The crowds are always awesome, hovering somewhere between 22-33 people. I missed the Rachel McKibbens/Rob “Ratpack Slim” Sturma double-feature in November due to travel. While they were rocking my kitchen in Worcester, I was making two gallons of clam chowder at Anis Mojgani’s house in Portland, Oregon.

Anis ate one gallon.

I am writing about this today because I am stunned by how many people ask me about them around the country. I am impressed by who asks for a feature or just to read when they come through. Poets and poetry lovers alike are making it a stop when they pass through New England. The list of readers is impressive and it makes me so happy to have a viable alternative to a venue. There is so much more freedom running a KS.

Here’s the group page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=241163070354

Join it and stay in touch. Especially if you want start your own…

McGEE’S KITCHEN SESSION FORMAT
What you’ll need:
*a space large enough for 30+ people
*a large table for food and drinks
*access to poets and writers
*a good emcee… (Should be the resident organizer, really)
*the express consent of all roommates
*space for features to crash, maybe even a neighbor’s couch nearby
*a donation collecting vessel

It’s very simple. Start an online group for your sessions. Facebook seemed like the best option since that’s where 98% of my acquaintances gather these days. LiveJournal is fading, Myspace is barely breathing and I still don’t get mailing lists…

I generally start a Kitchen Session between 8:00pm and 9:00pm, depending on whether it follows another local event. The night is split in half. The first half is for the “openers,” usually about an hour long, and the second half is for the “features” who get up to an hour to perform. Very extensive. I have people sign up for the opener by messaging me on Facebook privately. The first person to sign up goes last, second sign up goes second to last and so on. No favoriting. Openers can read up to two poems that must be debuts — NEVER BEFORE READ IN PUBLIC! That’s key to KS, I think; long features and new work. Mandatory. Also, I have never read any of my own work at KS. Never plan to, the emceeing is quite enough. It’s my time to roast anyone sitting too close. And believe me! In my house, everyone’s too close.

OTHER MANDATORY ELEMENTS
*positive attitude, leaving personal differences on the porch
*$3-5 for the feature, or buy a product from them
*a dish — homemade or bought — to be shared
*beverages to share, but no hard liquor
*energy to listen and have fun
*respect for the home, residents, neighborhood and the space

TWO KITCHEN SESSIONS THIS WEEK!
Thursday, March 25, 2010 – 8:30-ish
Kitchen Session #11
With Sonya Renee and Denise Jolly of Salt Lines
6 person opener. Sign up with me through Facebook message.

I will hold KS#12 either Friday or Saturday. Join the group and send me your vote.

I cannot decide if I want a day off after KS#11 or if I want KS-free weekend. Two in a row…? Friday off?

KS#12 will be ALL OPENERS. No feature. 16 person sign up, up to 3 poems each. All poems must be written in 2010… Brand new shit.

I already have about 7 people signed up.

Please consider holding your own home sessions. They are fantastic and pretty easy. I will help you! I will read when I am near!

While events like these have been happening for a very long time, I feel the world could use a helluva lot more of them. Let’s do this!

Living rooms! Bath rooms! Dorm rooms! Bed rooms! Garages! Bring the poets home!
———
Word to the nerd.

The crowds are always awesome, hovering somewhere between 22-33 people. I missed the Rachel McKibbens/Rob “Ratpack Slim” Sturma double-feature in November due to travel. While they were rocking my kitchen in Worcester, I was making two gallons of clam chowder at Anis Mojgani’s house in Portland, Oregon.

Anis ate one gallon.

I am writing about this today because I am stunned by how many people ask me about them around the country. I am impressed by who asks for a feature or just to read when they come through. Poets and poetry lovers alike are making it a stop when they pass through New England. The list of readers is impressive and it makes me so happy to have a viable alternative to a venue. There is so much more freedom running a KS.

Here’s the group page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=241163070354

Join it and stay in touch. Especially if you want start your own…

McGEE’S KITCHEN SESSION FORMAT
What you’ll need:
*a space large enough for 30+ people
*a large table for food and drinks
*access to poets and writers
*a good emcee… (Should be the resident organizer, really)
*the express consent of all roommates
*space for features to crash, maybe even a neighbor’s couch nearby
*a donation collecting vessel

It’s very simple. Start an online group for your sessions. Facebook seemed like the best option since that’s where 98% of my acquaintances gather these days. LiveJournal is fading, Myspace is barely breathing and I still don’t get mailing lists…

I generally start a Kitchen Session between 8:00pm and 9:00pm, depending on whether it follows another local event. The night is split in half. The first half is for the “openers,” usually about an hour long, and the second half is for the “features” who get up to an hour to perform. Very extensive. I have people sign up for the opener by messaging me on Facebook privately. The first person to sign up goes last, second sign up goes second to last and so on. No favoriting. Openers can read up to two poems that must be debuts — NEVER BEFORE READ IN PUBLIC! That’s key to KS, I think; long features and new work. Mandatory. Also, I have never read any of my own work at KS. Never plan to, the emceeing is quite enough. It’s my time to roast anyone sitting too close. And believe me! In my house, everyone’s too close.

OTHER MANDATORY ELEMENTS
*positive attitude, leaving personal differences on the porch
*$3-5 for the feature, or buy a product from them
*a dish — homemade or bought — to be shared
*beverages to share, but no hard liquor
*energy to listen and have fun
*respect for the home, residents, neighborhood and the space

TWO KITCHEN SESSIONS THIS WEEK!
Thursday, March 25, 2010 – 8:30-ish
Kitchen Session #11
With Sonya Renee and Denise Jolly of Salt Lines
6 person opener. Sign up with me through Facebook message.

I will hold KS#12 either Friday or Saturday. Join the group and send me your vote.

I cannot decide if I want a day off after KS#11 or if I want KS-free weekend. Two in a row…? Friday off?

KS#12 will be ALL OPENERS. No feature. 16 person sign up, up to 3 poems each. All poems must be written in 2010… Brand new shit.

I already have about 7 people signed up.

Please consider holding your own home sessions. They are fantastic and pretty easy. I will help you! I will read when I am near!

While events like these have been happening for a very long time, I feel the world could use a helluva lot more of them. Let’s do this!

Living rooms! Bath rooms! Dorm rooms! Bed rooms! Garages! Bring the poets home!
———
Word to the nerd.

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

I hear about shows like Jersey Shore and Cleaning Up After The Kardashitians and any other work of video art pummeled out of our satelites, and it makes me sad. I even watch Law & Order and am so depressed by the end of each episode. They’re feeding on our basest emotions without requiring much thought or self-resolution.

THE most important aspect of my discovery of spoken word culture has surely been the plethora of events to attend, participate and support, and all the bad television and loneliness I get to avoid.

Granted, I enjoy the occassional vegg-out session of bad TV, but it rarely overshadows the joy and inspiration I get out of most spoken word events.

I say all of this because I know so many people who know me and my work, but never go to events. They only support local spoken word when I come through town.

I urge everyone reading this to go to more events. Support more readings! Support local spoken word ORGANIZERS! Support touring poets. Pick one day a week and go to an event, alone or with a friend. Become part of a scene.

I went to the nearby Barnes & Noble this afternoon with Bill MacMillan. I am always compelled to peruse a bookstore’s poetry section, which is actually usually just one shelf. I have a backlog of unread books and am on a budget, but I still policed today’s poetry selection. I do it to see if any more of my friends are being stocked, get an idea of how popular poetry is in the area, and to see what level of poetry they supply. Worcester B&N’s poetry shelf is small, meek and beginner-level.

This made me so sad. To see Maya Angelou flopped over Keats. Bukowski all alone on a barren shelf. Meager. Pathetic.

I’m not saying there needs to be a store of only poetry publications — which would be awesome! — I am just saying that since I’m a hard sell on most things, and was so very drawn to spoken word after a few months, I think others could be too.

Go. See. Hear. Experience others. Express yourself. Do something different. If you don’t know where to begin, ask me and I will help you (everyone reading this will help you) find a venue close to home.

We may even be able to find you a ride.

If you cannot find one in driving distance: Build one.
———
Word to the nerd.
PS… I miss you, Gabs.

I hear about shows like Jersey Shore and Cleaning Up After The Kardashitians and any other work of video art pummeled out of our satelites, and it makes me sad. I even watch Law & Order and am so depressed by the end of each episode. They’re feeding on our basest emotions without requiring much thought or self-resolution.

THE most important aspect of my discovery of spoken word culture has surely been the plethora of events to attend, participate and support, and all the bad television and loneliness I get to avoid.

Granted, I enjoy the occassional vegg-out session of bad TV, but it rarely overshadows the joy and inspiration I get out of most spoken word events.

I say all of this because I know so many people who know me and my work, but never go to events. They only support local spoken word when I come through town.

I urge everyone reading this to go to more events. Support more readings! Support local spoken word ORGANIZERS! Support touring poets. Pick one day a week and go to an event, alone or with a friend. Become part of a scene.

I went to the nearby Barnes & Noble this afternoon with Bill MacMillan. I am always compelled to peruse a bookstore’s poetry section, which is actually usually just one shelf. I have a backlog of unread books and am on a budget, but I still policed today’s poetry selection. I do it to see if any more of my friends are being stocked, get an idea of how popular poetry is in the area, and to see what level of poetry they supply. Worcester B&N’s poetry shelf is small, meek and beginner-level.

This made me so sad. To see Maya Angelou flopped over Keats. Bukowski all alone on a barren shelf. Meager. Pathetic.

I’m not saying there needs to be a store of only poetry publications — which would be awesome! — I am just saying that since I’m a hard sell on most things, and was so very drawn to spoken word after a few months, I think others could be too.

Go. See. Hear. Experience others. Express yourself. Do something different. If you don’t know where to begin, ask me and I will help you (everyone reading this will help you) find a venue close to home.

We may even be able to find you a ride.

If you cannot find one in driving distance: Build one.
———
Word to the nerd.
PS… I miss you, Gabs.

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

Barring anything that might make me move sooner, I am thinking that since the fall is a major touring season for me, I’d like to try to get settled on the west coast by September. I miss my family too often to live this far away now. I gave myself a year to live here and my family understood, but it’s getting harder to be this distant.

My father’s side of my family lives in Washington. My mother’s side lives in California. Oregon is a good central location. I have very close friends in and around Everett, WA who I love to visit, as well as in Eugene and Corvallis, OR.

LOTS OF THOUGHT
I want my family, given and chosen, to travel more. Shit — I want everyone I know to travel — but they are a sedentary lot down there in Silicon Valley and up in the Seattle area. If I move to a place they can get to in one flight or train, or even a 12 hour drive, they just might do it.

I’ve been considering this for sometime now, ever since the Elephant Engine Revival Tour last autumn. We spent a pretty solid week in Portland and I fell in love with the city itself, caught up with a surprising amount of friends in the area, and realized it’s proximity and low cost were key to being closer to San José and Vancouver, B.C., the Cities of My Heart.

Portland is a 1h:45m flight to San José and generally very cheap. Portland is also about 6-8 hours by train to Vancouver, or a 1h:10m flight straight through. Seattle’s an easy stop. Boise’s awesome and easy to get to as well.

MY TIME IN WORCESTER
I feel I’ve experienced as much growth in Worcester in the last 13 months as I did in the previous five years on the road. So much of it is thanks to Bill MacMillan and Tony Brown — my brothers from other mothers. I feel like I can be me and I like the me that I’m becoming thanks to the people who have become my New England family. My roommate Melinda Lee is the shit, plain and simple. I have felt very much at home here thanks specifically to Missy Mitchell, Dave Keali‘i MacKenzie, Sou MacMillan, Alex Charlambides, Liz Heath, Cyndi Keeley, Rushelle Frazier (before she moved), Heather MacPherson, Danielle Carriveau, Mark Palos, Sam Teitel, Roger Mindfucker (our cat), Anne O’Neill, Simone Beaubien, Danny Balel, Emily Mele, and a host of other people in New England. I haven’t forgotten any names, I just didn’t want to turn this into an acceptance speech. I will surely write that entry when I do actually move.

WHAT BOTHERS ME MOST
I am sad that so many others promised to visit me in my home while I was here and will have absolutely failed to do so before I move. I am just glad Finneyfrock and Weslowski are coming to do there own respective Kitchen Sessions this spring. And they’re coming from the WEST COAST… At this point, I will be too busy to really host anyone else before I move… Very, very saddening.

PORTLAND IS RAD AND GETTING RADDER
With the growing number of Write Bloody authors living and moving to Portland, it’s a perfect spot for a northern WB hub. We can put on shows/readings, get the ball rolling on events and brainstorm future projects. The city pushes the arts, has a fantastic transit system (which is a HUGE sell for us rare non-drivers), and loves their bicyclists, an activity I’ve missed since my Schwinn cruiser days in downtown San José.

Portland is alive and electric. It excites me. I feel I could be there even if I didn’t know anyone, although, it does also feel very, very transient. I think people come and go like mad, which is my plan as well. The gray skies will get to me in due time, but at least it doesn’t snow very often.

I think people should travel and really try living in other places. It’s easier than it seems and there are a number of people who do it enough to advise newbies. I said I would give Worcester a year and it turned out to be more. I will probably give Portland a year. I think it’s a good idea. You really get a feel for a city when you’ve spent a year there.

WHERE I TRULY BELONG
Of the entirety of the Bay Area, I would really only live in San José/Silicon Valley, but it’s three times the cost of living in Worcester. I am one of San José’s biggest fans, but I have spent 27+ years there (prior to touring) and I really just want to see more places and try out new environments for a while. I will return to San José, but I need just a little more stability and a girl-partner who is also a huge fan of Silicon Valley. And they would have to be a fan of it because anyone who didn’t grow up there has a hard time seeing it’s greatness. I couldn’t love a human baby as much as I love Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley Example of Greatness #2,482: 300 days a year of sunshine. 300. Yep.

SILICON VALLEY vs. PACIFIC NORTHWEST
There are really only a few places I feel I belong in a living situation and they are Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest (Eugene, OR to Bellingham, WA… Vancouver is the Pacific Southwest to Canadians.) I belong in Vancouver. I am so very much at home in Vancouver, but the cost of living there is fuckstupid, especially for an American. With my constant travel, I’d have to fly from Vancouver to U.S. destinations pretty often. I tend to have to book flights on short notice. I just did a sample search and a ONE-WAY flight two weeks from now from Vancouver to Denver is $309-USD. However, one-way from Seattle to Denver is $101-USD. Prices for Canadian flights to the U.S. are almost always three-times U.S. prices, across the board. I could bus it down to Seattle whenever I had a flight, but making the right bus-to-flight connection is a bitch-and-a-half and pretty costly over time. It’s a 2h:30m ride and you have to cross a border every time. I’ve done it and I despise it.

Vancouver Suckiness Example #2: Three short days a year of sunshine.*

I’d be better off living in Seattle, but Seattle has always felt like Vancouver Light. Aside from the awesome poetry people who live there, Seattle feels very, very sad. It is almost like 60 to 70% of the city is depressed. I feel it whenever I am there. The Seattle spoken word scene is pretty stellar thanks to Daemond Arrindell and Youth Speaks Seattle, but a thriving poetry scene is one of the last reasons I would move to a city. If it were my first reason, I’d be living in Vancouver already.

I did seriously consider moving to Bellingham, but it was only because I like the Poetry Night crew and their proximity to Vancouver, B.C.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles is a congested maze and nearly impossible to navigate without a car, but I do like it more than I did five years ago. I have some very close friends down there, but the traffic alone kills me. I don’t know how anyone does it. It seems to me to be the place so many people go to realize their dreams, only to get stuck in a job they despise and eventually abandon their reason for moving there. Success in the arts in L.A. must be limited to a very lucky/determined 2% of the population — if that.

There is so much sadness in L.A. and such a shattered spoken word and poetry scene. In all of my touring I have only ever lost money in Los Angeles. I’ve been paid a few times, but I feel like it was always out of Rob Sturma’s pocket and not really from the community around him. And merch sales? Doubtful. I think so many people are always broke in L.A. because they have to save their money to buy gas and keep their car running. I only ever go there to visit friends. Any gig I get is merely an attempt to deflect some of the cost of travel. But seriously, If I am wrong about L.A., please tell me so. If there is a growing spoken word scene I don’t know about, let me know. Da Poetry Lounge is always a fun gig for me, but it pays irregularly. A lot of poets would like to tour through L.A. but everybody outside of it has no idea where to start.

Orange County seems to have a decent reputation for gigs, but it’s one giant suburb.

Long Beach is the home of Write Bloody and Snoop Dogg, and it’s about an hour away from L.A. I can dig Long Beach, but it’s still too similar to the rest of Southern California. It’s a nice place to visit. All of it really is, but if you have no family there, it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle.

THE MIDWEST
Chicago has always been a possibility, but one of the reasons I intend to leave New England is based on my ever-growing spite of the cold. I can handle rain and chill, but to-the-bone-kind-of cold really wears on me and keeps me inside too often. The cold here in New England starts in October and last through April. I have had two seasons of it. I would just be moving into a similar weather system in Chicago, which also has a summer humidity index that makes me want to punt fat babies. I could really only live there in the spring and autumn, if they show up. I love Chicago, but I would only live there for the people I knew and the fact that Chicago has THE BEST FOOD IN THE WORLD, but I would eventually despise the city for its weather.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Chicago is, without a doubt, THE HOME for funny poets. For me, the spoken word scene there has always been a draw for this reason. If you want to be a funny poet and like cold-ass winters and humid-ass summers, Chicago is the place for you. Male, female, emale, wemale — whatever — they are hilarious. Maybe it’s the food and weather. Being well fed and in constant sweaty/freezy conditions must help mold the humor… I am serious. Think about it. If you know the poetry slam/spoken word universe, Chicago has to be the funniest American scene. Germany is very, very big on humor in their poetry, as is Vancouver, but I think Chicago sets the standard as a scene. Hmmm.

I love you, ChiTown. I do, I do.

TIMELINE: JUST TALKING IT OUT
Since I have a bunch of travel this spring, I am going to try to spend as much time in Worcester this summer as I can. Depending on my finances, I will probably move toward the end of August, but I won’t know for sure.

I really don’t want to move while it is hot, so I may have to push it closer to June, which would kill my summer plans here, but would probably be a wiser move. I don’t make as much touring in the summer as I do in the spring and autumn. I would spend money to survive all summer, then spend money to move. I have gigs lined up this spring that would make a June/July move very easy. I am at a loss. I just don’t know.

What would be awesome is a road trip/poetry tour move. Any takers?
———
Word to the nerd.

*I am kidding… Sort of.

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

Loans ranged from $10 to $500. A third of the total came from Canada, just another confirmation of my home away from home.

Here are all the people who loaned me money:

Jeremy Alexander
Jessica Nappa-Siegel
Karrie Waarala
Cheryl Maddalena
Bob Nelson
Gabrielle Bouliane*
Ravenna Kibbutz
Jessica Standifird
Joshua Sampey
Kimberleigh Irene Marie Smithbower Roseblade
Craig Steward
Anis Mojgani
Wayne Mercier
Thomas Budday
Peter Hunter
Mindy Netifee
Ginger Wetzbarger
Kevin Whitley (Sparks)
Samantha Libby
Laura Swearingen-Steadwell (Yes! Yes!)
Yvonne Naimey
Moira Reilly
Jill Binder
Kate Stewart
Annelyse Gelman

This list doesn’t even come close to the response I got from people offering to send me checks by mail, but I reached my goal via PayPal so quickly, that I could not take anything else.

RC Weslowski sent me a “birthday check (cheque in Canada)” of $250. He’s coming to New England for some shows in May! Yay! You cannot miss this kind, lovely man…

I am still so humbled and grateful for all the help.

This community is beautiful.

*I was floored when Gabrielle Bouliane sent me $50. She was adamant about me not worrying about it. So I didn’t. I had hoped to pay her back before she died, but that did not happen. She probably needed xoxos from me before she needed $50. So this is what I am gonna do:

THE GABRIELLE BOULIANE NATIONAL POETRY SLAM VOLUNTEER AWARD
I don’t have the specifics completely lined up, but every year after the National Poetry Slam, from here on out, I will award one volunteer $50 for their selfless work at that year’s event.

There will be a voting process whether I attend or not, as it will be handled via the internet. People will be nominated and voted on. Essays will have to be written as to why said volunteer deserves the award. The $50 is just to be tradition, as it certainly does not cover any expense laid out by said recipient, but it is to say thank you for all of their help and to put a name to the year’s example of selflessness in poetry slam.

I will create a page on my site for this award and ask a poet each year to design a simple award/plaque/statuette, in Gabrielle’s spirit, to also be awarded along with the monetary prize.

Any and all advice on this concept is certainly welcome.

I chose the National Poetry Slam because of its size and Gabrielle’s affiliation with it.

Your thoughts are a must.
———
Word to the nerd.
Bunny up.

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

NOTE: Because of the Chapter feature in iTunes, the functionality of this episode only works in iTunes.

Interviewee: Scott Woods, President of Poetry Slam, Inc.
(http://www.blackair.org)
Song/Track: Scott Woods’ “How To Make A Crackhead” performed live at GotPoetry LIVE! in Providence, Rhode Island on September 7, 2009.
Closing music: Guitar by Jimmy Newell

More McGee: http://www.mikemcgee.net

Mike McGee’s Podcast is Copyright 2009
(except for submissions and tracks by other artists)

Direct download for iTunes: http://media.libsyn.com/media/mikemcgee/Mike_McGees_Podcast__Episode_17_with_Scott_Woods.m4a

For all other players: http://media.libsyn.com/media/mikemcgee/Mike_McGees_Podcast__Episode_17_with_Scott_Woods.mp3

NOTE: Because of the Chapter feature in iTunes, the functionality of this episode only works in iTunes.

Interviewee: Scott Woods, President of Poetry Slam, Inc.
(http://www.blackair.org)
Song/Track: Scott Woods’ “How To Make A Crackhead” performed live at GotPoetry LIVE! in Providence, Rhode Island on September 7, 2009.
Closing music: Guitar by Jimmy Newell

More McGee: http://www.mikemcgee.net

Mike McGee’s Podcast is Copyright 2009
(except for submissions and tracks by other artists)

Direct download for iTunes: http://media.libsyn.com/media/mikemcgee/Mike_McGees_Podcast__Episode_17_with_Scott_Woods.m4a

For all other players: http://media.libsyn.com/media/mikemcgee/Mike_McGees_Podcast__Episode_17_with_Scott_Woods.mp3

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

OUR FEATURES
Lara (Lahr-ah!) Bozabalian, one of the sweetest and loveliest women I know, is a phenomenal writer and performer. She hails from Toronto, Ontario and has been involved in her poetry slam scene for a few years now. She just represented T.O. @ the National Poetry Slam. In September, she will return to teaching 12th Grade English (Canadian style, i.e. flavour, honour, houurly, vacuuuum – but we get her live and direct tonight in the kitchen.

Sharing this headliner tonight is David Perez. A San Jose native and one of my best friends, Perez (what I call him to his face) is a magical writer and performer who knows how to take us to moments of his life, letting us join him on the journey through his past, present and future. In 2008 he represented San Jo at the IWPS and this year he was a member of the San Jose Slam Team. You can’t not like Perez. He’s also making tamale pie!

Perez and Lara are debuting a poem or two each in an hour of round-robin cycled performance.

OPENERS INCLUDE:
(Debuting never-before-read poems)
Bobby Gibbs
Sam Teitel
Lea Deschene
David Keali’i MacKenzie
Mark Palos
Steve Subrizi
with one slot left for late sign u
UPCOMING
Our next Kitchen Session #3 will feature Adam Stone of Boston. Woot!
———
Word to the nerd.

I knew I’d just sit around my house cooking and sweating anyway. I must confess. I should have gone on Monday with Team Worcester. I wanna see Team San Jose. I wanna hug RC Weslowski and the every Canadian team member. I wanna see Denver(s). I wanna hear good, live poetry and even some bad poetry. I wanna hang out with Papa Whoopeecat. I wanna get tangled in Ken Arkind’s beard.

I wanna marvel at the force that is Tony Jackson.

I wanna support everybody in their attempt at creative expression. I wanna host events and be a part of the heat(s). I DO NOT wanna compete. I wanna get on a plane and be there with my slam family. I wanna get poetry tagged and tag someone I’ve never heard before. I wanna kiss Khary Jackson on the forehead. I wanna play poker AND Scrabble in the middle of the night.

I wanna. I wanna have a beer or a diet cola with someone. I wanna talk about life with Joaquin Zihuatenjo. I wanna tell Steve Marsh and Erik Daniel I dig them and their faces. I wanna chill with Team Orlando again.

I wanna show everyone love and be involved in love and know I’m loved. I wanna.

I wanna. Man, every year. I just wanna.

I hope everyone is safe and having fun down there. I hope to see you all soon.
———
Word to the nerd.