I'm a little sick today, but that's not going to stop me! I feel better than I did yesterday and am going to trust that a good night's sleep tonight will fix me right up.

Tomorrow my super-talented friend Crystal Hoffman and I will be heading to New York City to perform at the Dada Poetry Salon at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Crystal is my partner in crime for the TypewriterGirls, and is an amazing poet to boot. (You can read her poetry in Weave issue 01 - only 7 copies left!, FRiGG, and soon in A cappella Zoo's sure-to-be-fabulous 4th issue! I do love A cappella Zoo. If you order issue 4 by March 20th you can get a free copy of issue 1, and, lo and behold, that's the one I'm in! It's the TypewriterGirls Special!)

In less than a month the AWP will be upon us. Weave and the TypewriterGirls will both be heading to this writer party to end all writer parties. Weave will be sharing a table with Open Thread, Caketrain, Pear Noir!, and a couple other Pittsburgh literary lovelies and I will be speaking on the panel The In Sound from Way Out: From Submission to Publication along with editors from Pank, Hobart, Lumberyard, and Bateau. It's way more fun and awesomeness than should be allowed on a Thursday morning, quite frankly.

That very same day Crystal and I will have to crash in some famous poet's hotel room for a nap (we're thinking Gary Snyder), because Thursday night the TypewriterGirls are performing at the Mercury Cafe along with an eclectic array of poets, including TypewriterGirls favorite, Sandra Beasley! Yay! Come witness TypewriterGirls Do Dead Poets - we promise to be entertaining. Also to give you whiskey.

The TypewriterGirls Save the Libraries video footage!

At long last there is video footage of the sketches from The TypewriterGirls Save the Libraries!

I'm especially happy with how these came out. Really, who can resist pink footie pajamas, the cell poeterrorism organization, 1970's Romanian communist party films, and bad monkey fun houses all in the name of saving the Carnegie Libraries?

The numbers on the videos themselves are a little messed up -- the order they are in below is the order which they appeared in during the show.

This show features acting and writing not only from the lovely Crystal Jean Hoffman and acting by myself, but also the writing and acting skills of the very-talented Sean Collier. Also some narration by Dave Doyle, who is an official TypewriterGirl. Also a guest appearance by the lovely Franco Dok Harris, who puts up with my and Crystal's shenanigans quite graciously.

So watch! Enjoy! I'm still working on that entry on mentorship.