What’s Your Story About Ben?
We want to hear from anyone and everyone that knows our contestants. Are you a Co-Worker? Best Friend? Second Cousin? Ex-lover? Or did you have a transcendent experience watching them tell a story at a Slam? Whoever you are we want your most joyful/hilarious/insane/petrifying story! Post it in the comments section for your chance to win one free ticket to our Summer Grand Slam Competition, July 24th at the Painted Bride. Winners will be chosen on July 19th.This contest is now closed but keep reading about our storytellers! See who won here.
Ben’s Life Story:
I work during the day; chase three kids around in the evening and on the weekends; hang out with my wife when the kids fall asleep; and write short stories and novels in the middle of the night. My fiction has appeared in 13E Note Editions, The Big Stupid Review, Full of Crow, and Zygote in my Coffee (may Zygote rest in peace).
Ben’s Winning StorySlam: The Perfect Storm (April at World Cafe Live)
What do you get when you mix a group of wanna-be-pirates who don’t know how to sail, a 90 foot-long WWII tugboat caught in a tropical storm, and a big belly full of mac and cheese? The Perfect Storm!
Storyteller Q and A
1. What was the last thing (contest, competition, etc.) you’ve won? (not counting our StorySlam)
The last thing I won was a jar of jelly beans in Kindergarten for guessing that there were 97 beans in there
2.The theme is Show and Tell. What was the silliest/best/coolest object you took to Show and Tell in elementary school?
One time I took a Neil Young After the Gold Rush tape to show and tell, which didn’t make any damn sense
3. What is unique about your storytelling style?
I say a lot of bad words.
4. Why should your Slam opponents be nervous about competing against you?
A lot of times I spill beer before and after telling stories.
5. Boring question double header- where do you live (neighborhood or town) and how old are you?
Frankford. 32.
Okay fans, here is where you get to have your say! Post away! And check out our other contestants by clicking here.
Yeah, I know Ben. I didn’t know him when he got suspended from school for eating a mouse. I knew him later, after he got told by a football coach that he would never amount to beans. He and I hoofed it across the country, down into Mexico. We saw a goat down there.
Yeah I know Ben. He was really cocky in high school and used to put people in headlocks for fun. He drove a 1970’s muscle car around, and was a big shot on the football team. We had a lot of fun and did a bunch of crazy pranks on people.
One time he convinced me to sell all my possessions and move into a third world ghetto in the Caribbean. I stayed for a couple of weeks and moved back to the main land.
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