She So Funny

 

Hey people.  I have several things coming up that I hope will appeal to you.

The Abstract Figure Painting class I’ve been taking at the Bronx Museum of the Arts will be concluding on October 7^th.  Two days later will be an opening night for the new exhibit by professional artists.  They will be including a work or 2 from each of us unprofessional artists on the lobby level.  Please consider yourself invited.

Friday, October 9^th -- Bronx Museum of the Arts, Grand Concourse and 165^th Street.  D train to 167^th Street or Bx1 or Bx2 bus to 165^th Street. It's from 6-8pm.  FREE!  Refreshments available, also free. 

Saturday, October 10^th -- Free Poetry reading will take place at 2pm at the Riverside Library, 65th and Amsterdam (across from Lincoln Center).  This is to celebrate the Riverside Poets 2026 Anthology.  (Copies available for $20 each.)  At about 4:30, we will walk to the picnic tables at lovely Riverside Park South, where we will have a free picnic with catered food and drink.

Friday, October 23^rd – Dance of the Word at 7pm at 353 West 48th Street, between 8th and 9th. 2nd fl., Studio 3.  There will be wine and refreshments included in the $20 cover charge.  The event will include poetry, music, prose, belly dancing, and just a good ol’ time.

        Saturday, October 24^th – 12 to 3pm - Brevitas Poetry Festival (celebrating the short poem) at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York City  10012; F train to Second Ave. $15 admission includes complimentary copy of the new 2026 Brevitas anthology.   https://www.eventbrite.com/e/best-of-brevitas-festival-of-the-short-poem-tickets-2001407876836?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

 

     If you like to plan ahead, the Almost Winter Comedy Show on City Island at The Artist, 249 City Island Avenue, will be on December 11^th at 8pm. Only $15 and NO minimum! Mark your calendars now for much laughter.

        I find creating so healing.  And much fun.  

So much love to CGG-M  ❤ 💙 💚 💛 💜 ❤

Mindy Matijasevic

October 2, 2026

 

 

People, the Almost Winter Comedy Show was successful.  I still wish it were better attended, but it was a good show and the audience enjoyed it very much.  Some friends who are former co-workers surprised me and showed up.  That was thrilling!  Thanks, Richard and Steven.  You were a big part of my joy.  😂 😂

 

My closest friends, Bob and Judy, attended – one drove me there, and the other drove me home.  I’m always so happy when they can both make it.  They are family to me.  (The good kind.)  ❤❤❤  I'll be spending my birthday with them on 12/21 and am grateful.

After the show, Steven, Richard, Judy and I went to the bar next door for a drink and some fun talking.  It always makes me feel good when my friends tell me how much they enjoyed the comics.  And they did.  Jean Kim, Ron Long, Rhonda Hansome (and I) delivered.  They were all hilarious.  In my opinion, I have good taste.

 

My show at The Artist is seasonal.  The next one will be in March 2026 as long as the Glicks are still there running the place.  I am grateful to them for so much.  They are wonderful people.  I feel fortunate to know them.  ❤❤

January 17th at 9pm, I'll be in the EAT DRINK LAUGH show at Pangea.  Details to come.

 

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, Three Kings Day, Eid, winter solstice …  hope we all are safe and healthy.  😍

May the gangsters take a time-out.  Maybe try something radically different  --  feeding a stray, bringing flowers to someone you care about, hugging yourself?

 

A little neighborhood news:  A drunk man in the liquor store told me he needed a dollar.  I told him I couldn’t help him.  Then he leaned closer and told me he wanted to take me home.  (Yes, these are the propositions I get.)  I told him he’d need way more than a dollar.  We both laughed and it ended on an okay note punctuated by a high five.  👐

 

 

Much love to CGG-M  💓  💕  💓

Mindy Matijasevic

December 2025

 

 

 

Hey people!  If you happen to be in the mood for a poetry reading, I’m one of three featured poets at the Green Pavilion, 4307 18^th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218 on Wednesday, November 26^th at 7pm.  This event includes an open mic where most art forms are welcome!  Evie Ivy has produced and hosted this event for almost or over 2 decades, and she is a wonderfully warm and welcoming host.  It takes place on the last Wednesday of the month.

 

Teaching again with such a wonderful group of students has been a happy time each week.  Again, I am both pleased and saddened that I am experienced by students as so exceptional.  I am not the most knowledgeable or talented teacher, however, I respect people.  I think not running the class on fear is the big difference along with appreciating wherever one is on their journey, and going from there.  I am working on a collection of stories of my experiences working in adult education. 

 

If you could use some laughter (and who couldn’t), come to my “Almost Winter Comedy Show” at The Artist, 249 City Island Avenue, the Bronx, on Friday 12/12 at 8pm.  For choice of seating, arrive by 7:50pm.  It’s a space with good vibes, and you may even BYOB.  Cover $15; no minimum.  A menu of light fare and delicious desserts is available.  It’s tempting but not required.  (The way sex should be.)  A hat gets passed around for contributions, so I may pay the comics.

 

The wonderful line-up:

 

Jean Kim

Ron Long

Rhonda Hansome

Hosted by me, Mindy Matijasevic

Hope to see you and hear you laughing!

 

        The show at Pangea on 11/1 went well.  I enjoy watching the show as much as being in it.  However, I felt myself as kinda low-energy on stage.  It may have been because I was very hungry.  After the show, I spoke with some audience members who really liked my performance.  So maybe I wasn’t as low-energy as I perceived myself as being.  I’m a harsh judge when it comes to me.

 

After the show, most of us were still there for the photo.  Mike Hernandez Vacas had to leave before this.  I’m holding up the divorce shirts I sell.  (Was thrilled to sell one which meant I would be eating.) 

 

 

 

        December on City Island is a very pretty sight.  Spend the day.  Enjoy the restaurants and the shops.  Then come to The Artist for comedy and dessert. Desserts are by Jenny's Sweets.

 

Photographer Ron Terner 

 

 

 

    

Hello people.  Thanks for coming back to read my updates.  I appreciate your interest.

 

        On Saturday, November 1^st at 9pm, I’m on the line-up in Paul Hallasy’s Eat Drink Laugh show at Pangea, 178 2^nd Avenue (near 12^th Street) NYC.  $10 in advance; $15 at the door.  

 

  

Hi people.  I am happy to share that I am teaching a creative writing class once a week to people who are retired and now doing things they really want to do.  They are delightful.  The levels vary, and that’s fine.  I appreciate their motivation and enthusiasm.

        For those of you who would like to attend a free comedy show in Manhattan, I am on the line-up for Randy Epley’s Comedy Dungeon Show at Kama, 36 West 106^th Street, 8:30pm on Thursday, October 9^th.  You may even BYOB.

 

I’ve been selling merchandise – books, clothes, jewelry, electric rollers, dishes, other household items, etc. -- in front of my building.  Currently, my neighborhood is mainly Dominican.  Many folks speak little or no English.  I speak very little Spanish.  Somehow, we manage.  I am using more of whatever Spanish I learned in school, and they are using whatever English they know.  Younger people translate when needed.  It’s all good.

 

Community is more about hearts than anything else.

My next show on City Island is on 12/12/2025 at 8pm, only $15 cover and NO minimum!  Laughter is truly guaranteed.  Details to follow.  Mark your calendars now.  I’d LOVE to see you and hear you laughing.

 

 

 

So much love to CGG-M ❤💖💖❤

Mindy Matijasevic

October 6, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well today is Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah.  Hanukkah will conclude in January.  I don’t remember that ever happening before, but I’m sure it must have.  Have a good everything.

 

The night before the winter solstice and my birthday was the show at The Artist on City Island.  The weather reports were threatening a snowstorm.  Here in the Bronx, nothing stuck, it was not at all a storm, and we just had wet ground.  However, the comics were coming from Staten Island, Long Island, and Brooklyn.  So for a few hours, I was not sure one of them was going to brave it.  I don’t drive at all, so when a driver feels hesitant about driving in challenging weather, I get it. 

 

It all worked out.  Then there was the mystery of how many audience members will show up.  The weather reports were not on our side.  Still, more people came than I thought.  And it was a good show.

 

        Elliot Glick introducing the show and welcoming the audience warmly.  He's one of my favorite people.

 

            Me enjoying a comic.

 

 

           Helaine showing us how she was coached to pose.

 

 

            Half of us looking like the Rockettes.

 

         My bestie’s girlfriend suggested they take me out to dinner the next day on my birthday.  We went to Neem, an Indian restaurant in Riverdale (in the Bronx, N.Y.).  It was so relaxing, no rushing, no having to get anywhere else.  We ate and talked and drank (well I drank).  It was very nice and generous of them.  It gave me something to look forward to.  I was grateful.

 

If you are into starting 2025 with poetry, you might want to attend some of this extravaganza which runs from 2-10pm at 55 Bethune Street in the community room.  It is FREE.  Each reader reads for 3 minutes, so if you don’t like someone, it will end soon.  There is an open mic list included if you want your 3 minutes.  The open mic-ers are usually sprinkled throughout the day.

 

 

The local news breaks my heart – people losing their lives over stupid shit.  Their families devastated at holiday time.  Horrible.  Then a dictator coming into office in January.  God/dess help us all.

 

Let’s embrace laughter to help us get through.  The Eat Drink Laugh show at Pangea (NYC) on January 24^th at 9pm will lift your spirits.

 

 

 

Loads of love to CGG-M    ❤❤❤

 

Mindy Matijasevic

December 2024

 

 

 

 

 

    Hi everyone!  A haiku of mine on the theme of winter is published here:

I'm in here towards the end

 

    Another poem of mine has been requested to another publication.  That part of my life is going well.

 

    My show, The Almost-Winter Comedy Show, at The Artist, 249 City Island Avenue, is on 12/20/2024 at 8pm.  Only $15 cover, no minimum, and a hat gets passed around for contributions so I may pay the comics.  There is a vegetarian-friendly menu and delicious desserts to tempt you, but it is not required.  You may even BYOB.  Glasses, ice, and a corkscrew will be provided.  It is a family-run place and very welcoming.

 

    The desserts are provided by Jenny's Sweets and they are SPECTACULAR!

 

    The line-up:

Helaine Witt

Jose Angel Diaz

Shelly Colman

and me!

 

    This show is my birthday eve, and I hope you want to attend.  I’d love to see you there and hear your laughter.

 

    I hope everyone had a decent or better Thanksgiving.  Mine started out sort of depressing, but I was expected at a dinner in the evening at my best friend’s house.  It was a vegetarian dinner, delicious, and with great company.  So much sharing, wine, weed, and laughter.  I am so grateful. 

 

    However, the next evening, someone was ringing my doorbell.  I was not expecting anyone, so I almost didn’t go to the door.  Then I thought maybe it was a package I wasn’t expecting.  I went to the door, looked through the peephole, and it wasn’t anyone in a FedEx or UPS uniform.  I asked, “Who’s there?”  The young (maybe early 20s) man had long hair, maybe in dreadlocks, braids, or twists, and didn’t look at my door, so I only got a profile view.  It seemed he was reading off his phone.  He said that he lost his I-Phone around here and wondered if I had seen it or heard about it.  I told him, “No,” and I added, “Good luck.”  If he thought I would open my door, he got the wrong girl.  I was born and raised here in the Bronx. 

 

    What I didn’t hear was most significant.  He didn’t ring anyone else’s doorbells.  So this was specific.  I wondered if someone was watching me, or if someone hired someone to do something.  I don’t generally make enemies, but as far as I know, there are some people who think they would like me to be dead.  I was never cruel to them.  Both are connected to a man I chose to not be with.  Draw your own conclusion.  Then there are people in the neighborhood who might feel rejected by me simply because I don’t respond favorably to disrespectful men.  Whatever that person at my door was about, it could’ve been a very Un-Thanksgiving Day After.  Life isn’t boring.  That’s for sure.

 

    This year, Hanukkah and Christmas begin on the same day.  Amazing.  And for the first time in my memory, Hanukkah will conclude in January.

 

    Come to my show on 12/20!

 

Love always to CGG-M  ❤💕❤

Mindy Matijasevic

December 2024