Checkin' It Twice

The art of arranging written items one below the other is deceptively mundane. For some, it's easy and fun. For others, making a list, any list, creates an unfathomable maw filled with painful anxiety. Still others are just fucking around. At the To-Do List Book Launch Party and List Slam, self-described "to-do-list-ologist" and author Sasha Cagen presents To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us. She really is an expert, having published To-Do List magazine for years (she also gave us Quirkyalone, the concept and the book, as well as the addictive www.stylemob.com). Thus, her "100 handwritten lists and the stories behind them" are in a very different league from their more random brethren over at Found HQ. The book is charming, but the event also features the mysteriously alluring List Slam. Bring your list, and proclaim it for the crowd, no matter what's on it. Wants? Needs? Enemies? What to pack for the weekend? Cagen and "to-don't-list-ologist" Cameron Tuttle are on hand to analyze your items.
Sat., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., 2007