Slog - Comments on A Good Reading Is Hard to Find http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find You know readings? Where you sit and listen to someone reading you something they wrote? And they usually have an embarrassed look, wincing slightly at their own words? And you feel weird witnessing this? And all everyone wants to is be somewhere else, or at least have a drink? The good thing about the reading series at the Bus Stop is that the readers aren't reading their own work. And of course, it's a bar. And the readers tonight are excellent. They include Erica C. Barnett, inventor of the viaduct; Josh Feit, the famous hippie; the lustful David Schmader; Town... Copyright 2008 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:49:01 -0800 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:09:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by tiptoe tommy Josh is right, Erica does look like Flannery O'Connor.

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/.../m-459.jpg

Is that a bicycle chain around Flannery's neck?

]]> tiptoe tommy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c630743 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c630743 Conflict of Interest Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:34:08 -0800 Comment by chr dude, your link goes nowhere.

]]> chr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c630992 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c630992 Conflict of Interest Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:35:05 -0800 Comment by wf If they're going to read their writing at the Bus Stop, they might as well read 4 years' worth of Stranger paeans to density.

]]> wf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c631141 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c631141 Conflict of Interest Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:16:38 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell WF-- funny, but not the point.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c631201 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c631201 Conflict of Interest Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:43:41 -0800 Comment by celisea Dan is slumming at the Bus Stop?

I like the place, but if the building was not going down, it could not pass a code inspection......

Paean to Dentistry - is that Josh singing? Erica on the flute.

]]> celisea http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c631875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c631875 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:39:15 -0800 Comment by Justin Dobbs Christopher, while I agree that readings in Seattle, or anywhere, for that matter, can be dull, to me it's more a matter of setting and curatorial laziness that accounts for the tedious quality of some of these readings. For example, Stacey Levine is an experienced and incredibly funny reader, but at the University Bookstore, where I saw her read recently with another great reader, Matt Briggs, it was impossible to believe that the bookstore had put any effort into making the reading an event worth noticing.

Sure, I'm willing to believe that the Bus Stop reading could be a blast, especially considering that Anna Maria Hong will be reading, but don't insult Seattle writers by suggesting it's their fault that their readings aren't fun, it's more because many of the venues available seem to want their readers to be like kindergarden teachers, giving us all a soothing reading with a smart little lesson at the end.

]]> Justin Dobbs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c632736 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/a_good_reading_is_hard_to_find#c632736 Conflict of Interest Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:09:05 -0800