Hey all you lovely humans, I managed to make myself busy again. This entry is more for me than it is for you, but this can also function as my list of excuses as to why I'm not somewhere else doing something else ( Read more... )

Hey all you lovely humans, I managed to make myself busy again. This entry is more for me than it is for you, but this can also function as my list of excuses as to why I'm not somewhere else doing something else ( Read more... )

1. I submitted a poem about zombies to a zombie themed poetry anthology. I submitted poems from the last eight years of writing to get published in a chapbook. After that's good and done I'm going to see about my 30/30 getting put together in a chapbook. Amy who runs Turtle Ink Press is awesome ( Read more... )

1. A month before 9/11/01 I wrote a poem with the phrases "kamikaze dive" and "drag a boxcutter across your neck" in it. Two weeks before the earthquake in Haiti I wrote an LJ Post expressing interest in seeing a Haitian voodoo ritual. Last month I wrote a poem about the things I want to see Larry King do, and Lo and Behold now he's going to ( Read more... )

1. Like unto a domesticated animal that's now tasted blood have I become. (So I've grown to enjoy whipping on Real Estate Agents and Mortgage guys. Making them cry and sweat and bleed. Please God, don't let me turn into a mean prick, just because I'm a grownup now. I promise I'll be a Good Guy again right after I get done blunting my knuckles ( Read more... )

1. Friday Night at The Fuze had a bunch of strong newcomers. I feel the Philly scene is the culmination of ten years of Just Hanging In There. There is enough stability to have new and old artists challenge each other and raise the bar.

2. Saturday the traffic going into Philly was so jacked up that I missed the last guided tour for Eastern ( Read more... )

1. I'm going to an MC Chris show tonight. Come along if you want.

2. Friday I think I'm going out drinking in Philly. They're sorta plans. with a girl3. Saturday noon is the first practice of the 2009 Philadelphia Poetry Slam Team. They're already working on about 3 group pieces. I think this year's experience is going to be more fun and ( Read more... )

1. It was a lovely November day today hiking along the Wissahickon. You say it is February? You lie.

2. I went to a Persian wedding and it was magnificient.

Anyone want to join me in a weekend of

1. Hellacious drinking?
2. Jumping into the ocean for the Special Olympics?

Polar Bear Plunge

It's Super Bowl Weekend. Saturday night: drink. Sunday day: plunge. Sunday night: drink and Super Bowl. Monday: take off.

It's in Delaware. Home of that Tax Free Shopping fo' yo' Ayass.

New Year's Eve was different for me. I'm used to spending that raucous and drunken night with people I know very well. I took a chance this year and decided to spend it with people I haven't met ( Read more... )