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Oh yes, I do.
You can follow me @mandystadt
Finally, we can come together as a planet.
One love.
One tweet.
DANG. So wish I woulda gone with @oneloveonetweet.
FRECK. Or at least @toolbagsterjokeykins.
(PS — Dakota Fanning is totally following me on Twitter now. She loves me. Try to be cool about it, thanks.)
Jon Friedman’s Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 8:00 PM
REJECTED FROM REJECTED
Featuring pieces that were, for whatever reason, left out, declined, removed, and rejected from the recently released, critically acclaimed book, Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled. For established fans and/or new fans of the book, the show will also feature readings/performances from some of the book’s actual contributors (including Mandy Stadtmiller).
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 :: 212-334-3324
Thursday, March 19, 2009
8:00pm – 10:00pmLIAM McENEANEY’S WRITINGS (WITH MUSIC)
Some of NYC’s best comedy writers & comedians read,
while the city’s top jazz bands improvises!Union Hall in Park Slope
702 Union Street @ 5th Ave.
(directions and info: http://unionhallny.com/)
$7 : tickets available at the door
with:
Joe Garden – a writer and features editor for ‘the onion’
Reverend Jen – an art star, urban elf, underground movie star, columnist and up-and-coming celebrity personality. She is the author of reverend jen’s really cool neighborhood; sex symbol for the insane and the soon-to-be-released (from soft skull press) live nude elf
Mandy Stadtmiller – is a comedian, writer, and reporter for the ny post. her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Playgirl, and the Village Voice. She has appeared on Fuse, Fox News, and vh1
PUBLISHING may be wheezing, but the romance novel just keeps blowing up.
While hardly a day hardly goes by when print isn’t declared dead, romance literature has seen sales of between 500,000 and 1 million books every week since the start of January, Nielsen BookScan shows. The real standout? Industry giant Harlequin, where revenue rose 2.2 percent in 2008 to $472.9 million, according to Publishers Weekly.
But forget simpering Sally the wench – modern romance novelists have updated the heroine to reflect the modern woman. And for the ultimate fantasy, the reader can even star in her own custom tale.
“People are looking for escapism right now,” explains Jonathan Segura, the magazine’s deputy reviews editor. “It also doesn’t hurt that a lot of romance titles are mass market, so they’re cheaper than your average paperback, between $6 and $8. They’re the impulse buy at the grocery store that have the Fabio dude on the cover. It’s cheap entertainment.”
You know the drill: Cleavage galore. Throbbing manhood. Two souls joined as one.
LSD, Easter Island, science fiction and, of course, Lorne Michaels, all played a role in developing the Coneheads sketch for “Saturday Night Live,” The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports. Writer Tom Davis, who was Al Franken’s comedy partner, said the origins included a drug trip he had where his forehead grew 10 inches, a vacation he and Dan Aykroyd took to the statues of Easter Island, the classic “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clarke, and Michaels’ directive to “put it in the living room.” Arriving after Seth Meyers, Paul Shaffer and Lisa Loeb at a book party at Comix to celebrate Davis’ memoir, “Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss,” creator Michaels immediately gravitated toward the ice sculpture of himself on the bar. He snapped a picture of it, and said, “It’s very sweet. I’ve never been sculpted in ice before.”
