HEY! Don’t forget! Tonight is IPRC’s first Pub Night, which means you can grab a drink for a small donation to a good cause (side note: Wouldn’t it be nice if you got a free pint when you wrote that Arts Tax check? I’d pay five extra bucks if it came with a beer) and rub elbows with small press publishers, comics producers, and zinesters.

The headliner is Dishwasher Pete, who has been known to send false Dishwasher Pete’s to public appearances,* although it’s likely it’ll be the real dude this time. If you don’t remember Dishwasher, Pete’s zine about trying to wash dishes in every state in the US, or the resultant memoir, well… that’s what he’s famous for. But now he lives in Amsterdam and has written a book called In The City of Bikes: The Story of The Amsterdam Cyclist. Don’t get your Lycra shorts in a twist, though, I think people generally agree that Portland is still America’s City of Bikes. Or Amsterdam is still Europe’s Portland, or whatever.

Before Dishwasher Pete reads, though, there’s going to be what sounds like a really interesting State Of The Small Press talk, including representatives from Hawthorne Books, Future Tense Books, Perfect Day Publishing, and Lazy Fascist Press. They will presumably talk about the internet a lot (sorry).

Tonight at the IPRC, 1001 SE Division, small press talk at 6 pm, reading at 7:30 pm.

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*Here‘s Dishwasher Pete on This American Life talking about having his friend pretend to be him on Letterman.

Thomas Ross writes about art and booze, and edits fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for Tin House.

7 replies on “Probably the Real Dishwasher Pete in Town Tonight”

  4. ^ maybe, just maybe. He aspires for less (yet more) than some chode who fancys himself an “ex pro fighter”.

    Maybe you could do yourself a favor and read up on it before pulling a damosa and asking “us”. Ya dweeb.

    While yer at it, please, change your dumb ass avatar to something more worthy….

  6. I did, much to the relief of my number one fan who has some creepy and sad obsession with me. Pathetic. Don’t ever tell me what to do loser. As for your observation ill paxton I do see your point. As for fuckhead Browner, you have no fucking clue what I aspire to and it is most certainly what you so amusingly listed you wanker. I ask you to run any of your shit in person, but why bother? You won’t. ever

  7. I must say for chumpy ass loser like you who hasn’t a clue (we DO all notice your pathetic attempts of finding love on this website?)! you sure have a mouth.

    And a pencil neck that looks like something hanna barbera drew whilst sketching a douche-a-sauras. You don’t scare me.

    I only rag on you directly as opposed to writing about in a post. A post about a freckle faced chode what tries wayyyyy to hard…..

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