Writers with Drinks This Saturday

Oh, yeah. Definitely a writer.

I feel like it was fated, like I was meant to post about Saturday’s Writers With Drinks at The Make-Out Room.  Why?  Because a few weeks ago, after deciding I was too bored at the gym to work out for more than five minutes without stimulation that did not involve SportsCenter or The Real Housewives of Orange County, I spent $2.99 on the new This American Life app for my phone, which allows me to access every broadcast since the show’s inception.  Yay, Ira!  So today, as I climbed approximately 78 flights of stairs without getting anywhere, I listened to an episode from 2004, and one of the hilarious stories — one that I wish hadn’t been so hilarious because it’s really creepy to laugh out loud while utilizing a Stairmaster — was contributed by Beth Lisick, who just so happens to be the guest host of Writers With Drinks tomorrow.  No way that’s a coincidence.  Just no way.

If you haven’t been to Writers With Drinks, it’s time.  It’s described online in a lot of places as a “spoken word variety show,” but that’s a shitty description because it doesn’t tell you anything.  Basically, each monthly edition of Writers With Drinks is a like a normal reading featuring a handful of writers, except fun and with beer involved.  Many times the performers are writers from different genres, which means in one night, you could be horrified (0r aroused?) by some weird-ass sci-fi erotica, then laughing so hard at a non-fiction account of time spent as Danny DeVito’s personal assistant that $2 PBR comes spraying out of your nose, then desperately holding back tears because FINE, maybe that poem DID make you feel something.  Oh, and the writers they get are legit, like Mary Gaitskill and Jerry Stahl, who are performing this weekend.

Doors open at 7pm, but if you really plan to get inside, come around 6-ish.  There WILL be a line.  Just know that this thing is so popular that if you do get in, you won’t be able to move for the next two hours.  Which is cool because 1. It’s worth it, and 2. You will be at a place called “The Make-Out Room.”  Just take a peek at the wedding ring finger of your target before you sneak attack them on the mouth.  If it’s bare, you’re good to go.