Green Army:

I have tried to fight it, y'all, but Father Time has taken off his belt and whupped me solid square on the arse. Another year older, and this year, to celebrate, I will be throwing down an ego-drenched super set this week at Green. It's the Ratpack Slim show, and I hope you like it. I'll be running through some of the favorites, trying out some newer stuff, and I hope to see all of you there.

and here's one fake bio and one real bio about our double feature for May 30:

AMBER ROSE is a 14 year old child prodigy who was raised in a test
tube as part of a government sanctioned "superkid" program. not only
can she wax poetic, she also can run like a cheetah and her laser
vision can burn holes in your skin with diamond precision. her first
chapbook 'ozone liar' was well received in various literary circles,
and her second book 'my name is not spock' is the talk of every slam
from here to seattle. don't whisper...she's right behind you.

WANDA COLEMAN has been featured in Writing Los Angeles
(Library of America, 2002), Poet's Market (2003), and African Americans in
the West (Glasrud & Champion, 2000). She has been a Guggenheim fellow,
Emmy-winning scriptwriter, and former columnist for Los Angeles Times
magazine. Coleman’s fiction currently appears in High Plains Literary
Review, Obsidian III, Other Voices, and Zyzzyva. Her Black Sparrow Books
(imprint, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc.) include Bathwater Wine, winner
of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, presented by the Academy of
American Poets; Mambo Hips & Make Believe (a novel), and Mercurochrome: New
Poems, bronze-medal finalist in the National Book Awards in 2001. She is an
electrifying presenter, famed for her readings, which have taken her to such
venues as Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, the Manhattan Theatre Club, the
Knitting Factory, the Nuyorican Café, and the Smithsonian (on Salon.com
audio). She received a second California Arts Council fellowship in the Fall
of 2002, this time in poetry. Coleman is C.O.L.A.'s first literary fellow,
Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, 2003-04 in fiction. Her new
books are Ostinato Vamps (Pitt Poetry Series, 2003-2004), and Wanda
Coleman’s Greatest Hits: 1966-2003 (Pudding House Press, 2004).

so...bam. heavy hitters like what. come see us, please...!