At every show, after our Main Stage storytellers, we invite the audience to take part in a Story Slam where they can share their own 5 minute story on the night’s theme. (If the story is really rolling, people can sometimes squeak past the clock.) Our audience votes for the winner with the highly calibrated (not) Human Applause-O-Meter. The winner…
Category: Story
A Slice of PIE
In case you missed it on television last month, here’s the story that the KCTS show, PIE, produced about Drunken Telegraph.
Tad Monroe, Loving the Enemy
Tad Monroe found that loving your enemy is “hard shit”.
PHOTO: Scott Haydon
It wasn’t until the week after he was ordained as a minister that Tad Monroe learned what it really meant to love his enemy, a violent and troubled step-father.
CLICK ON THE TRIANGLE BELOW TO HEAR HIS STORY
Jane Brazell, A Class Ring and the Ticket to Freedom
Jane Brazell challenged orders from the US Army to earn her class ring.
PHOTO: Scott Haydon
As a 16 year old Army brat, Jane Brazell wanted nothing more than to graduate from the high school where she got her class ring. So, she tried to outsmart her father – and by extension the US Government – to avoid moving to Germany.
CLICK ON THE TRIANGLE BELOW TO HEAR HER STORY
Colin McArthur, How I Became a Socialist
Colin McArthur hails from the “hilarious” state of Arizona.
PHOTO: Scott Haydon
Colin McArthur accepted his hereditary political affiliation, even interning as a Republican in the Arizona Senate, until an encounter with the very symbol of America changed his mind.
CLICK ON THE TRIANGLE BELOW TO HEAR HIS STORY
Erin Walker, The Perfect Family Fishing Trip
Erin Walker was a master fisherman at the age of 8.
PHOTO: Scott Haydon
When her father determined an Alaska vacation could restore his hunting reputation, Erin Walker’s luck with “plunking” led to an epic journey to get their prize home to Memphis.
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Tricia DeOme, The Digital Billboard War
Tricia DeOme helped get Digital Billboards banned in Tacoma.
PHOTO: Scott Haydon
Tricia DeOme was a gung-ho community organizer in the Central neighborhood of Tacoma – and pregnant – when she found herself taking on the international corporation Clear Channel to ban digital billboards in the city.
CLICK ON THE TRIANGLE BELOW TO HEAR HER STORY
Ken Sikes, Pizza and the Path to Freedom
Ken Sikes recalls the temptation of Domino’s and RC Cola
PHOTO: Scott Haydon
Ken Sikes is a pastor in South Tacoma, married with three children and a dog on the way. But, in his senior year of high school, his bright future was almost lost to the allure of a pilfered pizza.
CLICK ON THE TRIANGLE BELOW TO HEAR HIS STORY
Tad Monroe, The Deal with Mr. Cooke
Drunken Telegraph co-founder Tad Monroe was a new minister serving in Tacoma’s Hilltop when he bought his first house. He expected to make a difference in the neighborhood, but didn’t expect the bare-chested, bench-pressing, rottweiller-wielding, foul-mouthed 81 year-old man next door to teach him about being a good neighbor. CLICK THE TRIANGLE BELOW FOR THE FULL STORY https://www.drunkentelegraph.com/09-21-13%20Tad%20Monroe.mp3
Story Slam: Neighbors
Takimo Nimura, one of the story slammers from our “Neighbors” show.
PHOTO: David Matsui
At every show, after our Main Stage storytellers, we invite the audience to take part in a Story Slam where they can share their own 5 minute story on the night’s theme. (If the story is really rolling, people can sometimes squeak past the clock.) Our audience votes for the winner with the highly calibrated (not) Human Applause-O-Meter. The winner gets a gift certificate to Tacoma’s King’s Books.
This is what the Slam at our September show, “Neighbors”, sounded like. The stories below aren’t edited. These are people speaking in the moment, moved to reveal their lives to strangers.
**SLAM WINNER**
Sandy King, Scraping By With The Neighbor
Tamiko Nimura, Meeting At The Corners
Dean Burke, Practically Joking Neighbors
Glenn Sukys, Upstairs from Big Twist