"Ask Dr. Hal" Continues its Run; Chicken John's Saloon to Become Salon Again on Wednesday Nights
Bishop Joey Ends Interim Substitute Performance, Recuses Himself to Star in Ongoing S.F. Mime Troupe Smash Hit
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After an artistic interlude on Manhattan Island and
a historic performance in Brooklyn with cacaphonists
John Law and "Chicken" John Rinaldi, Harry
S. "Dr. Hal" Robins has returned.
Tanned, ready and fit, Robins recently expressed his
enthusiasm and willingness to continue in the phenomenally
popular "Ask Dr. Hal" act, still running
Wednesday nights from 9:30 PM until "last call"
at the Odeon bar, located where Mission and Valencia
meet in the pulsing heart of San Francisco's colorful
Mission District.
The show had continued without its titular performer
under the aegis of Bishop Joey, chief instigator of
the notorious St. Stupid's Day Parade and charismatic
founder of The First Church of the Last Laugh. The
Bishop will now shift his attention to the role of
heart-damaged, right-wing Vice President "Dick"
Cheney in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's ongoing extravaganza,
"1600 Transylvania Avenue," according to
information released by Robins. Throughout Summer 2001,
the Mime Troupe's free show will play in San Francisco
and elsewhere in the state.
"Bishop Joey's a real trouper," Robins opined,
"but he's seen fit to move on. Now that I'm back,
I'll take the reins again and ride this show hell for
leather from here to the glue factory."
With this and other semi-incoherent remarks, Robins
insisted that "Ask Dr. Hal" would continue
in its popular interactive format, wherein "Dr."
Hal, in direct response to questions submitted by members
of the audience, provides pithy and oracular answers
of Delphic significance.
To complete the bill, the Odeon also presents further
inspired turntableism with the musical stylings of
spinmeister DJ Otto von Stroheim.
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While on the East Coast, Robins joined noted man-about-town
John Law and circus impressario/quondam game show host
"Chicken" John Rinaldi to give attending
Brooklyn, N.Y. residents a taste of raucous, San Francisco-style
entertainment. The event at the borough's Madagascar
Institute cost a cool five dollars. Distinguished by
the breakage of furniture and props during "Chicken"
and associate Mongoloid's open drug use on stage, as
well as by the forceful ejection of a French-speaking
Canadian national who defied "Chicken's"
instructions during an "audience participation"
segment, this show will live long in the memories of
stunned Brooklynites, Robins claimed.
"But even so, 'Ask Dr. Hal' has an advantage over
our New York presentation," insisted Robins. "It's
FREE of charge to our beloved San Francisco friends."
Robins hastened to add, however, that patrons will be
encouraged to add a small gratuity in the envelopes
which contain the questions.
"'Chicken' set it up that way," Robins explained.
"He'll be back soon, and I wouldn't want him to
find that I meddled with the format.
"Especially after I saw what he did to that French-Canadian
fellow," he added.
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