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

If anyone has been interested in doing Kiva loans but hasn't tried it yet, ping me at my profile address for an invite. For every new person I can get to sign up to the website I get a free $25 to lend for free.

I don't know if anyone here reads any of Denton's range of sites, but if you agree that the recent changes broke more than they enhanced, one of the users has written an extension for Chrome and Firefox that restores your post reading experience pretty much back to the old view. And, while I'm here, I might as well share a snippet of javascript that sets your cookie to default your front page view to "blog"--chronological entries.

I have some mystery novels that I would like to get rid of. I am happy to send them to a buffista or take recommendations for donations. If you have recs for donations, can you put them in Natter. If you want them, poke me at my profile addy.

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pw: buffy12

There may be more (when I open more boxes) , but this is what I have right now.

UPDATE: all are spoken for. thanks!

I have a horror work in progress, "Deadlands". The first chapter is done. If you want to Beta, contact me. My profile addy is good. Opening paragraph:

Jill pedaled down a Seattle road completely free of cars, expertly maneuvering her bicycle around rag-clad beggars so thin their bones were visible. Spectral carriages flashed above her. Clouds showed faintly through the ornate trimmings and fire-breathing horses as they pulled their loads to destinations across town or across the world. Carthaginians riding war elephants and Germans riding Panzers streaked overhead, enslaved dead traveling to carry out gruesome missions. Jill paid no attention to the sky, or to the blue lights flickering in every window at 7:30 in the morning. All houses were haunted now.

DH is selling his road bike. If anyone is interested.

[link]

I'm interviewed about my books "Cooling a Fevered Planet" and "Solving the Climate Crisis" on the radio program "Against the Grain" by Sasha Lilley on Wed Sept 12 Tuesday September 18 2012 at noon Pacific Time on KPFA. If you are in the Berkeley area you can tune in on 94.1 and 89.3 FM. You can stream live on the web at KPFA.org. By late afternoon Pacific Time you will be able download podcasts at [link] . (Date Changed due to technical difficulties.)

If you want to hear my interview on "Against the Grain" on climate change, you can hear it at: [link]

Of interest to most of us, Aisha Tyler's podcast interview with Nathan Fillion.

Skip the first seven minutes where she tries to monetize her website, and then they discuss: How he grew up in Canada (Edmonton), His experience on Soap Operas (One Life to Live), Working with Ryan Reynolds, How to be a starving actor in LA and pay for your rent by juggling credit card debt, Firefly, Joss, How much they are both in love with Alan Tudyk, comic books (in great supernerd detail)...