Hi, friends of Lap-POP!

October 21st, 2005

So blogged. I had a lot of fun. I was so amazingly glad to be a part of that. I felt sort of silly be up there and everything. I mean, when I get put into those situations, I really crave hiding behind a monitor sometimes when I’m spilling my guts. That, and I also get really self-conscious and freaked out and everything.

21 Oct ‘05, 4.38am PST: Sorry the picture is all blurry! Perhaps you all can mark up the photo with notes so I know you were there. That would be awesome.

After talking with some people after the event, I realize that some people may think the “cliff-hanger” in that Burning Man piece was intentional, when in fact it wasn’t. I really honestly had been sorting a ream of paper at the top of the event and forgot that page completely. So, I’ll point you to the pieces I did tonight, and you can read them to completion as I realize they’re a bit long. (And sorry for blowing past the time limit — thank you for being so patient! I’m a bit verbose. OK, a lot. That tends to happen with me.)

• “Rockin’ Tha Mic” (MTA subway conductor) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, dated March 1st, 2003.
• “The Land of Misfit Toys” (Burning Man, nudity, hot tub) appears in Negative Waves Issue #94.
• “The Age of Aquarius” (completely flawed horoscopes, dysfunctional zodiac) appears in Negative Waves Issue #96.

Here were the probable pieces:

• “A League of Their Own / A League of Our Own” (on Asian-ness, discrimination), appears in Agendacide: Minutes, July 18th 2002.
• “In The Ghetto” (uses the f-bomb a lot) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, April 19th 2002.
• “Disorder: Day Three of My New Life” (a poem about how two people just can’t get it together) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, March 16th 2002.
• “To Eric, From JFK” (prose about where home is) appears in Agendacide: Minutes, April 23rd 1999.
• “Girls vs. Boys: Girls” (dead-up, zero bullshit advice for a real guy from a real girl) appears in Negative Waves Issue #104.
• This last one link is for fellow performer Annie Lin, whom I had the pleasure of meeting over drinks and brownies after the event. We had talked about Williamsburg, “East-Williamsburg-let’s-be-honest, it’s-not-really-East-Williamsburg-now-is-it” Brooklyn, and guitar idolettes quite a bit. “I have a meeting at happyhour.com”, which appears at Agendacide: Minutes, July 15th 2003, is about the L-Train in New York, where she recently moved to. (So all you New York kids reading this be nice and say hi; go to her site now and download some MP3 clips or something).

And if you sent me your birthday? No really. If you didn’t get a beatdown tonight, instead, on your birthday… you’ll get a surprise for your trouble. I have an awesome memory and I’ll totally remember your birthday and send you a surprise. I’m good like that.

Thanks to Locus Arts (Sam, Jane, Carolyn) for putting on the event, and to MJ for inviting me out. Thanks to you if you made it out — what a great turnout for an APA event. You guys kick major ass.

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