Events are always popping up in the middle of the week. How’s a person

supposed to get any work done? Still, as they say in Mongolia, “The dog

that runs here and there will find a bone.” Damn straight.

LIVE AND DANGEROUS POETRY:

The Entelechy literary magazine is sponsoring a reading

tonight at the Printer’s Mark Bookshop. Featured readers this week

are local writer Randall Brown (yours truly), Entelechy

publisher Steven Horn and Open Mic King Leroy Smith. A

half-hour open mic begins at 7:30 and the featured readers begin at 8 p.m.

The reading is free.

It should be noted that Smith is organizing a new cyberspace version of

Leroy’s Open Mic, which will take place over the Internet. Smith’s World

Wide Web home page has details of this venture. It can be found at

http://cobweb.utcc.utk.edu/~leroy.

OTHER CLUBS, OTHER VOICES:

Disappear Fear will perform their “contemporary, politically-conscious

folk rock” at 9 p.m. tonight at Flamingo’s. Opening the show will be

Knoxville singer/songwriter Michele Newton, former lead singer of

Rapscallion Battery. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the door.

THOR’S DAY ROCK:

The Mercury Theatre hosts a slew (yes, an entire slew) of good

ol’ gritty rock’n’roll bands at 10 p.m tonight . Headlining the bill is

Shirk Circus, with Evan’s Dilemma, Tuffskins and a “to

be announced” fourth band filling out the evening.

THOR’S DAY DANCE:

The Closet dance night takes place tonight at Lord Lindsey, of

course. Offering progressive, deep house and old disco, the Closet opens

from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Also, it might be important to keep in mind, “In rainwater, there is no

salt; in a proverb, no untruth.”