Hello! Let's take a moment to celebrate some good-time news from the How I Learned Alumni department.
CLAUDIA COGAN killed on Last Comic Standing tonight! She was adorbs. Did you see it? Sorry I forgot to tell you sooner. Is this a spoiler? ...Boy, I hope she makes it! Two other lady comics and previous HIL performers are featured on The Frisky as ones to watch and also laugh at: CHELSEA PERETTI, GIULIA ROZZI. Meanwhile, ROSIE SCHAAP has gone dutch (that's World Cup talk) on NPR, LIAM MCENEANEY is making a live concert movie out of Tell Your Friends!, MIKE ALBO (handsomely pictured) wrote The Twinkle Takeover for New York mag, DIANA SPECHLER has a Modern Love piece in the New York Times, and there are books on the shelves right now, or coming this summer, from How I Learned readers including BEN GREENMAN (What He's Poised To Do
I should probably add that I know there is even more going on out there but frankly, I can't keep up. I'm just one little me and there are only about eight or nine hours in the day, I think. However, I can assure you that I support everyone and everything they do forever even if I have no idea what they're up to.
While I'm doing that, I hope you'll plan on coming to next week's HOW I LEARNED MUSIC COULD CHANGE MY LIFE on June 23rd for giveaways, a special guest (!), and an excellent lineup of smart folks -- Rob Sheffield, Ben Lerman, Daniel Nester and, as mentioned, Erin Bradley -- musing on music in a seriously laugh-out-loud kind of way. The good times just keep coming. Weird!