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Man To Man (Thank You Spam!)
Man To Man (Thank You Spam!)
Two guys meet at the gym to discuss their philosophies of life and--love?? The War Of the Sexes lives on!
At the Cafe
At the Cafe
Two couples, enjoying their holidays in Paris, undergo a strange adventure...
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
The Vocalizers are having a meeting, to discuss (slag, really) the relative merits of their synthesized colleagues. Are they human or not? They insult each other and spin off into random weirdness, just like real people...
Elephant Orchestra
Elephant Orchestra
Picture it: On a street in Bangkok, an orchestra of endangered elephants, playing music for love and money. But who's that real old guy in the flowered shirt, skulking on the sidelines? The elephants will have the last word about him...
What You Want
What You Want
Two guys talk about Big Questions while they walk into a bizarre Asian cityscape. They emerge with a new "friend" in tow, and no closer to any answers.
A Life On Tape
A Life On Tape
Our solitary hero wallows in his past, thanks to his old tape recorder. Little does he suspect what lies in store (shades of Alfred Hitchcock)...
Middle Of Nowhere
Middle Of Nowhere
A young hotshot heads for India on business. His jetlag is so powerful that it's positively hallucinogenic. Or is it more than that?
Audition
Audition
The Vocalizer Players constantly need new talent, who will feel The World of Theatre coursing through their veins like mother's milk (huh??) The classics take a beating when these potential Vocalizers start chewing the scenery...
The Show Must Go On
The Show Must Go On
The Vocalizers have accepted new members, and in the tradition of "troupers" everywhere launch their latest blockbuster production, with disastrous results...
I Feel So Powerful
I Feel So Powerful
The Vocalizer Players are at it again. Our hero, playing the part of a "warrior in the corporate trenches," faces off against the director. Nothing goes right; even the understudy has a hissy fit and flounces off the stage...
To the Ends Of the Earth
To the Ends Of the Earth
"Oh oh here she comes..." It's the first appearance of Pellagra Transom, world-weary femme fatale and all-around man-eater.
Pellagra's Blues
Pellagra's Blues
She's baaack... Is she a garden-variety b----, or a one-woman justification for slaughtering Westerners? Whatever you think, Pellagra was born to raise trouble...
Olay Pellagra
Olay Pellagra
Like she says, everybody's dying to know everything there is to know about her. Right? Right?
Talent Show
Talent Show
The Vocalizers just wanna have fun, but show their true colors: backbiting, booing each other, stealing all the glory they can, and in the end taking pathetic revenge. An old, old story...
It Was the Heat
It Was the Heat
An elderly Englishman is delirious from heatstroke, sprawled on the African veldt sometime in the 1920s or 30s, and his life flashes before his ears... Well, that's one possible interpretation. Dream up your own...
Somebody's Wedding, Berkeley Hills
Somebody's Wedding, Berkeley Hills
Maybe I've been playing too many weddings... Here's a fantasy of a wedding gone horribly wrong, partly based on the weird rules of a real place. The string quartet at the beginning is not my own, believe me...
Spudnut Shop, Berkeley, 1955
Spudnut Shop, Berkeley, 1955
A 9-year-old intellectual kid (guess who?) stops in for a snack at the shop of a crusty old right-wing troglodyte. Strange things begin to happen, needless to say...
