I have been graciously, GRACIOUSLY, asked to read at Writers with Drinks, in the San Francisco area this coming Saturday. I am really nervous and I will actually be reading blog entries, so that should be muy interesting. Anyway, please check out the deets and if in the Bay, roll through and come up and say hi to me!
At this month's Writers With Drinks, there will be ice buckets located at strategic points all around the Make Out Room. That's because it's severed limb month! Whose limb will be severed? It could be yours! After years of hearing about our "incisive prose" and "razor-sharp wit," we've decided to live up to our billing at last. Each one of our writers will receive one package of surgical scalpels, which they will hurl at the audience at dramatic moments in their readings. Your bloody mary could wind up being a little more bloody than you bargained for!When: Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007, 7:30 to 9:30 PM
Who: Kage Baker, Inga Muscio, Jessy Randall, James Calder, Ellery Urquhart and Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco
How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale.
About the readers/performers:
Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company, a 24th century
entity which uses the technologies of time travel and cybernetics to exploit
the past. The novels in this series include In The Garden of Iden, Sky
Coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, The Graveyard Game, The Life Of The World To
Come, The Children Of The Company, The Machine's Child and The Sons Of
Heaven. She spent many years in the theater and taught Elizabethan English
as a second language.
Inga Muscio is the author of Cunt and Autobiography Of A Blue-Eyed Devil: My
Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society. She teaches workshops on
feminism and anti-racism.
Jessy Randall is the author of A Day In Boyland and the chapbooks Broken
Heart Diet and Other Food Poems, Because Mona Is In The Psychiatric
Hospital, Slumber Party at the Aquarium and Dorothy Surrenders. Her writing
also appears in Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists.
James Calder is the author of the Bill Damen novels, which are "crime
stories about genetic engineering and the human future, set in the San
Francisco Bay area." The first three Bill Damen novels are In A Family Way,
Knockout Mouse and About Face.
Ellery Urquhart made it into the final round of the fifth Rooster T.
Feathers comedy competition. He's also appeared at Tommy T's Comedy and
Steakhouse in Pleasanton, and hosts a comedy night at the Listen & Be Heard
Poetry Cafe in Vallejo.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay blogs at Feministing.com and Colorlines' blog Racewire.
She's the training and technology coordinator at Youth Media Council and is
on the advisory board at Wiretap Magazine.
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Not to be a total bitca, but you have that link written as "writer *apostrophe* s" up there. Please fix that. And read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves.
Damn, typos happen. No one needs a snarky comment about reading a punctuation guide.
OMG you bitca!
Done.
;)
Thanks Samhita! Hee, "bitca" is a Buffy reference, I forget I still make those out loud. In public. And Jessica, yes, typos happen. And posts about being a writer should be held to higher standards. Wasn't being snarky, for god's sake, everyone should read that book, it's hilarious and useful. Can you stop being defensive and see it as the same thing as telling your friend she has lipstick on her teeth? Yeah, everyone knows she didn't apply Sunset Glow to the canines on purpose, but wouldn't you nudge her and point her to a mirror at least?
When I tell a friend she has lipstick on her teeth, I generally don't order her to "fix that" or go read a beauty book. Maybe I'm being defensive, but I think there are more polite ways to point out errors in posts. But again, I'm more than willing to concede that I jumped the gun--I get defensive when it comes to my gals. ;)
Oh the joys of understanding tone through written dialogue...
In other news...Sounds like a cool event! Have Fun!
If I go, will you promise not to hit me or my guy with a scalpel?...
testing comments, ignore me!
Kage Baker is awesome.
Samhita, you were amazing on Saturday... my roomie and I (and seemingly the entire crowd) LOVED your reading. Nice job. Sorry I didn't get a chance to say hi... When is the book coming out?