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We've always wanted to have a Russian Writers Party, wherein everyone has a typewriter, a shot glass, and a bottle of vodka. We still think it's a good idea, but have decided it's best left unrealized.
Unlike our ill-conceived notion of mixing books and booze, the folks at Reading Under the Influence (RUI) got it right. Hosted every first Wednesday of the month, a group of writers and drinkers get together to read short pieces of fiction, down shots, and play trivia games. The readings contain both original works and published material and you can submit your own writing for future readings.
If you've never been to an RUI, this month would be a good introduction. The literary darling turns three tomorrow, an eternity compared to the lifespan of most reading series and upstart literary zines. And to celebrate their leather anniversary (kinky), all the regulars will read some of their favorites from previous years and food will be on hand to help you soak up your booze. We might still bring our typewriter.
Reading Under the Influence. Tomorrow, March 5, 7p.m.-10p.m. Sheffields. $3 cover.
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Brilliant idea, yo, but what the f*cking crickets is up with Lake View Links as a gathering place for all! I can see Spav1 and HatesPups along with the other yuppies hanging out there but serious writers and readers? Its blocks from Wriggly Field, which guarantees to limit the diversity of ideas and exchanges. But perhaps that group works better that way.
But some how I think if Nabokov,Pushkin,Akhmatova, Tolstoy, etc, were still walking around on this earthly Earth they would not be wandering around Yuppieville, but in a hood were its denizen could inspire the stories that we love them for today.
p.s I'd be Chekhov or Dostoevsky or maybe Puskin
It is blocks away from Wrigley, but Sheffields isn't a bad bar at all. I think it would probably draw a much worse crowd of hipsters were it in Wicker Park or somewhere else. At least Lakeview is pretty stable.
I'd like to be Bulgakov, maybe Erofeev if I was really wasted.
Oh, indeed, the Montreux Palace Hotel was certainly not for yuppies at all, Spook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
Check up on your Nabokov knowledge.
@Spook:
You would be the writer of a self-published "e-book" that only your mother would read on the Kindle you gave her for Festivus.
Also: Fuck your exclusivenss. It is lame. And stupid. And Sheffield's is central and has a million beers and I hang out there.
@Spook:
Your neigborhood snobbery is almost as bad as Spav "I'm too good to ever take the blue line" 1's. And all the great ideas in the world don't matter if they're written in the rambling incoherence you practice.
And last time I checked, Humboldt Park isn't THAT yuppified yet. (I signed a lease yesterday).
I just need to steal the old typewriter that's sitting in my parents' basement, and I'm all set for my Russian Writers Party, solo-style...
[I'm pretty much in love with this idea, by the way. If I had friends in the city that would be as thrilled by it, I would make it a real party. Alas.]
Too Good for the Blue Line! Tell me your kiding Sugar Plum Plum!
Registered Guest, all "Russian readers" must have titles dear reader! "Guest" will not due madame/sir, you maybe be a protagonist as the new world needs more, like the wretched Land Lady, but not a "Guest"! Now allow me to take my leave so I may leave my situation to head back to my humble lodgings via the blue line.
See yall at the Commentator of the Month award ceremony, b*tches!
Too Good for the Blue Line! Tell me your kiding Sugar Plum Plum!
Registered Guest, all "Russian readers" must have titles dear reader! "Guest" will not due madame/sir, you maybe be a protagonist as the new world needs more, like the wretched Land Lady, but not a "Guest"! Now allow me to take my leave so I may leave my situation to head back to my humble lodgings via the blue line.
See yall at the Commentator of the Month award ceremony, b*tches!
@Spook:
I really AM too good to ever take the blue line.
@kaylee:
I think with the right crowd it would work, but I'm also very attached to my three typewriters, so everyone would have to bring their own. If you find some people, let me know.
I miss Chicago.
@exfinn:
Come back then.
Spav1
please keep in mind that because the majority of trixies( aka trixiods) ride the red and brown line, many more perverts who grope and expose themselves in front of women, ride the red and brown line as well.
The same perverts fear the blue line because the women who ride, though artistically inclined and more interestingly dressed than the red and brown line Gap girls, are a tougher and more angry lot which makes them 100 times more likely to scream “you f*cking pervert!” or whip out a can of mace and bust off a couple of blasts at the offender who probably lives around Lake View Links.
And the blue line males are much less wimpy, therefore when they hear a “scream of anger”, instead of burying their head further in the Red Eye; they drop their art institute text book, Camus, or New York Times and immediately jump into the fray, of course inspiring many romantic postings on the missed connections.
signed,
a proud member of the blue line community
@Spook:
Whenever I ride the blue line, I end up sitting on an unmoving train outside the Damen stop for over 20 minutes, making me miss the open bar at Debonair. Also: It smells. Also: Where am I?
And when I do get off, I am immediatetly deposited amongst the hipsters. And how do you think that makes my Gap Button Down feel?