Consider yourself invited, 8/11, 6:30pm
July 28th, 2007
Poetry, Colombian food, salsa, good friends…what else could you want?! Life is GOOD and I am so blessed to have a friends and supporters like you, so come out to my big bash and let me know through an email or evite.com
Arepas & Empanadas (family friendly atmosphere)
12792 Veterans Memorial Dr., Houston, TX 77014
$15 per person covers buffet and the temporary booze license cost
BYOB, as well as your poems or instruments
6:30 - 7:30 Poetry get down
8:00 - 9 free salsa lessons
9 - 11 PARTY! and then probably the Tropicana
Remember, if I can't pack it, it ain't going!
Ya know, I have to thank poet SCEF for allowing me to rediscover how much fun performance poetry can be. Please support him and the folks at Mojo Rising for hosting the Poetic Jazz Night every 3rd Thursday of the month. Also, thanks to the wonderful musicians: Al on the Congas and Alex on the sax. That was such a beautiful present…so SCEF, you hosting my fiesta, o ke?
Life just started sprinting…
July 22nd, 2007
Locally: My big bash is coming up Aug. 11th, if you are in town please come by. My good friend and artist Yvonne Zepeda will be organizing it. I also have a new cell number and calls are free from pc to pc if you have a Google Talk Beta but you need a gmail account and a microphone headset. Email me if you have any questions.
Thursday, July 26th, I will be supporting poet and friend SCEF (pronounced with a hard K) at Mojo Rising for poetry. Check out his website: poetryishiphop.
Check out my art at the Starbucks off 249 and Antoine. I have 3 pieces from my light photography, 5 poems, and 4 abstract paintings. Thank you to Mr. T. Smith, manager, for his continued support. Please stop by and show your latte love.
I LOVE my financial planners. Thanks to their help I should be credit card free within a year and a half. They are honest, reached at any time and knowledgeable: Kyle Sadler at Valic and the Moore Insurance Group.
In the blogosphere:
Good luck to all the contestants of the Top 10. I am not sure how to put all the links on my blog so I am going to send you over to my friend Selpana’s blog. Check it out.
FREE!! What more do you need to know? Wikki is offering free space which I will try out with my class this fall. Love existentialist drama? get a class set of books from the queen herself, Ayn Rand. Subscribe to Grant Wrangler to get updates teachers and artists and non-profits.
Mad love again to Barnes and Noble as I just got my latest Moleskin for $10, check out the back to school sale with 25% off plus the additional teacher discount.
Below is a pic of the once a month Galveston poetry competition hosted by SCEF. It was so much fun and a beautiful drive.
Summer Breeze
July 18th, 2007
Step by step,
Without the worry of time,
Searching for a destined point,
His slow broiling steps are merciless,
To all the fragile life that crosses his trails.
A cold wind swiftly dove from the heavens,
It brought release of tension,
A cool refreshment,
To the accumulated heat in the land below,
She gave contemporary content to the weak,
A cool lullaby with swaying sounds,
A rare breeze to the lovers.
So I have estimated the amount of burnt and trashed rejections in the 50s, but I think I should have opened it’s own page. This poem is from my seventh grade year. (13 yrs old, 1986, I think) The pic is mine…the tootsie roll was just luck!
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July 15th, 2007
Mingle2 - Online Dating
For usage of the words crack (3x) and gun (1x). This rebellion thing really takes work and I don’t know if Waits would look at me with a PG rating!! I thought at least I was a PG-13! LOL! Thanks to Gunfighter for this find.
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July 13th, 2007
Some things are an inevitable twisted mix of humor and fate. Like the magic bullet that passed through a testicle and lodged itself on an ovary impregnating the forlorn maiden waiting for her mate, no more. Or perhaps the rain that I can’t stop from knocking, rapping, morphing into rocks and hurling itself upon my bedroom door. This is where my poem takes off.
I don’t know why the threat of physicality
makes people praise or leave the Lord, but it does.
We once had a talk when you asked
–Why can’t you just talk to God, straight to God?
I changed the topic of conversation
Accepting some other merciful lie
I don’t know how to explain to you
the bumps on my back
the last two surgeries I had
How the saints came and said cry no more
How praying with two strangers settled me down
How the Virgin that smelled of fresh dew
mountain rose took it all away
Some things you’ll never understand
hey– I don’t have the power to comprehend
Like a ball-piercing-bullet striking gold
or why you look for copies of me in every art show
and settle with a flat chested square
when you’re the round hole
So, I’m gonna morph into this word called love
And never answer a call
And never return an email
While I keep dressing saints,
praying strength
making rosaries to frame
tasting words like “extirpar”
that smell of hospital and sweat
If I have to be strong enough
to go at this alone
then, I’ll be praying to Jesus
that he’ll hold my hand
that he’ll make me smile
You’ve already left
but I know he’s gonna be here
My Jesus is gonna be here soon
Keep the Internet FREE!
July 12th, 2007
I listen to stations on the net all the time but soon these music services will be asking you to pay. So if you feel your sole purpose in life is to fund someone’s kid’s hummer, then by all means pay some money. If not:
Please call your Congressional representatives in the Senate and ask them to force immediate action on the Internet Radio Equality Act and bring the bill to a vote. It is critical that their phones begin ringing off the hook starting early in the morning. If it’s busy, please try again later.
Senator John Cornyn: (202) 224-2934
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison: (202) 224-5922
For more info check out http://www.savenetradio.org/ or Tim Westergren’s Pandora’s Project.
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