Tonight at Gotpoetry Live, Reflections Cafe, 8 Governor Street in Providence, we help celebrate RI Pridefest with a double feature of Zilla McCue and J*me. Bring yourself down! Show starts at 7:30, signup for the open is around 7.

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I think I can officially declare the Online School course dead. No one signed up.

A quick note addressed to all of you who said, here or in e-mail or in person, that you were going to sign up and didn’t: I don’t care that you didn’t, but I care deeply that you told me one thing and then never told me otherwise when you changed your mind.

It makes it hard to plan. When you’re only filling 6 slots and it’s the first time out for the course, to think you’ve got even a couple of slots already full makes a difference in how you plan and market and hustle.

All I’m doing these days is hustling for work. I have to budget my time among all the activities. When you think something’s at least somewhat under control, you tend to slack off and not follow up enough. Bad on my part, I know; human nature, I guess.

Anyway…so much for that experiment. I think I’m not made for this independent life. I’ve got a job opportunity in Boston right now, and I think I’m going to go for it.

so I think the tattoo is even more a necessity now.

Body modification occasionally feels like the best way forward.

I recall that when Roger Bonair-Agard cut his dreads, I saw him at a show we were doing in NYC and asked him why. He said that the hair “locked up a lot of energy” he felt he needed to release. I understood it implicitly.

So I’m keeping the long hair, will probably grow it longer, and I definitely am on the hunt for the next tat.