Fun at Housing Works NYC!

(Photo courtesy of Mindy Tucker, http://www.withreservation.com)

Hi! The other night I delivered a “lecture” for Adult Education (“America’s favorite useless lecture series”) at the always wonderful Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe in SoHo. The photos are here. They are by Mindy Tucker of With Reservation. As you can see from her site, she does fantastic work and has shot ALL of comedy. Every bit of it.

The whole night was terrific. Miranda K. Pennington dissected the role of the “3rd questioner,” aka that person during every Q&A session who uses the opportunity to sate their own need for attention. (Common 3rd Questioner opening: “As an Anglophile myself, I…”) Then I talked about recovering from recovery, recounting the time I was 18 and was convinced I was an alcoholic. (Spoiler alert: I was not.) Jason Torchinsky revealed the 19th century cars that came before the “first car,” and made a lively, convincing case for telling Mercedes-Benz to go fuck itself. (As if we needed a new reason.) Finally, Ritch Duncan and Bob Powers, authors of The Werewolf’s Guide To Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten, taught us how to handle our first experience as lycanthropes. It was a fun night during which I accidentally learned some things. Oh no! Also: Charles Star created and hosts the monthly Adult Ed series. Check him out on Twitter! He was funny and generous, and did a great job of keeping the momentum going through four very different lectures.

By the way, this was my second reading/event in TWO MONTHS. I always forget how much I love doing live readings! And then I do one and I’m all, “Holy cow, where can I do this again? Like, now!” And then it’s two years later. But not this time, bub. I’m going to do more live things in 2012, or DIE TRYING! That is my pledge.