Let's Play "Name the Barrelhouse Reading Series"

Hey Smart People --

Barrelhouse is starting a reading series. In typical Barrelhouse fashion, that doesn't mean, you know, hey, you better get down to X place at X time or you'll miss X reading at the Barrelhouse Reading Series. That means we had a few too many Brooklyn Browns, we started kicking around ideas, we found out that a few of us had harbored a harebrained scheme to launch a reading series, we talked about it, then we kind of forgot about it for a few months.

That's where you come in, Blog People.

So what we know is this: this reading series will occur primarily in the Washington, DC area. At the same place every month. A bar. We don't know quite which one yet, but we're working on it. Each month, we'll invite a new literary magazine or school program or organization or anthology or whatever to be the featured group (at least two times a year, we'll hog the spotlight ourselves and get all Barrelhousey on your asses). So to recap what we know: DC, once a month, in a bar, with a special guest somethingorother each time.

What we don't know: the name, the schtick.

We need a good name for this thing. Something snappy. Something not stupid or academic or boring. Snappy, people!

Schtick: a lot of these reading series have a schtick -- you know, something else happening that says, "hey there, normal dude, this is a little more fun than the usual thing." For instance, DC's kickass poetry reading, Lolita and Gilda's Burlesque Poetry Hour. The questions: do we need a schtick? What should it be?

The one good idea we have is some kind of pub quiz kinda thing. Kind of makes sense, since a quiz lends itself to the pop culture thing.

Any other ideas out there?