Oh, yeah. You want to see funny? Check this out: http://www.livejournal.com/users/slampapi/ Of course, it’s not really him but, it should be! :-O
Taking a breather from another whirlwind day at work that will conclude with the aforementioned seminar with the greedy but nervous (don’t believe anyone that tells you the stock market has recovered) and me in a suit… Icewind Dale II is the shit! I’m not a big computer gamer – preferring the portability of my
Last week came and went and I feel like I didn’t get nearly enough done, at work or at home. With the new boss operating at half-speed – she’s asked me to slow down three different times while explaining aspects of her job that got dumped on my desk in the transition – work feels
Charles Bukowski and I share a birthday. So does Madonna. Frank & Kathie Lee Gifford. Yes, both of them. Elvis died on my birthday. The roller coaster was patented on my birthday. Such seemingly random events occuring on August 16th explains a lot. I’m having trouble grasping the idea of being 34 years old, though.
Did you notice the new name? Thanks to Phil West. Oddly appropriate, no? 🙂
So the great blackout of ’03 is fading into history and, while an interesting experience (and assuming the worst is really over), I can’t complain. The lights went out at my job at 4:13pm, just as I was in the initial stages of wrapping up the loose ends on everything I’m juggling before I leave
Ever seen a shitstorm? Head on over to the poetry_slam listserve for a peek at one. Woah! I didn’t start it for once but damn if I didn’t throw a few tough ones to the body! I really hate that list because it brings out the worst in me. I’m admittedly contentious and have rarely
Totally forgot to put this out there: Word Street has launched! That’s the poetry/spoken word magazine I’ve been hinting at for awhile that I was writing the article on slam’s relevance for. This issue is kind of a sampler, a web-only teaser, but the hope is for the first print edition to publish in October.
The National Poetry Slam is Dead
Crazy busy at work and home this week but, along with managing my GSL fantasy football draft, I’ve been surfing around for the scoop on Nationals. (LA won by the way; Nuyorican came in second and San Jose’s Mike McGee won the indies.) Between Blogger and LiveJournal, I suspect the poetry_slam list will be rather
NPS Update
Omar just called: LA beats Union Square (2001 redux?) while Nuyorican beats Urbana, ensuring NYC’s streak of Finals appearances since 1996 (at least) continues. They also landed someone named Jive Poet, ranked 7th overall, in the indie finals. (Celena Glenn was Urbana’s top individual @ 21, Ta’i Freedom Ford for Union Square @ 45.) Had