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Winter 2007 :::
Ho Ho Ho-llo Mad,
...and all that other happily sappily sugary stuff to you and yours this holiday season!
And since t'is the swirling season for giving and sharing, for loving and caring, we here at Mad Swirl couldn't think of a better way to spend these chilly holy-day's then by caring to share the latest mad-happenings at
MadSwirl.com with you and yours!
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On the 1st day of madness Mad Swirl gave to me...
...a brand new short story!Welcome to
Mad Swirl's Short Story library. We've all got a story to tell but some of us have an itch that we have to scratch and this is the place where the itchers go to scratch it. Here's a glimpse at our latest scratcher
Joseph Goosey...
Someday I Will Be On the Lamb and Sorely MissedI got out of my car. I sensed that it was about 82 degrees. Very unseasonable. I wished to just lay down on the sidewalk, perhaps an eagle would swoop down low and take me in as one of it's own. This was unlikely so I kept walking. I was out of the car now and on my feet so there really was not much else. I looked like an escapee from either some sort of work release program or a Northeastern writers conference because I was still wearing my cashmere sweater. Like I said, very unseasonable. In an attempt to minimize my visibility to passers-by I ducked into a coffee shop. The girl behind the counter looked as though she had the answers to some very important and philosophical questions...Click
here for more EVEN if you've been bad!
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On the 2nd day of madness Mad Swirl gave to me...
...some wild and ca-razy poetry!We tried to wrap up all these poetic samplings in bows and ribbons but we just couldn't get the tape to stick! So instead we offer this online collection of poetry from the maddest poets from the maddest corners of the world and have showcased them in the
Poetry Forum just for you. The Forum is always in flux, living and breathing, evolving and changing, swirling constantly...so please come and come often to view the latest submissions.
Be sure to check this poetry stocking for the interactive holiday collaboration between
Merlin the Magical One and Mad Swirl. Smoke 'em if you got 'em and be sure you turn up the volume and shoo away the kiddos before you
open "Twas the Night Before Tomorrow"..
If it's been a few months since you came 'round the Forum, it has got lots of new wonderfully mad words from some of the mad ones that color our world. Here's who you may or may not have read since our last meeting...
Roderick Richardson · Ra! Gabriel · Justin Hyde · Joseph Goosey · David Kowalczyk · Shellie Lobis · Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal · Johnny Olson · Glen Still · Moctezuma Johnson · W Alt Burns · Michael Lee Johnson · Sean Bowen · Nicole Lilly · Joseph VeronneauSanta says tear here to open the poetic presents
here...
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On the 3rd day of madness Mad Swirl gave to me...
...new work in the Mad Gal-ler-y!Welcome to the
Mad Gallery...this place where we hang by the chimney with care the many sides of art and mad cheer!
From the furthest reaches of this mad mad world we have gathered together and featured just a few of the most maddest painters, sculptors, photographers & illustrators that we could and swirled them all together here. Come by and visit the gallery and watch as it continues revolving round and round...
Currently, in the Mad Gallery Showcase we have hung the latest additions from
Andrew David King and Lia Mildwater.
Behold the artistic presense presents
here...
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Every 1st Wednesday Mad Swirl Gives to Me...
...Open Mic Festivities!As 2008 begins it's mad unraveling, Mad Swirl will continue to swirl collective creative chaos and madness and at Absinthe Lounge on 1st Wednesdays Open Mic.
Come go mad with host
Johnny O and the monthly Mad Swirling showing of beat-utifully mad poets, musicians, actors, singers and miscellaneous mad ones as we try to make 2008 one to remember!
Make your list and mark your calendars now...
01.02.08 · 02.06.08 · 03.05.08 · 04.02.08 · 05.07.08 · 06.04.08 · 07.02.08 · 08.06.08 · 09.03.08 · 10.01.08 · 11.05.08 · 12.03.08Interested in performing? If you are a poet, musician, actor, singer and/or performer and live in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area then come-n-preach-it!
Come one. Come all. Come to participate. Come to appreciate. Come to support your fellow mad ones.
And please, by all means, FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THE MAD WORD!
Absinthe Lounge · 1409 S Lamar St · Dallas, 75215
Santa says click
here for more information...
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Thanks to Santa for sharing his mad gifts with us, even though he knew all about our naughities and nicities in 2007!
We hope that 2008 brings more and more swirling madness from the mad ones that color our world.
See you in the web, on the page and up on the stage in 2008! And a Happy New Mad Swirling Year!
