Your Name: Edward Michael Swinkey
Your Nickname(s): Swinkey, Swink, Swinkles, Slinky, Twinkee, Mike, Mikey…
Born (place and year): Monroe MI. June 11, 1981
Day Job: Pizza Hut manager/student at University of Toledo
Formative Childhood Experience: Catholic Elementary School. It’ll mess a kid up. Watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 on a Friday morning when I was home sick with chicken pox in 5th grade. It was “First Rocketship on Venus”. I was hooked forevermore on that show.
Your Interests include: comicbooks, science fiction, politics, women, booze, more women, handguns, martial arts (specifically aikido), world domination, and knitting (ok, not knitting)
Last Book Read: christ, there are so many…Mob Star: the Life of John Gotti, Quest of the DNA Cowboys, Children of Dune, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72–uh my reading list is as tall as my knee…
Ambition: pay bills, write more, lose some weight, be able to speak at least 3 languages other than English with fluency
Recent Accomplishment: Finally downloading the season 5 premiere of The Sopranos; getting out of bed/ showering/ putting clothes on
Prized Possession(s): my dogs, my library of books, my complete season 4 of The Sopranos I downloaded two years ago…
When you started Slamming: November 26th, 2000 at Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, OH
One-sentence description of your Slam style: A roaring chainsaw of sarcasm.
Influences (poetic and otherwise): my father, my mother, basically my whole extended family, my friends Jack, Matt, and the Jasons (Tershack and Arboghast), Phil Levine, Seamus Heaney, Bill Hicks, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mel Brooks movies, Bell’s Beer, Bombay Gin, British Comedy, various poets whom I have met in my travels
Favorite Slam Poet (s): The Suicide Kings, Ernie Cline, Taylor Mali, Jim Dwyer, Matt Ernst, Eric Darby, Greg Bliss, Dawn Saylor, the list goes on…
Favorite TV show: right now, Mythbusters on The Discovery Channel, although, for all time it’s a tie between MST 3K and Red Dwarf
Favorite book: Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
Website: www.livejournal.com/users/auralfiend