{"id":1016,"date":"2012-04-06T02:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T06:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2012-04-06T02:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T06:48:36","slug":"fun-at-housing-works-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/fun-at-housing-works-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun at Housing Works NYC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1016\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffun-at-housing-works-nyc%2F&amp;text=Fun%20at%20Housing%20Works%20NYC%21&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffun-at-housing-works-nyc%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/fun-at-housing-works-nyc\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">(Photo courtesy of Mindy Tucker, <a href=\"http:\/\/withreservation.com\/\">http:\/\/www.withreservation.com<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<p>Hi! The other night I delivered a &#8220;lecture&#8221; for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adult-ed.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adult Education<\/a><\/span> (&#8220;America&#8217;s favorite useless lecture series&#8221;) at the always wonderful Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe in SoHo.\u00a0The photos are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/withreservation.photoshelter.com\/gallery\/Adult-Education-at-Housing-Works-April-3-2012\/G0000f20XbI5hH3E\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/span>. They are by Mindy Tucker of With Reservation. As you can see from her <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/withreservation.com\/comedyshow.html\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a><\/span>, she does fantastic work and\u00a0has shot ALL of comedy. Every bit of it.<\/p>\n<p>The whole night was terrific. Miranda K. Pennington dissected the role of the &#8220;3rd questioner,&#8221; aka that person during every Q&amp;A session who uses the opportunity to sate their own need for attention. (Common 3rd Questioner opening: &#8220;As an Anglophile myself, I&#8230;&#8221;) Then I talked about recovering from recovery, recounting the time I was 18 and was convinced I was an alcoholic. (Spoiler alert: I was not.) Jason Torchinsky revealed the 19th century cars that came before the &#8220;first car,&#8221; and made a lively, convincing case for telling Mercedes-Benz to go fuck itself. (As if we needed a new reason.) Finally, Ritch Duncan and Bob Powers, authors of\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Werewolfs-Guide-Life-ebook\/dp\/B002OK2OOO\/ref=kinw_dp_ke?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2\" target=\"_blank\">The Werewolf&#8217;s Guide To Life: A Manual for the Newly Bitten<\/a><\/span>, taught us how to handle our first experience as lycanthropes. It was a fun night during which I accidentally learned some things. Oh no! Also: Charles Star created and hosts the monthly Adult Ed series. Check him out on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ugarles\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>! He was funny and generous, and did a great job of keeping the momentum going through four very different lectures.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this was my second reading\/event in TWO MONTHS. I always forget how much I love doing live readings! And then I do one and I&#8217;m all, &#8220;Holy cow, where can I do this again? Like, <em>now<\/em>!&#8221; And then it&#8217;s two years later. But not this time, bub. I&#8217;m going to do more live things in 2012, or DIE TRYING! That is my pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1016\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffun-at-housing-works-nyc%2F&amp;text=Fun%20at%20Housing%20Works%20NYC%21&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Ffun-at-housing-works-nyc%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>I &#8220;lectured&#8221; creative-nonfiction-style at Housing Works Bookstore &#038; Cafe for the Adult Education series. And there are pictures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}