Shameless Self-Plug: Bedtime Tales at Nuit Blanche

[handful_ofdust]

In the interests of maybe getting some of you to come by, here's the details (courtesy of organizer/host Emily Pohl-Weary):

"Bedtime Tales: Fables and Fantasies
A Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Event

On Saturday, Sept. 30, literary fantasia Bedtime Tales: Fables and Fantasies will feature more than twenty local literary stars and provocateurs, assembled in Yorkville's gothic Heliconian Club, located at 35 Hazelton Avenue (one block east of Avenue Rd).

The authors will delight, entertain, and heat up the wee hours of the morning in between stops on the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche route. Pause for a cup of hot cocoa and cookies, grab a cushion, stretch out beneath the vaulted ceilings, and enjoy tales of the night ranging from the surreal to the sensual to the scary."

I'll be on at 6:00 AM on October 1, hopefully reading a section of "Strange Weight" or "Skeleton Bitch", 'cause that always goes over pretty well with big crowds.;)

BTW, at this point in the evening I hate my students a bit less and love myself a bit more, thanks to exercise, drugs and self-indulgence. So I'm going to bed.

P.S.: Oh, and on the continuing "energy!" tip, I just placed "Villa Locusta" as a stand-alone short story (much the same way the Prologue to lost Souls made its original debut) in The Harrow webzine. It won't appear until January '07, probably, but I'm still pretty chuffed.;))

Comments

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of trying to make part of Nuit Blanche, but I doubt I can do the whole night and I know green_trilobite can't. Hmm. I may just go to bed at my usual time with an alarm set for quarter to five and head out on my own to Yorkville. Any good breakfast places round there (that'll be open on a Sunday morning)?

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yorkville...gee, good question, since I'll be in roughly the same boat. If was you, I'd eat before leaving home and then look around afterward, probably inside the Manulife Centre. There's also a couple of places going south on Bay Street that spring to mind, though I of course can't name any of them--just storefronts which serve bagels 'n' stuff.

[strange.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be too wrecked after our Toronto reception to make it down to this - even though I'd love to. Sounds like a blast.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Hey, no problem. Look forward to seeing you!