Copa Flyer from March 2007

The preceding images and following text compose one of the old Copa bulletins that attendants receive at my Copa shows. I try to make them of interest to a thoughtful listener. They take 1/2 day to create, so its nice to be able to give them a second life here on the blog, since only a handful of people attended that nights show in March 2007. I copied the essay-like stuff below so that it would be more readable.

tonights
copa
thought
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artist donny smutz is a
local master of surrealism.
his painted world is the place
of dreams and distortions.

in a play, the characters
are often briefly
defined in a short para-
graph at the play’s beginning.
it is here
that an actor will either
gain an affinity or an
aversion to the chara-
cter’s descriptions.

perhaps you have cho-
sen a character for
yourself and have been
assuming its details for
so long that you forgot
that the person you
have become was a
person you chose to be.

or maybe you never
made a choice, and
never defined an ideal
character to assume.

that is unlikely.

our shoes, hair, speech,
temperament, etc., are often
extentions of our desire to be like
an ideal character. if we lose
touch with what we have chosen
to mimic, we might believe the
surreal distortions of what we see
in the mirror, or what we hear
through others testimony about
us.

it is a dangerous thing
to hate or fall too
deeply in love with our surreal
selves-losing touch
with the possibility that we could
have been born in a different skin.
much of what we believe defines us
is assumed
and not to be fully believed, much like
the landscapes within donny smutz’s
vast fictional universe.

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How to freeze a man in a bottle:
To freeze a man in a bottle, one must first understand that the bottle cannot easily be
broken out of. Please be very careful when freezing
a man in a bottle, for once placed inside, he may
never escape. Though placed in a bottle, a man may
still function normally, attending school daily or
performing work alongside his peers. However, though his
skin may wrinkle and he may appear to age, his true self
remains within the bottle. Can you match the numbers
with the code letters to figure out the ways to freeze a man
in a bottle?

We could go on and on, but one might notice that
trauma is often involved, tying a man to an
experience and thus freezing him in a bottle.

To unfreeze a man from a bottle, one is sure to be frustrated! The man
inside the bottle must escape my his own will and effort. Often, a man is
released by calling out for help through the upwards pointing opening at
the top of the bottle. It is recommended that the man call out through
the opening everyday, as he is always prone to becoming bottled!