daphne gottlieb

Let's Go, NYC! Time to tango.

Sunday
Bluestockings
172 Allen St.
New York, NY 10002
212.777.6028
7 pm
 
Monday:
Bar 13
35 East 13th Street
Corner of 13th and University
7:30
 
Urbana
Bowery Poetry Club
6:30 Wordshop
308 Bowery (just south of Bleecker St., one half block north of Houston). The nearest subways are: F train to 2nd Avenue or 6 Train to Bleecker.

Boston info in a minute.

have i mentioned the STRIPPING BEE yet?!?!?

July 17
Center for Sex + Culture
(Yeah, it's a benefit)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-Stripping-Bee/127476993951923

WITH YOUR EMCEE TOMMY SALAMI AND WORD MAVEN DAPHNE GOTTLIEB

The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!

Our rules and format are adopted and in homage to Montreal's Honeysuckle Strip Spelling Bee, founded by Sherwin Sullivan Tija.

Here are the official rules, as set out by Mr. Tija:

One by one, participants are asked to spell a word. If they get it right, they sit down. If they get it wrong, they must striptease A THIRD of their clothing off, and that is considered their first "strike". When they misspell a second word, that is their second strike and they must striptease ANOTHER third off. A third and final strike requires that they strip down to their underwear.

After three strikes, a participant is out of the competition. But they should take heart – because while they may have lost, the audience has most certainly won.

The winner of the Bee and the best striptease take home wonderful prizes.

Anyone can drop out of the competition at any time AFTER the completion of the SECOND round.

This is a queer, senior and trans-friendly event. We have a NO BOOING policy strictly in effect. No photos are allowed except by our Official Photographer. Our goal is to have everyone feel safe, secure and comfortable enough to strip and spell.

Regarding the No Photos Rule - we also have a Snitch Policy. If you are a member of the audience and you witness someone taking a surreptitious photo, BY ALL MEANS, interrupt the proceedings, come up to one of the hosts - SNITCH on the guilty party, and once they have been dealt with, you will be rewarded with a free drink.

We thank you for your patronage and understanding.

lj expires in 12 days. do i renew? money's tight but all this history, all these friendships...

i am the nervous breakdown's poetry sweetheart. won't you let me be yours, too?

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/dgottlieb/2010/02/fifteen-ways-to-stay-alive/

i must not be completely done here yet - - i just extended my paid account.

now if i can just think of something to tell you.

something warm but not too, you know, personal.

you can find anything on the internets. i remember as a kid, driving in the station wagon, listening to this.

test

Poetry may be for lovers, and stories for children, but what form of writing wants to speak to us all? Reaches out to grab us by the collar and shake us until we listen?

The Manifesto!

The Bay Area has never been short of political/artistic fervor, and we'll be bringing you classic examples from around the world and brand new statements about How Things Should Be, along with audience participation at the Manifesto! show at for SF in Exile, May 1st at Modern Times Bookstore, 7pm.

Naamen Tilahun
Annalee Newitz
Danny O'Brien
Nick Mamatas
Zuleikha Mahmoud
Liz Henry
Steven Schwartz
Daphne Gottlieb

Declaim the juiciest and most rabble rousing bits from: The SCUM Manifesto, The Futurist Manifesto, The Bitch Manifesto, The Femme Shark Manifesto, the Dadaist and Provo manifestos, and more!

So, come, listen, and get hit by the shrapnel of the War of Ideas!

SF in Exile - Manifesto!
May 1, 2009
7pm- 9pm (door at 6:30)
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco

r.i.p. j.g. ballard


"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. "
-jgb