Across from the homeless shelter on Capp street in the Mission District, at the Space180 venue, there was a cosmic convergence. The first ever (it should be held again) Lap-Pop event from Locus Arts, curated by Min Jung Kim was a smashing success of nerds, alcohol, wifi, digital photography, and blogging. Who knew that a live blog reading featuring bloggers of blog-worthiness, Ernie Hsung (of little.yellow.different.) and Glenda Bautista (of Agendacide), could be so entertaining, and raucous, with plenty of audience interaction to boot (with a text-message "name that Star Wars character" contest from Glenda and the audience dictating what entries to read from Ernie).

The event also had a podcast from Robynn Takayama (who could not be in attendance), digital photography prints by Courtey Patubo shown at the space, and a performance from Annie Lin (who stole our hearts and turned them into caramel apples, in the utmost positive sense) and proclaimed that it is through AIM that couples in engaged in long distance relationships get to make out.

SFist Paolo, contributing. Photo of Glenda Bautista reading her story about the Essex in Berkeley by Kevin Cheng. More photos on Flickr, or listen to the audio.