Monday, January 31st, 2011
WELL. As you may have heard How I Learned turned TWO last week. To help celebrate
Maggie Estep,
James Hannaham,
Ryan Britt, and
Amy Shapiro held forth on the theme
How I Learned I Was Basically in Love With You, and special musical guest members of
Lloyd United, played a ukelele and percuss version of Duran Duran's "Rio." Wait. What? I know! The night was wet and slushy and it was fixing to blizzard but you people still packed the room. Thank you, you people. I am basically in love with all of you.
Here are photos from last week. They were taken by the great
Jon Boulier. We're off to a great season. Everything is great.
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| MR. RYAN BRITT. He appears on stahge regularly in storytelling shows all across this crazy city. Here he almost looks like a cross between Jonathan Ames and my boyfriend's best friend who lives in Athens, Georgia but none of that has anything to do with anything. |
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| I stood at the ready holding AMY SHAPIRO's cocktails while she read her ode to booze. See her comedy show AKA Pants every 2nd Tuesday at Parkside Lounge. |
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| I told you when I invited you that there might be party hats. |
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We won this book by Maggie Estep! And we love our glasses and our hats! |
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| The amazing MAGGIE ESTEP. Wish I had a drink ticket for every girl who told me Maggie changed their life. |
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| CUTE. |
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| Half of this table was Hats Only. Cheers! |
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| I don't know, I just like it. |
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| Those two again. |
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| He's looking at his special one-of-a-kind party favor! HE LOVES IT! Also, he was really into the hat. |
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| More cuteness. But they weren't into the hats so much. |
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God Says No auteur JAMES HANNAHAM. Oh, man. I am definitely basically in love with him. |
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| This is Lloyd of LLOYD UNITED, one part pop ukulele outfit, one part hooligan prog rock experience and one part beer-soaked Irish drinking song mob. Just out of frame is a dude on percussion. His name is Dave. |
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| They. Are. Loving. It. And not only because they happen to be friends of mine. |
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They wore the party hats and blew the whistle-horn-whizzer things. I don't know who they are but I'm pretty into their enthusiasm.
PS. Come back 2/23 for How I Learned There Might Be Some Issues: Stories About Therapy (details coming soon), and get on the mailing list by just asking!
PPS. [UPDATE: The 2011 cals have sold out but you can still donate!] You can buy a 2011 Unexpected Pitbull calendar featuring Maggie Estep and her dog Mickey! (We gave one away at the show.) Maggie says: "It's a great cause, 100% of profits go to helping the hundreds of thousands of pits in shitty situations... So many HUGE misconceptions about these dogs, it's heartbreaking." |
