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About Me

If you'd like to listen to Mike's poetry and Abe's music as Split Pea/ce go to www.myspace.com/splitpeace.Mike is a writer, poet, journalist, photographer, student of politics and life; excutive editor of The Cleveland Reader, a journal of literature, print graphics, photography and the arts. In January 2008, Mike and Abe Olvido, a painter and musician, started Split Pea/ce in Cleveland and are artists of spoken word and music. Mike writes the songs and does the vocal while Abe plays acoustic and electric guitar, drum and typewriter.Split Pea/ce is back recording more songs. Check out Mike's writings and pictures at www.hecale.com and at www.outsiderwriters.org. (search marcellino). Mike is a U. S. Army veteran, II Field Force, Vietnam where he served as a combat correspondent. In the summer and fall of 2007 Split Pea/ce was featured at Macs Backs book store on Coventry in Cleveland Heights, Visible Voice Books in Tremont and the Global Fest at Zen Sculptural Gardens in the Waterloo Arts District and sometimes plays open mics at The Barking Spider on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Mike read at Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City in November 2007 and says he'll do it again sometime. The Cleveland Reader was reborn in the summer of 2007, after publishing from 1988-98. The journal will publish an annual printed edition each summer.

My Interests

being, outside, beaches, mountains, deserts; thinking, researching, investigating, loving, reading, writing, surfing, camping, swimming, listening to music, dancing and shooting pictures; sometimes talking, politics and life; great movies, kicking around, traveling all over

I'd like to meet:

the girl nextdoor, James Dean, Buddy Holly and Bruce Springsteen

Music:

Neil Young, The Band, Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Buddy Holly, Iris Dement, Allison Kraus, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys, Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Carolyn Hester, Bruce Cockburn, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springstein, Roy Orbison, Arlo Guthrie, Donovan, The Eagles, Janis Joplin, Ricky Nelson, Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, The Clash, Bruce Springsteen

Movies:

Viva Zapata, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Wild Bunch, The Searchers, Dr. Strangelove, High Noon, Red River, The Thing, Body Snachers, War of the Worlds, Wizard of Oz, Little Big Horn, Gettysburg, Mutiny on the Bounty, any James Dean

Television:

House, West Wing, NYPD Blue (early editions)

Books:

Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), Lord Jim (Conrad), Atlas Shrugged (Rand) Fire in the Lake (Fitzgerald), Moby Dick (Melville, The Source (Mitchner), 1984 (Orwell), Neal Cassidy (Kerouac), 1984 (Orwell), E E Cummings, Robert Frost, Oliver Wendell Holmes, edgar Allen Poe, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Edna St. Vince Millay, Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Heroes:

My dad, my mom, my kids, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, soldiers and war veterans, Mohamed Ali, Marlan Brando, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Che Guevara, Robert Kennedy, Robert E. Lee, Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Bourke White, Marlan Brando, and Emiliano Zapata

My Blog

Along the borderline

Along the borderline by Mike Marcellino Along the borderline crack, crack, bullets whiz by. Crack, crack, bullets whiz by, along the borderline. Shirtless soldiers fill bags, sand moun...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Fri, 23 May 2008 02:19:00 PST

Three for a quarter

Three poems for a quarter by Mike Marcellino Brown skin cowgirl Brown skin cowgirl soft cream cloth pajama suit painted beauty picking up sticks in a big wicker basket dirt earth color...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:46:00 PST

joan baez

joan baez by mike marcellino i knew joan baez, joan baez. i knew she would pick this one, her little sister. joan baez, i knew she would pick this one. she had a choice - barbwire or...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Thu, 01 May 2008 03:54:00 PST

been down ta las cruces

been down ta las cruces by Mike Marcellino been down ta las cruces been down ta las cruces one time. Wine sundown, color slide picture mists rising from this dusty, brown tumbleweed town...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:09:00 PST

The same pajamas

The same pajamas by Mike Marcellino God is not dead prove it, the bulletin board read, i'll set you free, no more soldiers inside walls, narrow endless halls. He wore the same pajamas, n...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:47:00 PST

Oh Tokyo

Oh Tokyo by Mike Marcellino Opposition politician, psychiatrist exiled in America of Taiwanese left over from the cream of the crop twenty eight thousand murdered by the white terror of Chi...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:19:00 PST

Cherokee ice cream

Cherokee ice cream girl by Mike Marcellino Cherokee girl ice cream girl gone Irish blonde whirl, gold Custer yellow hair, fair red skin pocked. Wish i coould remember your name in a forgot...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:31:00 PST

Taipei subway

Taipei Subway by Mike Marcellino Taipei Subway Another day, Night Underground White bright lights Two guys and Guitars Singing Where? Taipei Subway. Two guys and Guitar Singing Where? Taipei ...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:44:00 PST

TET

TET by Mike Marcellino The bubble burstthroughpatchypuffsof blue whiteblue.Belowsoldiers,lookovertheir shoulders,"33" rangers, Vietnameselike the beerand a few boys from Latrobe,Pennsylvania fo...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:54:00 PST

Iraq War: the Lessons of Lawrence of Arabia

Iraq War: the Lessons of Lawrence of Arabia a column by Mike Marcellino Suddenly polls show that half of us believe America is succeeding in the Iraq War. ...
Posted by Notebookwriter on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST