"Mighty" Mike McGee's Electronic Place of Himself.
Typings of a well-traveled, talky, funny, hobo-poet.
I’ve known and been talking with friends about moving back to the West Coast since February (read original post here) and now the time has come.
CATALYST FOR MOVING
I am looking to head back around August 1. I will putting on a one-man show in San Francisco on Sundays this August 8, 15, 22 and 29. It will be called In Search of Midnight: The Mike McGee Show of Awesome. Because of the scheduling, I will be in and around San Francisco for the entirety of August.
Another catalyst is the potential for Dave Perez and I to take the reigns of the San José Poetry Slam. This is all very up-in-the-air in terms of details, but I am sure my involvement with SJPS organizing is assured for the beginning of the poetry slam season in September.
Perez and I have formed Silicon Valley Performance Project (SVPP) as our banner for events we produce, such as our upcoming Slumberfest 2010. SVPP may be taking on some form of poetry slam for Silicon Valley as re-design of its current poetry slam.
LIVING SPACE
I AM PRETTY OPEN TO MOST CITIES ON THE PACIFIC COAST. I ask those of you in the Bay Area to keep an eye and ear out for any available room for rent in and around San José. If I do not find something in the area under my budget by September, I will probably look further into setting up residence in Portland, Oregon. I have a couple of possibilities for housing in Portland. No matter what, I am sure I will spend a lot of time there over the next few years.
WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS
Man. I am saddened to leave these people. Thanks to the fact that I make my living on the road, I know I will be back at least once a year. Who would’ve thought Worcester would become such a special place in my heart.
KITCHEN SESSIONS
My little baby show has made my stay here in Worcester a really fun experience. If you plan to be around New England around any of the KS dates below, please add yourself to the Facebook group here, as I will keep it going to inform people of all Kitchen Sessions I will be involved with. Here’s the letter I just sent to the Kitchen Sessions group members:
Hey, Sessioners.
I am about 75% sure that I am moving back to the West Coast around August 1, 2010.
I know that I WILL spend all of August in the SF Bay Area. I could end up in Portland in September. I may end up in San José. Because of this, I need to pack up my stuff and start prepping for the move.
Kitchen Sessions in Worcester will go into overdrive before I leave.
My first hope is to make these last ones fun & huge. —> Fuge™
Here’s my outlook of remaining Sessions:
June 12 (this Saturday): Mahogany Browne and Jive Poetic had to back out. There will still be a KS @ 8:00pm, I’m just up in the air on the feature.
Saturday, June 19: Vancouver Kitchen Session #1. Hosted by yours truly at the Foxy House in East Van. 7:30pm.
Saturday, July 3: Krista Mosca and Matthew John Conley feature. McKendy will mini-feature.
Saturday, July 10: Ken Arkind feature. Ken has promised all new poems.
Friday, July 16: Boston Diningroom Session. Not at my house. TBA.
Saturday, July 24: New York Invasion feature. Some of our favorite New York poets come up early to BBQ and perform in a “Backyard Session.”
Friday, July 30: BON VOYAGE! A KITCHEN FAREWELL. Co-Hosted with Simone Beaubien. Tony Brown & Mike McGee feature all new work.
My second hope is that someone, be it here in Worcester, Manchester, Providence or Boston (and yes, even Connecticut…) will take the reigns and create their own space for a new series of ongoing Sessions. I understand the general distaste of opening one’s home to something like this so frequently, but it pays off, I assure you. If one is interested in holding their own, I will always be a phone call away for advice and networking.
My goal over the next year will be to incorporate traveling Sessions while touring. If I have a day off, and you have poets and a space, I will try schedule and host a session.
Wherever I end up on the West Coast I will try to establish a new Session there as well. I will probably give preference to any New England poet that comes through to the new Sessions.
Beginning this Saturday, there will be a box/pile of things I do not wish to take with me. It will be the UP FOR GRABS PILE. Take a little bit f me home with you, won’t you.
I hope to see a number of you this Saturday. So far, only Bill MacMillan and Liz Heath are signed up.
Love,
McGee
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This entry was written by , posted on 9 June, 2010 at 3:33 PM, filed under Personal Updates and tagged california, kitchen-sessions, mailing list, moving west, oregon, portland, Worcester-Massachusetts. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
On March 29, 2007, at 11:35am in Mountain View, California, my sister Katie gave birth to her second child, Maile (my-lee) Malea, her’s and Peter’s first daughter. They also have a boy, Elijah Gabriel, who is five years old. Maile is massive!
23″ long and 11 pounds 9 ounces. She looked like the pudgiest little sausage that ever came out of a person.
Our family is like Texas, we only make ‘em big.
This now confirms my primary role in the universe as Funcle™ Mike.
I will post images later.
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Hey, Postcardies!
I’ve updated the postcard list with the few responses I received last week or so. You all acted very quick.
Your info has been added to the List and Instructions Page here–––> http://community.livejournal.com/postcardmcgee/
So the day or two after I created the link above, I got a call from the Post Office where I got my new box. They said they’d accidentally given me a box already reserved for someone else. So my address is now:
PO BOX 875
ALVISO, CALIFORNIA 95002
Not a huge change, and they’re automatically forwarding my mail to the new box, a mere few feet away. So if you’ve posted anything to the old address, it will arrive in the new box for now, but definitely note the change.
And if you’re reading this post and wondering how you too can be on my Postcard Mailing List, click the link above. It’s pretty simple.
I am working on a batch of cards right now because I figured it would be awesome to send out some cards from Idaho.
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Word to the nerd.
2007: Go for it!
This entry was written by , posted on 31 March, 2007 at 11:58 AM, filed under Personal Updates and tagged family, maile malea, mailing list, neice, postcard. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
So, now that I’m a bit more stable on the road, I wish to get my postcard mailing list up and running. I want it to be complex and time consuming. I want to be excited about communicating with people via snail mail.
Here’s my original post from May 2006 –––> http://mikemcgee.livejournal.com/82344.html
If you received a postcard from me last year, probably from Germany, it was because you sent me a postcard. I’ve brought all of those postcards with me to Chicago this week and will be re-entering them into my Postcard Mailing List Database, i.e. my MacBook’s Address Book.
If you would like to be added to the list…Here’s the NEW lowdown:
1. Send me a postcard with:
*one haiku, joke, or details about you
*your first and last name
*birth date
*a clear, permanent address or PO BOX.
2. Wait.
3. Postcards received by me will be responded to in due time, which is why you will want to give me a stable address.
4. If you’ve sent me a postcard in the past in which I never responded in kind, please bitch about it here or via email, while adding your current address.
5. If you’ve moved and I do not have your new address, please correct this here, or by email.
6. Postcards sent by me may be from one place in the world, but sent from another. I collect postcards and send them from different places. For example, I may send you an “I love Amsterdam” postcard from Reno, Nevada. The card was bought in Amsterdam, I just happen to have a plethora of them.
(If you’ve recently emailed me your address to my mightymikemcgee email account, you are set. I will no longer take addresses by email unless, of course, you’re updating the one I should already have.)
Please note my new mailing address:
Mike McGee
PO BOX 875
ALVISO, CA 95002
I INTEND TO CREATE A RECIPIENT LIST ON WHICH ONE CAN CHECK TO SEE IF THEY ARE ON IT, AND WHEN I’VE RESPONDED TO CARDS I’VE RECEIVED.
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Word to the nerd.
This entry was written by , posted on 16 March, 2007 at 1:55 PM, filed under Personal Updates and tagged mailing list, postcard. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.