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Moment Of Truth | Aug 10 2000

While The Dorchsearching online for the full and proper name of the play by Mickle Maher commonly known as An Apology, I stumbled on a site for WNUR’s brilliant, web-accessible radio show, This is Hell! The connection here is Jeff Dorchen (pictured at right), who together with Mickle and others founded the legendary-to-me-at-least Chicago theater company Theater Oobleck and who had or perhaps still has a regular gig on the aforementioned radio show. Jeff’s gig is called The Moment of Truth. As it turns out, the dear souls at This is Hell! (god, how I hate titles with exclamation points) have kindly archived 42 of Jeff’s splendiferous rants. I had time to read but three: Why Kids Kill, Reagan Monuments; Kukoc’s Wisdom; and No Opposition to Me! (hate that exclamation point!). Just to give you a taste of Jeff’s cooking, No Opposition to Me! begins, “Hi, I’m mejeffdorchen and welcome to the Moment of Truth, the one moment in all of broadcasting when the truth is let out of solitary confinement, released from its damp, windowless cell to stagger around in the light of day for three minutes on its painful feet which have all but rotted away before being locked up again for another week by its capitalist media prison warders.” Jeff is a charmer and should be read by everyone living or dead.