When the rain comes, they run and hide their heads

We're back in SF, I'm recovering nicely from my bout de souffle, and the really great part of being in New York all week was, we missed a week of rain. Nevertheless, for those of us who missed it, there will be another week of rain.

This is coming up:

the RADAR reading series

a showcase of underground and emerging writers and performers.

thursday, january 6th

at the san francisco public library

100 larkin street

downstairs in the latino reading room

6pm sharp * totally free * all ages



featuring



from los angeles TRINIE DALTON, whose book of short stories, Wide Eyed, is

forthcoming from Akashic Book’s Little House on the Bowery series, and who 

is currently co-editing an art book for McSweeney’s based on a collection of 

confiscated notes acquired during her time as a high school English teacher.



IAN PHILIPS, who, since 1989, has edited over 60 Damron Travel Guides; who, 

with husband and fellow thought-criminal Greg Wharton, edits edgy queer 

anthologies for Suspect Thoughts Press, including the recent I Do/I Don't: 

Queers on Marriage and aids in the publication of of new queer literature 

generally (including forthcoming books by Ali Liebegott, Justin Chin and 

Stephen Beachy); and who is the author of two collections of literotica, 

the Lambda Award-winning See Dick Deconstruct, and Satyriasis.



CAROL QUEEN, who got a doctorate in sexuality so she could impart more 

realistic detail to her smut; who writes sex sex information and cultural 

commentary; who is the author of The Leather Daddy and the Femme, Real 

Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture and Exhibitionism for 

the Shy, and has also edited several volumes; who won a Firecracker 

Alternative Book Award, a Lambda Book Award, has been published in Best 

American Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, and many 

more anthologies; who is the founding director of the Center for Sex and 

Culture and the staff sexologist at Good Vibrations.



BUCKY SINISTER, author of Whiskey and Robots (Gorsky Press, 2004) and King 

of the Roadkills (Manic D Press, 1995); who lives in San Francisco's Mission 

District and is often seen at Muddy Waters playing his Gameboy Advance SP 

(Platinum Edition) and drinking iced coffee. Bucky was once so frequently 

spotted in video stores that he contracted a bad case of Renter's Shame and 

switched to Netflix. When he walks by 20th and Mission, he quietly mourns the 

closing of Magic Donuts.



readings followed by an extensive q & a with you, the audience.

ask a question, get a homemade cookie.

cookies will be chocolate caddilacs, recipe courtesy of paul reidinger.

happy new year.



p.s.--for those of you who enjoy poetry, pizza and philanthropy, come over to 

Escape from New York Pizza (Bush & Montgomery) Friday, January 7th. Five 

dollars gets you all the pizza, salad and soda you can eat (plus an ear full 

of storytelling and whatnot from michelle tea), and all the money goes to 

Dimensions, a health clinic for low-income LGBTQ youth. 7:30pm.