— Come 'WYG out at our new home! —

Posted by Ringmaster at March 14, 2006 08:38 PM

Mark your calendars right now for the WYSIWYG Talent Show at its new home!

The WYSIWYG Talent Show Presents
Starfuckers: Close Encounters of the Famous Kind
(and moves to the Bowery Poetry Club)

Join us at 8 p.m. on March 21, 2006 for Starfuckers: Close Encounters of the Famous Kind. This month some of the brightest and quirkiest nearly-famous personalities of blogdom take to the stage to share firsthand stories about the ugly soft, white underbelly of the star-making machinery we call Fame.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at WYSIWYG's new home, Bowery Poetry Club. Now with more alcohol!
308 Bowery between Bleecker and Houston
Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. Come early to get a seat and start drinkin'!
Tickets are $7 at the door

With performances by:
* Project Runway's beloved geek girl Diana Eng
* American Idol survivor and drag diva extraordinaire Amnesia Sparkles
* Sirius OutQ's Derek Hartley
* Matthew Callan of MSN Sports Filter and Scratchbomb
* Rachael Parenta
* Lindsay Robertson
* Doug Gordon

Bios after the jump. Come to the first show at our new digs and pop our Bowery Poetry Club cherry!

Also, the 'WYG is expecting a mention in this Friday's AM New York, so be sure to grab a copy!

About the performers:

Diana Eng, a fashion designer, was recently a contestant on this season's "Project Runway" (BRAVO). She was the nerdy one who was allowed to sport glasses in the promo pics. Diana blogs her transition from nerd life in small town USA to fashion designer in NYC at populartransit.com. Her blog covers a range of things from fashion shows to happenings in the MIT Media Lab to fashion shows happening at the MIT Media Lab.

Amnesia Sparkles (Adrian L. Acosta) is most popularly known for her appearance in the first season of Fox's hit television show "American Idol," an ordeal that haunts her to this very day. Her mission: To erase people's worries (if only for a few minutes) and to make your inner self sparkle with joy... but she'll basically do anything for a buck these days. "I'm all about 'LOVE': spreading it like an infectious disease." Visit her at www.AmnesiaSparkles.com.

For nearly three years, Derek Hartley has been the gay half of the popular talk duo Derek and Romaine on Sirius Satellite Radio's OutQ channel. Prior to becoming a radio host, Derek spent eight years writing the sordid details of his life each week for PlanetOut beginning in March 1997. His first book, a collection of essays entitled I Lost My Virginity to Barbra Streisand, is due in stores in March 2007, and he blogs at derekhartley.com.

Matthew Callan blogs for MSN Sports Filter and for himself at Scratchbomb.com, which hosts his podcast "Holy Goddamn!" His essay "The Lemon Pledge" received honorable mention in Dave Eggers's 2004 Best Non-Required Reading, and he contributed to Excelsior You Fathead, a biography of radio humorist Jean Shepherd. His fiction has been short-listed for prizes in Zoetrope: All-Story, Bomb, and Nimrod. He is currently completing his first novel.

Rachael Parenta wonders why it's acceptable to write of yourself in the third person for a bio; however, if she creates a third person voice mail greeting for her own voice mail, people start questioning her sanity. As for performing she began performing stand-up comedy in Portland, Oregon because that's the city where dreams come true. Fearful her dream of daisies' heads ruling Earth might come true she moved back to NYC where she continues stand-up. You may have seen Ms. Parenta on the Richard Simmons show in 1983.

Lindsay Robertson writes a blog called lindsayism.com. She's written for McSweeney's.net, GQ, MTV, Comedycentral.com and Jane Magazine. She thinks celebrities are probably all assholes.

Doug Gordon (planetgordon.com) is the author of The Engaged Groom, which was released by HarperCollins Publishers in January 2006. Doug is also a television producer and writer whose work includes "Modern Marvels" for The History Channel and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" for ABC. At "Millionaire" he wrote trivia questions and the occasional joke for Regis Philbin and Meredith Vieira. An avowed agnostic, he lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Rabbi Leora Kaye.