Lindsey Boldt and Lauren Levin w/ artist Neil LeDoux in background

"welcome everybody" including: Tanya Hollis, Bob Gluck, Lindsey Boldt, Steve Orth, Ronald Palmer, Dodie Bellamy, Jocelyn Saidenberg and Bruce Boone

big round of applause including: Brazil, Larsen, Warren, Killian Hollis, Gluck, Brown, Manzanno

Dodie Bellamy doing the exposition

Dodie reading her piece from Adios, Pelota!

Lauren Levin and Tony Valadez with drawings by Neil LeDoux on wall

scenes from Dodie's 'Whistle While You Dixie' chapbook celebration reading. tons of folks came out on a warm Sunday San Francisco night to hang out on Lindsey Boldt's stoop, squat on Lindsey Boldt's living room floor, eat Lindsey Boldt's food while having our head's massaged and our pain strummed by Dodie Bellamy's words. Dodie was fantastic of course. she started out by reading her Giants poem from the Adios, Pelota! book which i thought was very cool, then jumped right into reading selections from the WWYD chapbook. this was the second time i've heard Dodie read this piece. only this time i actually got to hear the whole thing. last time around, at a reading at Jason Morris's house with Chris Martin, i could only stand to stay for the first 10 minutes or so...there was a hammered guy standing next to me in the back of the room. and he was kind of hooting and hollering a little too much (via Ariana Reines), and kind of stumbling around and chugging beer and just being really annoying...and i wasn't feeling like Nada Gordon that night so i was like smell you later and grabbed a beer from the fridge and headed out the door heading from Potrero Hill to 16th and Valencia where i met up with Matthew Arnone and probably had a conversation about BSG or August Underground.

but anyways...

thanks Dodie and Summer BF. twas a great night...or your copy of 'Whistle While You Dixie' here...