[Newspoetry] End-of-newspoetry bash Dec 31

[Joe Futrelle]

At 9:40 AM -0600 12/27/2002, William Gillespie wrote:
>Will there be a laptop? Will the gig be recorded onto minidisc for
>possible broadcast on WEFT 90.1 FM the following evening on the Eclectic
>Guy's 33 1/3rd birthday bash? Can I get live drums and bass guitar for a
>rocking final performance of the Ventriloquists' Administration?

1. Yes.  But will there be a projector?  Anyone?
2. Yes.
3. Yes.  Also distortion and wah-wah pedal will be available for 
poets if they really want to wail.  We should rehearse the v. admin. 
this weekend, no?  Who wants to play bass?

>
>On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Editor-Within-Chief wrote:
>
>>  These are the final days of daily poems at Newspoetry.com, and in
>>  honor of the 4+ years of artsy, political efforts of all the
>>  newspoets, we are going to celebrate with a big end-of-year par-tay
>>  on Dec 31.
>>
>>  All Newspoets, writers, readers, artists, pundits, news makers, and
>>  news breakers are more than welcome to stop by for the appropriate
>>  level of debauchery and abandon.
>>
>>  Poetry will be read.  Loudly.
>>
>>  At midnight CGI scripts will silently spring into action and whisk
>>  the daily poem out of view, replacing it with an archived collection
>>  of over 1,200 daily poems from 1998-2002.
>>
>>  The festivities are to take place at 1205 S. Race St., Urbana, IL.
>>  RSVP @ 328-7853 if you feel like it.  Bring substances of the food or
>>  beverage variety.  Both depressants and stimulants will be available.
>>  The party begins at maybe like around 8 pm sharp.
>>
>>  Newspoetry is dead -- long live newspoetry.
>>
>>  pls forward this invitation to anyone and everyone.
>>
>>  --
>>  Joe Futrelle
>>  Editor-within-chief
>>  http://www.newspoetry.com/
>>
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Joe Futrelle
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