[note: the following is the content of an email i sent out earlier]

hey all,

a few announcements, some of which you may find of interest.(*if you have no interest, please scroll down to asterisk at end of email to view !Helpful Fun Hint!)

Performance stuffs:
1. April 23 – May 2: Single Shots @ the Thick House, 1695 18th Street @ Arkansas, San Francisco
a program of 4 solo performances.
http://www.whiskeyandacigarette.org/calendar/index.php?op=view&id=272

2. May 9: Laundry Party @ Socha,  3235 Mission street, at Valencia, San Francisco
a multidisciplinary artist salon series, sorta, goes public for a night.
http://www.whiskeyandacigarette.org/calendar/index.php

3. May 22 – 30: United States of Asian America festival @ SomArts, 934 Brannan Street, @ 9th Street, San Francisco
all asian american performers, all the time (for a few weeks, anyway)
http://www.apiculturalcenter.org/

Other news:
1. my corporeal self is moving to new york and getting degree-ified (”degree-ified” is a word, google spellcheck…).
no, really, this time i really am moving; i’ve been accepted into a graduate program at Columbia University, and will be pursuing an MFA degree in playwriting come fall 2009. i expect to be moving in the summer, although i expect, as well, to be back regularly in the bay area, as much of my heart is here. (awww. no really; it’s true).

2. i’ve updated my website.
uh, okay, i always update my website, at least the calendar part, and there’s no major design change – it remains the impressive design work of Derek Chung, and my rarely-updated blog was recently rescued from mysterious 500 configuration server error by music & programming geek sadie contini of the Invisible Cities – but i’ve added in the last few months some video/audio if you’re interested in seeing lowfi recordings of a few relatively recent performances. also, i’ve slightly updated the Frequently Asked Questions section of the site.

3. i’m teaching a class.
for writing & performing artists, primarily – about identifying & applying principles of comedy in creative work. or noncreative work, as you will. i’ll be doing this only if enough people sign up, so if you know of anyone who’d be interested in a fairly experimental but engaging class, please to forward info on; begins april 21 for 8 weeks, and the description is here:
http://www.kearnystreet.org/programs/calendar/calendarindex2.php#sam

Other cool events i’m affiliated with (but not as a presenting artist)
1. Kearny Street Workshop’s Poker Fundraiser, May 9th
PariSoma, 1436 Howard, @ 10th street, SF
support a beloved arts organization, of which i am a board member, artist/teacher, and former staff
organization’s website: http://www.kearnystreet.org

2. Best of PlayGround Festival, May 7 – 31st
Thick House, 1695 18th Street, @ Carolina, SF
a festival of new plays from PlayGround, where i’m a member playwright and communications director
organization’s website: http://www.playground-sf.org

* !Helpful Fun Hint!
if you’ve no interest in sam’s announcements, feel free to reply to this email and change the subject line to: “for the love of god, please remove me from this list.”** if you’d like to use your own words to convey the same meaning, go ahead; just avoid being so abstract and poetic about it that i miss the request entirely. [Note: !Helpful Fun Hint! has absolutely no relevance to those of you reading this online]

** !Totally Uninteresting Technical Note!
it’s not actually a list, it’s a group in my gmail contacts.

thanks for reading,

sam

ooh, so very excitingly, i’ve finally caught up with technology from five years ago and now have figured out how to easily display audio on my website.

so now you can hear ! totally new 2009 standup material! from a february show at the purple onion – this same info is also on the images/audio/video link on the site, but since i’m having so much fun with  this, it’s redundantly below, as well:

Click here to have a listen.

thanks to sadie, the rambles aka my crappy blog is now log-inable (that is a name) to me; i am now free to once again post sporadically and unreliably. yay.