Come See Me at a Weird And Insane Afternoon With Nathan Rabin at Dynasty Typewriter, February 22nd, 3:30 PM!

It is no exaggeration to say that I have been excited about Dynasty Typewriter, Los Angeles’ hottest and hippest venue, well before it opened. That’s because I’m not just a fan of the venue’s co-founder, Jamie Flam: I believe in him. I believe in his dreams and his vision and his mad scheme to enchant the world the same way I hope that fans of this website believe in my dreams and my vision and my life’s work and don’t just visit the Happy Place because I wrote some funny articles for the A.V Club an increasingly long time ago. 

I became a fan of Jamie’s via his long-running podcast The Long Shot, which is sadly no longer with us but that I mourn and miss the way I’d mourn and miss a friend or beloved family member. I related to Jamie on a deeply personal level. 

When I had an opportunity to contribute to the Kickstarter to help bring The Dynasty Typewriter into existence I leaped at the chance. I didn’t just plan to go to the Dynasty Typewriter and experience one of their amazing shows when I finally got to go back to Los Angeles: I set out to make a sacred pilgrimage to this most holy of pop culture destinations. 

You would think I was Jamie’s Jewish grandmother the way I beamed with pride for him and Dynasty Typewriter every time something wonderful and big time would happen, whether that meant Adam Sandler, a VERY famous movie star taping part of his special there or The New York Times writing a glowing article about the place. 

So you can only imagine the kind of intense, complicated and even overpowering feelings I am experiencing about the fact that there is a pretty good chance that if things do not turn around a little I could very well be the subject of the single least successful and well-attended event in the history of Dynasty Typewriter. 

That’s because on Saturday, February 22nd, at 3:30 P.M, not long before the final, climactic performance by Insane Clown Posse on night two of Juggalo Days I will be the center of a Weird and Insane Afternoon with Nathan Rabin and as of this morning two entire tickets have been sold. 

That’s not great, and while the neurotic midwesterner in me feels terrible about the prospect of people spending money to see me talk about myself and my career, something many people would pay good money to never have to experience, the afternoon should be a whole lot of fun. 

Thank God it’s not just going to be me. Jonah Ray, of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will be performing, as will the great comedian Joe Kwaczala, who I know from my Chicago days, and the wonderful D.C Pierson will be doing an epic Q&A about my career and then there will be a book signing, or at least I hope there will be one, as I’m schlepping dozens of copies of The Weird Accordion to Al with me in a suitcase to L.A and I really don’t want to have to bring them home to Atlanta in a couple of days as an extremely heavy, onerous visual representation of failure. 

Honestly, it’d be worth going to a Weird and Insane Afternoon with Nathan Rabin just for the sake of the Dynasty Typewriter experience. It would be worth it for their insane popcorn options alone. But if you want to see me and shake my hand and get a book signed this is one of the only opportunities you’ll have for the foreseeable future. I’m not doing a national book tour for The Weird Accordion to Al. I am my own publisher and right now, and also forever, I have no money to promote the book. 

I’ll be hitting up The Fest of Al on June 27th and 28th in Colorado, which will be aces, and I’m hoping to do an event in Chicago in late March but the last time I did something in LA it was 2013 so it might be another seven years before I do another L.A reading or signing or show or what have you. 

A Weird and Insane Afternoon with Nathan Rabin affords me an opportunity to take this website, and this book, both of which I adore, out of my condo and out into the outside world. That is terrifying but it is also exciting. Heck, it’s absolutely thrilling. 

So if you live in Los Angeles, or are just there on Juggalo business please buy a ticket to my show here to support my dream, Jamie’s dream and dreams in general: https://www.dynastytypewriter.com/calendar/weirdaccordiontoalfeb22

AND you can support my dream even more directly by pledging to my site at https://www.patreon.com/nathanrabinshappyplace

OR buying my book, which was just written up in Rolling Stone at https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Accordion-Al-Obsessively-Co-Author/dp/1658788478/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=weird+accordion&qid=1580693427&sr=8-1#customerReviews

Here’s the Rolling Stone piece: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weird-al-yankovic-uhf-gandhi-2-clip-954333/