Christmas/Solstice/Hanuka/Kwanzza POETRY RUCKUS !!!

MG Martin will be coming in form San Francisco to wow the crowd at Ducky Waddle's on Wednesday Dec 1st. Don't Miss it. Doors at 7PM, reading 7:15, guest at 9 PM

PEACE!
M

Julie Weinstein: Short Fiction Ruckus and Book Premier for 'Flashes from the Other World'

Come on out on Thursday November 11th for our next Short Fiction Ruckus @ Ducky Waddle's. Doors open at 7 PM and reading begins at 7:15 PM.

This night will also be the book premier for our special guest, local author Julie Weinstein. Julie will be reading from her rand new collection of flash fiction, Flashes from the other World.

Check it out:

"With a keen minimalist eye and a knifelike accuracy of just where the edge is, Weinstein is the angry orphaned child of Palahniuk and Octavia Butler. These stories are disturbingly correct, commanding and gorgeous."
~Traci Foust, Nowhere Near Normal

"Readers of Julie Weinstein's Flashes from the Other World will gladly find themselves lifted story by story on a true reading adventure. Her descriptive scenes are that vividly real! Here is an author whose word choice is pure magic. From the paranormal, to relationships, to the surreal, these flash stories will delight readers."
~Salvatore Buttaci, author of Flashing My Shorts

"Julie Ann Weinstein writes in a refreshing, sharp style that is perfectly suited to flash fiction. Her stories are filled with haunting scenarios and wildly funny characters, who are as unpredictable as they are endear-ing. Flashes From the Other World is aptly titled—the stories offer pure escapism in short form."
~Jen Knox, Author of Musical Chairs and To Begin Again

Find out more about Julie here

There will be free local organic refreshments.

Email ruthlesshippies@gmail.com to read

Thomas Powers 'takes over' the Poetry Ruckus

Just wanted to let you all know that we are organizing the next poetry Ruckus for this Wednesday 10/20. Doors are at 7PM and reading starts 7:15.

Our very special guest for this evening will be Thomas Powers, a most interesting individual who has done readings with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlingetti and Gregory Corso. In the late 70's he was part of the burgeoning punk scene with his band DaMoronics. Mr. Powers will be sharing a part lecture, part reading entitled "Before Howl" which will educate us on Black Mountain College (Mr. Powers is an alumni) and the 'San Francisco Renaissance', both of which preceded and strongly influenced the beat generation.

Stoked for this!

Send me RSVP's if you want to read: ruthlesshippies@gmail.com

FREAK FOR ALL TONIGHT

Happening at E-Street Cafe this evening

The Freak for ALL!!!

7:30-9 PM

Tao Lin in the news

As I have been enjoying my read of next Ruckus guest author Tao Lin's Richard Yates, I have also been enjoying some incredibly entertaining reviews of this work.

The most entertaining of them by far, came from the New York Times today. And if you're not the link clicking type, let me at least tell you that the book made the critic feel suicidal, which alone probably bodes well for it's place in history.

The Village Voice rushed to Tao's defense.

Hipster Runoff picked up the Tao Meme.

And Tao even appeared on the cover of the Stranger in a mock up of Time Magazine's recent Jonathan Franzen cover.

Nice Boston Globe review.


And shoot...anybody coming out for this?

Support the Duck, buy a book and get it signed!

Friday! Deets on previous post,

M

Tao 'mutha effin' Lin to read @ Short Fiction Ruckus Friday OCTOBER 1st

Good Sirs and Gentle Ladies,

Thanks to all who came out for the last Poetry Ruckus where Mr. Dylan Barmmer wowed the crowd in lieu of our originally scheduled guest reader Robert Kelly not being able to make it.

The next Ruckus will be a very special one, indeed.


On Friday October 1st with doors opening at 7PM, we will have a Ruckus of short fiction, and the featured guest will be none other than author Tao Lin, reading an excerpt from his brand new novel Richard Yates.

If you have never heard of Tao Lin, then maybe these quotes will make you want to know who he is...


“Richard Yates is a moving, very funny, discomforting, and heartbreakingly life-affirming meditation on extremes—extreme alienation, extreme intimacy, extreme confusion, extreme expectations—that reads like a meticulously and lovingly crafted collaboration between a weirder Ernest Hemingway and a more philosophically-minded Jean Rhys.”
—James Frey, author of Bright Shiny Things and A Million Little Pieces

“Richard Yates is hilarious, menacing, and hugely intelligent. Tao Lin is a Kafka for the iPhone generation. He has that most important gift: it’s impossible to imagine anyone else writing like he does and sounding authentic. Yet he has already spawned a huge school of Lin imitators. As precocious and prolific as he is, every book surpasses the last. Tao Lin may well be the most important writer under thirty working today.”
—Clancy Martin, author of How to Sell

“A revolutionary.”—The Stranger

“[A] deadpan literary trickster.”—New York Times

“Deeply smart, funny, and head-over-heels dedicated.”—New York magazine

“Prodigal, unpredictable...impossible to ignore.”—Paste magazine


ANYHOW...

If you would like to be part of the opening act, please submit ONE (and only one) piece of original short fiction that you can read in under five minutes. Send to:

ruthlesshippies@gmail.com

While you are at it, if it's written in 101 words or less, then you will probably want to send it to Citybeat for their annual short fiction contest that ends on Monday September 27th.


adult beverages for those 21 and up

reading starts 7:15, Q & A and book signing to follow !!!!

RUCKUS!

Summer Fun on the 101: a Festival of Surf Music

random updates

Us Ruthless Hippies are madly excited about

Summer Fun on the 101: A festival of Surf Music

We hope you can come, it's going to be a grand old time. The page has been updated with the track 'summer fun theme', written and recorded by yours truly!


The recent Freak for All was fun for all who witnessed it. Our freaktastic happening shall return September 6th--first Monday of the Month.

Thanks to all who submitted to the Ruckus anthology. Those who did will be receiving a copy, and any ruthless hippies hoping to sneak in past deadline should do so ASAP.


La Paloma Slam is August 24th--stoked!


gotta luv funky town in the summer sun, see you at summer fun!

FREAK FOR ALL goes international!!!

First things first:


FREAK FOR ALL #5 is Monday July 5th from 6-8 P.M. at E-Street cafe.

"The open mic, for open minds"

Bring some fresh freaky funk, friends!!!



Check out some 'Freak for All' action that some how ended up on a Spanish website!

Ruckus Time Cometh

That's right folks, Swami Bruce, guest reading at the Ruckus this Wednesday June 23rd. Doors at 7. Reading starts at 7:15. Swami Bruce at 9PM.

MUST RSVP to read by emailing Michael at ruthlesshippies@gmail.com. Keep it under five minutes fellas and ladies!!!

See you there!!!

All for one, and FREAK FOR ALL

Come join Freak for All number four on Monday June 7th, 6-8 P.M at E-Street Cafe.

*read a poem, a short fiction piece, do a rant, do some stand-up, spit a freestyle, collaborate, make people smile*

oh yeah, and...I would really love to have some dancers this time...calling all dancers.

First come, first freak.

Ruckus # 6 - Jon Wesick - Wed, May 26th 7:15 PM

As that headline states, the next Ruckus at The Duck will be:

Wednesday, May 26th, doors at 7, poetry at 7:15 PM and guest poet Jon Wesick around 9 PM

I've had the distinct pleasure of hearing Mr. Wesick guest read at Winston's Drunk Poets Society, and he has also graced us with his presence at a previous Ruckus. His poems are inimitable and often uproariously funny.


Here is a blurb about Jon Wesick I found on asininepoetry.com

Mr. Wesick has a PhD in physics and is the world's leading proponent of string-cheese theory, which states that elementary particles can be viewed as eleven-dimensional vibrations in cosmic mozzarella. In the four-dimensional limit this picture agrees with the Standard Model of Fromage with three flavors (original, nacho, and cool ranch) and two textures (fried to a crispy crunch and baked to a delicate crunch). Mr. Wesick has worked at the Large Gruyere Collider and is principal investigator at the Wensleydale Mine Experiment, which seeks to detect solar neutrino oscillations in a large vat of fondue.

Tell all your friends, see you at the Ruckus!!!

-M

Get Down!

Hey you guuuuuuuuys,

Installment # 3 of the Freak for All happening Monday May 3rd. Be there, not square.

Ruckus # 5

better ask somebody

FREAK FOR ALL

Monday, April 21st 6-8 PM at E-Street Cafe

FREAK FOR ALL, yall

Hello again fellow Ruckus Rousers,

Here is my official announcement of my newest spoken word/side show entertainment night, the E-Street Cafe FREAK FOR ALL

Monday March 29th at
E-Street Cafe

128/130 West 'E' Street
Encinitas, CA 92024
6-8 P.M.

The Freak for All is an evening of improvisational collaboration between performers of all varieties: Spoken word by freestylers and poets will be the main dish, served on a bed of sweet rhythms and grooves provided by musicians, with your choice of sides: dance, stand-up philosophy, hoop charming, juggling, soapbox ranting, story telling, magic, astrology, comedy, speed painting, stupid human tricks and anything else you might dare to do on stage*,**

*First come, first perform. No need to contact me unless you have an act involving gnarly props or physical feats. If so, please have your act approved in advance by e-mailing details to Michael at Ruthlesshippies@gmail.com.

**Prepared solo musical performances are strictly prohibited. Musicians are encouraged to collaborate with spoken word artists. If Jason Mraz showed up, we'd make him spit freestyles too.

RUCKUS TIME

Hello fellow Ruckus Rousers,

It's been too long since we last met at Ducky Waddles--two whole months! So without further ado, I would like to announce the next Ruckus happening at Ducky Waddles on March 24 featuring guest poet Wayne Acciacca.




You may have caught Wayne mesmerizing the crowd with his dynamic visions in rhythm at our last two Ruckus performances. Expect an action packed night. I can't wait to see you all there!!!:

March 24th, doors at 7 P.M.
Reading starts at 7:15 P.M.

Ducky Waddles Emporium
414 N Coast Hwy 101
760-632-0488

To read, please email Michael at: Ruthlesshippies@gmail.com
The only rules of course: whatever you read, keep it funky and under five minutes

More Memory Lane/Posts I Should have Written Months Ago

Well now folks, it's been one hell of a year for us Ruthless Hippies. The Poetry Ruckus has grown fast at it's loving home Ducky Waddle's Emporium. We have found more of our kind all over the North County San Diego area and beyond.

As a preamble to the announcement of our next Ducky Waddle's Poetry Ruckus (march 24th) and newest night E-Street Cafe Freak for All (March 29th)...oh yeah and our booth at San Diego IndieFest (March 27th)...as a preamble to all of those official announcements, let's take a walk down memory lane:

RUCKUS #1





Shop owner Jerry Waddle had this to say about the evening:

The Poetry Ruckus premiered to an SRO crowd at The Duck, on a cold and windy late October night in Leucadia. Your host welcomed MC Michael who presented us with a full performance card of twenty poets reading and reciting their work along with snippets of Kerouac. Memorable forays were plentiful. Belinda Rachman's dissertation on penis envy and her treatise on the short comings of divorce lawyers were particularly striking. Wabidoux Rob Bell brought it early with a full chapbook of verse spanning decades and a reminiscence of Alan Watts. Bruce Stephens closed the set with a convincing argument for getting close to the real God while riding on a surf board. After a brief intermission the guest of honor for the evening, Edwin Decker entertained with recent poems, self deprecating and bold, extended and minimalist, a few memorable columns, some personal insights and readings from his book Barzilla. It was a memorable evening.

and Citybeat said this:



RUCKUS #2



It was another SRO crowd and the night was filled with high voltage. Wayne Acciacca got up and brought the the audience so close to the action with his vision of Burning Man Festival you could taste the desert sand. UCSD students had a large contingency with Alec Venida mashing up words and meanings, Jesus Castillo delivering impassioned verse and Jared Muscat reading a poem about running down stairs and then dropping the Freudian slip of the century. Ted Washington stopped by with some fresh new nhilistic stylings and Melinda Ferrer read about the beautiful boy from some sort of toy megaphone contraption. So many awesome poets that night, I wish I had the time and memory to name them all. But guest Belinda Rachman brought the ruckus in a big way, reading some memoir style musings on her delightfully colorful family life and teaching days. Finally, she capped a highly entertaining and varied set with some crowd pleasers on the topics of penis envy and divorce lawyers.



RUCKUS #3



On this dark and stormy evening, the gods spared us from those power outages that had become frequent in Leucadia over the past month. And despite the weather, a solid crew of 30 plus came out to enjoy a fine evening of poetry. Mauricio Flores brought politics straight to the floor in his short fiery poems. Young poets and new poets were a theme of the night, with Haley Jensen and Tori Anderson exorcising the demons of their diaries and a brave middle school aged boy reading sweet lines about his mother. Rai White, Tracy Yudichack and Chris Fantozzi were all newcomers to the Ruckus and they all rocked the house. John Wesick was the surprise treat of the evening, twisting our imaginations with his hilarious Drug-Ads written by Jungians. And the night was capped by a high energy, highly interactive and highly entertaining session with Ted Washingon. He brought the crowd to the edge of its seat with his shorts on war and his love for love making. These things keep getting better and better!