Michael Vick’s Killer Diet Plan To Reduce Myanmar’s Halo 3 Shortage Enrages Rudy Giuliani; “Down With Absolutes” Host Mike Matthews Awarded Knighthood
September 27, 2007 at 8:15 pm | In Amy Winehouse, Anger, Anime, Bush, CNN, Cartoons, Condoms, Culture, Delaware, Delaware Watch, Down With Absolutes, Feminsim, Joy, Life, Local, Love, Mike Protack, Miscellaneous, Mother Theresa, Newark, Open Government, Photography, Poetry, Reggie Fils-Aime, Religion, Ryan Cormier, Seattle, Slam Poetry, The Criminal, The News Journal, The White House, Washington, Wilmington, Wonder, Worship, Writing, XXX | Leave a CommentDanny Sherrard’s feature at the reading last night was fantastic, engaging, and fun. Those in attendance got to hear some amazing and truly dynamic poetry. Thank you for reading “The Distance”, Danny, and also, thank you for the tequila shot. Those of you who did not come out for this reading? Why on earth did you not do so? You mean to tell me that you actually wanted to miss this opportunity to come see the 2007 Individual Poetry Slam Champion? It was only $2 bucks at the door and all that the house wants you to do is buy ONE DRINK. That’s it. The bare minimum to be considered a patron of the house. Anyone who chose to stay home and watch TV instead is an idiot, let me be clear on that point.
Post your useless excuses right here.
I’ll be waiting. Don’t make me start losing faith in things, now.
Polygamous Troops Pull Steve Fossett Out Of My Rack (Hug Tha Police)
September 15, 2007 at 4:37 pm | In 9/11, 9/11 Rvisited, Annie Oakley, Autumn Fair, Breezes, Delaware, Economics, G*, G8, Newark, Pecos Bill, Photography, Poetry, Slam Poetry, Small Town Theater, Sterling Fair, Suicide Girls, Work | Leave a CommentI’m going to work to day from 2 pm to close at my job. And, in addition that part of my plan for today, I also plan on asking WHY I have been scheduled for only TEN HOURS this coming week.
I’m not a happy camper.
Sen. Larry Craig Trapped in Caribbean Mine, Taps Foot To Signal Where He Is (Concrete Kitten Mix)
September 3, 2007 at 6:28 am | In Austin, DP Queens, Delaware, Hot Dogs, Hurrican Felix, Life, Love, Mine, Photography, Poetry, Sen. Craig, Slam Poetry, Sweden, Texas | 3 CommentsOkay…enough time off from the blog. I’m back. Sorry for the long absence. I’ve got a lot to talk about, but I just wanted to re-break the ice here and say hello again.
It took me some time there to decompress from the National Poetry Slam. It was such an amazing week. How can I describe it? I’ll try to, in parts, in the next few posts I’ll put up on here.
My life has changed.
That much I do know.
Iraq Launches Gay Attack On Michael Vick In Dispute Over Lindsay Lohan’s Drunken Wildfires (2008 Election Dub Mix)
July 25, 2007 at 9:42 pm | In America, Blogging, Civil Discourse, Delaware, Effects, Images, Newark, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Water, Wonder | Leave a CommentWith thanks to m2atk.wordpress.com, take a look at this image:
Take a look at it for a long while. I mean, take a good, long look at it.
Can’t you just get lost in a picture like this? Seriously?
Lindsay Lohan’s Warmongering, Insurgent Tits Found Inside Palestinian XBOX 360
July 20, 2007 at 7:35 pm | In Bush, Cheney, Defining Moments, Delaware, Delaware Poetry, Delaware Watch, Genarlow Wilson, Hillary Clinton's Cleavage, Iraq, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Vick, National Poetry Slam, Pentagon, Performance Poetry, Photo, Photography, Photomanipulation, Photos, Photoshop, Poetry, Poetry Slam, Sunnis, Wilmington | 1 Comment
I’ve got some rehearsing for the National Poetry Slam this afternoon. And tomorrow afternoon. And the afternoon after that. So far, I’ve got a good handful of poems committed to memory for the slams, including Taste the Rainbow, bling bling, Rocket Scientist, & Aztec Support. My team seems to really like the Taste the Rainbow poem.
Me? Not so much.
So, I’ve got to get used to that. I feel disappointed that the newest poem of mine that I feel the strongest about, Aztec Support, will in all likelihood not see any stage time at the Nationals. That’s another thing I need to work on getting used to, putting my self and my poems entirely in the hands of a coach and a team. It’s been a long time since I’ve done so. But I made a promise to myself and to my team that I would not fight them on decisions that are best for the group’s chances in the Slam. I’ll just have to deal with it.
In other news: last night I went with a few friends to a karaoke night at Pollidoro’s, a large Italian restaurant near Wilmington. I sang and had some fun. There was a guy there who brought his little kid with him (this was close to midnight and the kid looked to be around 6 or 7 years old) to sing a Rammstein song. The “du hast” song. Yes.
That was a sight to see.
Also, the host of the karaoke night was hot in a sort of CJ from The West Wing sort of way,
so, that’s always a fun distraction.
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July 3, 2007 at 7:29 pm | In Delaware, Dreaming, Dreams, Feminism, Greece, Mime, Mysticism, Newark, Delaware, Pantomime, Photography, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Supermodels, Women | 4 Comments
I had a dream this morning that I was walking somewhere on some college campus (The University of Morpheus?) and I saw this piece of outdoor guerilla theater where these college boys and girls were naked and posing as mannequins frozen in the middle of various dance steps. At one point, I stood next a girl and began to mimic her pantomime and she smiled at me and she and I began to do a sort of pantomime routine together. She would do one sort of serious of poses, and I would follow suit. Without saying a word. Only smiling at each other at the end of each successful coordination of moves.
When we were done, she and a couple of the other people in the troupe asked me to join them on their tour of various Greek fraternity and sorority houses.
If anyone has any Earthly idea what a dream like this can mean, please let me know.
The girls in the dream were naked but painted as though they had bikinis on, by the way.
Which was nice.
Screaming Inside An Hourglass
June 28, 2007 at 8:21 pm | In Advice, Africa, Antarctica, Baltimore, Blogging, Culture, Delaware, Education, Environment, Europe, Faith, Famine, Feminism, Funk, Gambling, Grass Roots, Health, Holland, Hunting, India, Literature, Mechanical Engineering, Music, Newark, Delaware, North America, Obama, Paris Hilton, Philadelphia, Photography, Politics, Racing, Reading, Science, Sex, Slam Poetry, Soul, South America, Spoken Word, Wilmington, Delaware, XXX | Leave a Comment
So it’s a little bit after 3 in the afternoon on my day off from work and I’m thinking about the poetry reading from last night and what, if anything at all, I as one person can do to bring more people to the event. Not that I didn’t have a good time last night – I always do when I go there, but this reading and slam could be so much bigger, so much more important to the community as a whole. That’s my dream. I keep dreaming about it. Even when my eyes are open. Which isn’t too often. We had an almost so-so turnout last night but we made the best of it and we all had a good time. I should thank the guys from Commercialized for coming down to tape some of the show last night, along with the interviews. That was a very cool surprise. I just wish they came to a packed house. So, how do we fill up this room? How do we bring poets from all over Delaware into this house? We’re ideally situated. Right in the middle of a cool part of Wilmington with parking, a bar and air conditioning. I want this place to be filled with young poets, old poets, page poets, stage poets, feminist poets, teknist poets – I want it all up in here.
This reading could be that loud crack of thunder that silences the whole party on the back porch on a summer night and makes everyone think about their safety for a moment.
Help me figure out a way to make this reading become what it can become.
I’m open to suggestions.
Photo: bluehouse
June 7, 2007 at 10:25 pm | In Beauty, Delaware, Environment, Miscellaneous, Nature, Newark, Delaware, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Snapshots | 2 Comments
A little slide show for you….
March 31, 2007 at 7:22 pm | In Delaware, Humor, Life, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Slideshows | 4 Comments
Sunny Skies, Fifty Degrees at 12:49 (Give to the Reflection)
March 20, 2007 at 5:09 pm | In Baltimore, Delaware, Life, Life in General, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Reading, Slam Poetry, Spoken Word | 6 Comments
I took the above photo the other day while walking around the University of Delaware campus after a light snow. I managed somehow to catch what seems like an entire image in a puddle of water but also at the same time I caught an image of the brick-work sidewalk underneath the puddle water. I love the soft color the overcast sky gives to the reflection.
So last night I accompanied Nigel, Matt and Hannah to the reading and slam in Baltimore to see Innocence Bello feature. She did very well and had a great, appreciative and full room to read for. Inno, you did a great job.
There was an 11 person poetry slam at Baltimore last night. I participated, and so did Matt, Hannah and Nigel. So, in our own way, Delaware sort of took over the venue at B’more last night. I was actually nervous for some reason that I still don’t understand and so when I went up, I actually botched my delivery of “Rocket Scientist”, a poem I usually have so locked up and memorized that you could wake me up out of bed at quarter to four in the morning and demand a performance of it and I could do it. There are two different lines in different places in the poem that begin in the same way, and I lost my place and got caught in this sort of loop – it was pretty embarrassing. It’s been a long time since that’s happened to me onstage. But, I caught myself at the first sign of trouble, and I remember blurting out loud, “Fuck it – I’ll take the time penalty – I just want to do this” and then I re-launched into the poem with, apparently, renewed fire and the whole crowd was with me. I got high 9’s for a performance that had a very obviously faulty start. So that was a laugh and a laud and a lot of fun.
Wow. I’m actually a little bit tired, still, from somewhat longish drive to and from Baltimore. It always seems like the drive back to Delaware from Baltimore at night is longer than the day drive to Baltimore from Delaware. Why is that? But Matt, Hannah, and Nigel, thanks for the good time and fun road trip!
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