Derrick Brown and I will be having a sweet, intimate “End of The Road Show” in Bellingham, WA tomorrow night. There will be special guests, Stuh-RANGE ROAD stories, Q&A, and special performances of rare pieces by Brown & McGee.

7:30pm.

The Amadeus Project: 1209 Cornwall Avenue
Bellingham, Washington 98225
360+815+1825

Derrick Brown and I will be having a sweet, intimate “End of The Road Show” in Bellingham, WA tomorrow night. There will be special guests, Stuh-RANGE ROAD stories, Q&A, and special performances of rare pieces by Brown & McGee.

7:30pm.

The Amadeus Project: 1209 Cornwall Avenue
Bellingham, Washington 98225
360+815+1825

Originally published at Mike McGee Town. You can comment here or there.

I want to make (it) out, with the women, the cash, the alive. There is a passion I’m feeling that is very mature, but different for me. I dig life experience, but I’ve been such a vicarious-type most of my life, and now I am yearning for all sorts of stuffs involving life, liberty and love.

I was in Manchester, New Hampshire last week and it was more than interesting. I had a blast hanging out with my host Matthew Tremblay (aka: Unseen the Poet or USP), his ladyfriend Meg, Mark Palos (ate w/him at Red Arrow! Good times!), his roomie Rem, and a score of other cast and crew involved in the ManchVegas scene. I very specifically enjoyed my time with Frumpity:

Experienced my second Noreaster of the year. I’m collecting a bunch of weather stories for ’07.

We ate lobster, my first actual lobster in New England. Nice! Matthew scraped out my lobster poop for me.

Matthew, pictured with Frumpity and I, is one of the swellest hosts there is and can be found slamming at the Bridge Cafe in Manch, or at the Boston Cantab. He’s one of the few poets I know who owns his own badass house.

Had one of the best gigs of my life at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. The kids there were stupendous and I performed for over two hours. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. On average, I perform for 1:25. It is nice to pull out such a long set, but my show has been getting more and more personal, with responses from those in attendance equally as personal after the show and by email. If you’ve emailed me in the last month, I’m getting to your message.

Then I headed out to Portland, Oregon to hang with Anis Mojgani, Sarah, Ted, and Chris. Met up with my friend and old Kinko’s boss Tadashi Andrews, who also took the black and white image that is my “Smoking Quasimodo” userpic.

They all joined me in McMinnville, OR for my show at Linfield College, which went very well.

My time in Portland was far too short and I hope to spend more time with those homies this summer.

I then made my way to Bellingham, Washington where I napped at Ryler Dustin, Jake Tucker, and Graham Isaac’s house. I had a noon show at Whatcom Community College with Ryler opening for me. If you have not heard of Ryler, or his poetry, you have missed out. He’s fabulous.

The one and only Jack McCarthy made his way up for my show. It was pretty damn swell to see him.

I hung out throughout the night with the B’ham peeps, then Greydogged it to my friend Art’s place for a day and night and a day.

I caught a red-eye to Cincinatti, where I am lay-overed toward Hartford, Connecticut for a gig at Quinnipiac University. Been to Manchester and Hartford several times this year now. It’s good.

Due to scheduling, I had to back out of Chicago’s Mental Grafitti Slam Final, but I am available for Berkeley’s slam semifinals. I am also hosting San José’s Slam Final on May 11. Lots of finalization.

I will be featuring at HawaiiSlam on May 3, 2007. Looking very much forward to it.

I head to B.C. on May 12. Won’t get to spend too much time in Vancouver, so I hope to make plans with a large group of people on May 12.

I cannot get enough of R.E.M.’s “Imitation of Life.” Great fucking song.
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