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''It's a roadside bar, with a jukebox playing country and western music.''

'''Three Shingles''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on January 14, [[:Category:1996|1996]].

== Synopsis ==
At a roadside bar, crowded for Halloween, Joe sees a woman
dressed as Christ, alone.  He talks to her.  She stays in role, claims
to be Christ.  They talk about religion and life.

14:30: 'The search for the sacred requires a journey...' Joe describes
a trip in search of the sacred.  He ends up at what appears to be a
suburban ranch house from the outside, looks like a biology lab
through the window, but like an ordinary house when inside.  The
outside looks radically different from the inside too: a giant
carousel.  Joe sees the book, <i>My life as a dwarf</i> by Charles
Steinmetz.<ref>
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz Steinmetz] was
a dwarf but didn't write this book.</ref>

22:00: Joe notices some shingles missing, gets on the roof to replace
them.  A beautiful woman comes out of the house.  He has 3 shingles
left over.

25:20: Joe drives along an empty rural road with the Christ-woman (she
had come to the bar in a cab).

27:00: They stop at a lake.  Joe wants to be baptized.

30:10: Joe recounts a dream.  A circus clown plays a 16-foot grand
piano, 'Bess you is my woman now'.  Surgeons in an old Volkswagen bus
operate on 'on a huge grossly overweight leviathan of a woman'.  The
national army of India supports the surgeons.  Thousands of pilgrims
arrive from around the world.  She dies, is buried by forklift; some
pilgrims jump into her grave.

36:30: Joe and the Christ-woman stop at a church with 'a huge brightly
lit revolving cross'.  She doesn't want to stop; Joe insists.  Joe
breaks a window with a rock, they enter.  Joe notes that the Jesus on
the cross is flat, while she's stacked.  Joe lifts her skirt, comments
on her shaved legs.  Joe suggests doing it on the altar.  She tells
Joe she's not really Christ, that she's tired of this game.

45:10: Joe recounts last night's dream.  He passed a small orchestra
wearing mariachi outfits.  A couple danced on a card table on casters.
It rolled by a dead man on a gallows.  Joe celebrates the occasion
with wine, a candle, a map of Palestine, and prayers.

49:40: The former Christ-woman tells Joe she's 28, works at a library.
She lives near her mother, whom she visits often.  She went to
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mirada_High_School William Neff High School]<ref>in La Mirada, which closed in 1980.</ref>
She hangs out in bars because she can't spend all her time at home or
work.

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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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Joe meets a woman in a bar dressed as Jesus. They talk about her life as Jesus, other gods, losers, heaven and hell.  The search for the sacred described - coming to a suburban home intermittently filled with a biological research lab, feeling that you're being watched, fixing the roof.  Driving through the countryside with the Christ woman, discussing Jesus' life, an impromptu baptism in a lake.  A clown plays a piano while doctors operate on an enormous woman in a bus surrounded by pilgrims.  Joe and the Christ-woman visit a church, she admits that she isn't Jesus and they discuss meaninglessness.  An orchestra dressed as mariachis, a dancing couple rolls down a hill past a decorated hanging man and Joe performs a ritual.  The Christ woman talks about her real life. 
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== Music == 
{{A Meeting by the River (Ry Cooder / V.M. Bhatt)}} [Intro]
{{Isa Lei (Ry Cooder / V.M. Bhatt)}} [36:05]

== Additional credits==
The original broadcast credits state: "Created in collaboration with [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Arthur Miller]], and [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded and mixed by [[Theo Mondle]]. Music production by [[Bob Carlson]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro."

==Commentary==
Because 1980 was the last year she could have graduated from Neff, she was born 1962 or earlier.  Because the show was released in 1996 she would have been born in 1968 (She's 28.) at the latest.  So the show took place 1990 or earlier.  The Nixon mask at the roadside bar argues earlier.  He stopped being funny not long after he resigned.  Not that any of this is true.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 21:03, 26 December 2022 (EST)

I've tried to imagine the geography: why someone from La Mirada (one
of the many nondescript towns of LA county, in the southeast, on the
Orange County border, buried in the megalopolis of, literally,
hundreds of towns) who took a cab would be at a roadside bar that Joe
had to drive a rural road and pass by a lake to get her home.  Lake
Mathews in Riverside County?  Irvine Lake?[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 21:03, 26 December 2022 (EST)

The bizarre surgery of the second dream sequence, the support of the
Indian army, the suicidal pilgrims who worshipped the patient suggest,
to me, a parody of Hinduism.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 21:03, 26 December 2022 (EST)

==Footnotes==

[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Narrative_Monologue]]
[[Category:Kristine McKenna]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
[[Category:David Rapkin]]
[[Category:1996]]
[[Category:Somewhere Out There]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19960114]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1996-01-14}}
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=[[Kristine McKenna]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[David Rapkin]], Joe Frank}}