1) I love that show ( Read more... )

I can tell how much fun i had at an open mic by whether or not I have a club tattoo on my hand the next day...and I do!

Ed Plunkett kind of nails it here on the new poet:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/feed_mystery/36439.html

...but he leaves out how good everyone was last night.  We had an awesome time.  We talked about water weights and poetry ( Read more... )

I am dissapointed in my audience after last night's show.
Not one comment on LJ anywhere on my debilitating rant on the poet who dared to use the phrase "make love to my mind" which fired up a Kramer impression, a mic stand dildo and a treatise on the finer points of cliche?

For shame, Columbus.

I had a ball of fun last night!  The open mic was smoking, and the slam - our first all-women's qualifier for WOWps - was a real contest ( Read more... )

An art business entry here and a less-than-business entry of any kind one here at

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The gods love poetry.  Well, Writers' Block, anyway.  After some slouchy afternoon showers yesterday, the sky cleared and Kafe Kerouac was abuzz with people.  Then, a little while after we ended a long show, the skies opened up and dropped an ocean on the city ( Read more... )

Tomorrow night is our second-ever Decathlon Slam.
I'm putting the final touches on the secret rounds now.

It's diabolical.

...and I'm checking the PSI forums and making sure I've got my little Roberts Rules sheet and fighting a nasty headache.  Also, the rental doesn't have satellite, so I have to stock up on CDs and bring the iZod.  I should be in Madison in plenty of time for the exact start of the meeting.  The world hates me.

Thank God I stopped into First Draft ( Read more... )

Last night's show was pretty darn amazing.  The place was packed out the gate...we had to take every chair in the joint that didn't have a college student in it, and people were STILL standing.  We ran open mic, our feature, then the slam.

The feature was mwah-delicious: Sou MacMillan - aka 
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Lats night's open mic was cool ( Read more... )