Does this count as conceptual art?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Probably not.  But I tried to slip a Mickey Dolenz/hate pit reference into an interview, just to see if it would make it in, and it did (I don't think the site in question is very heavily edited):

"CS: I think as writers we are as much about what we don't like as what we do. So to subvert the usual question: what don't you read, don't you gravitate toward for inspiration, and how do you think it affects what you make for the theater?

JG: I really dislike "political" plays that are more about making the audience feel smart than actually fomenting any kind of change (or at least making interesting art). I don't like anything that takes the point of view of powerful people -- I'm far more interested in people on the ground in Iraq, or some mid-level functionary at Halliburton, that I am with anyone in the White House. They're crooks, who cares how they intellectually justify their crimes? I hate pretty much any political coverage on TV, especially those talking head pundit shows -- they're reactionary and stupid and boring and awful. I don't like bad, derivative comedy, exploitative reality TV (though I love Project Runway),

CS: So do I. I admit it. That show completely hooks me.

JG: Or anything that's based on an ad. I hate most top-40 music, though I am obsessed with music generally, mostly indie rock, hip-hop, and jazz. I don't like football, or any video game more advanced than the 1989 version of Super Mario Brothers. I think Thomas Friedman of the New York Times is more or less a buffoon, and I don't like Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees because he was mean to my friend Tom once."

It goes on for a while, but that's the key point.

[Denim Gremlin]

brilliant

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Thanks, Colin.  I should add that I did actually enjoy the Superbowl last night, and I kind of liked watching a high school football game that my wife's cousin was in last year - some sort of Indiana state championship or something.  But I stand by everything else.

[Martin]

I love it!

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Thanks, Crimestick!

[Dorvid Barnas]

Hilarious! 
Please do more of it in future interviews.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

From now on I am going to try and slip a Best Show reference into every interview I do.  I've gotten the taste for it.  Obviously, it's a lot easier to do with these sorts of no-word-limit, email interviews that get posted on websites read exclusively by theater academics (if that).  Imagine trying to slip something like that into conversation with a reporter.  I'm going to try, though.

[<<<<<]

Very well played. 

[Sarah]

If push comes to shove, you could just say "nem"; it probably wouldn't get transcribed, but you'd know.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

That's true.  Or I could take a page from Dave From Knoxville, and just refer to "chainfights."

[emma]

That's true.  Or I could take a page from Dave From Knoxville, and just refer to "chainfights."

If someone asks you a dumb question, just get really offended and threaten to turn the interview location into a car wash. Unless it's a telephone interview. Or unless you're actually in a car wash.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I can just say that something made me madder than a rattlesnake at a Thai wedding.  Though I want to be more on the promoting-the-Best-Show side of the line than the stealing-from-the-Best Show side of the line, if that makes sense.

[Josh]

I think the best way to do this is to go into an expletive-laden tirade that forces the interviewer to delete what you've just said. Then call back, apologetically, and do it again.