— Oh, yeah. It's ON. —

Posted by Ringmaster at February 1, 2006 12:02 AM

Uh mah gah, my baby is going to be THREE!

Oh yeah. You heard me. Three. THREE! And it's not just going to be any old WYSIWYG show. We're going to have music, booze, dancing, and hookers! Okay, maybe not hookers. But then again, maybe we will. I need to come up with an apartment deposit, after all. So mark your calendars for February 14, take the next day off work for the impending hangover, and buy your tickets now because this one WILL sell out!

The WYSIWYG Talent Show Celebrates
TWO YEARS OF REALLY BAD SEX
with "Worst. Sex. Ever. III: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People"
an Anti-Valentine's Day Celebration
7:30pm
February 14, 2006 at P.S. 122
150 First Ave. at E. 9th St.
Tickets: $7. Cheep! Click here to purchase advance tix.

In February 2004, eleven intrepid bloggers took to the stage of P.S. 122 to recount hilarious tales of cringe-worthy seductions and share the intimate details of the worst sex they'd ever had. The show was completely sold out with lines around the block, launching The WYSIWYG Talent Show, a monthly series of themed readings and performances from some of the blogosphere's best and funniest writers, musicians, comedians and performance artists.

On February 14, 2006 we celebrate our third birthday! Over the past two years we have presented over 100 bloggers telling stories, cracking jokes, singing songs, and even showing films! So this Valentine's Day bring someone you love to our third annual celebration of terrible trysts and unfortunate couplings: "Worst. Sex. Ever. III: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People."

The show will include appearances by comedian Todd Levin (Comedy Central), writer "The Assimilated Negro" (Village Voice, Gawker.com) and John "Jonno" D'Addario, editor of the web's most notorious sexblog, Fleshbot.com, among others. Featuring music by dj:ayden and a post-show reception with drinks and dancing this is sure to be a fun-filled anti-Valentine's day soiree.

The WYSIWYG Talent Show's "Worst. Sex. Ever. III: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People" performs Tuesday, February 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Performance Space 122 (150 1st Ave. at East 9th St.) Tickets are $7 and can be purchased online here or by phone at 212-352-3101. For more information visit www.ps122.org or call 212-477-5288.

With performances by:

* Todd Levin (http://Tremble.com)
* John "Jonno" D'Addario (http://jonno.com, http://Fleshbot.com)
* Hanne Blank (http://misia.livejournal.com and http://hanneblank.com)
* Greg Walloch (http://gregwallochblog.blogspot.com/)
* Desiree Burch (http://mebigyoulittle.blogspot.com/)
* The Assimilated Negro (http://theassimilatednegro.blogspot.com/)
* Audacia Ray (http://wakingvixen.com)
* Emily Deprang (http://pigeoninthesun.blogspot.com)
* With music from dj:ayden (http://thebutchcaucus.blogspot.com)

Performer bios after the jump.

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Todd Levin is a writer and comedian. His writing has been published in Salon, McSweeney's, The Modern Humorist, HEEB Magazine, and The Onion. He performs all over the city, and can be seen telling jokes on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, and at the upcoming U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Todd is also the co-creator and co-host of the popular monthly comedy reading show, "How to Kick People," and the human being responsible for the web site tremble.com. Not to sound braggy or anything.

John "Jonno" d'Addario has maintained his website, jonno.com, in various stages of upkeep since its launch in 1996, and he has been the editor of Fleshbot.com since its launch in October 2003. He lives in New Orleans with his partner, their four dogs and a cat. His sex life is usually not as bad as his reading tonight would lead you to believe.

Hanne Blank is a writer, historian, and public speaker whose sixth book, a history of virginity in the West, is due out in 2006 from Bloomsbury. You can read her at misia.livejournal.com, hanneblank.com, and in bookstores worldwide. She is happy to say that since meeting her life partner nine years ago, she has entirely given up having bad sex.

Greg Walloch is a writer and performer who has appeared across the United States and in many countries throughout the world. He most recently appeared at Castle of Imagination: the International Performance Art Festival in Poland and at Performance Art Platform in Tel Aviv. Greg's writing is featured in the books Queer Crips from Haworth Press and Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge from Routledge. For more information visit GregWalloch.com, and check out his blog at gregwallochblog.blogspot.com.

Desiree Burch (mebigyoulittle.blogspot.com) is a writer, comedian, actress, New York NeoFuturist, and host of Smut Reading and Performance series, Monday nights at Galapagos Artspace. Her full-length solo pieces are Sit-Down, Careless and Greatest Hits. Her work has been featured at Dixon Place, P.S. 122, Caroline's, NY Improv, Gotham Comedy Club, the Mae West Fest and the New York International Fringe Festival. Catch her in "Rip Me Open" as part of Galapagos Artspace's Evolve Series, Fridays in April.

The Assimilated Negro (TAN) writes words. He also speaks words. He's written words for Gawker, CollegeHumor.com, and The Village Voice amongst others. He's spoken words (but not "spoken word") at Joe's Pub, Southpaw, and Bowery Poetry Club amongst others. Sometimes the words make sense, and sometimes sense the words they don't make all at any. He keeps words at TheAssimilatedNegro.com. Go there now and change your life for the better.

Audacia Ray is a New Yorker, writer, sex worker rights advocate, alternative model, safer sex educator and intrepid pervert. Her writing has appeared in Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong, The SexHerald, and the forthcoming First-Timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakening. She is executive editor of the Utne Independent Press Award winning $pread magazine and was named #3 on Fleshbot's Top Ten Hotties of 2005. Audacia blogs and shows her boobs at Wakingvixen.com.

Emily DePrang hearts WYSIWYG. She's 25 and writes for FHM. She also got a trophy in third grade for tutoring retarded kids. It wasn't a competition, so it's not like she won it, exactly, but it was still nice. She acted like she'd gotten an Oscar. I think she said, "This is the happiest day of my life." She was embarrassed when she remembered it later. But it was third grade. What's not embarrassing about third grade? Her blog is pigeoninthesun.blogspot.com.

dj: ayden (milk.bubble instrumental) rests in the city that never sleeps, raised in the same cobble stone corridors as the Roots, Ms. J Scott and Mr. J. Jeff. This dj drags vinyl inheritances back and forth to residences in Philly, DC, and NYC. Using a more than a credible knowledge of the international soul, electronika, and hip hop movements she crafts swift advisements and listener strategies with her soundscapes. Her blog is thebutchcaucus.blogspot.com.