Monday, July 20th, 2009
Over the last couple of weeks I've spent a lot of time gearing up for this Wednesday's How I Learned We Were Breaking Up. How? Well, thank you for asking. I've been watching a lot of heartbreaking music videos on the YouTubes. I've made different breakup mixes to suit the various stages of grief. I've re-read love letters from old boyfriends, torn up their photos (but then glued them back together), and I've been weeping a lot. Angry tears, mostly. I've also overfed the cat, neglected to shower, and I've eaten a pint of ice cream in one sitting on several occasions while asking myself questions like, "Why can't you just fucking let it go?" or "What would Alanis do?"
Anyway, this is just how I'm preparing myself. I'm kind of a method-host. You probably have your own technique.
Question: What's the worst/best/weirdest way someone has broken up with you or you've broken up with someone? (That someone could be your therapist, your BFF, a relative, etc....) I want to know! Email me at howilearned at gmail dot com.
See you Wednesday!
xoxo Blaise
HOW I LEARNED WE WERE BREAKING UP
Featuring:
DAN ALLEN, MENACHEM KAISER, LYNN HARRIS + DIANA SPECHLER
Wednesday, July 22nd
8pm (Doors open at 7)
Happy Ending
302 Broome Street
(between Forsyth & Eldridge)
FREE!
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Since 2009, How I Learned has featured some of the best live storytelling, comedy, and readings in New York City. It all happens a couple of times a year, and sometimes more than that, which basically means you'll have the best night of you life on those nights, repeatedly.
YOUR HOST:
Blaise Allysen Kearsley is a Brooklyn-based writer and the creator, producer, and host of How I Learned, which has been a thing for a super long time. She has performed at The Moth, RISK!, Mortified, Literary Death Match, and many other shows. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Midnight Breakfast, VICE, The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown, two anthologies, and in several other places a long time ago that don't even exist anymore, and are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. She also teaches creative nonfiction to other so-called grownups. Learn how to pronounce all three of her names at blaiseallysenkearsley.com.