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We’re celebrating Walt Whitman’s 190th birthday and here in Atlanta there was a marathon reading of Song of Myself at Composition Gallery (see link at right) and sponsored by Poetry Atlanta (see link at right). The marathon reading included some 25 area poets and took almost three hours non-stop. The program had a wide variety [...]

I guess it’s a sign of summer. No one wanting to go all wild n wooly, but keeping things trimmed, close cut, and cool. As consumers we’re getting barraged with more and more marketing messages for bush trimming, manscaping, bikini trims, going Brazilian – whatever you want to call it. Companies are obviously seeing dollar [...]

I’d heard of this story and seen the pic, but once I found the video, it was even more shocking that I had even imagined. The old man sneaks around the barricades, runs and shimmies up the bridge structure, then after tricking the befuddled man into shaking his hand, sends him flying head over heels [...]

Is Glenn Beck a kindler, gentler, warm and fuzzy Ann Coulter? Is a lie still a lie?
Crybaby Glenn Beck was called on the carpet at the view by both Barbara Walters and Whoopi. He’d basically taken a straight forward meeting on the train, and contorted it into some sort of satiric commentary on the women [...]

It seems a sad state of affairs, but the LGBT community is increasingly upset with what they see as a lack of action in Washington on some of our key issues such as Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Marriage Equality, and a whole laundry list of other items. Having been in the wilderness for eight years [...]

Yet another reason I refuse to step foot in a Wal-Mart. It’s policy of demanding that CDs that might otherwise require a parental warning sticker be edited or cleaned up for sale in their stores. Wal-Mart is the 800 pound gorilla of retailing and I suppose if they could outsource music and video production to [...]

THURSDAY: Five of us pile into a SUV, Megan Volpert and Mindy Friedman, Theresa Davis, Collin Kelley and myself. We’re being green by carpooling and saving money on plane tickets. It’s not a bad drive, Atlanta to New Orleans is probably usually eight or nine hours, but the way Collin drives we make it in [...]

I just got back in town from spending a long weekend in New Orleans for a writers conference. It was great meeting a lot of new people, getting to do a reading, attending classes, workshops; but the thing I’m most excited about–my new sunglasses. Not to diminish the conference, but that just underscores how excited [...]

Tomorrow starts the Atlanta to New Orleans road trip to the Saints and Sinners Literary Fest. I’m really, looking forward to it, this will be my first. I’ll be going down with group of friends and fellow poets from here in Atlanta. We’re renting an SUV and taking turns driving down and back. So far as [...]

As much as I thoroughly enjoyed the new Star Trek, I must admit that there was a bit of a jarring moment during Cadet Kirk’s disciplinary hearing before the Starfleet brass, when we learn that Tyler Perry is now running Starfleet. Now we in Atlanta, we weren’t at all surprised. He is a bit of [...]