
and then be judged on it, by self-selected audience members, in competition with others.

These events, called StorySLAMs are held approximately once a week at various venues in New York City, as well as other cities such as L.A. and Chicago.
I went to an episode one Thursday on the recommendation and enthusiasm of a friend. It is crowded.

By 6:15 (for a 7:00 door) the line is around the block (It helps to have friends in the know who get there before 5 and are first in line.)

Some of the situations related, their delivery, or the details they reveal about the speaker might make a man wince or roll his eyes at what he might dismiss as someone's idiomatic airing of dirty laundry. And coming from a tradition of high-impact, absurdist, and principally participatory pursuits this would ostensibly be so not my thing.
Still, I can't remember the last time I was actually rivetted by something.
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