More Words that Bring Strangers to My Blog
Someone typed the following sentence into Google:
“My husband grabbed his friend and was pretending to hump him in the ass.”
Naturally it brought them to Dogpoet. The most lustrous pearl of wisdom I can offer is: Hope you didn’t sign a pre-nup.
From my prolonged silence you might have assumed that I’m a tad wiped out after kick-starting the Barbershop Reading Series this past weekend. With a lot of help from some very good friends, our debut event went better than I could have even hoped. Capacity crowd, amazing performers, and a fabulously energetic audience. One of the reader/performers wrote me the next day and said that “the event really had a feeling of community about it – I think that word is often overused, but I think it’s the best way to describe the atmosphere in that room…”
I had hoped for that kind of atmosphere, but hard work can’t account for even half of it. The performers and the audience brought more than their fair share, and my only worry now is how high the bar has been set. Check out the Barbershop site which has a few pics from the event.
We’re living vicariously thru you these days. Keep fighting the good fight that we’re now too old and tired to fight, Mikey. It’s killing us that we can’t be there to witness all this. And you and Joe have a perpetual open invite to spend some downtime with us in Catskill ANY time you feel you need it. Thanks for keepin’ on.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pmYou don’t know how nice that downtime sounds to me! Thanks Steven. I miss you guys. My love to your better half too.
June 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pmThe energy shows in the pics. Congratulations, Michael Lowell.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:23 pmWow, what I’d give to have something like this here in the Philippines. Yeah, from out of the pacific blue, salutations and congratulations! It perks me up that writing isn’t a lonely profession after all–must’ve been the solo mugshots I see a lot at the end of books– and I’m glad to see the bohemian life is still somewhere waiting to be found. Thanks for the eye-opener!
June 12th, 2009 at 9:35 pmYahoo! Glad it went well! You’ve really gotten something started.
Nothing beats real people, real words, real connection.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:17 am