I am looking forward to tonight's Sound Effects open mic. To prove it, I will give you my word of the day:

SISYPHILIS - one who repeatedly struggles to push a boulder up a hill,
knowing that it will just roll right back down... and give him a rash.

This was the best Halloween, in several years. It felt like Halloween was on the decline for the past few, but it was good to see it bouncing back.

The house on the corner of my street used to have an elaborate display. Smoking Electric Chair and all that kind of fun stuff. It was good enough to have people from a local church come by and hassle the ( Read more... )

Sometimes, there are stretches where I am scheduled for a cluster of features, so I try to make sure that there will be something unique happening at each one, in case anybody decides to see me more than once. I appreciated that Crystal, Nikki, Dani and Gary were all at my last three readings, so hopefully they got a sense of that.

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Here is a little video about CONSPIRE.

There is even a brief shot from my recent feature at that place.

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FRIDAY -

Caffeine Corridor Poetry Series open mic
returns to Mama Javas Coffeehouse on Friday night!

We have two great features: Patrick Hare & Lynda Mae
for the low low one-time introductory rate of FREE

Looking at the calendar, this might be the last Caffeine Corridor event for awhile, so you don't want to miss it!

open mic starts at 7pm

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So earlier this week I had a cool feature at Conspire. It was on an outdoor stage and it was absolutely beautiful weather!
It was a lot of fun and I had Rocky adding all kinds of sound to my set. He had all kinds of "instruments" that he used for different pieces, ranging from ones you might expect (like drums, guitar, cello, some kind of stringed ( Read more... )

I just got back from a late-nite walk and it was actually chilly. It was awesome!
I also inspired a police car to pull over and interrogate me.
Apparently, I look suspicious. That was not so awesome.

Reminded me to post these pics that I've gathered from my recent walks.

Top Four Cellphone Roadkill Pics:


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So I will be the featured poet, this Wednesday night at the Conspire open mic.


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We had a great night with the Caffeine Corridor reading. We had two strong rounds of open mic, a very good crowd, and Jessica and Klute were excellent! I loved the way the pairing turned out. Their stylistic contrasts really complimented each other. Jessica closed with a haunting piece about her father's death. There were some tears in some of the ( Read more... )

This weekend, I rented The Last Word.


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