In the Maybe We Aren't All Doomed After All Department, I got some good news today... On (next!) Tuesday, May 23 at 8 p.m., I will be reading about the girl who dumped me for a trombone player at the "Prom Trauma" edition of the blogger storytelling free-for-all, the WYSIWYG Talent Show.
It's held at the Bowery Poetry Club, and costs seven bucks. I'd love to see you there. These characters will be reading too...
Lang Fisher is a funny, funny ex-American Idol contestant with a prom-themed blog. Best of all, she contributes at Snakes on a Blog, manufacturing a movie cult for my kids to celebrate in high school.
Jorge Fiffe is a performance artist with a crazy new art project and a stylish blog.
Nichelle writes Nichellenewsletter while co-producing the Chicks and Giggles show and writing for some great New York publications.
Jess Hulett writes half-bitter, half-nostolgic posts over at BlindCaveFish, and published a nice "Low-Carb Doritos" review over at McSweeney's.
Finally, music will be provided by The Vandervoorts, the self-styled "last uncool band in Brooklyn." We ride the same subway train, so form your own conclusions.
Thanks to Chris for giving me the chance to write. I stuck her flyer up after the jump...
The WYSIWYG Talent Show Presents
Prom Trauma
at Bowery Poetry Club
The WYSIWYG Talent Show, NYC’s first and only all-blogger reading and performance series, presents an evening of tears, tuxedos, and taffeta at 8 p.m. on May 23, 2006 with Prom Trauma!
Every month The WYSIWYG TALENT SHOW brings you readings and performances from some of the blogosphere’s best and funniest writers, musicians, comedians and performance artists. Prom Trauma features appearances by comedienne Lang Fisher, (Wiener Philharmonic, American Idol), performance artist Fiffe, and pop-punk darlings The Vandervoorts.
Join us on May 23, 2006 at WYSIWYG’s new home, Bowery Poetry Club. Now with more alcohol!
The WYSIWYG Talent Show’s “Prom Trauma” performs Tuesday, May 23 at Bowery
Poetry Club (308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston). Doors open at 7:30
p.m., show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 at the door. For more information, visit www.wysiwygtalentshow.org, www.bowerypoetry.com or call (212) 614-0505.
With performances by:
* The Vandervoorts ( www.geocities.com/vandervoorts)
* Lang Fisher (dirtyoldpromqueen.blogspot.com)
* Fiffe (www.fiffe.com/diary)
* Jason Boog (thepublishingspot.com and jasonboogshow.blogspot.com)
* Nichelle (nichellenewsletter.typepad.com)
Jess Hulett (blindcavefish.com)
About the performers:
The Vandervoorts like to keep their beer cold, their songs fast and loud, and their grandiose, conceptual song cycles about the G train. For mp3s and misinformation: http://www.geocities.com/vandervoorts.
Lang Fisher writes the blog dirtyoldpromqueen.blogspot.com. This is
because she was a crushed velvet-clad, chunky shoe-adorned,
tummy-flattening girdle-stuffed prom queen at her Colorado high school and has yet to win any awards since. Also, she does stand up around town, is in the Wiener Philharmonic sketch group, and was an outtake on American Idol (the season Fantasia won).
Fiffe sometimes feels like people confuse him with his performances. His art addresses the complex ideas of interpersonal relationships and the language of those relationships. He is influenced by the tension that arises from the pointless drama we attach to our active curiosity into other people's vulnerabilities. He is now slightly less self-deprecating than he was before, he eats oatmeal, watches Spanish soap operas and thinks of how terribly normal and uneventful he really is.
After spending two years on top of a mountain in Peace Corps Guatemala,Jason Boog chased the dream of every skinny Midwestern writer boy with glasses: to starve to death in New York City. He completed the graduate journalism program at NYU in 2004, and now works as a staff writer at the Institute for Judicial Studies. He writes two blogs, The Jason Boog Show
(jasonboogshow.blogspot.com) and The Publishing Spot
(thepublishingspot.com).
Nichelle (nichellenewsletter.typepad.com) was born in the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Alabama. She has lived in the South and Midwest before making her home in the Big Apple five years ago. She keeps nickels in her pocket by working as an accountant for small businesses and as a publicist for authors and such. Nichelle also produces Chicks and Giggles, an all-female comic show. She keeps herself happy by writing her blog, going to book parties, and letting European men service her!
Jess Hulett started blindcavefish.com in the spring of 2003 because she was bored at her temp job. These days, she edits astrological profiles of celebrities for a living. She wants to be a rock star when she grows up, but she'll settle for a book deal. Her work has appeared in Bitch Magazine and McSweeney's, and she whores herself out, both literally and figuratively, on Cosmopolitan's Bedroom Blog at cosmopolitan.com.
About WYSIWYG:
“Urban Storytelling for the Internet Age” – Now in its third year, the
WYSIWYG Talent Show is a monthly series of readings and performances by bloggers living in or visiting NYC. Every month WYSIWYG showcases a variety of themed evenings featuring topics on everything from bad bosses and drugs to extreme gayness and summer camp. Each installment is an evening of funny and touching stories, songs, and performances from some of the best writers and most interesting personalities on the Web. More information can be found at http://wysiwygtalentshow.org.
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The WYSIWYG Talent Show
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