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Posted by Ringmaster at February 27, 2006 08:21 PM

The next WYSIWYG is on March 21at our new home at Bowery Poetry Club! More info coming soon, swear. In the meantime, check out these offerings from 'WYG alums:

MIXED TAPE
Wednesday, March 1st at 9 pm
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction
34 Ave. A between 2nd and 3rd Streets
$5 - super-cheap!

Featuring 'WYGgers Carolyn Castiglia and Desiree Burch! Also Ophira Eisenberg and Tom McCaffrey from Comedy Central and a whole buncha other people.

Advanced tix to see Dan Fishback in "No Direction Homo" are $10 until March 1st, after which they go up to $15. Tickets are available at P.S. 122 (3-day passes will be $30 before and after March 1st, for the truly industrious performance art fanatics.)

Schoolhouse Roxx presents:
NO DIRECTION HOMO: The Many Identical Personae of Dan Fishback
March 9-11, 9pm, P.S.122 (150 1st Avenue)
$15 door, $10 adv. (thru March 1)
$30 for a 3-night pass.

Raunchy performance artist, sensitive singer-songwriter, rock-n-roll nincompoop: Dan Fishback is the quintessential Renaissance Queer, with more disguises than Madonna and more projects than Harlem. NO DIRECTION HOMO celebrates the chaotic life of this 24-year-old, up-and-coming anti-diva, in all his exhausted, over-extended glory.

Night One, JAMZ FROM THE JESTER'S KITCHEN, showcases Fishback's childlike, anti-folk power-pop band Cheese On Bread, along with dance-rock BFFs The Bloodsugars, and downtown puberty-freaks The O'Debra Twins.

Night Two, STORIES FROM THE PRINCE'S TOILET, presents a performance art mix-tape, with highlights from Fishback's brief but prolific career as a playwright and monologist. Underscored by the music of Dibson Hoffweiler and Preston Spurlock, Fishback weaves together a dozen stories of desire,
distress, and bodily functions to create a portrait of queer confusion at the dawn of the apocalypse.

Night Three, SONGS FROM THE QUEEN'S TERRACE, closes the festival with Fishback at his most intense, as a focused, feisty queer troubadour, armed with an acoustic guitar and a collection of songs from both his debut album, "Sweet Chastity," and his upcoming release, "Mammal." The evening begins with surrealist balladeers The Tri-Lambs, and a special, miraculous appearance by legendary feminist performance artist and playwright Deb Margolin.

And don't miss Rachel Kramer Bussel's
In the Flesh Erotic Reading Series
Wednesday, March 15 at 8 PM
Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street
(B/D to Grand, J/M/Z to Bowery, F to Delancey)
Admission: Free
Happy Ending Lounge: 212-334-9676

In March, In The Flesh features several of today's most prominent erotic writers. Laura Antoniou is beloved by the BDSM community for her ongoing Marketplace series, as well as her diverse erotic fiction and kink-oriented lectures. Debra Hyde runs the blog Pursed Lips and has contributed to numerous anthologies, including Leather, Lace and Lust and Best Lesbian Erotica 2006. Maxim Jakubowski, who's edited 13 volumes of The Mammoth Book of Erotica series and written numerous erotic novels, makes a rare appearance from his home in London. Host Rachel Kramer Bussel will read her story, "Taking It All," from the new anthology Aqua Erotica 2. Copies of Aqua Erotica 2, The Mammoth
Book of Erotica, and The Catalyst and Other Works will be given away throughout the evening.