• Tonight at Mo Pitkins, cartoonists try really hard to convince you a) that cartoons are a valid form of art and b) that cartoonists are socially viable creatures. Uptown, Neil Gaiman, so valid and viable that his stick-figures are called "novels," gets an entire event to himself at the 92nd Street Y. [flavorpill & Upcoming]
• Nepotism reigns at tonight's reading of The Best American Magazing Writing 2005. 7PM at Half King, where everybody knows your name. [Half King]
• The Oxonian Society hosts a lecture by Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, but they won't tell you where the lecture is until you've registered. Because when your speaker is party to sensitive intelligence concerning color codes, you have to up security. [Paper]