As previously mocked on Gawker, I'm part of the January 23rd Fresh Meat show at Comix, with Annabelle Gurwitch, David Rakoff and Jessi Klein. I've done humor readings before--John Hodgman's sadly-on-hiatus Little Gray Book Lectures, Lindsay Robertson's fantastic Ritalin Readings, etc.--but this is more along the lines of straight stand-up (I saw part of the last show and Louis CK and Colin Quinn randomly popped in for short sets) which I've never done. It should be interesting. Unless, you know, Stephen Colbert randomly pops in and I have to follow him, in which case I plan to kill myself on stage. Either way, HILARIOUS.
Tickets are available here for $10. (No drink minimums.)
Update: Jonathan Ames has just been added to the lineup. I'm totally screwed.
From this morning's Page Six:
DEALBREAKER blogger Elizabeth Spiers is expanding her empire. In addition to a site for lawyers, today Spiers' Dead Horse Media is launching a fashion gossip blog called Fashionista.com that will be written by Faran Krentcil, who started Imaginary Socialite. Spiers says, "It'll be part industry gossip, part consumer-oriented product recommendations and recurring features like 'Deal or No Deal,' where people duke it out over whether an item is worth the price."
Actually, it's launching on Wednesday. (It was scheduled for Monday when they talked to me.)
This will be our first consumer site and Faran's been plugging away on it for over a month now while we found a suitable domain name. We were going to call it Size Zero, but with the money the owners wanted for SizeZero.com, I could have started my own hedge fund. (They insist that GoogleAdSense is making them SO MUCH MONEY off of search that they'd be stupid to sell it for anything less than the GDP of a small Eastern European country. Riiiiight.)
Blog Expansion [Page Six]
The fourth entry in the Dead Horse Media network is live:
I'll be sitting on the 9:30AM panel at the AlwaysOn Media Conference on "Power Blogging," whatever that is. If you're at the conference, drop by:
Workshop: Becoming a Power Blogger
Power bloggers share their recipe for building reputation and audience. Learn the strategies and tactics that worked for them, and could help you build your power base.
Moderator: Steve Rubel, MicroPersuasion
Jeff Jarvis, Blogger, BuzzMachine
Peter Rojas, Engadget
Elizabeth Spiers, Founder and Publisher, Dead Horse Media