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Subject:Habitation of the Blessed, by Catherynne M. Valente
Time:03:16 pm
(A.k.a. catvalente.)

I am so excited to read this book! I'd never heard of Prester John before listening to s00j's song "We Are Shangri-La," but I can't wait to digest Cat's treatment.

Behold:



What are you waiting for? Go buy it!
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Subject:HELL YEAH STROWLERCON
Time:11:49 am
Originally posted by shadesong at HELL YEAH STROWLERCON


StrowlerCon is October 8-10 in Woburn, MA, and we are going to rock like you would not believe.

Join us in the Grand Ballrooms of the Woburn Holiday Inn, just north of Boston, on Columbus Day weekend — October 8th-10th, 2010 — for three nights of entertainment (live music, circus arts, burlesque) and two days of workshops, panels and other activities, including a special 10/10/10 celebration, and a Maker Showcase featuring inventions and material creations as well as artwork by local creators and attendees.

Click there to buy tickets - $45 for the weekend, $25 per day for day passes (so if you're going for more than one day, it pays to just buy the $45 weekend pass). To reserve your hotel room, e-mail lodging@strowlers.com.

Can't go but want to support StrowlerCon and sponsor a strowler? We have supporting memberships, and they come with goodies.

Okay. You have the technical details. But 'song, you say, what did you say about ROCKING?

Here you GO.

Friday night: Concerts by SJ Tucker, Kellianna, and Gypsy Nomads, and the MONSTERS' BALL featuring SJ Tucker, Catherynne Valente, Lee Harrington, and other special guests!

Saturday:
* Day One of a two-day intensive writing workshop with Catherynne Valente ([info]yuki_onna)!
* Sacred Kink and Rope Sex workshops with the amazing Lee Harrington!
* Burlesque workshop!
* Guitar workshop with Ben Deschamps!
* Costuming workshop with [info]cluegirl, the Wandering Legion, and Lady Cyanide!
* Poi-spinning tutorial with K Wiley ([info]omnisti)!
* A reading by [info]yuki_onna!
* Panels about Making Your Own Way; Strowlers in Myth, Legend, and Folklore; disaster stories from street theater; and Meet the Performers sessions with Tricky Pixie and Sharon Knight!

Saturday night: Concerts by Tricky Pixie, Sharon Knight, Heather Dale, and Kellianna - and a naughty nightime show, Vagabond Vaudeville: Mountebanks, Shewers of Tricks, and Wanderers of Fortune, with tawdry circus performers, bodacious burlesque by Rogue Burlesque, a rope show by Lee Harrington, MCing by the infamous [info]lightcastle, and so much more! (This will probably be your only chance to see me tied up on stage, I am just saying. So if that is relevant to your interests, hey!)


Sunday:
* VIP brunch to celebrate 10:10:10!
* Day Two of the writing workshop!
* Maskmaking workshop with [info]ioianthe of The Uncommon Facade!
* Busking for Beginners with [info]cluegirl!
* Juggling for Beginners with [info]slipjig!
* Circus Arts for Beginners with Frank Mohr!
* Improv workshop with Frank Mohr!
* Vocal workshop with Sharon Knight!
* Origami workshop with Andrew Anselmo!
* Gentlemen's Duelling with the Wandering Legion!
* "Zen for Clowns" - Beginning Contact Juggling and Object Manipulation with Russ Sharek!
* A reading by me!
* An hour with [info]s00j and [info]yuki_onna!
* Accessory-making workshop with [info]cluegirl, Lady Cyanide, and potentially others!
* Panels on cross-media collaboration (with [info]s00j, [info]yuki_onna, [info]kythryne, and me) and Music as Magic; Meet the Performers sessions with [info]s00j, [info]yuki_onna, Heather Dale, and the Gypsy Nomads!

Sunday night: Concerts by Heather Dale, Sharon Knight, and the Gypsy Nomads, and the StrowlerCon Challenge - a no-holds-barred open mic where you might actually get to see me dance.

All of this AND a maker showcase and art show and vendors including Kythryne of Wyrding Studios, [info]rivenwanderer of purpleshiny, Dark Siren Designs, Parrish Relics, Red Fork Empire, Behind the Mask, and many more, with demos going all the time!

So buy those tickets (only $45 for all of this!), reserve that hotel room, and come have truly epic amounts of fun at StrowlerCon. This is going to rock. your. socks.


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Subject:signal boost
Time:10:13 am
shadesong will be Walking For Change this Sunday on behalf of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

Please consider sponsoring her, if you can.
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Subject:Happy Palimpsest Day!
Time:07:49 am
My friends, today is the release day of a book I have awaited eagerly: Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpsest, the story of a sexually-transmitted city, beyond the end of the world, accessible only through your dreams.

I can't even begin to express how excited I am by this book! If you've talked to me at all in the last couple months, you have almost certainly heard about it already, as I've had little else on my mind.

The marketing is about the cleverest I've ever seen, complete with three video trailers, a half-alternate reality game/half-interactive fiction convoluted web of clues leading to jig-saw puzzles and pre-released tracks from the soundtrack (by none other than the glorious, mythical S. J. Tucker (our own s00j)), and of course a nationwide release tour.

That last bit is possibly the most exciting, as it includes a train ride on which dedicated adventurers can join Valente and Tucker, from Chicago to New Orleans, with magic and music at both ends, and inevitably in the middle.



Have you ever heard of Transmetropolitan?
"Palimpsest just knocks me flat with her use of language: rich, cool, opiated language, language for stories of strange love and hallucinated cities of the mind." -- Warren Ellis

How about the Griffin & Sabine trilogy?
"It's never enough to merely read a book like the Palimpsest, it has to be imbibed, and its sensuality fully savoured." -- Nick Bantock

What are you waiting for? GO! Order Palimpsest now! The power of literature compels you!
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Subject:YOU CAN'T STOP US ALL.
Time:11:13 am
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Subject:This journal is flocked.
Time:01:04 pm
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