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I’m very happy to report that Adult Education has been recommended by both the New Yorker and TimeOut NY.

See you on the 22d?

I’m very excited to announce that Carrie and I are starting a new monthly lecture series called Adult Education at Union Hall in Park Slope. The presentations will be short, amusing and informative ... but you won’t learn anything that you really need to know.

The first show, “Micro-genre” is about genres that are so specific that you probably didn’t even realize that they were genres. I’ll let Carrie’s description take over from here:

Adult Education
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8PM
Union Hall
702 Union St. @ 5th Ave (Park Slope)
FREE!

On YouTube, there are scores of toddler’s expressions after sucking on lemons. Entire groups of flickr photos are organized around photos of people wearing sweatshirts, photos of painted trains, photos of body hair. You could fill a small bookshelf with fake children’s memoirs. In this show, we discuss several examples of what we’re calling “micro-genres.”

Liz Clayton: The Architecture of Converted Fast-Food Restaurants

Paul Lukas: On Elevator World, American Jails, Nut Grower Monthly, and other obscure trade magazines

Heidi Cody: First National Icons: Native Americans in Grocery Brands

Jim Hanas: On meta-tourism: photos of tourists taking photos

Russell Scholl: On TV Commercials for Personal Hygiene Products

With HOST Charles Star

BIOS

LIZ CLAYTON is an obsessive-compulsive who tries to contain the world in words and pictures. Her work has been published in the Globe and Mail, Time Out New York, and on three million websites. She recently moved to Brooklyn from Toronto, where she ran the Pontiac Quarterly reading series.

HEIDI CODY is a Brooklyn-based artist and founder of CHOW

JIM HANAS is a freelance editor and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn.

PAUL LUKAS is a freelance writer and former zinester (Beer Frame) in Brooklyn. His Uni Watch column currently runs on ESPN.com

RUSSELL SCHOLL is a New York-based media archivist. He assembles moving image programs on a wide variety of subjects (the history of animation; early jazz shorts; burlesque; educational and propaganda films, etc.) and exhibits them at Barbes in Park Slope and other NYC venues.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has written for the Onion News Network and Stay Free! magazine. Charles hosts the comedy show Pant-Hoot on the third Tuesday of every month at Magnetic Field.

On January 5, Claudia Cogan, Jiwon Lee and John F. O’Donnell hosted 50 First Jokes at The Creek and The Cave in Long Island City. Ultimately, over 60 comics told their first jokes (a previously unperformed joke or one written in 2008). This was mine.