Photos from last night's I HAD IT BAD!

Last night's I HAD IT BAD was a smashing success. Thank you to everyone who came out, laughed, cried, and cried while laughing.


Joe Giarratano starts things up.


Cody Peace Adams recounts a life of longing.


Jonathan Padua reads from his story "Millenials."


Audience member Charles Antin relates a soapy tale.


Nick Sylvester tells his New York stories.


You are all so beautiful.

Photos by Jessie Marshall

Promo!

Here is a promo for TONIGHT'S I HAD IT BAD Reading starring yours truly, made by the lovely people at DELIPROOF!



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Come one, come all, 8-10 PM at HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 Broome Street at Forsythe in Manhattan's Chinatown!

The Next "I Had It Bad" is this Wednesday, February 18!

Come out this Wednesday to Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street at Forsythe, to check out a special Valentine's-ish sausage-fest of an "I Had It Bad." As ever, there will be drink tickets for brave souls willing to bear their hearts for the microphone. Be there or be female, apparently.

FEBRUARY 18, 2009
8 – 10 pm

FEATURED AUTHORS





Joseph Philip Giarratano was born and raised in a small town on Long Island. After graduating college in 2007 he began pursuing comedy as a creative escape from his day job, debuting at Governors Comedy Club on Long Island in May, 2008. His humor derives from everyday occurrences and often outrageous stories from his life. If only his elementary school teachers could see him now...





Cody Peace Adams is an expert kisser of dogs. He runs Erection of Disbelief, a film review website.





Jonathan Padua's fiction has appeared in Fugue, Perpetual Magazine, Undrawn Lines: An Anthology of Hawaii Writers, A Thousand Faces, and Pindeldyboz. Originally from Pearl City, Hawaii, he now resides in Brooklyn.



Nick Sylvester is from Philadelphia. You can read his work in The Wire, Village Voice, n+1, Fanzine, and Riffmarket. Currently he plays drums for the rock band Mr. Dream, co-curates the downtown zine Perineum, and writes internet pranks for The Colbert Report.

Call For Readers

Tell your mom, your sister, your best friend, and yourself, because I HAD IT BAD wants your stories of unrequited love, object obsession, bad idea road trips to visit a C-list 70s celebrity now backslidden into obscurity, and remembered passions. Email submissions and questions to me at lisa.locascio (at) gmail (dot) com.

INAUGURAL NIGHT! The first "I Had It Bad" on January 21, 2009

The first "I Had It Bad" was held on January 21, 2009, and it was a smashing success. Readers Will Begeny, Caedra Scott-Flaherty, Rollie Hochstein and Rivka Galchen brought the house down with their phenomenal stories of thwarted desire. Four brave members of the audience also came forward with stories of crush-worthy Trader Joe's employees, girls with boyfriends in bands, and ill-advised softball playing. For their fearless sharing they were given drink tickets and love.

Below please find some charmingly blurry pictures from the evening and bios of the featured authors. Come out to the next "I Had It Bad," on February 18, 2009, from 8-10 PM at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street at Forsythe in Manhattan's Chinatown.



Will Begeny reads from his story "Rodeo"


Authors Rivka Galchen and Caedra Scott-Flaherty engage in breaktime hijinks.


Rolaine Hochstein reads from her story "Gemini"


An audience member tells of poorly-considered athleticism in the name of love.


Rivka Galchen reads from her story "Wild Berry Blue"

JANUARY 21, 2009
FEATURED AUTHORS

Will Begeny is originally from Royal Oak, Michigan. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he is the editor of a travel writing website and lives in Brooklyn.

Caedra Scott-Flaherty is from Rochester, New York. A graduate of Brown University, she served as an AmeriCorps member in North Carolina, and is currently an MFA candidate at New York University's Creative Writing Program. She teaches playwriting and visual arts to incarcerated youth, and is a dancer and choreographer. She is the winner of Open City's 2008 RRofihe Trophy Award for short fiction.

Rolaine Hochstein has published two novels and 34 short stories, several of which have won awards including the O. Henry prize, the Pushcart prize and the Seaton First Prize of the Kansas Arts Council. Her articles on women’s issues (also humor and celebrity profiles) have been featured in leading national magazines. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the NJ State Council on the Arts, is a teaching artist with the NJ Writers Project and a five-time grandmother.

Rivka Galchen's first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June 2008. Her essays and stories have appeared in Zoetrope, The New Yorker, Open City and The New York Times.