My new book, Cooling a Fevered Planet is now available. An information packed picture book for grownups, it is the funniest book you will ever read that takes the climate crisis seriously. It is a graphic version of Solving the Climate Crisis, which was released in March.

In case you want to read my latest book review... [link]

"Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" Makes Its Television Debut on Tuesday, October 9, 9-10 PM on The CW The three-part online musical from Joss Whedon made its web premiere in 2008.

From the Futoncritic

erinaceous's company, Wordnik, is hiring for a ton of tech-related positions! [link]

LAistas - the daughter of my co-worker (One of the ones I like!) has a play opening (she directs) this week - "the LA premiere of Amy Freed’s Kesselring Award-winning 1995 play The Psychic Life of Savages, opening at Los Angeles Theatre Center on Tuesday".

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Looks interesting, but it's not running on weekends (apparently the theatre is cheaper weeknights and some of their fundraising fell through [see article] so weeknights only), so I'm unlikely to catch it.

Anyway, take a look if so inclined!

Hey, gang, I will be vacationing in Washington DC from Aug 14-Aug 16. Anyone interested in meeting up, profile addy is good, or I'll be checking Natter.

Hi folks. Operation Recovery has a tumblr up with some really great art by veterans. [link]

Operation Recovery is a project of Iraqi Vets Against the War trying to get care the many many vets who are still denied care due either failure to diagnose PTSD, or who were raped or sexually abused and who ended up being disciplined while their rapist or abuser walked free. It is a good cause, and really good art. (I played a very small part in getting the portfolio into Tumblr form.) Well worth taking a look at.

I love my town:

Call for Entries: The BIG BAD

Submission Deadline: August 25, 2012

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jenn-harrington/call-for-entries-the-big-bad/10150607846729210

The Nave Gallery

October 6–28, 2012

Curated by Jenn Harrington

The most wicked adversaries of our imagination return again and again—Buffy the Vampire Slayer's The Master, Mayor Richard Wilkins III, Glory, The First; Dr. Who's the Daleks, the Cybermen, Bad Wolf; Harry Potter's He Who Must Not Be Named; and Battlestar Galactica's "all this has happened before, and all this will happen again." Never mind the classic agents of nightmares—the Devil, the Grim Reaper, the Undead, and untold more. And while our mayor may not ascend into an actual enormous snake, and our lovers do not usually turn to soulless vampires bent on destroying the world via demon-resurrection, and our best friend's eyes don't normally flick to black due to dark magic, there is some authenticity in those images.

In a land not so far away, where everything seems quite big and terribly bad, The Nave Gallery asks artists to submit work that mirrors their vision of The BIG BAD. Whether it be the repo man, banks, politicians, the ex, the evil step-parent, the monster in the closet, the tick-tock of a bad heart—we are looking for true representations of the foes that wreck our homes, our health, our families, our childhoods. The bump in the dark of night, the shadow lurking in the corner of your eye, those things that haunt us even if we've buried it four times over, The BIG BAD aspires to show that the real-world adversaries threatening our ruin are close companions to the phantoms locked in our imaginations.

Visual artists working in all 2-D and 3-D media (including video and installation) are invited to submit work.

Applicants must submit:

• Up to four (4) images of work relating to this theme submitted as jpeg files on a CD-Rom (300 dpi). An image list including title, dimension, media, and date for each work submitted. For digital submissions, please label each file (artistname)(title).jpg. All disks must be labeled with the artist’s name, title, dimension and medium

• One paragraph describing your interpretation of how your piece represents the theme of this show

• A current artist’s CV

• $15 entry fee payable to The Nave Gallery (NOT refundable)

• SASE with adequate postage for return of materials

Mail entries to: The Nave Gallery (Attn: Jenn Harrington), 155 Powderhouse Blvd., Somerville, MA 02144

Calendar

August 25, 2012 Entries Due

September 1, 2012 Notification of Acceptance

September 26, 2012 Delivery of artwork

October 6–28, 2012 Exhibition will be on display

October 6, 2012 Opening Reception

November 3, 2012 Return of Artwork

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