“Ape-Face and Me” at The Rejection Show
This self-portrait didn’t make it into the show. And my hair actually looked much better than this, thanks to Randall from Ultra, and a few well-placed snips of the scissors before the show. Thank you Randall!
The Chicks & Giggles edition of The Rejection Show was an experience I’ll never forget. Everyone was great, everyone put it all out on a limb, and I felt honored to be amongst:
Carolyn Castiglia (rejected from The White Rapper Show), Wendy Spero (of Microthrills), Desiree Burch (Comedian, Host of SMUT), and Negin Farsad (Comedian, MTV, Sirius Radio).
And of course, Jon Friedman, who is a man, and his “Why Michael Winslow is mad at me” story.
My audience was very kind to me! Thank you, kind audience! (I was very nervous!)
I created that act especially for the Chicks & Giggles merging with The Rejection Show, so it was all new. It was also only my second time speaking in front of an audience!
If you missed it, at least part of the show was recorded, and will be up on ABC’s website soon (I’ll link to it when it’s up). And I’ve put all my drawings from last night up on my flickr page, here: Ape-Face and Me.
If you know how to use flickr, you know what to do. If not, just click on the first thumbnail image to the right of the large image, and it will open up with the text that goes with it. To see the next image, click the right-hand image in the little box to the upper right of the opened image. The next one will appear with text, and so on and so on.
Comments welcome, as always!
Links:
Chicks & Giggles.
The Rejection Show
Ape-Face and Me, on my flickr page.
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:12 am
Thanks so much for sharing this. Such a moving story, told with wit and charm. The audience wasn’t being kind – they were bowled over!
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Carolita, I thought you were amazing last night, and even when you were telling about that final photograph, where I think most of us were pretty appalled on your behalf that the photographer would slice it up in that way, you had such a kindhearted attitude about it, and I think it’s such a testament to your, and the other readers, spirits in overcoming rejection that we responded to. Thank you for putting it all on Flickr because your drawings and storytelling were amazing. You gave it context and I especially liked the use of the racist girl’s name, plus it was just so incongruous that anyone could call you “ape-face” and mean it. Fabulous job!
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:46 pm
I’ve felt a bit like a stowaway: checking your site often and never once telling you how much I enjoy it. I appreciate your perspective on all the topics you write about, but your personal experiences are especially intriguing. Thanks from the Great White North. Well, Connecticut, anyway.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:41 am
Great performance and can definitely be expanded into a one-woman show!
August 24th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Wow, thanks everyone! I really appreciate the vote of confidence! And as for rejection, I just call it “vitamin R!”
December 6th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
[...] Perhaps I find them so amusing because they seem like the Barbie Dolls of Antiquity. And who doesn’t like to take a shot at Barbie Dolls? Anyway, having been on the wrong side of the definition of beauty for so long before the world finally approved of me, I can appreciate the rancor on the side of the Venus on the left. [...]