Have you ever had what you would call a *perfect* moment in your life?  A point in time where everything good that could have possibly happened, did?  If so, tell me about it.  I am genuinely interested to know if I'm the only one who sections out his life like this, or if there are others out there who do the same thing.  Let me know, and I'll... ( Read more... )

This was inspired by Mike McGee with his piece, "25 things about Barny Rubble".  This is (mostly) persona poetry, but it is based largely on facts.  I hope you enjoy.

25 random things about Jenna Jameson:

1.  I started an internet business that survived the dot.com bubble burst.  It now makes revenues in excess of $30 million.  Any other woman would ( Read more... )

Just a rough draft of a poem I've been working on.  Comment.  Or don't.

( Family Feud )

Last night I was composing an essay on interpersonal relations for my Modern Anthropology class.  I had consumed rocket fuel in the guise of RedBull several hours earlier and was unaware of the impending wall I was speeding toward, when I blacked out, hands resting comfortably on the home row of my laptop's keyboard.  I awoke several hours later ( Read more... )

Remember when we were invincible ( Read more... )

I have such a man-crush on Alan Moore.  A shame it took me this long to get into his stuff, but man.  Brilliance.  Absolute brilliance.

Perhaps my nerdiest poem to date.  This was born from "which X-men character would you be" discussion that was started in Denver about two years ago.  Don't know why I'm putting this down all of a sudden.

This is for my comic book nerds, and for me.
( They call me Forge )

( Goodbye slam )

 
So I am back in school now, attempting to learn myself how to be a good english teacher.  I already love my Young Adult Lit class, even if it will consume every free waking moment for the rest of the semester, and I already can’t stand my Linguistics teacher because I feel she’s a 300 year old fossil who probably should have stopped teaching when ( Read more... )

So I just remembered, back in 2005 I posted

Wow...

What a crazy last 24 hours it's been.

As I'm sure everyone knows by now, the Denver Slam team is as follows:

*Ken Arkind-Overall Champ. Made me laugh and cry in the span of single spaced notebook paper.
*KTFS-Overall sweetheart with a poetic mean streak. Took no prisoners.
*Ian D.-Overall mastermind of ( Read more... )