It's official! I'm visiting CA (Bay Area and central coast) in April. Wanna visit? See details in F2F, or contact me. Profile addy is good.

Whoot! I can't wait!!

Yo! Artistically-knowledgable Buffistas!?!?

Way back when we used to have avatars, I seem to recall someone fleetingly (perhaps Amych? Or...well, someone) sporting a lovely image that was a Whistler painting. A lady in a black dress, iirc.

I'm trying to find this specific Whistler painting at the minute, and have been for hours, and Google is giving me No. Love. At. All.

I believe this is a portrait in one of the American museums or galleries, rather than one over here, but beyond that I'm a bit stymied.

....anyone?

...Bueller?

Dear Buffistas: As some of you may know,I'm on the editorial board of Breath & Shadow, an online literature journal by people with disabilities. The journal is now holding a write-a-thon invitational and I, being on the editorial staff, am one of the writers selected. As its name suggests, the write-a-thon is like a walk-a-thon with prose. I write a story of up to 500 words, and to get it published, I need five people to sponsor me, at say 2 cents a word, to raise money for the magazine that helped give me my start. Of course, any amount is welcome. Breath and Shadow is a non-profit magazine; subscriptions are free. It's the only magazine of its kind both written and edited by people with disabilities, and I can tell you it makes a difference having one of our people looking at my work.
If you are interested in sponsoring me let me know at my profile address. Pledges will be collected when the a-thon issue appears in the fall. Thank you,
Erika

DCistas, my DH and I will be having an open-house-warming on April 1st. I've sent the info to the listserv, but if you need better directions or more information, my profile addy is good.

What’s in the new issue of The November 3rd Club?

“24” as propaganda for state torture? The healthcare crisis? Absolutism 5000?

All this, and poetry, prose, art and conversation by:

MATT CORNELL, AMÉLIE FRANK, D.E. FREDD, GARY HICKS, MATTHEW HOTHAM, JIMMY JAZZ, BUCKY JONES, JASON JONKER, SUZI KAPLAN-OLMSTED, JOYCE LA MERS, MARIE LECRIVAIN, MARC OLMSTED, CHAD PARENTEAU, ALVERAZ RICARDEZ, ELIZABETH ROSS, ERIC SEE, MARC SOLOMON, CARL STILWELL, ROHITH SUNDARARAMAN, G. MURRAY THOMAS, LAURA VOOKLES, RUDY WALTZ, JAMES R. WHITLEY, DANIEL WILCOX and TONY WILLIAMS.

As always, brought to you by your hard-working editorial staff: VICTOR D. INFANTE (editor in chief); RAY MCNIECE & RICHARD BEBAN (poetry); RICHARD MODIANO & CARLYE ARCHIBEQUE (nonfiction); LENORE WEISS (FICTION) and SAM HAMILL (contributing editor).

Enjoy!

Seattlistas! I'm giving a presentation to the Green Builders Guild, on Solutions to climate chaos for Green builders, homeowners, and citizens.

Wed. Mar 28. 7:00 P.M.
Phinney Neighborhood Association
6532 Phinney Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98103

A good friend has just published his first book about something that might interest a bunch of you smartyheaded buffistas:

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From the book description on Amazon (because I am not nearly smart enough myself to paraphrase):

"Examining print and post-print ways of reading medieval literature and art, he derives alternative models of understanding from the realm of digital media, considering pre-print expression through a range of post-print ideas and producing new and vital understandings of visionary Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon maps of the world, 11th-century Benedictine devotional writings, medieval mathematical systems, stone sculpture of Viking settlers, and the famous Bayeux Tapestry."

(And yet his big shot at showing up on the BBC was in his role of rollerderby referee when BBC was filming a bout here last month. hah!)

If people could send good meeting and review ~ ma my way at around 4PM PST, that would be very very helpful.