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.

Hey, buffistas, this year I am the volunteer coordinator for Ride for the Feast--a two day, 140 mile bike ride benefiting Moveable Feast of Maryland.

Moveable Feast is an incredible organization based in Baltimore. They provide hot meals, groceries, and nutritional counseling to homebound HIV/AIDS and breast cancer patients and their families. Moveable Feast also helps provide shuttle service to the homeless population of Baltimore, as well as providing job training and marketable skills to people who need it. This year we need people to support the Ride more than ever before because Moveable Feast lost a substantial part of their funding due to cuts in the Ryan White Care Act.

I am helping to raise funds as part of Team Atomic. You can visit our team website here and make a secure, tax-deductible donation to the team as a whole or here to make a donation to me individually. Either way, the money goes to the same place, and you're supporting a great cause.

And, if you’re in the area and are interested in volunteering for the Ride or coming to any of our many Team fundraising events in the next couple of months, email me at my profile address.

Thank you!!

There's a new lesson up at Gothic Charm School: Raising Babybats; or On Being a Gothy Parent.

Kat had an emergency c section last night.

It was scary, but mama and babies (Noah and Grace) are doing fine.

Babies are breathing on their own.

They'll be in the hospital til July, because they still have a lot of cooking to do, but Kat will be out in 3 or 4 days.

She can't have visitors, yet, but said to of course post and let everyone know she's fine, and the doctors and nurses all sound very positive. She gave birth late last night, and the kids are going strong this morning.

ETA: They are a pound and a half each.