Don’t Let Ignorance Stop You

By Valerie on November 5, 2011

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from hanging out with Protospace geeks it’s:

Don’t let ignorance stop you from trying to do something cool. Continue reading »

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Seuss Slam video!

By Valerie on August 23, 2011

Well, I survived my first public reading! Small crowd (which was good and not scary!) and a willing audience made for a real fun event. So grateful people came out got silly and bought into the whole enterprise – it couldn’t have worked without everybody else taking part.

The moral of this story: Seuss is irresistibly fun, no matter how old you are!

There are some things I learned from this that I can take into other endeavours to get people taking part, being silly, and letting their creative juices flow. But all in all the event definitely exceeded expectations – YAY!

For those of you far away – or otherwise engaged – the whole thing was captured on video and up on youtube. Hazards of the modern era: any time you do something weird in public it’s captured on the internet for all eternity – fortunately this one captured a good hair day.

Thanks again for everybody’s support – online and in real life.

Oh, and feel free to add to the Seuss Sohbet if the video inspires you.

 

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Sohbet – Seuss Slam!

By Valerie on August 16, 2011

Weird and exciting news. Accompanied by Bryan McLean on guitar I’m going to be reading Dr Seuss books at the People’s Poetry Festival this weekend.

Seuss Slam
Saturday August 20
In front of the Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Rd. NW
2:00pm – 3:00pm

It’s going to be Very Silly and have some audience participation elements – so if you can come out and help show people how to be silly (sadly we often forget!) I’d really appreciate the support! Plus this is my first poetry reading ever – so would be great to see some familiar faces in the crowd.

Now to get things started (the Seussing and the Silly-ing) a Seuss styled silly poem (please add your own!):

Michael Mass was flatulent
His bum said things he hadn’t meant.
And once from school he had been sent
’cause a blast so fast
his pants
had rent.

Michael Mass was full of gas,
this often made him glum.
But to his friends, his gas: a blast,
and thought him lots of fun!

The lesson here, my little dears,
(if you’ll listen close with both your ears)
those things about you you most detest,
may be the thing folks like the best.

So take the lead from gassy Mike
your least liking likers…
learn also to like.

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FUCK

By Valerie on June 27, 2011

For those of you in on the pool of when this day would come, count it as day 54.

My health has gone to total shit (as it often does this time of year) and the meds I need to take to manage that leave me pretty addle-brained. Continue reading »

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Celebrating 10,000 Views

By Valerie on June 14, 2011

For tonight’s 10,000 views party I thought I’d put up a post with some of the most loved entries over the years. You can also check out the Sohbet page of a list of my favourite interactive poems. There’s some fun ones, as well as some profoundly moving ones.

There, that should be enough to give you a bit of a guided tour of the website. Whether you’re reading this at the #10kparty tonight, or checking in from home. Feel free to roll around, explore the site, comment on any of the old threads (I love it when conversations come back to life!) or comment below with whatever moves you.

Thank you all for being a part of something extraordinary!

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