Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 3:56PM August 21, 2007—Opium’s Literary Death Match SF, Episode 2, was an absolutely inspired success. Breaking the LDM attendance record, the latest event pulled in 170 rowdy, rally-crying supporters (“And all of them good-looking,” said one attendee). It was also the first-ever LDM episode to feature product placement, as co-host Todd Zuniga sported a eye-catching necktie created by the minds of Medium Reality.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 3:54PM Opium’s Literary Death Match kicked off in San Francisco at Harlot with a huge bang, as Sam Hurwitt (Kitchen Sink) wowed the world--or at least the 160 onlookers--by toppling Canteen’s Joyce Maynard in a breathtaking game of Stab a Hole in Nebraska. Joyce’s joust sunk well south of the target, while Hurwitt stabbed a hole into Shenendoah, Iowa, just miles clear of the Nebraska state line.
Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 3:53PM Our fifth-ever episode marked the return of the LDM to the great outdoors, as glass-ceiling crasher Irina Reyn out-haiku’d finalist Tony O’Neill to snare victory for the jaws of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 3:59PM In a battle too bloody for photographs, Opium’s annual Literary Death Match in the Park featured Opium’s own going head-to-head, as founding editor Todd Zuniga outraced executive editor Elizabeth Koch in the Trash Bag Race finale.
Monday, May 22, 2006 at 4:00PM NYC’s third-ever Literary Death Match, featured McSweeney’s representative Sean Casey shocking the world, toppling Quick Fiction’s charmatician Thomas Hopkins. The battle ended as Casey’s world geography skills outmatched Hopkins.
Monday, April 10, 2006 at 4:00PM At the second-ever Literary Death Match in NYC, finalists Kristen McGonigle (Pindeldyboz) and Manuel Munoz (Swink) squared off in “Loooooooooooooong Division.” The equation: 964,562,148,321 ÷ 7. Munoz won in a landslide and carried home the LDM hardware.
Monday, March 6, 2006 at 3:33PM At the Literary Death Match debut, Ted Travelstead (reading for Mike Sacks for Sweet Fancy Moses) was crowned after winning a bitter battle of Stab a Hole in Nebraska versus the ever-talented Deb Olin Unferth.