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Borders’ Open-Door Poetry

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 11, 2008
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Borders -- partnering with The Student Publishing Program, one of the top high school writing programs in the country -- has launched an interesting new online program promoting poetry called Open-Door Poetry: "Open-Door Poetry" is for anyone who has ever wanted to communicate to others in some way while opening the door for viewers to become active participants. Each compelling episode features seven to 10 "spoken-word" and "academic" poets giving writing advice or reciting poems live from locations ranging from the streets and rooftops in New York City to the living room in the home of the poet. Each episode…

Party Like A Rock Star

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:July 30, 2007
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Party Like A Rock Star He heard the music most of us tune out without realizing, marched to a beat mere mortals couldn’t comprehend. A rock star, literally, Peter of the Earth conducted life-giving electricity through those he loved and strangers alike, in random bars and nightclubs and open mics and windswept beaches in the dead of winter. To know him was to question your own commitments, to understand life was meant to be lived, treated like an empty dance floor with a DJ who takes requests. To be uninhibited unrestrained unleashed. Those who can, dance. Those who can’t, write…

Mark Your Calendar: NYCC 2007 After-Party

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 13, 2007
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Last year's PopCultureShock-hosted After Party was so much fun, we're doing it again...Bigger, Better and FREER!2007 NYCC / PCS AFTER-PARTYSaturday, February 24th10pm - Until...?SLATE PLUS54 West 21st Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)** No Cover Charge; No Guest List** With DJs Dylan Garrett and Mr. Brown** 2 Floors of Music, Drinks and Billiards** Free, Exclusive Giveaway from Marvel for the first 200 guests to arrive!!![NOTE: Apologies again to those I emailed about this and forgot to BCC the list! Very, very bad marketing!]

For Black History Month: Flashback

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 1, 2007
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I have a love-hate relationship with Black History Month, simultaneously appreciating the thought behind it while despising its continued necessity. As such, I'm not planning to make a big deal about it 'round these parts; it's a thing for less diverse sites and blogs to take note of, an opportunity to pay lip service to diversity for the next 28 days before returning to the status quo. (Cynical? Not me!) That said, in light of some recent relevant discussions across the blogiverse, I thought I'd "reprint" the first really good post I ever made here (and to-date, still one of…

Marvel: Leaving Money on the Table

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 12, 2007
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Comic Book Resources' review of 2006 has been made fun of by several bloggers for its participants lauding of Civil War as "the one project that had the biggest impact on the comics industry" -- which is arguably true, if for all the wrong reasons -- but I found this particular exchange much more interesting: If we're all agreed that sales are up and things look bright for the industry, how can we ride this success? The last time business was this good was the 1990s and we all know what happened there. What's the key to keeping things going…

Much Ado About Cowboys & Aliens

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 10, 2007
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I knew a lot of people in the comics industry didn't like Platinum Comics' Scott Rosenberg, but holy cow!Comics writer A. David Lewis (the excellent The Lone and Level Sands) absolutely flipped his lid last Friday upon seeing Entertainment Weekly's sporadic comics sales chart showing Cowboys & Aliens in the top spot, according to Midtown Comics:"What smarts most is that C&A is listed as the top-selling graphic novel. Yes, Entertainment Weekly crowns it as #1.First, that's crap. I think we all know that's crap. And, by 'we,' I mean people who actually go to comic book shops on an almost…

On the Shelves: 12/20/06

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:December 19, 2006
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Reading is fundamental. Don't waste your time reading bad comics out of habit! My weekly, semi-informed look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 12/20/06 follows. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another one; or try Khepri.com or MidtownComics.com] PICK OF THE WEEK Walk In #1APE ENTERTAINMENT Black Coat Call To Arms TPB, $12.95 I met Ben Lichius back in 2005 at Wizard World Philadelphia, where he'd gotten himself…