Here’s a post for those of you who’ve:
a) been dying to see the baby.
b) been looking for proof that she exists.
Here’s my lil’ gal Adriana in a onesie given to her by show regular Jen Dziura.
Be sure to come to Mo’s tomorrow night to see who blew in from the Windy City! Check out our Upcoming Lineups page for more.
Every Tuesday at 8 pm
Mo Pitkin’s – 34 Ave. A (2nd/3rd)
FREE!
Here’s an interesting call for submissions from Hannah Hill, part of the editorial team organizing the upcoming “Imagining Ourselves” exhibit at the International Museum of Women.
Imagining Ourselves is a global, multilingual exhibit featuring art, music, spoken word, photographs, essays and film by young women between the ages of 20 and 40. For the past ten months, the IMOW has been featuring essays and artwork of young women around the world in an effort to answer the question, “What defines your generation?” and to inspire people to take action on the vital social issues raised through this platform.
From March to May 2007, the focus of the exhibit will shift to Motherhood and the challenges this generation faces. We want to reach out to young women to amplify their voices, talk about issues they face and focus on the issue from different perspectives—but really looking at personal stories. If you have a story to tell, images to share, or a voice that wants to be heard, we welcome your submission. We are accepting film, audio, images, and text on these issues: Maternal health, pregnancy, parenting, single motherhood, adoption, relationships, work and family and much more.
Yahoo! is the digital partner for the “Motherhood” project, and our advocacy partner is the Global Women’s Action Network for Children, guided by leaders such as HRH Queen Rania of Jordan, Madeleine Albright, and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland.
If you are interested, contact Hannah at iosubmissions@imow.org.
Or, great tales of getting canned, anyway. Show regulars Ophira Eisenberg, Colette Hawley and I were all featured in an article from yesterday’s New York Post by fellow Chick Mandy Stadtmiller called, “You’re Fired! ‘It’s Not You, It’s Post-9/11 Us’ and Other True Tales of Getting Canned.”
Here are the excerpts:
Booty call
“I worked at Kinko’s briefly during college. I took the graveyard shift – 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. – which was typically really dead. My co-worker and I would get so bored with nothing to do and no one to call, so we started doing the obvious: photocopying anything interesting we could find. We started with office supplies, moved up to food and candy, but soon started photocopying our hands and feet, which then of course led to other body parts including our bare asses. I don’t know why looking at a photocopy of a bare ass is so funny – but we found this absolutely hilarious and couldn’t control ourselves. We probably made 40 or so different photocopies of our asses each. Before the shift was over, we threw everything away, stuffing our racy photocopies near the bottom underneath other garbage. I came into work the next night and was asked to see the manager. He was holding 10 or so photocopies of my ass and asked me if I knew who these belonged to. I told him the ass belonged to me, and I was fired on the spot. The manager told me that ‘at Kinko’s we have morals.’ Then he gave me the photocopies to take with me and ushered me out the door.”
- Ophira Eisenberg, 33, Manhattan
Location, location, location
“Twenty years ago, I was working at a hair salon as a receptionist. We had some lame holiday party and one of the hairdressers hit on me, and I ended up sleeping with him. I had no idea the lady owner and he were secretly a couple until the next day when I went into the salon for work, and she took me in the waxing room and fired me. She said they were ‘overstaffed’ and ‘didn’t have room for me,’ as if it were this big Wall Street numbers thing. Meanwhile, the whole time, I’m sitting there on the waxing table while she’s cramped in the corner standing next to me. Like a total loser, I put my head down and started crying as if I had been asked to step aside as the president of IBM. I will never forget the smell of body hair, hot wax and disinfectant as the tears streamed down my cheeks. It was tough to get fired, and it’s hard to admit I slept with a hairdresser – but nothing was as humiliating as it all going down in that tiny waxing room.”
- Colette Hawley, 44, Manhattan
IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU
“I got fired from a temp job once. It was a long-term assignment, the kind without a real end date at a bank that sounds like Horan Hanley. I was working in purchasing or some boring department like that just checking other people’s math all day. I didn’t mind the job – it was easy enough – but apparently the women running the department thought I was too boisterous to be a number cruncher. They said, ‘It’s not that we don’t like you, it’s just that you’re very creative and we think maybe you’re in the wrong department. Oh, and we don’t like you.’”
- Carolyn Castiglia, 30, Manhattan
Well, I invited Persia from VH1’s The (White) Rapper Show to come freestyle with me this week, and tho she said she’d try to make it, in the end she didn’t show. Hopefully she’ll swing by another week… I’ll keep you posted.
Nichelle has been known to give away a “toy” or two at the show, but this is one lady who takes hers with her wherever she goes – just in case she needs to shake it in yo face!
As Ani Difranco says, “Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.”
Stay high and tight, kids!
Yes! The site is finally finished/fixed. So please, take a look around, make yourselves at home.
And now, onto the news…
You can vote for Michelle in the GET UP, STAND UP contest sponsored by Comedy Central and Charter Communications. The Grand Prize winner gets to open for Greg Giraldo in Jamaica – Michelle’s homeland! Show her one love, won’t you?
Last week, I met Zena Tsarfin at a HappyCorp party. Zena is the managing editor of SuperDeluxe.com which is a brand new broadband comedy channel. Super Deluxe launches later this month and will feature new episodes of The Post Show. Perhaps we will see Chicks and Giggles co-producer Carolyn Castiglia and Chicks regular Mindy Raf show up in a future episode?...
By the way, Super Deluxe wants your video, so email me at nichelle@chicksandgiggles.com to get Zena’s information so that you can submit your funniest video.
As we work out the kinks with WordPress and CSS, you will see Chicks and Giggles repeated in the header. It’s probably great for search-engine optimization, so it’s all good. Last Tuesday’s show was a great way to kick-off the year. We had a packed house, and people were sitting on the floor. Come by again next week!
