FFAMOUS IS TWO!
It’s that time of year again: OUR FUCKING BIRTHDAY TIME!
That’s right! It was two years ago this very day that we squeezed FringeFamous out of our electronic vagina. Ever since that terrible review, we’ve done little more than annoy the ever-loving shit out of almost everyone in town (we’re lookin’ at you, LeeH). So after eating a piece of the gayest birthday cake in the world, we’ve decided to call it quits.
Sort of. Let me explain.
We decided to start this blog because we noticed an extraordinary amount of theatre people in the Twin Cities who we could classify as “bat-shit crazy”. Although this was the largest group, there were definitely others: ”drastically delusional”, “stupid as a houseplant”, and “loose” just to name a few. We decided that we needed a place to vent. Callboard wasn’t cutting it because most of them were bat-shit crazy or delusional, and not enough of them were loose. So, we started this blog. It wasn’t long before we realized that there were more smarties than we thought — and even the crazies were doing cool work some of the time. Who knew?
But as the days flew by and the posts cranked out, we started to go stale. We ignored show openings. We stopped interviewing cool people. We even started reading those astonishingly boring Playlist articles. It was bad. Really bad. And to make up for all the pooping out, we got more and more acerbic and nasty and just plain yuck. We sort of became a little bat-shit crazy. It happens. I guess we owe an apology to C. Ryan Shipley.
Anyway, to make a long story short, the blog is changing its focus. From this day forth, FringeFamous will be a blog devoted mostly to the Minnesota Fringe Festival. It’s why we started, it’s what we’ve always loved most, and it’s easily the most interesting thing going in TC theatre today. Once a year, we’ll cover the absolute shit out of the festival, from top to bottom. If anything comes up during the rest of the year, we’ll cover that, too. We might even throw in some stuff here and there about other theatre festivals (don’t get your hopes up).
So there you have it. Same FringeFamous voice — different FringeFamous focus. As always, if you don’t like it, you can feel free to suck a bag o’ dicks.
And now…our Top 5 Favorite FFamous Posts from the Past Two Years:
5. GUTHRIE BFA PROGRAM = JOB AT GUTHRIE
4. AND THE AWARD FOR GAYEST PUBLICITY PHOTO EVER GOES TO…
3. ROHAN + GRAYDON = GAYER VERSION OF TWO GAY DUDES
