52nd City

Free Candy Fireworks!

This Sunday's Free Candy may go down in South St. Louis history.

Here's the details, from Amanda Doyle:

"This Sunday, August 21, at 7 p.m., Hartford Coffee Company (at the corner of Hartford and Roger in beautiful Tower Grove South, 3974 Hartford, to be exact), you will experience an episode of Free Candy like no other.

Guests:
* Aaron Belz, curator of the "Readings @" series of poetry readings, will
be on hand to announce the new season and talk verse, verily.
* Ray Hartmann, founder and former editor of the Riverfront Times, newly
installed as the president of the trustees of our local ACLU chapter, will
talk liberty and maybe journalism and maybe, just maybe, get into a
Donnybrook-style smackdown with Amanda & Julia!
* the reunited-and-it-feels-so-nice Sugar Daddies will play a swan song
(seriously, we hope they work up something about swans) and your old
favorites.
* our trademark shenanigans and also...bargains!

Plus, there's free candy. Mmmmm."

I've seen Ray enough on Donnybrook to know he's an interesting talk-show guest. And I actually know Aaron as a pal, and have seen him on stage as both performer and emcee. He has a dry, wicked sense of humor and really comes into his own when he's in front of an audience.

This guestly juxtaposition just gave me a really stupid, but delicious idea: I need to write a poem about Donnybrook. Now *there* is a villanelle waiting to happen if ever there was one.