Valentine's Day: Worst. Sex. Ever. IV.

Subject: Valentine's Day: Worst. Sex. Ever. IV.

FYI, gang... this is going to be the 4th anniversary show for my lil' reading series, and a hella fun way to spend Valentine's Day. Advance tickets are available, but they're selling fast -- and we just got a big feature in the entertainment section of the Post today, so if you wanna come you should buy your tickets soon!



The WYSIWYG Talent Show Celebrates
THREE YEARS OF REALLY BAD SEX
with "Worst. Sex. Ever. IV: Getting It Ain’t Getting Any Better"
an Anti-Valentine's Day Celebration
ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AT WYSIWYGTALENTSHOW.ORG

Can you believe it's WYSIWYG's fourth birthday?! The WYSIWYG Talent Show was born in February 2004 when eleven intrepid bloggers got onstage to recount hilarious tales of cringeworthy seductions, sharing the intimate details of the worst sexual encounters they'd ever had. To everyone’s surprise, the show completely sold out with lines around the block, launching a monthly series of themed readings and performances from some of the blogosphere's best and funniest writers, musicians, comedians, and performance artists. On February 14, 2007 we celebrate our fourth birthday! Over the past three years we have presented nearly 150 bloggers telling stories, cracking jokes, singing songs, and even showing films!

So this Valentine's Day bring someone you love to our fourth annual celebration of terrible trysts and unfortunate couplings: “Worst. Sex. Ever. IV: Getting It Ain’t Getting Any Better.”

Worst. Sex. Ever. IV. performs Wednesday, February 14 at The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston). Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and the show show starts at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $7.00 and are available in advance at the WYSIWYG Talent Show website.

With performances by:

* Becky Ciletti (thefacetime.blogspot.com)
* Joe Jervis (JoeMyGod.blogspot.com)
* Heather Ann Snodgrass (fauxy.net)
* Jon W. Collins (JonWCollins.livejournal.com)
* Stroll (TheButchStroll.blogspot.com)
* Chris Hampton (uffish.com)

About the performers:

Originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Becky Ciletti has been doing stand-up, sketch and improvisational comedy in New York City for over 5 years. She writes for Conde Nast Traveler, Time Out New York, and The Apiary as well as her own site, thefacetime.blogspot.com, where she covers the NYC comedy scene. Her skin is normal. Not dry. Not oily.

Joe Jervis is the southern-born son of Newark refugees. He has worked for a newspaper, a radio station, a television station, a theatre company, a record company and a magazine publisher. He looks forward to new media being invented, so that he can fail at those too. Joe is the director of Pride magazine, the official guide to Pride nationwide, and has been writing his personal blog, JoeMyGod.blogspot.com, since May 2004. Joe is featured in the recent Carroll & Graf anthology From Boys to Men: Personal Essays of Gay Coming of Age.

Heather Ann Snodgrass is an Australian-born, Canadian-educated alien who moved to New York from San Diego last December to counter the severe shortage of freelance writers in the city. She rose to Internet fame in the fall of 2005 as one of the writers behind the parody blog, Tale of Two Sisters (goldsteins.typepad.com) and now serves as Gawker.com’s Editorial Assistant. A sucker for emotionally and otherwise unavailable men, Heather finds herself inexplicably drawn to dive bars with satellite jukeboxes and she can probably drink you under the table. Her burgeoning alcoholism is well documented at fauxy.net, and she doesn't really give a shit what you think about her, unless it's regarding her mad fellatio skillz or her collection of adorably girly shoes.

Jon Collins (JonWCollins.livejournal.com) recently discovered that even marrying well can’t pay for an MFA. When not designing scenery at NYU... well, since Jon’s in grad school that's really all he has time for, so there isn't much to say. He apologizes to his friends for dropping off the map these past two years. He’ll be back when he graduates.

Stroll (TheButchStroll.blogspot.com) is a secretary for one of the largest religious organizations in the world, which is very glamorous. He is painfully shy but loves attention. His crowning achievements include appearing in the American Philosophical Association’s Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, blogging for Bitch, PhD, beating a 300-pound Irishman in a drinking contest, and meeting Dolly Parton, who said she loves him too, honey. His origins are uncertain. He is tougher than he looks.

WYSIWYG Talent Show creator and curator Chris Hampton has been blogging at Uffish Thoughts (uffish.com) since blogging wasn’t cool. Okay, it’s still not, really, but whatever. By day, she works at a Big Gay Nonprofit and in her spare time she knits, pimps WYSIWYG at every possible opportunity, and obsesses over punctuation. She grew up in Arkansas but has since fully recovered.

About WYSIWYG:

“Urban Storytelling for the Internet Age” – Now entering its fourth year, the WYSIWYG Talent Show is a monthly series of readings and performances by bloggers living in or visiting NYC. Each installment is an evening of funny and touching stories, songs, and performances from some of the best writers and most interesting personalities on the Web. More information can be found at www.wysiwygtalentshow.org.