Q&A: Transformers, Parties, and Improv

And now for a brief dip into the mailbag to answer some of your burning questions:

Amanda McBee (age 41) from Marblehead, Massachusetts writes:
“Dear STM, remember transformers?  Those were so cools.  Like how they turned into cars and whatnot.  How come you think they never made a Transformers that turned into like a building or a nice landscape?”

Well Amanda, it is a little known fact that in 1992, the toy company Hasbro, the makers of the popular Transformers toys, produced another toy called Architectrons (Guardians of the Metropolis). These were a short lived and epically unsuccessful line of Transformers that transformed from fully-armed fighting robots into structurally sound and ascetically pleasing homes and office buildings.   After failures like Suburbia-bot (complete with two-car-garage plasma cannon) and Synagogue-a-tron (“he’s built mazel-tough”), the company abandoned the concept completely.  The public, they believed, would never be ready for a transforming building.

…Until Now.  Public, may I introduce you to The FACTORY (A Skip n’ Whistle Joint).  
Located on Oak Street, this stylish industrial shop space spends its days serving as the secret lab and screen printing shop for the bad-ass New Orleans designers and T-shirt makers Skip n’ Whistle.

At night, however, The FACTORY transforms into a dimly-lit, packed-to-the-walls home for parties, shows, and of course, Stupid Time Machine’s super secret weekly comedy show Improv on Oak Street.

This week, get twice the goodness

Tuesday, October 5th, Stupid Time Machine Show (Improv on Oak Street)
8:30pm

Because you’ve realized that there is no better way to spend a Tuesday night than grabbing your friends and drinking and laughing the night away in the company of the other happy strangers who have come to migrate to Oak Street for this weekly ritual.   Comedy from Stupid Time Machine, a free bucket of beer to the biggest group of fans, and the smell of barbecue at our front door.  It doesn’t get sweeter.

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Thursday  October 7th, iHeartNOLA launch party
8:00PM

The official launch party for iHeartNOLA.com and slowsouthernstyle.com, this event will feature a live DJ, showcases from some of New Orleans’ best designers and artists, copious drinks, and of course stone-cold improv comedy from us.

Scott Simon and his people know how to throw it down.  Whatever you do, get yourself here.
Click here to see more and buy tickets
$10 at the door ($5 online pre order)

Its all happening this week at The Factory
8314 Oak Street (Right next to The Maple Leaf Bar)

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