Friends saw the show from this tour in Holland and it was so good they flew to France to watch another show.

We will be outside on the lawn - pray for non-rain, bring a blanky and booze and join us!

For everyone who is local, but not already busy zombie-walking... my son wanted me to be sure and announce the following mini-play haunted house, which is quickly becoming a tradition in Takoma Park. ( Takoma Park ) 

Howdy. I know, I know, I never post... but hey, I do when I need a favor! My sister is trying to come for Pennsic this year. If anyone is cleaning out old garb, I would love to have a bit extra for her to use (yes, we will be making bog dress stand-bys). She is shorter than I am (5'2" or 3" I guess), less hippy, more buxom - a petite medium. She sunburns, so I want to cover her up, but overheats and chills easily, so I need to figure out layers, and all of the rather underwhelming mosquito population will find her. Why, yes, she IS the frail flower of femininity that I am not. So I guess she will need footwear. For her tiny, size 5 feet - anyone have children's period looking shoes or sandles left over from when your child was 10 or so? ;-D

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/business/15drug.ready.html?em&ex=1174104000&en=ab13b63e52465b97&ei=5087%0A

Even after that expensive ad campaign.

That we will be teaching to the Iraqis http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/world/middleeast/18justice.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

Refreshingly free of pop psych jargon. http://www.hermetic.com/bey/evil_eye.html

Ahhh, renews my basic cynicism
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2273111&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

My sis still has no flight from Germany. I was supposed to pick her up in Dover, yes that's Delaware, today. Trying to get her into Birmingham (yup, Alabama) Saturday. This Space_A might not be such a good deal after all...

Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel series (http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/), will be the guest of honor this year at Darkover. Darkover is a small sci fi/fantasy con geared towards women authors and offers opportunities to meet, speak to, and learn with well-known, published authors (along with the usual partying-with-other-weirdos). It is always the Friday, Saturday, Sunday after Thanksgiving and is held just north of Baltimore. Entrance and hotel fees are reasonable. http://www.darkovercon.com/

Wednesday at Wolftrap - I only like the lawn seats - anyone want to go?

Well, I WAS due for a vacation, but my sister has been trying for a military space available flight from Germany for this week without success. So our Florida trip moves two weeks, right over top of a trip to Rehoboth and Pennsic setup weekend. *sigh*

Click IMAGES below the brief story. http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4895053/detail.html Hasn't made Snopes yet.

Three days of beer. http://www.olddominion.com/pg/BeerFest

A theory to explain everything. http://www.thefinaltheory.com/pages/7/index.htm. Anyone read it yet?

Who can't afford to go to fairer climes - http://wickedfaire.com/. Click over to Vendors and Pleasures to see what is happening. Not too far - New Jersey, this coming weekend.

Some assorted links as brain fodder for anyone doing a just-surfing day...
Jewish Gypsies: http://www.imninalu.net/Roma.htm which does a pretty good job of dismantling the out-of-India linguistic theory. I guess we'll see some interesting results as the Genographic Project https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html keeps publishing results. Still won't be geographically definitive, because when entire populations move, we would have no way of knowing where they came from, but only who they associated with. It also won't be so good with fast (100 or 1000 year) migrations. Interesting though, and you can pay $100 to have your own DNA included (anonomysly) in the study. Just pretty: http://www.tolkien.com.pl/kasiopea/ang/tolkien.htm

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it dseon't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter.

Not so mcuh to do hree tdaoy...

WAS a happy bambi eater:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/westva090805.cfm
In other news today, urine in infected animals who have kidney infections can contain prions too - would certainly seem a likely transmission deer to deer (who are vegetarian). Well actually, a private Swiss lab found prions in urine way back in 2002, and this experimented injected the urine, but still: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051013/sc_nm/science_madcow_urine_dc_2
At home I buy expensive grass fed animals, I guess in restaurants I'll get chicken ('cuz they grow and are slaughtered too fast a accumulate many prions) or fish (never mind the mercury). Have a happy day :-D

So Bush was successfully elected because of antique coins
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/10/06/ohio/index.html
And has a mission from God to make war, saith the BBC,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051007/pl_afp/mideastbritainusiraq_051007131357
And tuleremia makes a debut on the mall, discovered by bioterrorism sensors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101209.html
Funny that, rabbit fever in downtown DC, "kicked up by peoples' feet." Fascinatingly convenient to be kicked up by anti-war protestors' feet that particular weekend, but not by the feet from the hundreds of thousands of, say, "Pro-Life" protestors on other weekends, or visitors to the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival earlier in the summer. Maybe it's just from the pigeons.