While the Happy Endings Reading Series has filled the seats of the Mission District's Make Out Room for years now, last week was my first time, and I regret my lateness to the party. The monthly show features five local writers reading essays, poems, short stories and other words in response to a shared cheeky prompt: a delightful mix of standup and write-down.
Altogether, an atmosphere pregnant with that determined irony that keeps the Mission alive. Co-producers Joe Wadlington and Danielle Truppi kick off the evening announcing together: "This is the happiest we've ever been!"
Joe Wadlington onstage at Makeout Room. Judges from the crowd then got picked for determining a favorite and a runner-up. "You are all sunbeams now!" Wadlington assures us who didn't make the judge's committee.
Tonight's theme: "You were right, and I'm sorry." Danielle, wearing earring prints of Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes, starts us with an essay on the embarrassments of a juvenile attempt at censorship. "Being a person is humiliating" she reads off a twice-folded printout. The writers all have i
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