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Do you miss the IPOs?

Lawsuits got you down?

Weary of grim tales of dot-com downturn?

Enjoy the bull humour market!


Join host and creator Heather Gold and the web's wittiest personalities and writers (including Justin Hall and Lance Arthur), at the second annual 'Roast the Net'event on Monday evening March 12th 8pm at the Ritz Theatre. Song, sketch and stand-up will take aim at the past year of interent insanity. Options for everyone!

Streams of the event will be up soon. In the meantime,

here's Thomas Scoville's Pink Slips and Ham



Come to SxSWEmail roast@subvert.com if you're interested in a tape of the show.

Taste the hilarity of last year's show. It was incredibly fun:

On Monday March 13th, 2000subvert.com and SxSW Interactive, in association with Her Domain presented

The First Internet Industry Roast

Join roast host heather gold
and a bevy of industry commentators, survivors and special guests
as they call out (if not kill) the goose that lays the golden eggs:
the Internet Industry.

Check it Out (mp3-style).



1.Heather Gold...............................................Intro/rock star CEO/start-up dysfunction
2.special guest Adam Powell................................................unWired
3.HG...................................................romance in Silicon Valley/eating our words
4.Paulina Borsook..........................living Just enough for the city/www.concentration camp
5.HG.......................................................................chachka economy/butter
6.HG + Elizabeth Belile............................................Poem for a World Wide Whatever
7.Betty Ray..........................................................................lizard brain
8.Thomas Scoville........................................................................howl.com
9.Justin Hall.....................................................business opportunities I missed

The History of the World Wide Web Wank was poured forth by:
 

Liz Belile bodyofwords.com poet fantastique, author of Polishing the Bayonet, the spoken word CD "Your Only Other Option is Surgery" and creator of Gynomite: named Houston's Best Reading Series.

Paulina Borsook is the author of "Cyberselfish/ A critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of the high-tech." As she said in her official bio for "The Best of Suck" years ago, she is basically a very nice girl who doesn't understand why everyone gets so upset with what she writes."

Heather Gold is a cross-platform writer/performer.

Justin Hall, featured subject of the film Home Page, and so much more than can be described in one line.

Adam Powell runs a little company called Angry Coffee.

Betty Ray is the mayor of fuckertown.com

Thomas Scoville (silicon follies, salon) reformed hacker, novelist, cyber-critic, and e-commerce conscientous objector. His favorite peripheral is his cat. For the Roast, Thomas wrote and performed, with beret, Howl.com