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    After three years, my building has gas for cooking again!  It feels a bit luxurious. 


    May is a difficult month for me.  Fortunately my good friend Judy sent me a link to a free on-line session addressing grief.  Though it was only an hour, it was significant. 


    June provides comedy.  Comic Linda Marcus Smith will be interviewing me.  She has interviewed many, many, many comics, and now I’ll be one of them.  Yay.  Then on Thu., June 12th, 8:30pm, I’ll be in Randy Epley’s Comedy Dungeon show at the Kama Central Park Hostel.  On Saturday, June 14th at 9pm, I’ll be part of Paul Hallasy’s Eat Drink Laugh show at Pangea. 

     




     

    And on June 20th, 8pm, is my Almost Summer comedy show at The Artist on City Island.  This show will be featuring Debbie Bazza, Rob Sajous, Paul Hallasy, and me of course.

     



     








    Laughter guaranteed!





    Love to CGG-M ❤ 💕 ❤

    Mindy Matijasevic

    May 2025

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  2. A Few Updates

    Sunday, February 2, 2025

     

     











    Hi people.  The Eat Drink Laugh show at Pangea two Fridays ago was great.  We performed for an almost full house which was wonderful.  It had me buzzing for a few days following the show.

     



     

    Next Tuesday, February 4th from 7-8pm, Art in the Basin is having an event at Mon Amour Coffee and Wine, 234 West 238 Street (off Broadway in the Bronx).  It is FREE.  The venue appreciates your purchase of food or drink.  Heather Archibald will share her poetry.  I will be doing stand-up comedy.

    https://www.facebook.com/artinthebasin


     

    On Thursday, February 6th at 8:30pm, I’ll be performing comedy in Randy Epley’s Comedy Dungeon Show at Kama Central Park Hostel, 36 West 106 Street in the lounge.  It is FREE and you may BYOB.  (B or C train to 103 Street)

     

            I just wanted you to know of upcoming things.  I’m ending here for now.  

     

     

    Love to CGG-M  ❤ ❤ ❤

    Mindy Matijasevic

    February 2025

     

     

     

     

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  3. Poetry, Comedy, Acting, Feline Love

    Thursday, May 2, 2024

        




        







            It’s May.  Wow.  If you, New Yorkers, are looking for things to do locally, here’s some stuff I’m involved in to varying degrees.


    ·        May 6th -- Poetry and Prose – I’m one of three featured readers for the Phoenix Reading Series at Shades of Green, 125 E. 15th Street, NYC. 6:30pm. Sign up for the open mic if you are so inclined.









    ·        May 8th -- Comedy – Comedy Dungeon show at HOWM at the Selina Chelsea  Hotel, 518 W. 27th Street, NYC. Randy Epley’s show. FREE! 8:30pm.

    Just come on over for laughs



    ·        May 9th – small acting role in “BRING THEM BACK!” (a dark comedy by David Willinger) at the Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue near 10th Street, NYC. 8pm.  There are 8 performances, but May 9th is opening night for this play that includes video. I’m in the video part.  


    Theater for the New City Presents 

    Bring Them Back 

    A Meta Dark Comedy 

     

    Written and Directed by David Willinger

     

    May 9-19, 2024 (8 performances)

    Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm

    Sundays at 3pm 

    Theater for the New City

    155 First Avenue

     New York, NY 10003 

    General Admission: $18. Students/Seniors: $15 

    For tickets, visit:

    https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/bring-them-back/

    Runtime: 90 minutes (no intermission)



    ·       June 14th – Comedy – my Almost Summer Comedy Show on City Island at The Artist (formerly the Starving Artist Café) run by Elliot and Monica Glick, 249 City Island Avenue, Bronx, NY.  $15 cover; NO minimum.  You can even BYOB.  Menu of light fare and delicious desserts by Jenny's Sweets available for separate purchase but not required. The hilarious line-up will be Tom Brennan, Paul Hallasy, Joe Fulton, and me, of course.  8pm (7:45 recommended) Laughter guaranteed!




     

    For those familiar with my feline friend, Mustache, she and I are still going strong.  She and I had our affection session today and yesterday.  I admit that sometimes my main motivation to go into the store where she lives is to see her.  So when I don’t have anything I need to buy there or no money to buy it, I go in to check my pathetic checking account balance on the ATM.  She finds me and begins our love session while being very verbal about it.  She continues to be a loving part of my life, and me, hers.

     



     

    So much love to CGG-M ❤❤❤

    Mindy Matijasevic, May 2024 🍷

     

     



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  4. From the Dungeon to the Island

    Tuesday, July 16, 2019












    I performed on Randy Epley’s Comedy Dungeon show at Jazz on the Park Hostel.  It’s not necessarily an easy audience, but it is interesting.  People are visiting NYC for different reasons from other parts of the country and the world.  The audience included a young woman from Ireland, another from New Zealand, another from Ohio, and others whose homes I don’t know.  Then there were the comics in the audience.  One comic from Michigan brought his little dog.  The dog wasn’t part of the act; he was in the audience.  I love dogs, so it made me smile.


    Randy has an unusual style, and it does tickle me. 






    The audience may have different levels of English comprehension – and 
    there’s the expressions, slang, and curse words.  It’s not a comedy club.  Though people are welcome to BYOB, most are not drinking.  So it is a different experience.  I enjoyed it.  This time, I couldn’t stay until the very end.  I like to when I can. 


    When I made reference to Trump without mentioning his name, they got 
    it.  They knew who the crotch-grabber I mentioned was.  When I spoke of male/female relationships, they got it no matter where on the globe they were from.  When I said “amoeba,” I wasn’t sure people knew what that was or if the joke just didn’t land.  So it’s a different kind of challenge.  I like the intimacy of the show.  Randy’s style has grown on me.  When I first saw him perform, I think I was just shocked.  Lol.  I am one of those comics who enjoys watching other comics do their thing.  And when I’m tickled, I laugh.  I also learn from watching, especially when a joke doesn’t get the laughs one may have expected.  Those are the hard moments.  Some comics handle it so well and turn it into a funny moment.  That is something I still need to further develop.


    It was good to be back on the comedy stage.  It had been a while. 








    Trying to not smoke cigarettes.  I’m a mess.  Went out at 4am to get a 
    pack.  That’s how well I’m doing with this.  Oy oy oy. 


    Reminder:  Mark your calendars for a special evening on City Island.  
    September 13th, 8pm (get there at 7:45).  End-of-Summer-Comedy Show at The Artist (formerly the Starving Artist Café), 249 City Island Avenue.  $10 admission.  NO minimum.  Jar passed around for the comics.  Line-up:  Mark Larsen, Lisa Harmon, Melissa Diaz, Joanna Briley, and me!





    Much love to CGG-M  


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  5. Sometimes Kickin' Azz Makes History

    Wednesday, July 10, 2019









    The people in this photo are Bronx writers who each contributed a slice of memoir to 
    the Bronx Memoir Project vol. III.  I’m behind the woman in the red blouse (center, back).


    If you’d like your very own copy of the anthology or one to give as a gift, 
    click here:  https://www.bronxarts.org/programs/the-bronx-memoir-project/
    Your purchase supports the project, so the Bronx Council on the Arts can do it again. 


    At the end of June, my long-time friend Judy and I went to the Pride 
    Parade.  Unlike years ago, we were spectators.  When we first started going to the parade in the late 70s/early 80s, it was mainly to support a couple of friends.  It was different then.  We were some of the marchers.  You didn’t have to be part of a contingent.  Sometimes I wore a sign, sometimes I didn’t.  When I did, it said, “Another straight for gays’ human rights” and the other side said, “Another straight for lesbians’ human rights.”  When I wore it, so many people would come over to thank me throughout the day.  There would be hugs.  It was a warm human experience.  On years when I didn’t feel like wearing or holding a sign, if I ran into anyone I knew, they’d act like they just discovered my secret.  I once tried to explain that I was there to support friends, and the person “yeah, yeah, yeah”-ed me.  I realized it was making everything worse, so I just decided to let people believe whatever they are going to anyway.  It doesn’t really matter.  These days, I ain’t fuckin’ anyone anyway.


    Back then it was rare to see a corporation.  It was more like “Gay Doctors 
    and Nurses,” “Gay Teachers,” “Gay and Lesbian Police Officers,” and that sort of thing.  It felt like getting to know the community.  People had boom boxes and played, “Gloria” and “I’m Coming Out” and other popular songs of the time.  The parade typically ended in under five hours and then there’d be partying down Christopher Street.  Dancing on floats, in the streets, and on fire escapes.  Now it lasts over ten hours and it is a lot of commercial advertising – cell phone companies, credit card companies, all kinds of stuff like that.  And those of us who used to be able to march in it are now on the sidewalks behind barricades. 


    Judy and I went mainly because of it being the 50th anniversary of the 
    Stonewall patrons fighting back.  That really took balls to fight the police.  I can relate to the fed-up-ness.




    In general, gay people tend to make things colorful and pretty, and Judy 
    took some good shots.



       







    Chuck Schumer partook.




    Bill DeBlasio partook.





    Judy managed to take pics of none of the corporate stuff.  :-)




    Sunday, July 14, at 8:30, comedy show at Jazz on the Park Hostel.  It is 
    Randy Epley’s Comedy Dungeon show.  I’m on the line-up.  The show is FREE.  You are welcome to BYOB (& cup), food, etc.  36 West 106 Street near Central Park West. 



    Love to CGG-M 




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