Sunday, April 19, 2009
We Had It Bad!
Below please find pictures from the April I HAD IT BAD at Happy Ending Lounge! Thank you to all whom came, and especially to our lovely readers Lynne Beckenstein, Deenah Vollmer, Maureen McNeil and Kera Yonker.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
It's That Time Again!
Come out for the fourth I HAD IT BAD this Wednesday, April 15, 8 - 10 PM at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street at Forsythe. To combat the masculine dominance over past programs (and, y'know, the history of the world) we have an all-ladies, all-fun, all the time line up for April, the awesomest month.
To wit:
Originally from Los Angeles, Deenah Vollmer is a non-fiction candidate in Columbia's MFA program. She sometimes writes music listings for The New Yorker and plays music with Huggabroomstik, Kung Fu Crimewave, and Old Hat. Her writing and illustrations have been printed in numerous small publications too obscure for her to even remember. Deenah lives in Brooklyn.
Lynne Beckenstein is a candidate for an MFA in Fiction at NYU, where she also teaches in the Expository Writing Program. She lives in Brooklyn.
Writer and arts educator Maureen McNeil is the director of education at The Anne Frank Center USA where she creates programs on literacy and tolerance inspired by Anne Frank's arc of self discovery in her diary. Maureen's collection of fiction, Red Hook Stories, based on Red Hook, Brooklyn in the 1980s, came out last year. Her short stories and poems have been published in Mothering Magazine, The Woodstock Journal, Oxalis, The Literary Review and Home Planet News, among others. She has recently read at Kentler International Drawing Center, Sunny's Bar and the New School and is currently writing two novels.
Kera Yonker , a graduate of Smith College, runs the 2nd Draft Reading Series. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and other publications.
As usual, your crush stories will win you a free drink, and a good time will be had by all!
To wit:
Originally from Los Angeles, Deenah Vollmer is a non-fiction candidate in Columbia's MFA program. She sometimes writes music listings for The New Yorker and plays music with Huggabroomstik, Kung Fu Crimewave, and Old Hat. Her writing and illustrations have been printed in numerous small publications too obscure for her to even remember. Deenah lives in Brooklyn.
Lynne Beckenstein is a candidate for an MFA in Fiction at NYU, where she also teaches in the Expository Writing Program. She lives in Brooklyn.
Writer and arts educator Maureen McNeil is the director of education at The Anne Frank Center USA where she creates programs on literacy and tolerance inspired by Anne Frank's arc of self discovery in her diary. Maureen's collection of fiction, Red Hook Stories, based on Red Hook, Brooklyn in the 1980s, came out last year. Her short stories and poems have been published in Mothering Magazine, The Woodstock Journal, Oxalis, The Literary Review and Home Planet News, among others. She has recently read at Kentler International Drawing Center, Sunny's Bar and the New School and is currently writing two novels.
Kera Yonker , a graduate of Smith College, runs the 2nd Draft Reading Series. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency and other publications.
As usual, your crush stories will win you a free drink, and a good time will be had by all!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I HAD IT BAD this Wednesday, March 18, at 8 PM!
This month we've got an extra special bunch of writers and performers gracing the Happy Ending stage. Reading this Wednesday will are:
Meg Griffiths is a Chicago native. Meg is co-creator of BAMcomedý Live at BAMcafé Live, the ground-breaking first-ever comedy show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Memorable television roles include the IMDB-worthy appearance as “herself” on E!’s The Gastineau Girls. Meg has shared her malleable facial expressions with audiences at The Magnet, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, Gotham City, Philadelphia Improv Theater, Mid-Atlantic Comedy Festival, and other sundry underground comedy venues. When not onstage, she makes rent by organizing multi-million dollar fundraising events as a freelance event planner. She currently performs with the improv group The Baldwins.
Sam Schreiber is in his second semester studying fiction at NYU. His fiction has appeared in Lambeth Quarterly while his music criticism has been printed in urbancode magazine, collegenews.com, and the Chicago Music Project. Sam hails from the Pacific Northwest, lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and has spent entirely too much time in the Midwest. This is his first New York reading.
DC Pierson is a writer/performer in the comedy group DERRICK, whose sketch videos have been viewed over 100 million times online. Their first full-length feature film, Mystery Team premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared on MTV, G4, and on NBC's 30 Rock. He has written for, performed in, and directed numerous shows at the UCB Theater. He graduated from NYU's Dramatic Writing program in 2007 with a degree in writing for television. He wrote a novel, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Never Had To, which is forthcoming from Anchor Books/Random House in early 2010.
Will Heinrich was born and raised in New York. His novel The King's Evil was published in 2003 and won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004. He is seven feet tall and completely bulletproof.
Meg Griffiths is a Chicago native. Meg is co-creator of BAMcomedý Live at BAMcafé Live, the ground-breaking first-ever comedy show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Memorable television roles include the IMDB-worthy appearance as “herself” on E!’s The Gastineau Girls. Meg has shared her malleable facial expressions with audiences at The Magnet, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, Gotham City, Philadelphia Improv Theater, Mid-Atlantic Comedy Festival, and other sundry underground comedy venues. When not onstage, she makes rent by organizing multi-million dollar fundraising events as a freelance event planner. She currently performs with the improv group The Baldwins.
Sam Schreiber is in his second semester studying fiction at NYU. His fiction has appeared in Lambeth Quarterly while his music criticism has been printed in urbancode magazine, collegenews.com, and the Chicago Music Project. Sam hails from the Pacific Northwest, lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and has spent entirely too much time in the Midwest. This is his first New York reading.
DC Pierson is a writer/performer in the comedy group DERRICK, whose sketch videos have been viewed over 100 million times online. Their first full-length feature film, Mystery Team premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared on MTV, G4, and on NBC's 30 Rock. He has written for, performed in, and directed numerous shows at the UCB Theater. He graduated from NYU's Dramatic Writing program in 2007 with a degree in writing for television. He wrote a novel, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep And Never Had To, which is forthcoming from Anchor Books/Random House in early 2010.
Will Heinrich was born and raised in New York. His novel The King's Evil was published in 2003 and won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004. He is seven feet tall and completely bulletproof.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Promo!
Here is a promo for TONIGHT'S I HAD IT BAD Reading starring yours truly, made by the lovely people at DELIPROOF!
Deli Proof Daily! #1 from Deli Proof on Vimeo.
Come one, come all, 8-10 PM at HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 Broome Street at Forsythe in Manhattan's Chinatown!
Deli Proof Daily! #1 from Deli Proof on Vimeo.
Come one, come all, 8-10 PM at HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE, 302 Broome Street at Forsythe in Manhattan's Chinatown!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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.
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.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
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.
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