We’ve got two 3rd row tickets to David Sedaris on October 7th at Lisner Auditorium. And you can win them!
We’ve talked about this event featuring the author/orator/humorist David Sedaris before. These tickets are sold out to the public, and only a few remain for GWorld-card-carrying students. They’re selling online for up to $250, but you can get them for free.
Here’s how.
1) Only our Facebook fans can win, so make sure to become a fan if you’re not already.
2) Leave a comment on this post telling us why you want to win.
3) Make sure to enter your real email address when you’re filling out the comment form (that’s how we’ll contact you.) No need to put your email address in the actual comment though.
4) The competition ends Wednesday, September 30th, at 5pm (est)
5) We’ll announce a randomly selected (and facebook-fan confirmed) winner on Friday, October 2nd.
Remember, you can only enter once, so no need to comment again and again. Also, all new commenters need to be approved before their comment will appear (spam control!), so if this is your first time doing it with us, be patient. It can take some time for us to get to it and hit “approve.”
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UPDATE: To be clear, the winner will be selected randomly. As in, every person who enters gets assigned a number and then we’ll use a random number generator to pick one. (We’ll do our best to remove all duplicate entries.) If that person has followed our rules and is a fan on Facebook, we’ll contact them via the email address provided and will work out how they’d like to receive their tickets (mail or in person.) The winner gets both tickets. Otherwise it would be like winning a blind date to David Sedaris, courtesy of FoBoBlo. Which would just be weird.
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David Sedaris’ “When You are Engulfed in Flames” kept me sane during my 10 hour hell-drive from DC to Massachusetts last summer. Delaware and New Jersey are instantly rendered pleasant when you’ve got David Sedaris’ voice riding shotgun.
So far Pat, you’ve got an excellent chance at winning these tickets. U R NUMBAH WAAAAAAAN!
are you using a random number generator to choose who wins?
I have worked on democratic and issue- advocacy campaigns from Alaska to Texas to New Hampshire to Iowa to California–37 states in all. Each time I wanted to kill myself (or someone else) because, well, campaigns are crazy hard, I would listen to David Sedaris (Holidays on Ice is my favorite) or read a section of any one of his books (although “Me Talk Pretty” is my top choice when things are really bad).
Things that happened during campaigns that inspired me to listen to Sedaris: getting attacked by a rooster in Alaska, seeing someone get shot while canvassing, having lightning strike my teeny-tiny plane while campaigning against Wal-Mart (a woman yelled “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!”), being called a socialist baby killer (name the state), and so on.
I would absolutely love to see David Sedaris and would be incredibly honored to win the tickets!
sometimes the sarcasm gets to be a bit much for me.
During my freshman year of college my parent’s went through a rough divorce, and it was up to me and my brother to referee their marathon fights and fits during the whole tumultuous period.
It was that winter, right around the holidays, when everything got bad. The whole Christmas season seemed to exacerbate the situation. I was away at school when things started to get worse, and my brother felt like he had nowhere to go to escape it all.
One December weekend he called me in a fit of hysteria, telling me he could not take it anymore, so I invited him up to stay with me at college. That was about the same time I picked up a copy of David Sedaris’s Holiday’s on Ice at a former English teacher’s recommendation. That weekend we sat in and read story after hilarious story in my dorm room, sometimes him reading aloud to me while I studied for finals.
For awhile it seemed like nothing could ever be funny to me or my brother, but Holiday’s on Ice seemed to break the tensions that tightened inside my Brother and I. My brother went home that weekend calm and collected, and with my copy of the book. His happiness seemed to cool our parent’s off a bit, and that Christmas turned out to be not so bad.
I’m really hoping this is random because I can’t compete with the stories above.
I’m a big fan of David Sedaris. OH! and there is this girl I like who LOVES him. So tickets would totally, you know…you know.
i frakking LOVE Sedaris. PLEASE PLEASE pick me!!! =)
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David Sedaris is the only person on earth who can make me simultaneously choke, bleed from my eyes, and convulse on the floor due to excessive laughter.
Clearly it’d be awesome to make such a scene in an auditorium full of people.
David Sedaris made me not feel like a complete failure for having trouble learning a new language (Italian) after reading Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Every time I messed up in class, I’d think of his problem with plurals (him buying two of everything in France because he couldn’t remember the correct words and grammar for the singular) “My boyfriend won’t be mad at me.. wait until he sees the stereos I bought him!”.
Also, he has helped me make my friends feel really awkward on our drunken departures on public transportation (“Hope they drop the rape charges!”) in Philly.
Pretty much, David Sedaris rocks my little weird world. I’d tapdance for free tix!
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I don’t know who David Sedaris is nor have I ever heard of him. For that reason alone, I think I make a great candidate for the ticket because that way, one more person in the world will have “simultaneously choked, bled from my eyes, and convulsed on the floor due to excessive laughter.” I feel like that should happen to more people in this world.
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I just really love David Sedaris. It all started when I went to go see The Santaland Diaries in Atlanta. I’ve been looking forward to him coming since GW orientation this summer (I’m a freshman), but I didn’t know when the tickets were going on sale in time to get them.
I haven’t read any of David Sedaris’ books, to be honest. However, many of my friends speak very highly of him and I figure what better way to gain an understanding of what the author is all about than by seeing him speak in person?
I’d like to win… well… because my mid-week entertainment quotient is critically low on Wednesdays and this sounds fun. Sorry if that’s lame.
I have read 3 Sedaris books, loved every single one of them. Three more are in my reading queue. I am just absolutely obsessed with him and really want to see him.
I just really love David Sedaris. If I’m upset about something, I can read one of his short stories and am instantly in a good mood.
David Sedaris, one block from home, free tickets, what’s not to like?
I think David Sedaris is very funny. And its free entertainment. So… yeah.
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