"Mighty" Mike McGee's Electronic Place of Himself.
Typings of a well-traveled, talky, funny, hobo-poet.
Sweet Nuggets is a collection of never-before-released live recordings, songs, and miscellany from a variety of previous albums, recorded between 1997 and 2007. This compilation is a complete catalogue of my favorite work.
Click here to purchase Sweet Nuggets or share it with friends: http://listen.mikemcgee.net/album/sweet-nuggets-the-1997-2007-collection
ALBUM OVERVIEW
Before I started writing poetry, I formed a number of bands (Goat’s Milk, Echo 3, L.I.N.U.S.) with friends Bryan Coy, Kelley Mayne, Ryan Hernandez, Matt Overby and Bryce Dumont.
Through all of our incarnations, Bryce and I have stuck together, re-forming as Monotwin, an experiment in two very different tastes converging on one sound. Bryce now lives with his family in Devon, England, but we have sworn to never break up the “band” and intend to continue creating music together.
In 2003, just prior to embarking on a very long foray into the world of spoken word touring, Shane Koyczan and I formed Tons Of Fun University, or T.O.F.U., a performance poetry “band,” if you will. Shortly after our formation, C.R. Avery collaborated with us for a stint on CBC’s late-night program “ZeD.” We very quickly realized that C.R. belonged in the group permanently. We’ve released two albums independently and played the vast Canadian festival circuit. C.R. and Bryce have proven to be fantastic artists, consummate musicians and phenomenal producers.
This ensemble of my poetry is a good taste of everything I’ve involved myself with over the last fifteen years of recording. Along with the music and poetry, and some of the very first recordings of certain poems, is a blend of personal messages from friends and family that I’ve saved since 2008.
I hope you enjoy this collection as much as I’ve enjoyed performing these poems over the years. Thank you for being here. You are a sweet nugget.
Love,
Michael Matthew McGee
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Congratulation to the newest members of the Write Bloody family!
Out of over 300 writers who submitted, these poets made it through and will have their manuscript published through Write Bloody Publishing this year:
Laura Yes Yes
Jon Sands
Brian Ellis
Paul Suntup
Tara Hardy
Benjamin Clark
Elaina Ellis
David Perez
Welcome, nerds!
Visit WriteBloody.com!
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Word to the nerd.
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UPDATED: JULY 2, 2010
As you may know, I have recently become a fan of humorous and funny poetry. (Discovered it last year while playing Scrabble™ Brand Board Game with myself in a motel in Dallas.)
I also enjoy designing and putting together chapbooks, just not my own. So, I have a project in mind that I would like to put together by December 2010. I call it, Short Ones For The Shitter. (Hereto and furthermore referred to as “SOFTS”)
MY MISSION
To produce an inexpensive and hilarious poetic publication to be left in bathrooms around the world, but not limited to. Cheap but nice look’n!
THE PROCESS
–Submit up to two short poems or a hilarious piece of writing – no more than 350 words – that you KNOW (or someone has told you) are the funniest pieces you have. The idea is to have one poem per page.
–Email them to me at my Gmail account: ilikemike
–You MUST subject your email with: SOFTS Submission 2010
–Submissions must be sent in by Tuesday, June 29 Friday, July 2, 2010 at 11:59pm.
–NOTE: By submitting, you give us permission to include these in this collection.
–Please denote under the title of each poem when and where it has been published previously, if applicable.
–Wait.
PROOFREADING AND EDITING
Victor Infante and I will proofread and edit the final manuscript.
Here is the list of people I’ve asked to judge:
CONFIRMED
Tony Brown
Shappy Seasholtz
Shanny Jean Maney-Magnuson
Tim Stafford
Joel Chmara
Lea C. Deschenes
Megan ThomaSTILL WAITING ON CONFIRMATION FROM
Mahogany Browne
Sonya Renee Taylor
Beau Sia
NOTE: I will ask them to consider as many topics, styles, and levels of humor as possible when selecting their favorites. I will ask them to pass on works that are distasteful.
I WILL NOT ACCEPT OFFENSIVE WORKS OR POEMS THAT PROMOTE ABUSE, RACISM, SEXISM, MISOGYNY, OR WORKS THAT ARE SIMPLY GROTESQUE. THIS IS A BATHROOM BOOK, NOT A BATHROOM-HUMOR BOOK.
FORMAT
–Submissions must be Arial or Helvetica 12-point font, aligned left.
–TITLES IN CAPS AND BOLD.
–Author’s name under title.
–Your email address.
–Any previous publication acknowledgments under author’s name.
–SEND ONLY ONE .doc or .txt file! (Thanks, Amy!) with your name in the file title.
I WILL
–Choose a selection committee of up to three around eight (8) selectors.
–Select around 25-40 poems for print.
–Do my best to respond to everybody whether or not we select your submission to be included.
–Oversee the initial print run, be it myself or through a 3rd party printer.
–Start with a short run and see where things go.
–Send one free copy to those selected for publication.
–Sell them from my site and on the road.
OTHERS WILL
–Buy this chapbook.
–Read it.
–Laugh.
–Leave it in their bathroom for others to read while shitting or peeing sitting down.
–Be glad we did this.
–Hear their friends laugh from their bathroom.
–Hope it’s because they’re reading SOFTS.
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Word to the nerd.
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Yesterday’s entry involved discussing published friends of mine and pushing spoken word virgins to make poetry events a reliable form of weekly entertainment for themselves.
Best argument for supporting spoken word: A night at a poetry event costs less than just about any other type of entertainment. Could make a great date night. In most venues, you could get in, eat a meal, and take home a chapbook or CD for less than dinner and a movie. And you get local culture and a likely well-traveled visiting poet to boot.
PUBLISHED FRIENDS
On my recent trip to Portland, Oregon, I visited the world famous Powell’s Books where I took these pictures of Lea Deschenes’s Constant Velocity of Trains and Victor Infante’s City of Insomnia, both through Write Bloody Publishing.
Lea Deschenes's The Constant Velocity of Trains
Victor Infante's City of Insomnia
If you see publications by people we know, post an image of it. I think it would make their day.
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Word to the nerd.
This entry was written by , posted on 22 February, 2010 at 3:16 PM, filed under Independent-Publishing and tagged lea deschenes, victor infante, write bloody. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.