Sunday, March 15, 2009

Simply the breast

The Quickies! year anniversary show was one of the best! To wit:


Special guest Kate Harbaugh (we'll miss you!!)








This past year has been amazing. Thanks to all of you...



...from both of us.


('scuse the blur. We, like Elizabeth Taylor, need a lot of filters to look so fine on camera.) Mwah.

Monday, March 9, 2009

To make this long story short-short When the cop pulled QUICKIES! over I was scared as hell I said, "I don't have a license but I drive very well."

QUICKIES!

featuring:
AD Jameson
Megan Stielstra
Simon A. Smith
Amy Stern
and Kyle Beachy

QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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Sunday, March 8, 2009

That's when I saw this beautiful AMY STERN walking I picked up my car phone to perpetrate like I was talking

AMY STERN

Amy Stern is basically the female Kyle Beachy.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Oh-kay, here's the situation KYLE BEACHY's parents went away on a week's vacation and They left the keys to the brand new Porsche Would they mind?

KYLE BEACHY

Kyle Beachy's first novel, The Slide, has been called 'strange' and 'unusual' and 'fierce' and 'tense' and 'funny' and 'terribly sad'. He is 5'9" and thirty years old.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago

And check out this great review of The Slide in the Chicago Tribune!

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Friday, March 6, 2009

MEGAN STIELSTRA said, "Mom, what are you doing, you're ruining my rep" Mom said, "You're only sixteen, you don't have a rep yet"

MEGAN STIELSTRA

Megan Stielstra runs 2nd Story, an urban storytelling series set in wine bars where she regularly tells stories to drunk people. A recent Opium Literary Death Match champ, she's performed for The Goodman, The MCA, The Neo-Futurarium, Story Week and The Dollar Store, among others. Her writing has appeared in Other Voices, Freshyarn, Swink, Pindeldyboz, The 2nd Hand, Punk Planet and regularly on Chicago Public Radio. She teaches fiction at Columbia College and The U of C. Visit her at www.meganstielstra.com.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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Thursday, March 5, 2009

So to you other SIMON A SMITHS all across the land There's no need to argue Parents just don't understand

SIMON A. SMITH

Simon A. Smith is fairly close to receiving his MFA in Language Arts Education. He's also close to finishing the world's most amazing novel of all time. In his spare time he enjoys being humble, drinking scotch and trying to stop thinking about wanting cigarettes. His stories have appeared in Quick Fiction, Opium, Word Riot, Dogzplot, Skive, Storyglossia and blah blah blah...


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

You know parents are the same No matter time nor place They don't understand that AD JAMESON is going to make some mistakes

AD JAMESON

A D Jameson is a writer, video artist, and performer. Last year he completed both a prose collection, "Amazing Adult Fantasy," and a novel, "Giant Slugs." His writing has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Fiction International, elimae, and various other journals. Adam's currently working on a second novel and several novellas.


QUICKIES!
Tuesday, March 10
7:30pm
The Innertown Pub
Chicago


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