While You Were Sleeping

May 23, 2012

On May 15, 2012, I competed at Write Club San Francisco. My randomly assigned, arbitrary topic was “Rest” (vs. Motion). This is me reading my piece entitled “Adam and Eve in the Garden of Quantum-Entangled, Lovelorn Photons: A Memoir”.

You’ll have to watch to find out if I won. (Spoiler alert: I won.)

Write Club, AKA “Literature as Bloodsport”, is a battle of words between two writers in a raucous, beer-filled arena, on a stage fit for rock stars. Victory is decided by audience applause, and the door money goes to a charity of the winners’ choice.

There’s also the podcast version with commentary by hosts Casey Childers and Steven Westdahl, and a reading by my opponent, Michael Gray.

Write Club on Tumblr and on Facebook

iTunes page

PDF Transcript: “Adam and Eve in the Garden of Lovelorn Photons: A Memoir”

I chose Kiva as my charity. Kiva is a micro-lending organization that facilitates very small loans to entrepreneurial people in developing countries. Currently, you can make a $25 “free trial loan”, meaning you pay nothing, and the $25 comes from an anonymous party helping to promote Kiva.

Sooo… do that! It’s stupid-easy, free money to someone for whom it’s worth about six times as much.