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Live Shots: Literary Death Match, Elbo Room, 02/12/2010

03.10.10 - 9:40 am | Charles Russo |
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Literary Death Match founder Todd Zuniga (right) co-hosts the February installment of the reading series with Elissa Bassist
Literary Death Match judges for the evening (from left) Janine Brito, Peter Finch and Douglas McGray share a laugh
Novelist and criminal defense lawyer Dylan Schaffer (right) is accompanied during his rowdy reading by his wife and daughter
Author Michelle Tea provides the evenings second reading with a hilarious story involving rectums falling out
With the task of judging "intangibles," Janine Brito comically assesses Tea's reading
The three judges - (from left) Brito, McGray and Finch - confer to decide the winner of the first round, choosing Tea
Samantha Schoech starts the second half of the evening, recounting a trip to wine country with her twin toddlers in tow
Author Joshua Mohr goes next, with a recollections of watching the World Series victory celebrations
Mohr embellishes his recollections of the World Series celebrations by popping a bottle of champagne and dousing himself
Co-host Elissa Bassist assists "Literary Merit" judge Douglas McGray in displaying a pie chart
A view of the audience as the judges playfully review the evening's second set of readings
Mohr (center) Bassist and Zuniga listen as Brito (far left) judges on intangibles
Zuniga and Bassist entertain the crowd as the three judges extensively deliberate the second set of readings, choosing Schoech
To decide the event's final champion, Schaffer and Schoech must throw chocolates into the mouths of pictured romantic writers
Schaffer is declared the night's champion after successfully defeating Schoech in the chocolates toss

In honor of the upcoming installment of the Bay's wondrous Literary Death Match -- Fri/12, 6:30, $10 at Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, SF. -- here are some pics from last month's raucous Valentine's Day edition. It was a fight for love ... to the death!