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You have to enjoy the irony of a composer whose most widely played piece is titled The Composer Is Dead. Indeed, it's so popular that it got turned into the cutest, funnest children's book, complete with an accompanying CD. Said composer? Our own Nathaniel Stookey, a San Francisco resident who collaborated here with Lemony Snicket for the witty text. Snicket, aka. Daniel Handler, is the author of a Series of Unfortunate Events, which sold over 50 millions copies. Talk about a local dream team.

Our next big SFist contest is for "An Evening of a Thousand Scowls" a comedy show put on by everyone's favorite writers workshop, 826 Valencia. The night features such comedians as Janeane Garofalo, Patton Oswalt, Al Madrigal, Jasper Redd, Brent Weinbach and others, and will be hosted by non-comedian Daniel Handler (aka “Lemony Snicket”). The performance will raise money for 826 Valencia's student writing and tutoring programs.

A passel of literary events tonight:

Hope you're having a bad-luck-free Friday the 13th out there, folks! Here's the ominous items we found on a casual search of San Francisco news sites.

We headed to Cafe Du Nord last Friday to catch the sold-out early show by Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton. By the 9pm showtime, the band was still soundchecking behind closed curtains and didn't start playing to the crowd until an hour later, but it was worth the wait. Haines crouched behind the keys, bird-skinny and soft-voiced, embodying the delicate yin to her animated Metric persona's yang. Eerie old black and white film clips played in the background while she drenched the crowd with slow, forlorn song movements. This introverted version of Haines was just as intense as you'd expect her to be. Between songs she debated whether or not she should talk to the audience more, and when a woman in the crowd encouraged her to, Haines thought and then replied, "I don't feel like it." Then she let the songs speak for her.

--Why's Lawrence Wong getting in so much trouble for accidentally crossing a picket line when the Bay Area Reporter did too?

You, the voracious reader, will soon be left to repine most piteously, for a most sorrowful event is pending. Yes! Local author Lemony Snicket's final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, titled The END, is being released next month.

In a shameless bit of self-reference, we will announce that it's our birthday, and we have therefore been the happy recipient of more than one Amazon gift certificate over the course of the day. We're not the kind of a**hole who complains about a gift (shut up, we're not!), but we did have a moment of crisis: how do we reconcile our sincere and public support of our fine local independent bookstores with the use of these GCs? One option is to duck the book issue and treat ourselves to that ice cream maker we've always wanted, but we know ourselves too well -- despite our best intentions it'll end up on the shelf next to our waffle maker and George Foreman grill. Then, we remembered commenter Karen, who reminded us that independent bookstore purchases can be made by choosing the "Used and New" option. Thanks, Karen, for solving our dilemma! SFist commenters are the best!

is the story of Felix -- a young boy with no interest in forming human friends -- and a dog, Sergeant Pepper, who comes into Felix's life and who can (joy of joys for a small child) talk. There follows a fairly boiler-plate story with concerned parents; a disbelieving child psycholigist; an inherited fortune that only the dog can access; a kindly old man; multiple mad dashes to evade kidnappers; and two bumbling villains, one of whom might just have his heart warmed and become valiant in the eleventh hour. Ho hum, no surprises as far as plot goes; and yet the movie enjoys a gentle, unpredictable silliness that makes it entirely appropriate that it is dedicated to C&H author Bill Watterson.

Wow, so much interesting list stuff has hit our inbox this week that we've barely had time to read our online reserves from the SFPL. Well, we've learned that if we're running behind on our reading, that booksfree, (which should just give up and call themselves the Netflix of books, because that's what they are) is there to help save us from late fees on borrowed books. Then again, if we have some cash to throw around, we can either blow a wad at our fine local independent bookstores, or we can follow popsugar's lead and bid to name a character from a book by "Authors including Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Amy Tan, Lemony Snicket, Nora Roberts, Michael Chabon and more." Finally, a place to use all those wacky pet names we've been collecting over the years.

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