Slam is a community the same way high school is a community: it isn't.

Open mic is not a right; freedom of speech is a right.
Open mics are afforded opportunities.

You nap between wins.

"Innovation" does not mean "new to me."

Some people don't need to become better poets. They need to become better people. 

We need to differentiate between when I am insulting you and when you just don't like what I'm saying.

I don't need you to agree with me. I need you to recognize my integrity, the resilience of my beliefs. THEN you can say whatever the hell you want.

A comedian shouldn't ever have to explain his jokes, and when I MC I fall extremely close to a comic’s sensibility. At the same time, I am not a joke teller. I am a rabble-rouser, and it is a rabble I rouse with a communal mission, a jester’s aplomb, and a gambler’s appetite. If you aren't offended at some point during one of my shows, you are ( Read more... )

Man, un-informed debate is like one person on seesaw. And it's not a seesaw if you're the only one sitting on it. It's a chair with a really long dick

Why should somebody thinking less of my work stop me from thinking less of theirs? Having an opinion shouldn't be predicated on whose bomb is bigger.