Accepted: Gnome
This just in: Guy: I will accept “Change of Direction” for the next issue of Gnome (http://gnome.asteriusonline.com ) best for the new year, JCE Since I submitted this back in November, I’ll count this as partial credit towards my 2008 goal of having three poems published (or accepted) by the end of December! Yay me!
Obama, I Choose You!
Back in 2004 I discovered an election sim called President Forever via a random Google ad on my old blog, bought it and spent many a late night frustrated over my unsuccessful attempts to lead Dennis Kucinich to simulated victory over Dubya. No surprise, really, but it was still a fun game that nicely married
The New loudpoet.com
It’s a new year so it must be time for me to relaunch one of my websites, right? While Spindle‘s official launch isn’t until January 9th, I snuck in some work on my own website, loudpoet.com, over the past two days and have officially relaunched it today. It will once again be Command Central for all
Hello, 2008!
Whether it’s the new job after 4+ years at my previous one; or my creative writing getting a much-needed kickstart thanks largely to a focused return to the slam scene; or my ending a $100+/month, love/hate relationship with comic books and along with it abandoning the one outlet that had kept me writing since 2005; or finally tackling my
Flashback
Freeze – AEIOU One of my all-time favorites from the 80s! Thanks for the flashback, Rich. 🙂 Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Randomonia, 12/17/07
Clemens on HGH 1a) Roger Clemens has always been a douchebag, but now he’s a cheating douchebag. F.P. Santangelo’s candid comments about his own usage really put that whole bat-throwing incident with Mike Piazza back in 2000 in perspective, too: “[HGH] changes who you are. If you’re a jerk, you become a bigger jerk. If you’re
Me on IndieFeed
IndieFeed My poem Prodigal Son is being featured on IndieFeed as “Part 4 of a 9 part series, celebrating the release of Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through 20 years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz!” It’s the live version from the nycSLAMS CD (2000), but it includes some great
Me on IndieFeed
My poem Prodigal Son is being featured on IndieFeed as “Part 4 of a 9 part series, celebrating the release of Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through 20 years of the New York City Poetry Slam by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz!” It’s the live version from the nycSLAMS CD (2000), but it includes some great (and
Out with the old, in the with the new
Our new car! After months of thinking about it, we headed out to Major World in Queens last night on the spur of the moment and two hours later drove off with a 2006 Mazda 3 with only 26k miles on it. It’s a little smaller than our previous car (see below) and a little more expensive
QotD: A Life-Changing Work of Art
What work of art (film, book, record, whatever) changed your life? Submitted by bodhibound. The Essential It’s a Wonderful Life: A Scene-By-Scene Guide to the Classic Film Michael Willian My mother says we watched It’s A Wonderful Life every Christmas when I was a kid, but when I watched it at 19 it felt like the