed my path.
Oh, yeah, that was me and I still look back fondly on that haircut.
NICE...Pee Wee Herman
ReplyDeleteI looked up your book on Amazon and thinking for the .99 how can I go wrong. My brother was trying to figure out Mathew's new name? Don't give up the story telling. Maybe some stand up comedy in your future? Pee Wee could come back from the dead...LOL