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Come Peep the Peep Diaries: Tour Dates
Posted by Hal
Okay, at long last here is the complete information about the Peep Diaries tour. Please come to these events and bring your friends! And if you live in or near one of these cities and are interested in having me do a lunchtime talk at your company, or a visit with your book club or something else like that, let me know and we’ll work it out. (And if you want to invite me to your city to talk Peep, click here.)
Toronto: Tue, May 19. The Gladstone Hotel, 256 Queen St West. 7:30 pm in association with This Is Not a Reading Series/Pages Books.
Boston/Cambridge: Tue, May 26. Harvard Coop Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge. 7:00 pm.
Boston area: Wed, May 27. Back Pages Books, 289 Moody Street, Waltham, MA. 7:30pm
New York City: Thu, May 28. McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street. 7:30 pm.
New York City: Fri, May 29. Hal at Book Expo America. City Lights Booth, 655 W 34th St (Jacob K Javits Convention Center). 2–4pm.
Chicago: Thu, June 4. Quimby’s Books, 1854 West North Avenue Chicago. 7pm.
Los Angeles: Friday, June 5. Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood. 7pm.
San Francisco: Monday, June 8. Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street. 7:30 pm.
San Francisco: Tuesday, June 9. Technorati Headquarters, 665 3rd Street, Suite 207. 12:30pm. Note: This free, open to the public event will feature a talk by Hal and a q+a session specifically for web 2.0 entrepreneurs interested in exploring the moral/social issues raised by the rise of social media, search engines and more. Held and sponsored by live search engine site Technorati.
Washington, DC/Rockville, MD: Thursday, June 11. Barnes & Noble Rockville, 12089 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 7:30 pm.
Buffalo: Thursday, June 18. Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth St. 7 pm. In association with the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Talking Leaves Bookstore, and the Just Buffalo Literary Center.
Event Description
Join award winning cultural observer Hal Niedzviecki as he takes you on a multimedia tour of our new world: Peepville.
In Peepville, Hal will show you such notable features as streets lined with surveillance cameras, day cares equipped with webcams, and citizens eagerly tracking themselves and each other via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and shared GPS.
Behind all those cameras, cell phones and profiles are real people. It’s time to meet your neighbors, the peeps of Peepville! Some of them are inexplicably revealing the intimate details of their (sex) lives online. Others have become the new enforcers of (digital) morality – digicam vigilantes who stalk everyone from bad drivers to prostitutes. Some of us just want to sit back and relax and watch other people go about their lives dying, disliking their jobs, and trying out for reality tv.
Then there’s our super-special citizens! Hal will introduce to you such Peepville luminaries as the digicam vigilante behind John.tv, the masterminds of Twitter, a Star Wars obsessed sex slave housewife blogger, and so much more! Don’t miss Hal’s guided tour down the infamous Peep Walk of Fame! Here you’ll meet the stars of Peepville: personas like Star Wars Kid, Dog Shit Girl, Washingtonienne, Dancing Cadet, and David After the Dentist. <?xml:namespace prefix =”” o />
But what’s Hal’s stake in this? The more Hal talks about Peepville, the more it becomes clear that he’s just another lonely, confused citizen looking for friendship, attention, community, and respect. Will Hal find what he’s looking for? When Hal invites his 700 Facebook friends to a party and only one shows up, it’s a wake-up call. Can Hal escape Peepville? Does he even want to?
oh dear, they’re all going to be watching me…
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Hey, I’m Hal Niedzviecki. I’m a writer/thinker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife and daughter. Up till now I’ve always considered myself a private person. But at the same time I’m fascinated by people who effortlessly open themselves up to the whole world. So I’ve… more...
New updates on the Broken Pencil site: Dani Couture profile, Melanie Miller story, zine and poetry revs and more. http://bit.ly/cHweBh
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