blog: appearances

Tweet Me Harder Live, the first live on-stage comedy performance of Tweet Me Harder, the podcast I co-host with Kris Straub, is coming up this Saturday! A few details about the show:

We’ll be at The Complex, a theatre at 6476 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA. Parking is always dicey in Hollywood; you’re welcome to seek out street parking for a cheap option, but we will also have valet available (they charge $5). The performance itself is free and no tickets are required, though it would be nice if you’d RSVP on our Facebook event page so we have an idea of how many are coming.

The theatre lobby will be open starting at 7:30 pm; the theatre doors will open at 7:45, and the show will start at 8. It’ll probably run about an hour and a half, and please feel free to hang out afterwards to mingle!

I’m very, very excited about this show and I can’t wait to lunge gracelessly into the performance I MEAN ROCK THE HOUSE WITH COMEDY. See you on Saturday!

The Saturday after next, join Kris Straub and I for a live performance of our comedy podcast Tweet Me Harder — the world’s first, best, only and last talkback-enabled interactive audio podblast.

The show will be at 8pm on November 14, at The Complex, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd, in Hollywood, CA.

This is our very first live show and we’re tremendously excited. If you haven’t been listening to TMH, it’s an interactive talk show during which Kris and I invent new concepts, solve problems, cause larger problems, badger listeners and occasionally rap. It’s been a ton of fun to do these last few months and we’re thrilled to bring it to the stage.

TMH Live will be open to the public and absolutely free to attend! It’s a one-night-only special event that will also feature appearances by friends-of-the-show Fake Stan Lee and Dave “Smilin’ Sam” Kellett. No prior knowledge of Tweet Me Harder is required to enjoy the live show, but if you’d like to catch up on the podcast, you can listen to previous episodes here or search “Tweet Me Harder” on iTunes.

We also stream each show live online at tweetmeharder.com, so even if you can’t make it to Hollywood you can still listen (and participate!). We make all show announcements on our Twitter feed (@tweethard), and our next internet show will be Tuesday (today!) at 7pmP/10pmE, streaming live at tweetmeharder.com.

Here’s our Facebook event page for the Nov. 14 live show — please RSVP if you can make it, and feel free to share the show with friends!

This weekend, I’ll be in Portland, OR for the Wordstock book festival. I’ll be in the exhibitor hall in the comics section, which I hear is a thing? I haven’t seen a map, so it’s hard to say. The future is a bit misty; I may be crouching on the floor. I am fairly tall, so hopefully I will be hard to miss.

I’ll be bringing mainly books! To a book fair! What are the odds. Also, Fiction Generator posters and probably some manly stares, as it is Portland after all. Any of these could become yours with a minimum of effort. Hope to see you there!

This Saturday, the 26th, in Easthampton, Mass., TopatoCo’s having an open house and tag sale, where tons of overstocked, discontinued, and clearance apparel items — including some of my own older designs, to say nothing of those from other favorite artists! — will have their prices slashed and left to bleed out on (presumably) folding tables. GO GO BUY BUY

I think “tag sale” is a regionalism? Here in California, when strangers enter your premises and leave with goods they did not pay the full retail price for, we call it a “burglary.”

All the details are at the TopatoCo website! If you are not in traveling range of Easthampton, or have had your traveling privileges revoked by the state, you may still visit that fine merchandisery on-line. I hear a rumor that my new Piranhamoose, Arabic, and Knitting Survival shirts have arrived in stock and are shipping now.

Also this weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, in a giant webcomics clotted mass which will include friends such as John Allison, Kate Beaton, Danielle Corsetto, Aaron Diaz… from there the alphabetical-surname convention sort of breaks down, but you get the idea. I am going to make and bring some Fiction Generator posters, I think!