So I sort of nominated myself to the roster of presenters at next Thursday night's Five Minutes of Fame at Noisebridge. I thought about it briefly, figured I might as well ask if self-promotion was appropriate and apparently that is what it is all about! The nice young man said he couldn't wait to see my presentation but he will have to wait till ( Read more... )

So I may have mentioned something secret about One Last Ditch depending on where you might be reading this. The secret is not quite ready for public viewing yet but I will tell you what it is: I am going to be trying to raise funds on Kickstarter to finance some better quality shooting for the rest of the videos that I want to make for every single ( Read more... )

I finished another video last night. It occurs to me that I should just embed them here rather than make you go clicking around to see them, so under the cut are the last three. The two before can also be found at onelastditch.com but they are slightly less interesting. If you want just to see the very last one, go directly to the last entry there. ( Read more... )

I am not sure how to finish that phrase in a way that makes sense in this context: I have released my second poetry video--not to be confused with the videos in which I just read to the camera in my laptop.

Here is an embed from YouTube in case you do not want to make the trek over to onelastditch.com to watch it over there:

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Hope you like it or ( Read more... )

The newest clip from One Last Ditch is up at onelastditch.com. It is a little unusual for poetry reading and I think you might like it if you click on over there ( Read more... )

Last week at this time I was stressed because the next day I was meeting for dinner a friend whom I had not seen in at least twenty five years and of course that is sufficiently an unpredictable social situation to cause me to freak out slightly but I still went and it turned out so well that I thought all that stress was for naught but you know it ( Read more... )

I want to write letters. Dear Michael. Dear Richard. Dear Patti.
I have written the last one already but it is possible to write a thing more than once and sustain the same sort of sense while varying the precise wording each time.
( dear you )

Have you got a knife ( Read more... )

so I slept 12 hours today. I was so tired yesterday afternoon and into the night that I couldn't get myself to do much of anything but sit here and watch the internet go by. I have no idea why I was so tired or why I felt that 12 hours was necessary today but maybe I'll be able to do something productive before dawn. I don't have any editing jobs ( Read more... )

I didn't get started till almost 10pm tonight but I read until 2:15, with one short break to run back to the house for hand warmers and food. I made $7! not bad for the first night. I'm hoping to make myself a fixture. it will force me to write new stuff, hearing myself read the same thing over and over. and maybe more people will give me more ( Read more... )