Whew, what a weekend! It really started Thursday night with King of Clubs karaoke with sunyata__. Unable to remember what songs are in my range, I guessed at Metallica's version of Thin Lizzy's Whiskey in the Jar which it turns out I don't actually know that well. I floundered through it well enough, but next time I'm going to actually pick songs that I ( Read more... )

So last Friday night I went to my first poetry slam: the San Jose Poetry Slam's finals (to pick four poets to send to the National Slam Poetry Championships in Austin, Texas). And boy howdy did it rock! The material ranged from the vulgar to humorous to serious and touching (no, not that kind of touching). Since I was a first-timer, I got tapped ( Read more... )