July National Address is upon us! The literary mash-up is really starting to take form, & we hope to tighten it up further. Passages will shorten & play will accelerate, like a game of verbal hot potato! Please bring a book with you, of any genre, length, origin, & content. Everyone will be involved, & at the end, anyone interested can swap books until the next meeting.

We really appreciate April keeping Barista Coffee House open for us, & do not wish to keep her there any later than necessary, so please plan to begin at 7pm. Don’t forget the after-reading bar stroll! We will once again retire to High Dive, around the corner at 1938 W Chicago Ave, for food & drink specials sometime after 8:30.

Also, start thinking about your back-to-school essay for August National Address (Thursday, August 19): How I may or may not have spent my summer vacation. Don’t worry about cohesion or chronology; think cinematic climax & priceless one-liners. It is to be our most exciting mash-up yet!

National Address is the Gothic Funk Nation’s official reading circle, a safe and friendly place to informally workshop works-in-progress. Consisting of readings and round table discussions, the National Address aims to provide a forum for writers of all Gothicly Funky stripes and a voice for the Gothic Funk Nation. Attendance is open and participants are welcome to bring unsolicited material.

National Address

Thursday, July 22, 7-9pm

Barista Coffee House, 852 N Damen Ave.

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Now then, an explanation of the title of the post:

Traditionally, comics and magazines with the volume number set to zero are meant to be explanations of the origins of the series. All is supposed to be revealed. However, in this case, I use it in the “Pol Potian” (word?) way to mean “making a new start.”

As announced at July’s Tuesday Funk, I, your friendly neighborhood Reinhardt Suarez, will no longer be hosting this exciting and intrepid reading series (every first Tuesday of the month at Hopleaf Bar–check it out!). I cannot express how fun it has been to see this reading grow into what it is, and how fun it has been to help it along in the minuscule ways that I have.

But fear not! Though we were hoping LeBron would actually sign with us, we did have a backup plan.  And that involved sending me, two draft picks to be named later, a collection of Stevie Nicks CDs, and three large pepperoni pizzas to an undisclosed reading in far-flung Minneapolis for the rights to Sara Ross, a veteran host from such illustrious places as New York City (city of glamor and fame!) and Washington D.C. (city of knife fights and jowly men in suits making bad decisions with ill-gotten gains!)

He broke our hearts, too. Tonight, we are all Cleveland.

Sara, along with Tuesday Funk stalwart, Hallie Palladino, will continue to bring you eclectic nights of fiction, essays, and poetry at the same TF-time and same TF-channel. So please stay tuned.

*Cue sunset, me walking toward it, and finding out that it’s a matte painting.*

RS

It’s once again time for your regular monthly serving of Tuesday Funk! As always, we have a gaggle of great readers, and as always, we are at Hopleaf, home of beer, frites, and the best audience in the Chicagoland area. So end your Fourth of July weekend the right way with us. We’ll bring the bag of chips if you bring the “all that.”

This month’s readers:

Lisa Ann Acosta

Kevin Kane

Dan Duffy

June National Address will be literary mash-up 3! Please bring a book with you, of any genre, length, origin, & content. Everyone will be involved, & at the end, anyone interested can swap books until the next meeting.

Last month we saw the return of the evening bar stroll. Cleos was a little crowded, so we hopped across the street to High Dive, where we found spacious booths & both food & drink specials. Whenever we have had enough fun at Barista, perhaps around 8:30 or 9:00, we will make our way to High Dive again!

National Address is the Gothic Funk Nation’s official reading circle, a safe and friendly place to informally workshop works-in-progress. Consisting of readings and round table discussions, the National Address aims to provide a forum for writers of all Gothicly Funky stripes and a voice for the Gothic Funk Nation. Attendance is open and participants are welcome to bring unsolicited material.

National Address

Thursday, June 24, 7-9pm

Barista Coffee House, 852 N Damen Ave.

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Please join us for the launch of Issue #3 of the Paramanu Pentaquark: A Gothic Funk Journal.

Launch Information:
Saturday, June 19th
Pre-Launch Explorations at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave., 1 PM
Launch Party at 2620 W. Washington Blvd. (dial 002 from the entrance on Talman and take elevator to roof on 7), 3 PM
Afterparty at Johnny’s IceHouse West (hockey rink and bar), 7 PM

$10 admission includes a CD-ROM copy of Issue #3, grilled lunch, picnic fare, and drinks.
An additional $5 includes a CD-ROM copy of Issue #1 or #2 while supplies last.
Please RSVP (meat or vegan).

This issue will feature the work of Elisabeth Blair, Keith Cagney, Erin Coleman-Cruz, Betsy Curtis, Caroline Elbaor, Thad Higa, Arlene Malinowski, Cecil McDonald, Dion Mindykowski, Uhuru Phalafala, Wade Redfearn, Marcy Sheldon, and Rachel Theofanis.

Hi all!

Come join us for another explosive Tuesday Funk!

Where: Hopleaf Bar

When: June 1, 2010, 7:30 PM

Readers: Sean Manning, Truly Render, Sara Ross, and Cesar Torres

May National Address continues on the success we had with the literary mash-up in April! Please bring a book with you, of any genre, length, origin, & content. Among other titles, last month we were treated to lumberjack poetry, modern drunkard tales, sound relationship advice, tapas recipes, & stuff white people like. Everyone will be involved.

This month we will also bring back the evening bar stroll. Sometime betweween 8 & 9 we will pick up from Barista, & head down to Cleos patio at 1935 W Chicago. Cleos is restricted to those 21 & up only.

National Address is the Gothic Funk Nation’s official reading circle, a safe and friendly place to informally workshop works-in-progress. Consisting of readings and round table discussions, the National Address aims to provide a forum for writers of all Gothicly Funky stripes and a voice for the Gothic Funk Nation. Attendance is open and participants are welcome to bring unsolicited material.

National Address

Thursday, May 20, 7-9pm

Barista Coffee House, 852 N Damen Ave.

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It is time once again to invite you to a Tuesday Funk Reading. After our one-month hiatus, we are back to bring you awesome readers, awesome beers, and cool company. So if you’re a TF veteran, welcome back! And if you’re new to TF, what the hell are you waiting for?

April National Address is to be a real reading circle!  Please bring a book with you, of any genre, length, origin, & content.  Choose one you are very familiar with – you are going to want to be able to think of a passage, & flip to it.  Don’t choose one you are uncomfortable reading aloud.  Everyone will be involved.

National Address is the Gothic Funk Nation’s official reading circle, a safe and friendly place to informally workshop works-in-progress. Consisting of readings and round table discussions, the National Address aims to provide a forum for writers of all Gothicly Funky stripes and a voice for the Gothic Funk Nation. Attendance is open and participants are welcome to bring unsolicited material.

National Address

Thursday, April 22, 7-9pm

Barista Coffee House, 852 N Damen Ave.

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Until then, have at thee.

Love, Reinhardt (also on behalf of Connor Coyne and Hallie Palladino)