Taskforce Detroit is off to NYC Wednesday afternoon.

The schedule of events:

Team Dorkwave (Jon O, Servito and myself) go head to head with Gibby, Dave Elliott and Cowboy Mark at Lit Wednesday night. Details at Make Out Club. Discuss here and here.

Expect the antics to continue Thursday night at Darkwave BBQ (a.k.a. Dorkweave BBQ, a.k.a. Sporkrave BBQ) with your hosts Plexus and Heartthrob at Cash Checking in Williamsburg.

Friday is penciled in for a relaxing afternoon on the Hudson River Valley.

Saturday night is the much overdue Untitled NYC preview: "Potentially Dangerous" and the combined birthday party for Sara Spratt, Regina Kim, Molly Ozias and our own Mr. Mike Servito at Happy Ending in Chinatown. Details and discussion here. This will be the debut live performance by Run Stop Restore's Marc Houle, and it's totally free! Check out the kind words by a certain "LH" in Flavorpill.

After a quick shower (god willing), we're off to welcome the Republican National Convention to New York City Sunday morning with around one million of our closest friends. Patriotic citizens are encouraged to gather north of 14th street between 10 and 11am, and walk north along 7th avenue past Madison Square Garden and on the Central Park (despite the mayor's intentions to the contrary.) It should be noted that of 8 million NYC residents, only 500 thousand are registered Republicans. You do the math and try to figure out why on earth they would choose to convene in the one city that openly despises the Bush administration more than any other... outside of Iraq, France, and just about everywhere else in the world of course. Be sure to watch the news on Sunday afternoon.