Assuming LaGuardia isn't buried under several inches of plane-immobilizing snow, I'm speaking tomorrow at Georgia Tech's "Journalism 3G" symposium. Details here.
And next weekend I'll be at Mount Holyoke College for their Future in Communications conference. (Also keynoting the conference is the lovely and intelligent Priscilla Painton, who I had the good fortune to meet when she was still at Time. Even Gawker likes her!)
Tomorrow and Thursday night I'll be reading with other contributors from the Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys anthology. It's a great collection and a portion of the proceeds benefit The Trevor Project. Event information is below:
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
New York
Barnes & Noble, Chelsea
675 Sixth Avenue, 212.727.1675
7pm Reading
Tom Dolby, Melissa de la Cruz, Andrew Solomon, Mike Albo, Zach Udko, Elizabeth Spiers, Karen Robinovitz
Co-sponsored by the LGBT Community Services Center.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
New York
“Out Ivy Authors Reading Series” at Soho House
29-35 9th Ave., 212.627.9800
6 - 9pm Reception and Reading
RSVP Required
Tom Dolby, Melissa de la Cruz, Alexandra Jacobs, Mike Albo, Zach Udko, Elizabeth Spiers, Stacey Ballis
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
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.
My weekends are mostly shot for the rest of the month and beginning of November. Some immediate work-related events, if anyone happens to be in the area(s): I'm speaking at the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky on October 14th on a panel about futurism and "what the world will look like 2106." (I'll be in town late Friday through Sunday morning.) I'll be at MARhedge in Bermuda Sunday, October 22 - Tuesday, October 24 for Dealbreaker. And on November 3rd, I'm moderating a "Women on Wall Street" panel at Wharton.
This is relevant to almost no one who reads this site, but on the offchance...
Institutional Investor asked me to emcee their Alpha hedge fund dinner tonight at the Battery Park Ritz. Which makes sense, as I TOTALLY KILLED last week at the Chicago Board of Exchange.** Ah, the opportunities in the little-known financial comedy sector. Take my risk arbitrage, please. Or something.
** Not really.
At 6 PM, I'll be sitting on a panel at Baruch about financial journalism and blogs hosted by the New York Financial Writers Association. Other panelists are Paul Maidment, of Forbes.com, Tom Taulli and Greg Newton from Naked Shorts.
And at 8:30 PM, I'm reading at Lindsay Robertson, Alex Balk and Jon Friendman's Ritalin Reading series with a lot of people who are funnier than I am. Like: Jonathan Coulton, Jon Friedman, Chris Genoa, John Green, Sam Lipsyte, Brad Steurnagel and Eugene Mirman. Come for the funny, stay for the me.
Details here.
I'll be reading at the next Ritalin Reading on Tuesday, the 28th at Mo Pitkins. You can get tickets here.
Also reading:
Jonathan Coulton
Jon Friedman
Chris Genoa
John Green
Sam Lipsyte
Brad Steurnagel
(Hosted by Lindsay, Alex and Jon Friedman.)
One last Bookmark Now reading:
I'll be reading with Nell Freudenberger, Christian Bauman and Dan Kennedy at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble on Thursday, July 21st, at 7PM.
UPDATE: Actually, it's Wednesday, the 20th. [Details here.]