exhibition finale highlights (personal)
1. Having Robert Roden's newborn Nova as part of the audience.
2. Seeing Annie Menebroker laugh
3. Being overcome with emotion when J. Greenberg performed his beautiful guitar-only version of George Harrison's Here Come's the Sun. (That song is my anthem for when we clear ourselves of the darkness set upon us by this present administration and the conservative dystopia that presently dominates the nation.)
4. Watching Michael Pulley acidentally spill red wine over his copy of the Jack Micheline poem The Drunkard before getting up to read it.
5. The obvious enthuiasm with which Michael shared his stories about getting to know Micheline, about bringing him out to Sacramento to do readings. Telling us how Jack wanted to move here to Sacramento, "to get some work done," how he called the Weatherstone coffee shop anything but its actual name. WeatherSpout.
6. Not being the one responsible for spilling the red wine (this time.)
7. Seeing Gene Bloom be Gene Bloom.
8. Having J. Greenberg's musical set be the centerpost of the event. Four great songs. My dream set. Hooking the audience with the Gene Bloom homage Buttload of Blues, closing with Spanish Armada (Another misguided and doomed military exercise...)
9. A surprise performance from local singer/songwriter Michelle Avdienko.
10. Becca Costello's Cuppa Joe and Burning Momment were funnier than ever. And the audience was enthusiastic.
11. Watching Manny Gale laugh.
12. Robert Roden's reading of Charles Bukowski's Roll the Dice.
13. The Audio recording worked! The batteries didn't run out! Every moment captured! (Thanks, Robert!)
14. Gene Bloom reading William Wantling's Sick Fly HAiku.
15. So many new faces in the audience. And the familiar ones too.
16. Being scolded by Manny Gale until we did a better job with the audience participation part of Joe Hill's The Preacher and the Slave.
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2. Seeing Annie Menebroker laugh
3. Being overcome with emotion when J. Greenberg performed his beautiful guitar-only version of George Harrison's Here Come's the Sun. (That song is my anthem for when we clear ourselves of the darkness set upon us by this present administration and the conservative dystopia that presently dominates the nation.)
4. Watching Michael Pulley acidentally spill red wine over his copy of the Jack Micheline poem The Drunkard before getting up to read it.
5. The obvious enthuiasm with which Michael shared his stories about getting to know Micheline, about bringing him out to Sacramento to do readings. Telling us how Jack wanted to move here to Sacramento, "to get some work done," how he called the Weatherstone coffee shop anything but its actual name. WeatherSpout.
6. Not being the one responsible for spilling the red wine (this time.)
7. Seeing Gene Bloom be Gene Bloom.
8. Having J. Greenberg's musical set be the centerpost of the event. Four great songs. My dream set. Hooking the audience with the Gene Bloom homage Buttload of Blues, closing with Spanish Armada (Another misguided and doomed military exercise...)
9. A surprise performance from local singer/songwriter Michelle Avdienko.
10. Becca Costello's Cuppa Joe and Burning Momment were funnier than ever. And the audience was enthusiastic.
11. Watching Manny Gale laugh.
12. Robert Roden's reading of Charles Bukowski's Roll the Dice.
13. The Audio recording worked! The batteries didn't run out! Every moment captured! (Thanks, Robert!)
14. Gene Bloom reading William Wantling's Sick Fly HAiku.
15. So many new faces in the audience. And the familiar ones too.
16. Being scolded by Manny Gale until we did a better job with the audience participation part of Joe Hill's The Preacher and the Slave.
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