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You: Skinny punk with a fixie, at the Last Drop and riding down Pine Street
Me: Girl in a cardigan, too shy to say hi.

I noticed you were wearing a CBGB’s shirt. Wanna grab some 40’s and go to a house show?

I have a confession to make: I adore Craig’s List Missed Connections. I read them almost every day, in the hopes of discovering an amusing trinket, or, better yet, a post about someone I know. There’s something so fascinating about internet voyeurism, and this particular forum (where sometimes people talk IN ALL CAPITALS and/or misspell words) is particularly entertaining.

So entertaining in fact that it’s become the subject of its own show: Missed Connections: A Craig’s List Fantasia, the hilarious and all-too-true take on second chances and internet romances, as presented by the Curio Theatre Company.

Inspired by real posts from fellow Philadelphians, the show weaves together a story of internet-obsessed Gen-Y’ers, and touches on themes of culture, identity-formation, technology, and more. Prepare to laugh, cry, and be more than a little weirded out by these bizarre and touching texts, originally created by people who might just be referring to you.

Missed Connections: A Craig’s List Fantasia
September 3rd – 17th, 2009
See the Philly Fringe site for official dates and times

Calvary Center Sanctuary
4740 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143
( 215) 413-9006
www.livearts-fringe.org