BrickBat Revue

We spend so much time at our computers, online, social media that sometimes we forget how wonderful it is to read/perform live.  To unplug, and be present.  With people.

Tuesday night was Mardi Gras.  The evening of 99% Guerrilla Literature at BrickBat Revue in the wonderful Brewery Art Colony.  What a cool space, cool place to read.  The Brewery Art Colony now provides loft housing to artists, but it was once the home of Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery.

Bronwyn Mauldin, a talented writer and founder of Guerrilla Reads, kicked the evening off with stellar footage from the Occupy LA Movement.  Robert Stuart Lowden's photographs are stunning and transports you there.  Mathew Timmons chorale work will change the way you read your junk mail forever.  Thank you, Tika, for inviting us into BrickBat Revue.

I's important to support your independent publishers, independent voices.   Support works that provoke, inspire, entertain, push, pull, stretch.  It's the only way we grow, change, evolve.

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

Power of Stories

In case you missed me, I've been blogging at the Annenberg Beach House as their writer in residence.  I can't believe how busy I've been, how fast time flies, and how powerful story circles are.

Feel blessed for all the press requests.  I was thrilled when Jason Kehe, a journalist from LA Magazine, came down Saturday to interview me before my second story circle, a tribute to Marion Davies, her gift of comedy, "Be Revolutionary:  Stand Up and Laugh."

There were about 25 people, with a few latecomers, occupying the Sand & Surf room over the pool.  It was so much fun, bursting with love and laughter.  We shared embarrassing moments, worst dates/Valentines, favorite comics, and stories of how humor enabled us to overcome.  

Is comedy = tragedy + time?

Comedy that left turn?  That kink in your plans?

Participants thanked me for creating a safe space where we can connect, remember who we were, who we are, and where we want to be.

Sharing stories is like swapping spit, kissing.  Creates an intimacy and a longing that you never want to end.  So, as the clock struck 4, R & R invited everyone to their home in Topanga Canyon at a future date to be determined to continue our love and laughter.  Just like the first story circle, history repeated itself.  Independently, too.  R & R did not know that after the first story circle, E & S invited us to their home.

Behold the power of your stories.  Our stories.

Be there, Tuesday night, for 99% Guerrilla Literature, 100% Fun
 http://youtu.be/Da_8c2OVHt4