"Mighty" Mike McGee's Electronic Place of Himself.
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Heading home now from Manchester, New Hampshire with Aisha Hiba Naseem and our valiant driver Bill MacMillan. The poetry slam final was a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed playing emcee for my first time ever in NH.
Your 2010 New Hampshire Slam Team is:
Wil Gibson
McKendy
Beau Williams
Roller Girl
Jeff Stumpo
Alternate: Krista Mosca
There are rumors this line-up may change due to some players also contending in other poetry slam finals, but this is the high-to-low of tonight’s results in ManchVegas.
I started of the night by dusting off Jimmy Awesome and busting out with a bit of the lip-sync/puppeteering.
Also the judges — four of whom had never attended a slam prior to tonight — scored the poets between 19.6 (lowest) to 26.7 (highest!)
I was thoroughly impressed. No matter how hard the audience booed a 6.2, that same judge held their ground. I was proud.
Artie Moffa was my score keeper. A good man to have as a bout manager.
Slammaster Mark Palos has a great scene in NH. I always have a good time at his venues. If you’re heading through New England, keep Manchester on your radar. I think this team could make a good showing at NPS this year.
Tonight was good times. Good times, indeed.
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Word to the nerd.
This entry was written by , posted on 8 May, 2010 at 8:00 PM, filed under Uncategorized and tagged grand slam final, manchester, mancouver, new hampshire, Performance Poetry and Spoken Word, slam free or die. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Heading home now from Manchester, New Hampshire with Aisha Hiba Naseem and our valiant driver Bill MacMillan. The poetry slam final was a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed playing emcee for my first time ever in NH.
Your 2010 New Hampshire Slam Team is:
Wil Gibson
McKendy
Beau Williams
Roller Girl
Jeff Stumpo
Alternate: Krista Mosca
There are rumors this line-up may change due to some players also contending in other poetry slam finals, but this is the high-to-low of tonight’s results in ManchVegas.
I started of the night by dusting off Jimmy Awesome and busting out with a bit of the lip-sync/puppeteering.
Also the judges — four of whom had never attended a slam prior to tonight — scored the poets between 19.6 (lowest) to 26.7 (highest!)
I was thoroughly impressed. No matter how hard the audience booed a 6.2, that same judge held their ground. I was proud.
Artie Moffa was my score keeper. A good man to have as a bout manager.
Slammaster Mark Palos has a great scene in NH. I always have a good time at his venues. If you’re heading through New England, keep Manchester on your radar. I think this team could make a good showing at NPS this year.
Tonight was good times. Good times, indeed.
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Word to the nerd.
Originally published at Mike McGee Town. You can comment here or there.
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I am at home with the MacMillans in Worcester. Man-alive! I love these guys so much. It’s amazing how much bigger Lib is every time I come through! I think he will be taller than me in a couple years. Everyone out grows me – vertically. Whoa. I met him when he was five! I am currently lounging with cats. An 80+ pound clowder of felines.
Went to Bobby Gibbs’s show last night. So good. He puts on one of my favorite open mics. Worcester has one of my favorite scenes and groups of people. Warm, tough and lovers of quality work.
Boston Cantab’s April Ranger was the feature and her work is extraordinary. Had us old slammers laughing and ohh-ing throughout her set. She’s stunning and fun. Funningly sweet.
Oh, Worcester! Were Boston to attack you in an act of war, you’d eventually fall, but only to the numbers, and never before their spouses and mates had dirty, wicked sex with you first. You’re James Coburn. You’re Steve McQueen. You’re that guy laughing at the sermon in church. You’re mint and cherry. You smoke a pipe, holmes. You’re sending your son to college and all he packed for clothes were your original new wave t-shirts and your dad’s slacks and kilt. You’re a neutrino. I like you. Just so you know.
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Tonight: Manchester, New Hampshire’s poetry series at The Bridge Cafe. I love those guys too.
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I miss my Philly and Boise ladies: Jane, Amy, Cheryl, Janelle, Tara, Kristen and Isaac (by default). Isaac = Sexy Fluids.
Jane and Amy of Philly are the best reason to be in Pennsylvania. Cheryl,Janelle, Tara, Kristen and Isaac make up an extraordinary Boise, Idaho scene. You guys are family. I love you all dearly.
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I’m going to be at Central Michigan University next week, near Lansing. If you’re in the area, lemme know.
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Amazing Artist: James Jean –––> http://www.jamesjean.com
(Thanks to reneemarie.vox.com for introducing me to him. Her site is also pretty sweet.)
Here’s a sample of James Jean’s work:
James Jean's "Maze"
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Word to the nerd.
2008: Doing it!
This entry was written by , posted on 19 September, 2008 at 9:28 AM, filed under Personal Updates, Travel and tagged april ranger, james jean, manchester, renee marie, Worcester-Massachusetts. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
I am at home with the MacMillans in Worcester. Man-alive! I love these guys so much. It’s amazing how much bigger Lib is every time I come through! I think he will be taller than me in a couple years. Everyone out grows me – vertically. Whoa. I met him when he was five! I am currently lounging with cats. An 80+ pound clowder of felines.
Went to Bobby Gibbs’s show last night. So good. He puts on one of my favorite open mics. Worcester has one of my favorite scenes and groups of people. Warm, tough and lovers of quality work.
Boston Cantab’s April Ranger was the feature and her work is extraordinary. Had us old slammers laughing and ohh-ing throughout her set. She’s stunning and fun. Funningly sweet.
Oh, Worcester! Were Boston to attack you in an act of war, you’d eventually fall, but only to the numbers, and never before their spouses and mates had dirty, wicked sex with you first. You’re James Coburn. You’re Steve McQueen. You’re that guy laughing at the sermon in church. You’re mint and cherry. You smoke a pipe, holmes. You’re sending your son to college and all he packed for clothes were your original new wave t-shirts and your dad’s slacks and kilt. You’re a neutrino. I like you. Just so you know.
–––––––––
Tonight: Manchester, New Hampshire’s poetry series at The Bridge Cafe. I love those guys too.
–––––––––
I miss my Philly and Boise ladies: Jane, Amy, Cheryl, Janelle, Tara, Kristen and Isaac (by default). Isaac = Sexy Fluids.
Jane and Amy of Philly are the best reason to be in Pennsylvania. Cheryl,Janelle, Tara, Kristen and Isaac make up an extraordinary Boise, Idaho scene. You guys are family. I love you all dearly.
–––––––––
I’m going to be at Central Michigan University next week, near Lansing. If you’re in the area, lemme know.
–––––––––
Amazing Artist: James Jean –––> http://www.jamesjean.com
(Thanks to reneemarie.vox.com for introducing me to him. Her site is also pretty sweet.)
Here’s a sample of James Jean’s work:
James Jean's "Maze"
–––––––––
Word to the nerd.
2008: Doing it!
Originally published at Mike McGee Town. You can comment here or there.
This entry was written by , posted on at 9:28 AM, filed under Personal Updates and tagged april ranger, james jean, manchester, personal updates, renee marie, tour/touring, Travel, Worcester-Massachusetts. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
As I sit here in the Cincinatti airport, being the airpoet I am, and an easy misspelling of airport, I am honored to be alive on this Saturday, of all weekend days.
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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Word to the nerd.
This entry was written by , posted on 21 April, 2007 at 10:20 AM, filed under Personal Updates and tagged bellingham, connecticut, manchester, portland. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
