The Unreliable Narrator Showcase is coming Tuesday, April 19 to Johnny D’s in Davis Square

[ladydayelle.livejournal.com]

Because of the great response to last year's UnVaudeville, Unreliable Narrator will be staging another variety show at Johnny D's this year called The Unreliable Narrator Showcase.

The Unreliable Narrator Showcase features a delightful evening of comedy, music and storytelling to benefit Unreliable Narrator’s summer tour of “2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!”:

MUSIC!

* Kristen Ford

* Mei Ohara
* Selected songs from “2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!”  

COMEDY!
* Jenny Zigrino
* Ryan Darmody
* Perfect Monster
* The Unreliable Narrator Podcast Group

STORYTELLING! 
* Brad Smith
* Michael Anderson
* Tina Stoner 

Time: 8 PM
Cover:  $10.00

Location: Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St., Somerville, MA 
For reservations call (617) 776-2004    

For more information, visit http://www.unreliable-narrator.com or call (617) 386-9595. 
Unreliable Narrator can also be followed on Twitter at @unarrator.  

JOIN US FOR SOME HIDEOUS FUN!

Comments

[ron_newman]

Thanks for posting, but could you please un-bold and un-italicize most of the text? Thanks.

If this weren't the second night of Passover I'd gladly attend your show.

[ladydayelle.livejournal.com]

Explain why regarding the use of bold and italics?

[ron_newman]

Making a whole post bold and italic actually makes it much harder to read.

[ladydayelle.livejournal.com]

I will have to disagree. I previewed it both ways and found the the bolding helpful.

[real-green-tea.livejournal.com]

The whole post is bolded and the text is huge.
I missed key information on the first read (such as the date) because text was so spread out.
Also: when a post has excessive use of bold, italic, and text size distortion, it makes the message look like spam.

[ron_newman]

The date (Tuesday, April 19) is in the subject line only. (It's often a good idea to repeat it in the body text since people often mentally skip over subject lines.)

[littlecitynames.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't read any post that's all spread out and bolded like this. My brain automatically assumes spam and moves on. At the moment, I couldn't tell you what this post is about except that it's some kind of show.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I don't think it matters if you disagree if a mod tells you to...

[ron_newman]

to be fair, I didn't identify myself as a mod when I posted my request. Anyway, it's un-bolded now. In the future, better to just post plain text into the HTML tab (instead of the Rich Text tab) then selectively add desired formatting.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

How about because it's stated in the community rules?

"Formatting: Please post in plain text. The occasional bold or italic tag is fine, but extensively formatted entries won't properly display on many people's friends pages. Please do not post using large or colored fonts."

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

agreed. any other explanation will result in a pointless discussion (see above)

[ladydayelle.livejournal.com]

Since it is in the communiy rules (admittedly I haven't posted anything here in a very long time and so was not aware that this is a rule), I will repost it in plain text.

[ron_newman]

Thanks, we moderators appreciate this. You can still use some bold and italic for emphasis (such as to highlight dates or addresses), just don't fill the post with it.

(And good luck with the show! I really regret not being able to attend.)

[littlecitynames.livejournal.com]

The italics are still there :-\

[antimony.livejournal.com]

It's also in hard-coded black text, which means that I couldn't see a word of it. Hard-coding text color on LiveJournal is a bad idea because most people read posts from their "friends list", which picks up their journal color settings. Mine is set to light text on black, so your post was all black-on-black.

[ron_newman]

I didn't even realize that, but ... yeah, it's best to not specify font colors at all when posting here, unless you just want to highlight a few words here and there.

Seriously, if LJ gave us moderators the power to turn off Rich Text entirely here, we would.

[antimony.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I still actually have no idea what the ad was for, I just hit the comments to politely tell them it was completely illegible and found that that was an improvement over TO BOLDLY ILLEGE where everyone has illeged before IDK.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

Are the rules for posting in certain text there for smart-phone readers also? I just assumed that to be the case

[ron_newman]

the rules predate the word "smartphone", I think. (I have no idea what this LJ community looks like on a phone.)