Take two: the first attempt at posting this went kapoof!
Apparently, this little press release of mine has stirred up quite a response. The presenter emailed me a bit anxiously, noting that he's in every paper in town today. Funny, that. I found myself to be considerably less upset about it. Good thing he doesn't know Granta is on the list, along with every literary magazine in the US and Canada (all the ones I could find emails for, anyway). Hey, sooner or later everyone comes through Vancouver, and that woman in Georgia said some very nice things in January.
Someone told Maikopunk that the release was "tasteless and glib." While I fully cop to the glibitude, I must protest the characterization of this missive as "tasteless." As with the finest works of the esteemed cinematic genius Mr. John Waters, it is in the very best of Bad Taste.
Vulgar is the new black.
In any case, her friend was perversely piqued and intrigued by her put-downs, and once I actually posted the word "Harumph" on her blog, signed up for two tickets.
As the great Gawker says,
It's Not Whoring If You Do It For Free
For immediate release: post/forward at will!
Who: The Shebeen Club presents Jeremy Hainsworth, crime reporter extraordinaire
What: My Life in Crime! When: 7-9pm Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 (3rd Tuesday ea month)
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall
Why: Voyeurism runs deep, baby! Find out what it really takes to do this job. It’s not all fedoras and dive bars.
How (much)? $20 before April 14th, $25 thereafter
reservations and media inquiries: lorraine.murphy at gmail dot com.
Admission includes a criminally good dinner/drink combo! This month it will be a Bloody Mary and your choice of blood pudding and a side of fries/salad OR a vegetarian blood orange entree salad. Bloody marvelous!
Background: https://raincoaster.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/the-shebeen-club-a-history-in-press-releases/
Putting the “laughter” in “manslaughter.”
With patented black humour, Jeremy will lead us down the dark and twisted alleys of a crime reporter’s life. From paperwork to prison visits, we’ll become one with the sordid underbelly of Vancouver. It’s Blood Alley, so we’re halfway there!
Jeremy will also be discussing (and bringing a copy of) the publication ban on the Pickton trial.
Dress: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, or Raymond Chandler. Ann Rule doesn’t know how to dress!
Bio: Jeremy Hainsworth is one of a handful of journalists writing for the international media from Vancouver. As B.C correspondent for the AP, he has had the dubious honour of covering the ongoing hearings of alleged serial killer Robert Pickton and the Air India terrorism case. He has freelanced for Reuters, was senior crime reporter for The Calgary Herald, senior editor of Sterling News Service (his office was below that of Conrad Black's partner David Radler), and managing editor of the Dawson Creek daily paper where he covered his first murder from seeing the body to the release of the convicted youths.
He has a diploma in journalism from Langara and a BA from UBC. His work has appeared in many of the world's major newspapers on every continent except Antarctica where penguins cannot read.
Meet & Mingle 7-7:30
Listen & Learn 7:30-8
Wistful reminiscences of hookers with hearts of gold 8-9
raincoaster 
I was actually interested in your club until I received the last email. No doubt you think you’re as clever as the rest of the world these days by suggesting one bring a raven dead or alive. At best tasteless, at worst a promotion of killing birds for fun, I’m sure you’ll be able to wrap insults around me verbally until I squirm and wish I were that bird. Clever, clever you.
Uh, you do know you can buy stuffed ravens, both real and fake, at several shops around town? I don’t think anyone interpreted this as an encouragement to suicide either…but if you can read it your way, you could read it that way too.
Isn’t that the Relativistic Approach to the study of anything? That there are no wrong answers? So quite obviously you’re absolutely right.
Anxious about seeing my name in the papers? I have to say I was amused by it but being a print reporter, I don’t really see how I would be anxious about having my name in the paper, much less having it there advertising that I was going to opining about my work. Anyway, it was fun. Looking forward to the censorship session.
I was there, I heard it all. You sounded distinctly alarmed. But we’ll let it go, particularly as it was our most successful evening of the Shebeen Club to date.