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Here's the short of it:

1. Cody Winger - 2009 Slam Season Champion, 2009 Team Member, IWPS Rep
2. Jesse Parent - 2009 Team Member
3. DeAnn - 2009 Team Member
4. Michael Dimitri - 2009 Team Member
5. Josh McGillis - 2009 Team Member

6. Flora Bernard
7. Karo
8. Dave

It was a high scoring slam, which can be frustrating because it made the results a game of ( Read more... )

Well, after an interesting weekend where the overly charged slam community simultaneously displayed opposing versions of "I'm taking my ball and going home" things have settled back down and I am days away from seeing wonderful women perform poetry and sitting through parliamentary procedure ( Read more... )

So as I was driving out to pick my mom up from the airport for her ten day visit, my engine threw a rod ( Read more... )

Yipes ( Read more... )

I saw Obama getting sworn in by Chief Justice, John Roberts.  It looked like a clusterfuck.

That's too bad.  This is such an historic moment and you got these two guys who don't look like they know when one person is supposed to talk or how much to say.

Won't see that featured on a highlight reel.

-Jesster

Wow! The poetry scene in Boise is a happening place.  If nothing else, they have FUN! Featuring there was such a wonderful experience.  The workshop went better than I expected and the slam was packed with wonderful, gracious audience members.  I had a grand time hanging with Cheryl and her kids and then with the Boise poets ( Read more... )

I really really want to find a Superman button down shirt, just plain blue with an S across the chest.  But all I am finding is over complicated hipster fashion with small S's and busy patterns.

Blue. S. Simple.

-Jesster

I am ridiculously excited for this.  Ironically, I am more excited to teach, than to perform.


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Well, shaesinister sent an email off last Friday saying that he has decided to move to California.  With mstegosaurus shipping off to Massachusetts, that has officially broken our little triumverate up.  I have to say, I am going to miss them both terribly.  They have both been very good friends and supporters to me and I think we are all going to be diminished by their ( Read more... )