October 23, 2004: Vol. 27, No. 41

To the editor:

[I am writing] in reference to your article about “Don Slovin’s Jamprov, an improv show you can really get into” (“Jamprov blues,” GO Brooklyn, Oct. 9). Thank you so much for bringing light to my plight. I didn’t realize how much of an s.o.b. I am. I was hoping when I get out of Jamprov Prison (see the picture), I might be involved in an (enforced) exchange work program. I will be glad to learn all there is about journalism in two hours as long as you say it slowly and patronizingly.

Maybe I could be a writer-for-a-day? Huh? What do you think?

Please send response (and lots of money) to Don Slovin Legal Defence Fund at Cupcake Prison, inmate #J A M P R O V aka Simon of L’Gree.

Compared to me, Martha is a sweetheart and I have the tattoos to prove it. He-he-he.

— Director Don Slovin, Jamprov at the Brooklyn Lyceum in Gowanus

To the Editor:

On Oct. 3, I along with two other friends accompanied another friend to an off-off Broadway play. It was the last day and we were happy to get tickets. The play’s title was “The Fallen 9-11.”

The importance of seeing this play was that the friend we were accompanying had lost her father on Sept. 11, 2001. As a sign of support we took her and held her hand throughout the afternoon. It was a difficult and sad afternoon for us all.

Yesterday, while grabbing a slice I saw your paper and read it while eating. I found a review about the play [“Hero complex,” GO Brooklyn, Oct. 2]. It was a nasty review (as reviews can be), but the author must have seen a different show.

My friend’s father was a fireman and he was a hero. The lady who wrote the review didn’t want to acknowledge the pain we all feel or the sacrifice of those brave men or women. Her tone was mocking and insulting.

I showed the review to my teacher today. She laughed and handed it back to me. Her comment was simply for me to, “read between the lines.” I have and think you should too.

And I think your reviewer owes an apology for her lack of even the smallest part of understanding the pain we all feel. As for her history, my teacher noted she forgot to mention the General Slocum. I guess the death of nearly 1,000 women and children didn’t fit into her paradigm.

To take on your reviewer’s tone, “at least the paper is free.”

— Mike Lee Gonzalez, Whitestone, Queens

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