— This one time, at blog camp... —

Posted by Ringmaster at July 12, 2005 07:14 PM

The WYSIWYG Talent Show, the first-ever all-blogger series of readings and performances, brings you a celebration of mosquito bites, bunk beds, toasted marshmallows, and makeout sessions behind the dining hall with “Greetings from Lake WYSIWYG: Summer Camp Stories”!

Tuesday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m. at
Performance Space 122
150 1st Ave. at East 9th St.
Tickets: $7 - click here to purchase tickets in advance from TicketWeb, or call the P.S. 122 box office at 212-477-5288.

WYSIWYG performers for July:

* Susie Felber (http://felberfrolics.blogspot.com)
* Claudia Cogan (http://getthefoutofhere.blogspot.com)
* Jim Barrett (http://www.jimbo.info/weblog)
* Sarah Weinman (http://www.sarahweinman.com)
* Jonny Goldstein (http://www.jonnygoldstein.com)
* Jess Hulett (http://www.blindcavefish.com)

Performer bios after the jump.

Susie Felber is a writer and comedian who has written and/or produced for Comedy Central, Lifetime, ABC Development and MTV Specials. She's written for Cosmopolitan, Women Who Rock magazine, co-authored a CD-ROM game for Simon & Schuster and has been a contributor to US Weekly’s “Fashion Police” since dinosaurs ruled the land. She's appeared on MTV2, Oxygen and multiple times on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" as a whore. By day, she's Copy Jockey at Court TV. By night, she dons a bit more powder and performs her socks off.

Claudia Cogan, the comedian behind getthefoutofhere.blogspot.com, lives a double life. Trapped in an office for eight hours a day, she then unleashes her rantings, tortured and fantastical, to the audiences of New York by night. A writer as well as a stand up, she believes that the personal essay is the quickest way to get rich in our society and can't wait for the checks to start arriving. She encourages everyone except her bosses to Google her.

Originally from Wisconsin, Jim Barrett has been a resident of Washington, DC for about eight years. He has a checkered past as a park ranger, ferry naturalist, and Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakstan. After spending some time spinning his wheels on the .com skid row, he landed a nice job at the University of Maryland doing web and newsletter stuff. He finds it challenging to focus on his work, especially
during the generally shirtless and sweaty la crosse training camp in August right outside his office window. Jim has been blogging on Jimbo.info since 1999, and had an early proto-blog long before that.

Sarah Weinman started blogging at www.sarahweinman.com in October 2003 to procrastinate writing her master's thesis. Though the thing got finished, she couldn't stop blogging and it led her down some strange paths, like freelance book reviews for the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail, stories published online and in print, and a monthly crime fiction column for the Baltimore Sun. She's moved far too many times to count but after two years in exile, she's back to where she belongs: living in Manhattan.

Jonny Goldstein is a comedian, TV host, and narcissist, living in New York City. Jonny regularly unleashes his comedic inner beast on stage, cable, and his videoblog, jonnygoldstein.com. His inner beast does not bite, and that drool on your socks will come right out with a little hand soap.

Jess Hulett started www.blindcavefish.com in the Spring of 2003 because she was bored at her temp job. These days, she writes promo copy for a dot-com. She wants to be a rock star when she grows up, but she'll settle for a book deal. Her work has appeared in Bitch Magazine and McSweeney's, and she whores herself out, both literally and figuratively, on Cosmopolitan's Bedroom Blog at www.cosmomag.com.