First of all, what marketing genius thought that the marginally-talented, off-Broadway-bound RUNNER-UP Clay Aiken was an appropriate choice for singing the National Anthem of the first game of the World Series?!?! That was as classless as the bonehead Yankee fans booing the Marlins during the introductions. Speaking of booing during introductions – in a funny
Tomorrow night: Voices of the Voiceless at Amherst College, Amherst, MA. It’s a ridiculously packed lineup of 16 po…um, spoken word artist-types, including Shappy, Ed Garcia and myself, along with some poets I like (Bonafide, Dennis Kim, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Coval), one who’s work I like (Danny Solis), and mix of performers I can’t bear
Pumpkin Seeds: 10/15/2003
350 pages into AMERICAN GODS and I’m thinking of Stephen King’s NEEDFUL THINGS. As in somebody desperately needs a good editor. The first two episodes of Smallville this season have been as good as anything on TV in the past decade. George Clooney has Parkinson’s. Look for the announcement within a year. There’s absolutely nothing
Acentos was just what the doctor ordered last night – great turnout, several new faces (including one who heard us on WBAI last week), and a strong feature from the multi-talented Raymond Daniel Medina, with an admirable assist from Abena Koomson. Wrote this last night, during the show, but didn’t finish it in time to
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Your Weekly Horoscope for Oct 13 to 19 Dear Guy, Talking and getting your message across in the right way is of real importance this week, especially as Mercury, the planet of commerce and communication, makes some powerful aspects. At the start of the week, it trines Neptune and squares Saturn, which means you need
latter-day saints
For Willie Perdomo, with sincerest apologies for missing tonight’s show. I just couldn’t deal… Be sure to pick up his new book, Smoking Lovely, and catch him at Acentos next month, November 11th. latter-day saints for Willie Perdomo and Imani Springer I. 1996 -I am you. You are me. -I am you. You are me.
Eduardo Galeano on Christopher Columbus
“He does not know that with all his lies, promises, and ravings, he has still fallen short. The supreme admiral of the ocean sea still believes he has reached Asia from the rear.”
Either Hollywood has been lying for years or Memorial High School’s Class of 1993 has no sense of drama! Saturday night was Salomé’s 10 Year High School Reunion and I was fully expecting to enjoy some of the stereotypical dramatics I’ve seen in the movies. A redeeming fight between the jock and the geek; indiscretions
I get some of the most random emails from time to time. My favorites are the ones from high school and college students asking permission to use a poem of mine – usually Breathless – in their forensics competitions. A couple of times a week, I still get emails concerning the show at Bar 13