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Monday, November 13, 2006

SHOCKED AND AMAZED!: James Taylor alert!

First, SHOCKED AND AMAZED! and James Taylor fans, clear your tv viewing (or your TiVo or VCR recording) schedule for Nov.15 at 8 &/or 11pm for the Learning Channel’s airing of ONE TOO MANY. Bearing the distinction of featuring not only Our Founder in yet another appearance as our favorite talking head on the subject of novelty & variety entertainment (read: sideshows & freakishness), ONE also has the distinction of being the first national media ever filmed at Our Founder’s Palace of Wonders in DC (www.palaceofwonders.com). We’ve not seen the doc ourselves, as yet, but we expect a fairly funny turn, with precious little, unfortunately, of the Palace featured. For that, we suggest you go and take in a show at the world’s only stage devoted solely to variety entertainment, all in the midst of the most amazing – and peculiar – museum attractions extant.

Step two: Our buddy, comic Jim Meyer, is set to blow away the audience (including you, we’re sure) at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance on Dec.9. Nobody can say it better than the man himself, so we’ll turn over the remainder of this transmission to Jim, pitching his venture into the talk-show biz featuring – but of course – Our Founder himself, our own James Taylor. And the rest, we’re sure, will be history:

Subject: Stop the Presses! Clear You Calendars! Come One! Come All to The Greatest Talk Show in America!

What can we say about December 9th? Not much my friends, not much at all. Nothing of consequence has ever happened on December 9th! Seriously, I think we can all agree that, up until now, December 9th has always been the red-headed C-student slacker step-child of the Gregorian Calendar. Here to for, the greatest event in the history of December 9th has been the birth of the Republic of Tanzania*. Well my friends, all that is about to change!

This year, I, Jim Meyer, in accordance with Wonder Dog Productions and The Baltimore Creative Alliance, will be launching my latest attempt to avoid the horrors of a day job** The Greatest Talk Show in America! If you love Conan O'Brien, Johnny Carson and famed mime Marcel Marceau***, then you may or may not enjoy The Greatest Talk Show in America!

A traditional talk show riding the shoulders of the greats, I, comedian, roller derby announcer and part time king of Medieval Times****, Jim Meyer, and my side kick Dirty Marty of CCRG fame, will be backed up by the tenacious tones of B-more's own The Swingin Swamis! Coming to the couch will be Shocked and Amazed! author and sideshow impresario James Taylor, also known locally as one of the founders of The American Dime Museum and The Palace of Wonders. Punk rock comic and The Troubadour Of Truth, Doug Powell, will be bringing the noise and the laughs. Lambert, from the world renowned Dundalk Zoo & Discotheque, will be bringing a smattering from his exotic East Baltomenagerie of creatures great and odd, sure to delight! This is just a taste of what you'll see this December 9th at Baltimore's historic Patterson Theater as we gather together for the Woodstock of our generation, the launch of The Greatest Talk Show in

America

!

Tickets are going fast so act now! Tickets are $16 in advance ($13 for members of The Creative Alliance ) and are going fast!
To purchase call (410) 276-3206 or use Mission Tix or contact me directly. Visa and MasterCard welcome and now accepting cash!

Come one, come all, and please forward this, tell a friend, an enemy a co-worker or anyone you want to impress!

* For those of you offended by my seeming trivialization of the founding of the modern nation of Tanzania, you misinterpret me, my friend! Tanzania is the worlds leading exporter of giraffes and has a kick ass flag. I think we can all agree, however, that is was there on December 8th and our official recognition of the great nation of Tanzania was no more than a formality.

** For those keeping track, my emu farm proved a total, if hilarious disaster and my endeavor to revolutionize the pet industry through my freeze dried "Land Monkeys" is, at this writing, still hung up in the courts.

*** Not in the know? Marcel Marceau single handedly invented the art of mime and, strangely, has avoided persecution. On the flip side, if you've been wondering, "Is there a God and, more importantly is he/she/it funny?" The answer is a resounding yes and Marceau provides the proof and the punchline. After inventing mime, Marceau went deaf. "Tee-Hee!" Says the creator of all things.

**** The restaurant, not the era.

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