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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | | 7:39 pm |
Oh the puns
Me: "I'm airing my toes." Sue: "To stink is footy, to air divine." Me: "I stink I saw a footy tat!" | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 5:23 pm |
Garage Sale at the G Spot!
Hey folks! We're having an extended family garage and art sale up here at the G-spot this weekend. Some music related gear, a REALLY well done anvil style case with wheels - and note below SERIOUS Star TRek memoribilia. Come on up and see us! Lots of great stuff! Furniture including 2 matching love seats, teak student desk, etc. Electronics. Art and collectibles. Office organizers and things like staplers, tape dispensers, etc. TONS Star Trek memorabilia and collectibles! Saturday and Sunday, July 11 & 12, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ONLY. Please don't arrive early! 321 Avenue G, Snohomish. WA, close to downtown and Snohomish High School. | | Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | | 2:51 pm |
| | Monday, May 11th, 2009 | | 10:10 pm |
So much thanks
To every one who helped on Saturday night, we thank you from the core of our exhausted little beings! Specifically: Woosi, Mike, (Mike's friend whose name is escaping me, arg!) Chris, Julia, Helen, Brian, Christine, DAVID, Jim, Susan, Ian, the sweet folks at Soulfood, the musicians I get to play with and I know I'm forgetting too many people. It was a lovely night. We had two separate parties come up from CALIFORNIA to see the show. Amazing... ( additional important BPO announcements behind this thoughtful cut ) | | Friday, May 8th, 2009 | | 2:20 pm |
| | Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | | 12:55 am |
Almost sold out at Soulfood
Brown Paper is sold out, I'm sold out and Soulfood is not very many tickets away from being sold out for the May 9th show. If you want to come to the show, get thee to Soulfood. I want to stress to folks that half the house is standing room. We figure that many, maybe most, will want to dance anyway. I'm psyched. We have an all day rehearsal tomorrow - and then Saturday the show! We'll have tickets for the October 17th show available at radically discounted prices too. I'm trying to keep the idea going that if you come to the all the shows you'll save money - enough to bring friends. I was hoping to finish one more song, but instead I made unfinished progress on three. That's the way it seems to work for me. The lines come slow these days, but there is much less cringing going on. In the past I might have "settled" for something that was almost there but not. These days, I'll chew on a word. The wonderful J, W and L and Sue painted skeleton cookies to give away. They are delightful and so are the cookies. Not vegan though - egg in the icing. Sorry. | | Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | | 10:03 pm |
On the track to selling out May 9th
Hey folks! Those of you who are coming to the May 9th Bone Poets Orchestra debut at Soulfood Books in Redmond should get your tickets if you haven't already. While I really want to sell out, I don't want to disappoint people who might make the drive. It's that close. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/57333You can also get advance tickets at Soulfood Books The music is coming along - we mixed Belladonna Smiles today. We also have really cool bumper stickers. Now of I can just remember the words. I put the mix of "Spin" up in a public place: http://www.bonepoets.com/listen.htmlIt's going to be a fun night! OH! Also Mark your calendars for October 17th at Shorecrest Center on Oct 17th. If we're lucky the concert will be the cd release show. I hope to have deeply diacounted tickets at the Soulfood show. Also again: Faerieworlds http://www.faerieworlds.com/ is extending their discount til May Day. Might be the last Gaia Consort show ever. We love Faerieworlds! | | Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | | 7:49 pm |
It bothers me...
that I want a kindle. The last thing I want to see in the world is the general acceptance of "licensing" books. As a copyright holder, and one who has studied and continues to study it pretty extensively, I've come to believe that we've let copyright and other forms of intellectual "property" go too far. The Kindle may do for books what the music industry couldn't pull off with recordings. I'll have to look a little closer, but I bet you can't "loan" a book file, even if you delete from your device. And the idea that Amazon can turn off your library, if for instance, you don't keep up with some variety of ongoing fee, that is just wrong. Apparently the thing phones home to the Amazon store ALOT. But oh, boy what a cool bit of tech. I don't believe it will ever replace the tactile joy that is a part of reading a paper book, and it's hard to imagine anything replacing some of the cofee table books we have, nor the big atlases. But, boy what a cool bit of tech. I used to have a saying that the only worth moving was books and records. While I miss the old sit down and listen to four sides of an lp whilst reading the lyrics and scouring the cover art, that's not the way we listen to music anymore. I have 1,000 records on my hard drive and playlists have become the way of listening. I wonder how the kindle will affect our reading habits in another 10 years. What a cool bit of tech. | | Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 | | 5:10 pm |
DP equivalency passes in both WA houses! Gov. to sign.
From Equal Rights Washington: "Victory is at hand! The 2009 Domestic Partnership Expansion Bill just passed out of the House and is now on it's way to the Governor's desk. When signed into law (the Governor is supportive), this Bill will add all the rights and responsibilities of civil marriage under Washington State law to Domestic Partnerships." This is about as good as we're likely to get - and was something I advocated for. If you can't use the word marriage, pass a global law that says "Anywhere in the law the word "marriage" is used, the words "domestic partnership" shall be held equivalent. In a few years people will stop fretting about marriage and we can just call all "marriages" "domestic partnerships" :-) Once the governor signs (she supports the bill) the fight moves on to the inevitable inatitive, which is already running fear mongering and fact-short ads. But raise a glass for the moment - every great once in awhile, equality takes a small shuffle forward. | | Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | | 11:06 am |
| | Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 | | 10:54 am |
lolcats TS Eliot
Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rimrunnerlolcats Wastelandhttp://www.corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/"april hates u, makes lilacs, u no can has. (1) april in ur memoriez, making ur desire. spring rain in ur dull rootzes." and can has hyacinths, no can has tongue. Isolde u down teh rivers. "Sosotris Cat has smartz, (43) can see bukkit, dead sailorz in bukkit, hooked on fonicians. belladonna in ur rocks, situating ur situations. man has three staves, turning wheelz, INVISIBLE CARD. Sosotris Cat no can has hanged man: avoid bukkit or u drownz." and "teh metaphorz are thick and fast, (395) no can has literal translationz. ganga cat is watching ur fourth wall. waiting for rainz. cloudz in teh sky ar far ways. THUNDERS! datta means give! in a moment u lives, transitory, no can has recording. dayadham means be compassionate! u thinks bout prisoner, thnks ur in prison, damyata means have self-control! u r boat on calm seas, at least on good day" | | Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | | 5:44 pm |
We said this would happen and it did.
I've now spent 5 times the amount of time looking for the notation that it took me to write it down. Now that I've re-notated, Murphy's inverse of replacement comes into play as I type this post - it is immediately in front of me, on my desk, under 1 sheet of paper. | | Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | | 7:51 pm |
St Patrick's Day
I note that according to Time Magazine, March 17th marks the date of St Patrick's death. Which throws an entirely different light on the day for me, when thinking about the man credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. Och aye! | | Monday, March 9th, 2009 | | 1:12 pm |
Call your WA state senators
The right-wing is using the same tactic and lies that they did on prop 8 (your kids will have to be taught that gay sex is cool) to try to defeat the domestic partnership expansion bill in WA state. They're targeting Steve Hobbs in Snoho and he's getting a lot of calls against it. If you're in Snohomish county, call his office at (360) 786-7686 The legislative aid says they've been getting a LOT of calls against. Hobbs currently supports it, so we need to give them numbers in support. | | Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | | 3:22 pm |
Good start!
We had a really good time last night, with a real house full of people, and raised enough money to start the recording! I'm psyched! I was, however QUITE the zombie, forgetting lots of words. We have a forgiving audience, but I really need to get the forgetting holes down to a dull roar. Dave and Betsy are wonderful hosts - and changed the whole house around to make it work. I am grateful down to my bones for their efforts. Pics will soon follow. Thanks to everyone who came or wanted to come! People seem to really like the new stuff. Life is good! | | Friday, February 6th, 2009 | | 7:20 pm |
| | Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | | 9:40 pm |
Vote #5 in The Stranger's Saddlebck Definition Contest!
Some of you may know that sex columinist Dan Savage and his readers have gotten the word "santorum" to be defined by an increasing and large number of people as "the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes a byproduct of anal sex" in honor of homophobe and defeated right wing ex-Senator Rick Santorum, who made similar comparisions with gay people with pedophiles and pig fuckers. ( Read more... ) | | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 11:57 am |
Please make me eat crow
After some of the things I've seen Obama do, I am wary of getting my "hopes" up. He's certainly inspiring - and the thing that brings tears to my eyes, is during his lunhcoen speech, Obama thanks the wait staff. When in the last 50 years have ANY of these motherfuckers ever even NOTICED the wait staff, publicly? ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 | | 10:36 pm |
Bone Poets sneek preview February 21st
Well, with fours ongs pretty much written, we're going to start the process. I'm still working on the donation levels, but I'm thinking they'll be along some kind of alchemical line. I need to read a little more about it and then I'm also thinking about matter and light - I have this idea in my head that if matter vibrates fast enough it becomes light. I need to check in with my physicist friends... Regardless, the madness starts on February 21st in Redmond. Details will follow. This is inside the propcess, sneek preview stuff. I hope to debut the band on either April 25th or May 9th and then a really big show October 10th. You can pencil the last two in... I have calls in at venues... | | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 | | 10:35 am |
Good news / bad news
Well the good news is that Paul Weyrich, one of three founders of the moral majority as well as the Heritage Foundation and a heavy hitter in the Christian Coalition is dead dead dead. ( Read more... ) |
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