Victor may well be banking on my being a tremendous attention whore, in which case, go buy those lotto tickets, babe, but I finally made into November3rd. Here: [link] The credit for everything else goes to the brilliant Victor and his far-flung crew, though. My first fiction publication. I'm very proud.

"The November 3rd Club" an online journal of political writing Summer 2006 Edition

Writing, art and conversation by MARCUS BALES, RICHARD BEBAN, TONY BROWN, ELENA KARINA BYRNE, DANIEL COSHNEAR, CAMILLE DE TOLEDO, BARBARA DEMARCO-BARRETT, THERESA CECILIA GARCIA, DEBORAH GRABIEN, DANIELLE GRILLI, D.-ALLEN GUTHRIE, STEVE HALLE, GARY HICKS, BOB HOEPPNER, ERIKA JAHNEKE, ROZ KAVENEY, BILL KROHN, GARY LEMONS, JACK MCGUANE, KELLY MORELLO, ANDRE RECTOR, ELIZABETH ROSS, CHRIS MOONEY-SINGH, STEPHEN B. SMITH, MARC SOLOMON, TRUTH THOMAS, MARY WEEMS, LENORE WEISS, PHIL WEST, MAGGIE WESTLAND, TONY WILLIAMS and SHOLEH WOLPE.

Edited by:

Victor D. Infante (editor in chief) Carlye Archibeque & Richard Modiano (nonfiction) Lenore Weiss & Steve Berman (fiction) Ray McNiece & Richard Beban (poetry) Sam Hamill (contributing editor)

Also, if you haven't already, please join our mailing list.

(Yes, I know Erika mentioned this already, but I thought I'd expand. :)

New YAP...new site

Visit the new YAP #43 at its new home:

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"A Sling and a Miss"

LAista corset-lovers: Farthingales, which is the mail-order supply house for corset supplies, is opening a storefront in Los Angeles. Details:

Farthingales is opening a US location to better serve our many American customers. Our new location is a retail store on Pico Blvd in Santa Monica, California. Farthingales L.A. Inc will be a bit different from our Canadian operation but we plan to offer the same great quality in product and service. The new location will offer not only corset making supplies but ready made historic corsets and ready made fashion corsets as well as classes.

We'll have day and evening classes for everything from making your own corset to hand embroidery for costume and corset embelishment.

We'll also offer on-line mail order to make shipping faster and more cost effective to all American addresses.

Retail store opens July 20th at 3306 Pico Blvd. just west of the Santa Monica Freeway. There's plenty of free parking around the back! Look for the black and white stripe awning. Note: The shop will be CLOSED August 4th, 5th,6th and 7th as all employees will be involved in Costume College.

Web ordering should be available by August 4th. VISIT our Farthingales L.A. web site regularly to keep up to date with our progress. [link]

A new lesson has been posted at Gothic Charm School:

An Assortment of Questions About Religion, Gossip, and Vampires.

Hi guys! I just put up some pictures from my trip to California in May. Just after the F2F! Enjoy.

Calling all DCistas! smonster and I will be in town this weekend, attending the Folklife Festival, and hanging out with meara. If anyone's going to be in town this weekend and wants to get together, feel free to email any of the three of us at our profile addys, or come into the F2F thread, where plans might maybe be made. We're meeting for brunch at 10:30 AM on Sunday at

Left Bank Bistro Lounge
2424 18th St NW, Washington, DC
(202) 464-2100

if anyone wants to join, and we'll be at Folklife seeing Corb Lund at 2 PM on Sunday and 4PM on Monday. Hope to see you!

The BF is editing a car site for About.com. Please stop by if you have a chance and leave a comment. His writing is good and every hit will impress his employers. [link]

If any of you have a 56K modem lying around that I could have for free or cheap please drop me a note.

Thanks

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the Bulwer-Lytton essays