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Come and support your local cartoonists! My comics group, Boston Comics Roundtable, is hosting a fundraiser to benefit the fourth issue of our comics anthology, Inbound. This issue will be devoted to Boston history stories, and I'm excited as hell about it. The fundraiser is on Thursday, August 20, at P.A.'s Lounge in Somerville, MA, and will include caricatures, sketch battles, raffle prizes, and live music from the band Rotary. The event starts at 9pm (doors open at 8), tickets are $12 at the door. Come have a drink with us, enjoy music and cartoons, and hang out with the comics crowd! [ press release with full details ]
The Boston Zine Fair is this weekend! Come on over and check out a wide array of zines, comics, crafts, and all sorts of indy media! We're going to have dozens of tablers and a great selection of workshops on a variety of topics (both hands-on and talky subjects). You'll also get a chance to pick up the second issue - fresh off the press! - of Boston Comics Roundtable's anthology comic Inbound, with a nine-page story by me! Between BCR and the Trees and Hills gang, this place is going to be loaded with New England comics-creating talent. Where: 601 Newbury Street, Boston, MA (around the corner from Kenmore Square) When: Sept. 20-21, 2008 10am-6pm both days Web: www.bostonzinefair.org
Fantasy writer Susan Cooper will be in town in November, speaking at MIT and at a Cambridge Forum event. The Writing of Fantasy - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONWednesday, November 14, 2007, 7:00 p.m. at MIT Unriddling the World - FANTASY AND CHILDRENThursday, November 15, 2007, 7:30 P.M. at First Parish in Cambridge Full details here
Question for all the crafters reading this:
A pal of mine wants to buy a pair of grommet pliers, and the only craft-use pair she's found are made by Dritz.
Does anyone know if this pair is any good or if there is another (maybe better) brand that she hasn't found?
Thanks!
Next Wednesday night, Milky Way in JP is hosting a pretty jam-packed and crazy-sounding Queen tribute show. I love crazy and I love Queen, so I'm planning on being there. If anyone wants to join me, let me know! Details below from the Big Moves calendar listing. ======================================== ================ Queen for a Day September 5th, 2007 9:00 PM - 11:30 PM Milky Way Lounge & Lanes, Jamaica Plain $8 in advance, $10/door Description: On the solemn yet rockin' occasion of Freddie Mercury's birthday, Big Moves rolls out a star-studded Queen tribute show that’s gonna blow your hair back and leave you begging for more. Big Moves has become known in Boston for its exciting, mixed-genre dance and performance revues. In Queen for a Day, we go beyond exciting into manic, with new numbers from Thick (Big Moves’ burlesque troupe) and Caravan of Curves (our belly dance ensemble). After all, no Queen show would be complete without a bunch of fat-bottom girls! And the celebration is loaded with guest artists whose on-stage bravado matches our own: - Gunpowder Gelatine, an all-girl Queen cover band whose members have rocked an impressively long list of local groups, including the Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra, Mercury Charm Offensive, Commodore Vic, Mood Swings Orchestra - Babes in Boinkland, a burlesque troupe whose faces are as fresh as their stage antics are frisky. Yes, this no-holds-barred babefest is related to the notorious Boink magazine. - Becca d’Bus, one of Boston’s glammest, trashiest drag queens, taking a break from her spots at TraniWreck and Jaded for a star turn with Bohemian Rhapsody … in Chinese. Bring your one-dollar bills, because tipping will be encouraged! Proceeds from the rock ‘n’ roll raffle will benefit Community Servings, a nonprofit organization serving good food to people who are homebound with HIV/AIDS and other acute life-threatening illness (visit www.servings.org for more info). And yes, there will be cake.
Does anyone reading this speak German?
I'm working on a comic with two very short German phrases in it, and I'd like to double-check them with a German speaker or student to make sure they're proper and correct.
Thanks!
Tomorrow night: Free Harry and the Potters concert in Harvard Yard as part of the Book 7 celebrations! Me and some friends, we'll be out there dancing along - let me know if you'd like to join us. DETAILS (from their mailing list): ============= July 20th, Friday Cambridge, MA Harvard Square 7:00-10:00pm, FREE! Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA This will be THE PLACE TO BE on July 20th. The show will take place on the Harvard Campus. We urge you to decline all other invites and come join us for the best BOOK RELEASE PARTY in HISTORY! Draco and the Malfoys will probably try to crash this party, but there's no way we'll let them spoil our fun. Plus our favorite dragons, the Hungarian Horntails, will be there too! Did I mention this is totally FREE! BE THERE! ============= There is also a book release party at Harvard Book Shop starting at 9pm which I'm planning to hit. Edited to add: Here is their website: http://www.eskimolabs.com/hp/
The Massachusetts legislature is scheduled to vote next Thursday, June 14, on the gay marriage amendment. If it passes, the issue of whether or not it should be legal will go to the public vote, which could result in same-sex marriage being banned in Massachusetts (not to mention a nasty political campaign leading up to that ballot). More background info is available at the MassEquality website. Civil rights shouldn't be up for majority vote. If you're a Mass. resident, please contact your legislators (see links below) right away. Let them know that you support marriage equality and that this amendment should not be put on the ballot. All of the state reps have phone numbers and email addresses - just a quick phone call or email can make a difference. This is especially helpful if you live outside the Boston area - the more constituents contacting different legislators, the better. Here are some links from MassEquality to help: * Find out who your legislators are and get their contact info* Interactive maps that show how your legislators have voted on marriage equality* MassEquality's action page with further suggestions (letters to the editor, donations, volunteering, etc.)--- Seriously, I don't know if I've ever felt prouder of Massachusetts than that first night of same-sex marriage licenses, out by the City Hall, watching happy couples leave the building gleeful and arm-in-arm. I will never forget the one hand-held sign that proclaimed "Yay!"
(crossposted from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) metrokitty) Do you like zines and minicomics? If you do, make time this coming weekend (March 24-25) to visit the Boston Zine Fair, the annual event for small press, self-publishers, and anyone interested in expressing themselves. I've attended this for several years now and every time it's more packed and even more full of amazing writing and artwork. I'll be there hawking my minicomics, including the brand spanking new issue of Geraniums and Bacon (soon to be for sale on this website)! Come on over, say hi, and get yourself a copy! I'll also be sharing a table with pal Charles, who will be selling the first print volume of his webcomic Sordid City Blues. Stop by and check it out! What: Boston Zine Fair ( official website) When: March 24-25, 10am-6pm both days Where: Massachusetts College of Art, Pozen Center (621 Huntington Ave, Boston; MBTA Green 'E' line, Longwood stop; more directions here) Hope to see you there!
Would anyone like a small fondue set?
I was given one as a gift last year but have never used it, and I'm not likely to use it.
Unused, still in the box. Set includes ceramic fondue bowl (~4" diameter), stand, candle holder, 5 tealight candles, 4 color-coded fondue forks. Dishwasher safe.
The Brattle Theater in Harvard Square is showing *Wrath of Khan* several times this evening.
Geek blasphemy: I HAVE NEVER SEEN WRATH OF KHAN. So I'm gonna fix that tonight and hit the 10pm show.
If anyone wants to join me, hollah!
Harry and the Potters will be playing two shows this coming Sunday at the Middle East Downstairs. AWESOME. Full details at their website: Show listing, scroll down to Dec. 10Brief details here, ganked from website: ==================================== "TWO SHOWS! 12:30pm and 6:00pm, ALL AGES, $12 480 Mass Ave (Central Square), Cambridge, MA 02139 This will be the best night of the YEAR! We are so pumped up to do our second annual Yule Ball at the Middle East! Once again, extravagant dress is encouraged (last year everyone looked so beautiful!). This year, we'll have the bartenders mixing up all sorts of wizardly concoctions. It will be straight-up amazing! We're going to have different opening bands at each show. Here are the lineups! Early Show: Uncle Monsterface the Remus Lupins Potter Puppet Pals the Hungarian Horntails Late Show: Jason Anderson and the Best Draco and the Malfoys and special guests!!! Each show will be $12. You can also get a ticket for both shows at $22! And $2 from every ticket will be going to Reach Out and Read, a Boston-based, national, non-profit organization organization that promotes early literacy by making books a routine part of pediatric care." ==================================== I am so in for that second show, even just to see if Harry and the Potters throw down with Draco and the Malfoys. Wizards' duel!
Next Tuesday, I'm going to do the yearly romp around Beacon Hill on Halloween night with friends. We're not going to go on the walking tour this time - we're just going to stroll around the Hill, take in the party atmosphere, and creep around the spooky alleyways.
If you'd like to join us, please let me know! Beacon Hill is a fantastic place to be on Halloween - costumes and decorations, a few streets closed off for trick-or-treating, and lovely New England autumn touches everywhere.
I can't make it to this (oh evening classes, you are a cruel mistress), but other people might be able to: Marjane "Persepolis" Satrapi will be at MIT next Monday evening at 7pm discussing and signing her new book, Chicken with Plums. Details on Marjane Satrapi at MIT on Monday, October 23, 2006, at 7pmIt's in an auditorium in the crazy building by Frank Gehry, so if you haven't seen that yet, you get the added benefit of your brain exploding. Yay!
I got news of a strange-sounding art opening this coming Saturday night in Brighton. If you're interested in going with me, please let me know! PUREFrom the mailing list:
PURE: Art, Medicine, Technology and Commerce all thrive in sterile white rooms. This is not a coincidence.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14 6pm - 9pm
400 Western Ave * Brighton, MA
Exhibition runs October 14 - November 12, 2006 and features the work of over 70 participants (including the Institute for Infinitely Small Things) in a 20,000 square foot warehouse. Curated by Lisa Lunskaya Gordon.
More info: reAnimationStudios.com/pure
Wed, Sep. 6th, 2006, 12:01 am
kaiju!
Kaiju Big Battel at Avalon Ballroom on Friday, October 20 at 7pm! I've bought a ticket. If anyone else is interested in going too, holler! Their shows are pretty ridiculous.
Harry and the Potters are playing at the Cambridge Public Library this coming Friday (June 23) at 6pm as part of their Awesomechusetts Library Tour. Woo hoo! I'm going - these guys make me laugh every time, and they rock out ridiculously. And it's at the library! That's great! Anyone else interested in going too, give me a holler. |
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