What?? I thought this was the guy who worked at Jiffy-Lube.
Posted on 02/19/2005 10:50:28 AM PST by mountaineer
Election Day 2004 was a bitter pill for San Francisco actor Dan Hoyle. He'd just spent 10 days in Florida -- knocking on doors, working 16- hour days to defeat George W. Bush. When the votes came in and John Kerry's defeat became clear, Hoyle felt angry, then "incredibly sad" and finally numb.
"Life passed before my eyes, and I just sort of nodded. Because you can't interact any more: There are too many thoughts and emotions flooding through you."
So many on the left remain shell-shocked, locked in a tenuous, self- protective denial, in the wake of Nov. 2. But Hoyle, who at 24 is boyish, earnest and brimming with curiosity, is using his theater skills to wrestle down despair. In "Florida 2004: The Big Bummer," a one-man show running through March 4 at the Marsh, Hoyle turns defeat into therapy and finds absurdist humor in his 10-day Florida ordeal...
Displaying a gift for mime and vocal mimicry ... Hoyle populates "Florida 2004" with real-life characters he met during the campaign. He calls it "journalistic theater" -- a hybrid of reporting and play-making.
When he sat down to write "Florida 2004," "It just fell out of me," Hoyle says in the Noe Valley home he shares with his parents, comic actor Geoff Hoyle and San Francisco State lecturer Mary Winegarden.
Apart from a sober, emotional coda ("I'm so angry -- my parents worked too hard for me to inherit this"), Hoyle has fun with "The Big Bummer." He makes no secret of his dislike for Bush, but also lampoons the dewy-eyed flakes and raging egomaniacs who populated the get-out-the-vote efforts; the truck drivers, Vietnam vets and surly, unregistered voters he met while canvassing door-to-door.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
What's wrong with these fools? Are you kidding? The question is: What's wrong with these bird-brains who pony up the dough for this "journalistic theater"??
...Hoyle says in the Noe Valley home he shares with his parents, comic actor Geoff Hoyle and San Francisco State lecturer Mary Winegarden.
Now this is good writing! B/c dollars-to-doughnuts says there's not a soul reading those above lines that doesn't see in his mind's eye both this "Noe Valley home", and "comic actor Geoff Hoyle and San Francisco State lecturer Mary Winegarden" look like.
LOL! I for one see a lot of house plants ...I mean a lot of house plants... in all kinds of containers; and a porch step that's been in need of repair for a long time...
When the terrible sadness and depression of 11/2/04 becomes an intolerable burden, living in San Francisco is much, much better than Florida. Florida doesn't offer the freedom, salvation and Bushless bliss that the cool waters under the Golden Gate do. Ta-ta you stupid, commie scumbag!!
October 2004
Also on the move is actor and writer Dan Hoyle. Hoyle's home is on Sanchez Street, where he was reared by his parents--master comic Jeff Hoyle and Mary Winegarden, a lecturer at San Francisco State University. In 2002, he traveled the world after receiving a Circumnavigator Club grant to study the effects of economic globalization.
Circumnavigator, his solo performance chronicling that trip, debuted at Chashama Presents in New York in May and subsequently received an enthusiastic reception at the Marsh on Valencia Street. The initial five-week run in July and August was extended through Sept. 25. Then Hoyle took a two-week break to tour the show on college campuses while also working on a documentary film with his brother Jonah about swing states in the coming presidential election. Circumnavigator reopens for a two-week run at the Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street, Thursdays through Saturdays, Oct. 14 through 23. (Call 826-5750 for tickets, which are $10 to $14.)
Of his extended run, Hoyle says, "It feels pretty amazing because I knew I wanted to do a show when I left on my trip, but I was a 22-year-old college kid, and I didn't know that I could have success in the real world--I don't think anyone knows until they do--and so it's been hugely inspiring."
Hoyle, who recently graduated from Northwestern University with a double major in history and performance studies, has big aims. "I'm trying to bring the complexity of what people can do in journalism and writing into an entertaining form," he says. "This whole idea of lived experience as theater is exploding. There's a hunger for realness, and there's nothing more real than somebody recreating their own experiences, especially if it's about some real issues and not just about the crazy casseroles my grandmother used to make. Of course, you need both. Theater needs to work its magic in human stories. And that's the great challenge for me, bringing these nuanced things into theater in a way that's going to engage people. Instead of reading about something in the New York Times, they'll be seeing it and experiencing it," he says.
Hoyle attributes his success to his supportive family, and to his director Charlie Varon, who, he says, "has a genius for pulling out what is interesting and possibly amazing in somebody's lived experience." He is also grateful to the community of friends he's known since he was a kid, who packed the house early on and created a buzz. In January, Hoyle will leave for Nigeria to study oil politics for a year on a Fulbright scholarship. Will it result in another show? You bet.
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So this guy is Dan Rather's replacement then?
What?? I thought this was the guy who worked at Jiffy-Lube.
If pinheads like this bozo put half the effort into growing up as they put into sobbing over politics they'd turn out to be pretty good people.
According to the story I posted, he's also about to embark on a Fulbright scholarship grant to some other foreign country to study something or other that has nothing to do with the theatre. (This offends me somewhat, as my sister was a Fulbright scholar who actually accomplished something through her grant-funded studies, instead of wasting it on political claptrap). When will this punk consider working for a living, I wonder? Of is that too much to expect of the fuzzy-headed left?
I see at least one hanging bead doorway.
If you follow the DUmmie FUnnies (I strongly suggest you contact P-J Comix and get on the ping list), there were DUmmies, many of them who either admitted to lots of "self-medication" or professed their "clinical depression."
In hundreds of elections, there has never before been such an animal as P.E.S.T. I guarantee that after Clinotn won either election, there were no conservatives posting "I can't get out of bed. I get on the computer for a few hours a day, then I go back to my dark bedroom, exhausted. It has been this way for 2 weeks" (a close to accurate re-enactment).
For us, we square our shoulders, take the hit, recognized Klintoon's chameleonality, and fight another day.
The standard Left inability to actually use their brains is demonstrated in their response to the president who got the most votes in the history of the USA.
Oh yeah, I want to just immerse myself in the insight and profundity of guy who lives in his parents' garage.
" I didn't like it when Clinton won, I just got with my life. What is wrong with these fools?"
When Clinton won, Republicans looked in the mirror and asked what can we do to make America better - hence the Contract With America.
After President Bush won, Democrats ran around screaming that Bush is bad. This strategy will not bring them any closer to winning an election: keep up the good work Howard Dean - hahahaha!
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The National Council of Teachers of ENGLISH published a book with the title "Moving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies" ?!
Which English do they teach, the kind they speak on Uranus?
Sounds as though he suffers from a spastic colon....
The "Three R's" as taught at "Progressive" schools:
Ranting
Rampaging
Ravaging
Yeah, that happened to me once. I was sick for days.
What was that? Land mines? Oh.
Nevermind.
It will never happen. Chances are his parents are still just as immature and out of touch with reality as he is. The Peter Pan Syndrome is genetic to liberals. The Never-never Land of academia and the entertainment world is full of these misfits.
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