Actually, I think it’ll be easier if I keep this post separate and let the voting page disappear into obscurity.<\/p>\n
The 2013 Mark Does Stuff Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n February 2: DISNEYLAND EXTRAVAGANZA Part 1<\/a>: Spend 10am – 5pm with Mark in California Adventure and Disneyland. March 1-2: ConNooga<\/a>!<\/strong> March 1<\/strong><\/p>\n 5:00 – 7:30pm: Mark Watches\u00c2\u00a0New Moon\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>live\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>(Finley Lecture Hall) March 2<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:00 – 5:00pm: Mark Does Stuff Panel\/Q&A<\/b> Convention Center Panel Room #15 March 3: Atlanta, GA<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Manuel’s Tavern, 5:30pm – 8:00pm For the 2 D.C. days<\/strong>: based on what venue I book, one will be at U.M.D. again, and the other will be in D.C. proper. The demand was SUPER high but too many folks couldn’t make it to the UMD event because it was so far away, so I’ll be back with TWO DATES planned to end the tour.<\/p>\n Please RSVP in the comments or on Facebook if it’s linked<\/strong>. This is the only way I have to get a sense for how big a date will be. PLEASE DO THIS. A certain city THAT SHALL REMAIN UNNAMED did not do this and our venue was not big enough. COUGH COUGH DENVER COUGH COUGH. I’m happy to have a packed house, but it adds stress to me if a date is overbooked. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RSVP. (I am aware there are no FB links yet. They are coming once I finalize stuff!)<\/strong><\/p>\n Note: I will be in Portland and London\/Europe this summer for BOTH LeakyCons, and I’ll have events outside of the con, so I won’t go to either place on this tour.\u00c2\u00a0I will book a second leg of the tour this summer prior to LeakyCon to visit all my lovely West Coast cities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n How can you help?<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Pl<\/strong>ease let me know if you have access to or know of a good venue to host a meet-up<\/b>. On last year’s tours, we held our events in: restaurants, library meeting rooms, hotel meeting rooms, the basement of a coffee shop, university lecture rooms, etc. Find a way for your school “club” to “host” me! Seriously, I don’t care where it is. As long as we have a place indoors where we can be a bit silly and noisy, that’s all that matters. I\u00c2\u00a0do not<\/em> need to be paid for any appearances, so that should help if you’re trying to convince someone to let me make an appearance.\u00c2\u00a0All events, as much as I can control it, will be free and donation-based only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If you also have a place I could crash for the night or the following day, that would also help<\/strong>, as touring is IMMENSELY expensive, and making the cost lower means I can tour longer and in more places. Also, this year, I do not want to do 12 Greyhound trips in a row because I wanted to DIE after that last year. If you want to roadtrip to multiple events, I am also open to this! Please contact me at the email address below if you’d like to have me annoy you for hours in a car.<\/strong><\/p>\n Anyway, I would like to spend the ENTIRE month of March on the road, so let it fly. Comment, RSVP on any Facebook pages linked up above, and if you’d like to contact me privately, my email is\u00c2\u00a0markreadsandwatches [at] gmail [dot] com.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I dearly hope to meet many of you. This is going to RULE. LET’S GET TO WORK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actually, I think it’ll be easier if I keep this post separate and let the voting page disappear into obscurity. The 2013 Mark Does Stuff Tour February 2: DISNEYLAND EXTRAVAGANZA Part 1: Spend 10am – 5pm with Mark in California … Continue reading
\nFebruary 2: DISNEYLAND EXTRAVAGANZA Part 2<\/a>: Spend 6pm – 9pm with Mark in Downtown Disney. RSVP and details here.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nHere is the OFFICIAL schedule for my two days at ConNooga:<\/p>\n
\n8:00 – 9:00pm: Mark Watches\u00c2\u00a0The X-Files\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>discussion panel\u00c2\u00a0<\/b>(Gallery A)
\n9:00 – 10:00pm: Criticism from a Critic – How To Criticize!<\/strong> (Gallery A)
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\n5:00 – 7:00pm: Mark Reads Bad Fic<\/strong> Convention Center Panel Room #15
\n8:30 – 9:30pm: Mystery XXX Theater<\/strong> Town Hall (Upper Level)
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\nMarch 4: New Orleans, LA<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Village Coffee & Tea, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
\nMarch 6: Houston, TX<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0The Hobbit Cafe, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
\nMarch 7: San Antonio, TX<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0The Cove, 7:30pm – WHENEVER WE LEAVE
\nMarch 8: Austin, TX<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 6 – 8pm
\nMarch 9: Dallas, TX<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Lucky Dug Books – Oak Cliff, 6 – 8pm
\nMarch 10: Arlington, TX<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Spend a day at Six Flags Over Texas, 10am – 10pm!
\nMarch 13: Chicago, IL<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Overflow Coffee Bar, STUDIO C, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
\nMarch 14: Minneapolis, MN<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Geek Partnership Society @ The Waterbury Building 6pm – 9pm
\nMarch 15: St. Louis, MO<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Blueberry Hill Pac-Man Room, 7 – 9pm
\nMarch 16: Indianapolis, IN<\/a>
\nMarch 17: Cincinnati, OH<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Sitwell’s, 8pm – whenever!
\nMarch 18: Columbus, OH<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Kafe Kerouac, 7pm – 9pm
\nMarch 19: Cleveland, OH<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry, 6:30 – 8:30pm
\nMarch 20: Toledo, OH<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Aladdin’s Eatery, 7pm – 9pm
\nMarch 21: Ann Arbor, MI<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0House Party! (Details on FB page)
\nMarch 22: Toronto, ON<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Handlebar, 7pm – whenever!
\nMarch 23: Ottawa, ON<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Raw Sugar Cafe, 3pm – 5pm
\nMarch 24: Montreal, PQ<\/a>\u00c2\u00a02110 Centre For Gender Advocacy, Suite 404, 3pm – 6pm
\nMarch 25: Boston, MA<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Refuge Cafe in Allston, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
\nMarch 26: Providence, RI<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Adams Memorial Library in Central Falls 6pm – 8pm
\nMarch 27: Syracuse, NY<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Le Moyne College, 6:30pm – WHENEVER WE FINISH
\nMarch 28: New York City, NY<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Think Coffee Basement (248 Mercer) 7 – 9:30pm
\nMarch 29: D.C. Day #1<\/a>
\nMarch 30: D.C. Day #2<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Goethe-Institut Gallery, 2 – 5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n