Britney Spears’ Father Invalidates Obama’s Superdelegate Baby Car Wash | Poetry At The Blue Dragon in Albuquerque, New Mexico
March 7, 2008 at 5:35 pm | In Academic Poetry, Albuquerque New Mexico, Cheyenne Silver, Clinton, Comedy, Culture, Election, Feminism, Ken Gurney, Life, Living, Margaret Atwood, Middle East, NASA, Newark, Delaware, Obama, Poetry, Slam Poetry, The Blue Dragon, War in Iraq | 2 Comments
So Brooke and I went to the newly-reopened Blue Dragon last night for their [re]inaugural poetry reading. I understand on very good authority that the Blue Dragon was a great venue and a wonderful home for performers of all kinds in this city. I really like the place. It’s a little place, very charming on the outside, and on the inside, where the performances happen, is a great, great room. Great stage positioning and sound. Mr. Ken Gurney hosted a two-hour poetry open mic and I heard a lot of very good work from quite a number of new faces. I’d say at the height of attendance throughout the night there were close to 20 people there. In the first hour, I read “Quite Contrary” (my IWPS one-minute poem, the one about answering the random call at the payhone? have you heard me do it?) and ”Maiden Forms“, and, in the second hour, I read “Paramecium” and then I debuted a new poem, a parody/commentary on the deluge of new drug/pharmaceutical commercials called ”Maybe It’s Time“. The crowd, which seemed predominantly “non-slam” in its bent (I heard one woman remark after someone brought up poetry slams that “they have medications for that”), seemed to like my work. I can’t wait for the next poetry event due at the Dragon: the poetry slam. I think it’s going to be very cool.
Mature Poet Imprisoned By Lame Clothes In Amusing Sendup Of Indoctrination Videos
February 27, 2008 at 9:36 pm | In Albuquerque, Beauty, Culture, Delaware, Desire, Dreams, Fanblades, Hollywood Dragon God, Jebediah the Rabbit, Jennifer Connelly, Life, Love, Mature Poet Imprisoned By Lame Clothes In Amusing Sendu, New Mexico, Newark, Poetry, Rich Boucher, Slam Poetry, Work, i, i Fanblades | Leave a Comment
So….I’m still job-hunting and looking for work out here. Yesterday I had a brief job interview with an auto dealership and I have to take a pee test tomorrow for said job. It’s an auto sales job with a guaranteed $2000/month for the first two months. I’m kind of hoping this works out, even though the job requires quite the bus trip to make it there. But I’m still looking.
Lots of cool poetry stuff out here, too.
So far, so good!
Days of Love and Blood – Love Letter to Delaware
February 14, 2008 at 10:54 pm | In Culture, Days of Love and Blood, Delaware, Fanblades, Friends, Love Letter to Delaware, Mojo 13, Moving On, My Life, Newark, Poetry, Slam Poetry, The Collingwood, Towns, Writing, i | 1 CommentIt’s 5:15 pm on Thursday, February 14th, 2008. It’s Valentine’s Day, and this is going to be my love letter to Delaware. Tonight my friends in the band i, Fanblades are playing at Mojo 13 with my friends in the band, The Collingwood. Things start tonight at 8 pm there….please come, if you can. I’d like to see you.
It’s been a long time for me here in Delaware. Ten years of so much living; I’m going to miss you all.
Please let me say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to every single poet who ever read at the Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mike & Slam, in all of the locations that it has been in over the years. I can barely comprehend the sheer breadth of work that I’ve been so privileged to hear. Thank you to every friend I’ve every made in Delaware, through poetry and through work. So much has happened, so much amazing poetry has been heard over the years. I know that I am forever changed by my experiences here in Delaware, and by everything I’ve seen and heard as a poetry night host. Thank you to all the poets in the “academic” community here in Delaware, thank you Newark Arts Alliance, thank you Soulstice, thank you Crimson Moon, thank you O’Friel’s, thank you to the Second Saturday poets, thank you to the hip-hop poets, the rap poets, the student poets, the older poets, the crazy poets – thank you all. Thank you to my kindred poets in neighboring Baltimore and Philly and New Jersey – much love, my people, much love. My heart is full of love and thanks to all of my friends here in Delaware – a man could not have better friends than you all have been to me. I could name some people, but, if you are a friend of mine, or have been, then you know that and you know that I love you and am grateful for your friendship.
If you can, please come to a going-away-and-good-luck party taking place at the house of Matt & Hannah & Nigel & Sadako tomorrow night, Friday night…. you can email me at rabbitinvasion@gmail.com for details on how to get here if you can make it.
Good luck to you, Delaware. Love and good luck to Delaware poets and to the Delaware Poetry Slam.
May the spirit of a little stone bunny rabbit guide you, and bring a smile to your face.
Removing the Limbs of Pakistan Using NASA Blackwaterboarding Techniques – Chapter One
November 7, 2007 at 5:52 pm | In Anal, Banana Cream Pie, Coffee, Delaware, Depeche Mode, Down With Absolutes, In The Crack, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Newark, Olberman, Orange Juice, Poetry, Poetry Slam, Rants, Slam Poetry, The Beatles, The Jacksons, Torture, Up With People, Waterboarding | Leave a Comment
Even though all politics is meaningless, and politicians and warriors mean nothing to me because they refuse to acknowledge me, I think this man’s point here is valid.
Boo
November 2, 2007 at 9:25 pm | In Delaware, Haiku, Local Politics, Newark, November, Poetry, Slam Poetry, Wilmington | Leave a CommentI’ve been thinking a lot about the purpose of this blog this afternoon……it’s staying up on here, but something might be changing. Slightly.
For now, a holiday haiku for you:
Footsteps in the dark
it’s coming from over there
oh my god what’s that?
Has anybody….?
October 25, 2007 at 6:41 pm | In Blackwater, California Wildfires, Code Pink, Delaware, DelawareWatch, Down With Absolutes, Feminism, Haiku, Jablonsky, Kylie Minogue, Music, Newark, Poems, Sasha Grey, Slam Poetry, The Flaming Lips, Truthers, Updates, Wilmington | Leave a Comment…..heard the Flaming Lips cover of Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”?
Well, why haven’t you heard it?
“…I just wanna know how one becomes a janitor because Andrew here is very interested in pursuing a career in the custodial arts. …”
October 3, 2007 at 8:24 pm | In Blackwater, Culture, Dada, Delaware, Grey's Anatomy, King Ghidorah, Larry King, Latin Studies, Life, Literature, Macy's, Morons on Parade, Myanmar, Natalie Merchant, Newark, Pere Ubu, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Princess Diana, Rita Moreno, Shakespeare, Slam Poetry, Spark Magazine, The Crimson Moon, Union Street, Wilmington, Writing | 1 CommentTonight at the reading we’ve got a reporter AND photographer from Spark magazine.
Please come and read. Please come and listen. Please come and be photographed and (maybe?) be interviewed?
You can has fame?
Check it:
DelaWhere? Open Mic & Slam
@ the Crimson Moon
1909 W. 6th Street (Between N. Union St. and N. Lincoln St.)
Wilmington, DE 19805
8pm / $2 cover
$5 minimum purchase (to support our venue!)
21 + (It is a bar, afterall)
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.
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