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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Artsy Video of the Soon-to-Be-Famous Mike Daisey Walkout

Posted by Chas Bowie on Tue, Apr 24 at 1:48 PM

Last Thursday, the very likable and very funny monologist Mike Daisey (author of 21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.Com) was performing in Cambridge, MA, when 87 high school students walked out of his show in protest, and one student poured water all over Daisey’s onstage notes. The little self righteous assholes in training were offended by Daisey’s profanity. What kind of teenager leaves the room at the mention of the word “fuck”? (No, it wasn’t a Christian school.) The whole incident is captured on this professionally shot video, and it’s pretty fascinating. Daisey gets obviously upset, but keeps his cool the whole time, seeming genuinely baffled by the whole thing.

Daisey has blogged about the incident, as has cultural critic Edward Champion, and the Boston Globe has the principal of the school apologizing for his student’s imbecilic behavior.

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It wasn't a Christian school but it was a Christian group that walked out. Did you even read the links you provided?

Posted by indy | April 24, 2007 2:20 PM

The statement that it was a Christian group was found to be erroneous. Much like your smart ass comment.

"First, we should clear up one piece of misinformation, first reported by Daisey on the ART's blog. The school group has no religious affiliation. It is a choir made up of 15-to-17 year-old students who were in town singing at a festival."

Maybe you should try reading the links provided.

Posted by chas | April 24, 2007 2:27 PM

ka-SNAP! Try again, Indy.

Posted by Drizzle | April 24, 2007 2:35 PM

"though they identified themselves to me as a Christian group as they fled the theater--it's barely audible on the YouTube clip, as an adult tells me they are a Christian group, then flees for the door, refusing to engage with me. Then in the lobby of the theater and on the phone to the box office they identified themselves again and again as a Christian group--I don't know what that says about the division of church and state in Norco, California. As a group, the people in charge freely identified themselves as a Christian group, until reporters call and they remember they are from a public high school."
The article claims a choir group.

What was the actual group then? What group from that high school attended and left?

Posted by indy | April 24, 2007 2:43 PM

From the Boston Globe article:

"I also asked (Gideon Lester, the ART's interim artistic director) how, by chance, Daisey got the idea this group had any religious connection. Here's what Lester said: "One of the teachers told a member of our staff, in the lobby – and again, this is all hearsay – that there are a lot of Christians in the group."

Also, a correction on my end: It was a teacher, not a student, who poured the water all over Daisey's notes.

Posted by chas | April 24, 2007 3:11 PM

I think he handled that very well.

Posted by Orf | April 24, 2007 4:34 PM

I wonder if the psycho chaperone was a school employee.

Posted by Ed | April 24, 2007 5:31 PM

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