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| Topic: Texas tornadoes |
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| Texas tornadoes [message #49009] |
Wed, 04 April 2012 14:37 |
 CathyR
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Registered: July 2009
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I hope all of you in Texas are safe and unharmed after the recent tornadoes.
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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| Topic: Support a Folk-Country music project? |
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| Support a Folk-Country music project? [message #48076] |
Thu, 02 February 2012 08:42 |
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KatydidNL
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Registered: March 2011
Location: The Netherlands |
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I know there are a lot of music lovers on this forum, so I thought some of you might be interested in checking out a unique folk-country musician's project.
In the interest of full disclosure, the musician I'm referring to here is my own brother.  He is crowdfunding via Kickstarter in order to release his first EP of original songs. Paul is a talented songwriter/singer/guitarist and if this is a musical genre you enjoy, I can heartily recommend the project. You can see a short video where he talks about the EP and his inspirations here. You can also hear a sample track from each of the songs.
Since he's crowdfunding, any exposure he can get is much appreciated...so please feel free to pass the link on to anyone you know who might be interested in this kind of music.
Thanks for taking a look!
Addition on Feb 9th --> The EP is fully funded! Thanks to all who took a look, passed in the link, or supported the project. Much appreciated!
[Updated on: Thu, 09 February 2012 13:58]
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| Topic: YA Fiction - Robin gets a mention |
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| Topic: Westercon 64 membership available |
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| Westercon 64 membership available [message #42528] |
Mon, 06 June 2011 07:22 |
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Marina
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Registered: January 2009
Location: Near San Jose CA |
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It's in San Jose, CA this year. I can't go, darn it. No money for parking+meals even if I go nowhere near the dealers' room. $65, will transfer full membership when funds are received.
If you're interested, send me a private message and we'll talk details.
A. Marina Fournier
❦If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ❧ William Morris❦
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| Topic: Robin McKinley on GeekMom |
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| Topic: Atlanta Nights: the Movie |
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 Atlanta Nights: the Movie [message #39950] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 12:31 |
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You might have heard of the book.
Now you can watch the movie.
I'm saying nothing more: you're all adults here and can take responsibility for asploding your own heads 
Frankly, if you can make it through more than a page at a time without rinsing your eyeballs, you're doing better than me!
Phil
My friends say I have CDO…
which is like OCD but with the initials in proper alphabetical order…
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| Topic: Milwaukee area PRC? |
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| Milwaukee area PRC? [message #36947] |
Sun, 28 November 2010 15:39 |
HavelockDT
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Registered: August 2009
Location: Wisconsin, USA |
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Any forum members from the Milwaukee area who would like to get together to celebrate the release of Pegasus?
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| Topic: Scotland, anyone? |
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| Scotland, anyone? [message #36332] |
Wed, 10 November 2010 08:31 |
Magpie
Messages: 5
Registered: May 2010 |
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Any one interested in the Pegasus and Cake in the St Andrews/Edinburgh region of Scotland? Happy to organise if people are keen!
Magpie
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| Topic: PRC For Rexburg, ID? |
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| PRC For Rexburg, ID? [message #36096] |
Sat, 06 November 2010 15:08 |
vank2
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Registered: May 2010 |
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I would love to go to a PRC, but I am not close enough to attend the one in Seattle (no car), and public transportation costs are dreadful.
Is there anyone else in my area who would like to attend a party?
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| Topic: Instructions for PRC Organizers |
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| Instructions for PRC Organizers [message #35693] |
Sat, 30 October 2010 14:25 |
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Black Bear
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Registered: September 2008
Location: Indianapolis, IN USA |
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OK, I've heard back from Putnams, so we're all good to go! Here's the directions:
1. If you are organizing a PRC, you need to email me your real name and shipping address as soon as you have a date and time fixed, and at least 3 confirmed attendees. (That's you, plus 2 people.) I will pass your info on to Robin's e-marketer, the Amazing Anna, and she will ship you a book and two posters for raffling purposes. But you do need 3 people to qualify for a prize pack.
2. Remember you can promote these events beyond the forum. Call your friends, talk to the bookshop employees at your friendly local retailer, ask if you can put a sign up at the library. Let's see how many people we can get involved!
3. You're strongly encouraged to take pictures and write up a little blurb on how the party went--Robin is always in the market for blog material. So if you'd like your PRC to be featured on Robin's blog, document it and we'll see what we can do!
4. When you email me I will email you back a pdf with instructions, plus an Official Sign-In Sheet. This is how we'll keep track of entries for the signed book contest--make sure EVERYONE who attends prints their name and email address clearly on this sheet, and then the organizer can either type the list up and email it back to me, or scan it and email me the scan. Remember, organizers get entered twice.
The email I'm using for this purpose is my "business" address: whiteape [at] whiteape [dot] net. If you have questions of general interest, please feel free to post them to this thread and I'll answer them for the benefit of all.
[Updated on: Sun, 02 January 2011 10:18]
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Topic: Nashville, TN area PRC |
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| Nashville, TN area PRC [message #35632] |
Fri, 29 October 2010 12:07 |
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Honey_Bee
Messages: 86
Registered: October 2008
Location: Tennessee |
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I'm in the middle Tennessee area. Anyone interested in a get-together?
"All knowledge is worth having."
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| Topic: Barcelona PRC? |
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| Barcelona PRC? [message #35549] |
Thu, 28 October 2010 12:39 |
criscopolo
Messages: 12
Registered: October 2008
Location: California |
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I'm an American ex-pat from California living in Barcelona.
Any other Robin fans in Barcelona or in Spain?
I'd love to meet up!
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| Topic: A brief, somewhat impure, musical interval(s) |
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| Topic: Connie Willis and hand-bell ringing |
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| Connie Willis and hand-bell ringing [message #27412] |
Mon, 15 March 2010 11:18 |
rachel
Messages: 65
Registered: November 2008 |
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Just been reading Connie Willis Doomsday book, and discovered that the cast includes some American hand bell ringers who have come over to ring a Chicago surprise bob method. Is there a list out rhere of fictional bell-ringers?
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| Topic: Review of Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits |
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| Topic: Piano Teacher Recommendations? |
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| Piano Teacher Recommendations? [message #26476] |
Mon, 22 February 2010 11:33 |
amyrose
Messages: 17
Registered: October 2008
Location: Virginia |
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I'm typically a lurker on the blog and forum, but Robin's repeated posts about piano lessons have inspired me. I'd love to find a teacher, but I don't know where to look. I don't know if my earlier teachers were really as dry as I'm remembering, or if they just gave up on a student who could rarely be bothered to practice, but I'm afraid that I'll wind up with someone just as incompatible. (I promise, I've reformed!)
Because this forum seems to be such a gathering of kindred spirits, I'm secretly hoping someone could recommend an actual teacher in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. If not, I'd really appreciate it if someone with experience in this kind of thing could give me some hints on how to find a good teacher.
[Updated on: Mon, 22 February 2010 13:30]
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| Topic: Busker Festival photos |
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| Busker Festival photos [message #25603] |
Fri, 29 January 2010 04:24 |
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Every year at this time we have a 10 day Buskers Festival, where buskers and street performers from round the country and the world come to entertain the city. I work in town right on the edge of Cathedral Square which is a large (and mostly square) paved area in the heart of the city and the buskers perform there all day for this week!
So I bought my camera to work each day and tried to catch one act a day, didn't quite happen but here are the highlights of the ones I did get - LOTS more pix on my Flickr page - and more about the buskers and photography challenges on my Photography Blog
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| Topic: another author's take on Twitter |
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| another author's take on Twitter [message #22933] |
Mon, 09 November 2009 20:14 |
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Joshilyn Jackson just took up Twitter. Her first two tweets:
That first tweet was exactly 140 characters, by the way. Please remit accolades and prizes.
about 7 hours ago from web
This is like Blog Haiku. There are no 140 characters good enough to be the first 140 characters. So I shall never Tweet. Except I just did.
about 7 hours ago from web
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| Topic: French citizenship - language test? |
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| French citizenship - language test? [message #20032] |
Sun, 30 August 2009 21:32 |
Ithilien
Messages: 701
Registered: September 2008 |
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Hi everyone,
It suddenly occurred to me that one or more of you might have acquired (or attempted to acquire) French citizenship and might thus be able to answer a couple of questions. I've been married to my DH for two years now, so I thought I'd start getting ready for the citizenship language test. But I can't find anything about the level of French that I need.
Anyone have the inside info on this?
Cheers,
Ithilien
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| Topic: Melbourne Writers Festival |
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| Melbourne Writers Festival [message #18892] |
Sat, 01 August 2009 02:17 |
Susan in Melbourne
Messages: 184
Registered: October 2008
Location: Melbourne |
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Are any fellow antipodean forum readers going to the Melbourne Writers Festival at the end of August? http://www.mwf.com.au/2009/content/mwf_2009_landing.asp?name =Program
I've organised our work bookclub to go to the forum on the future of the book on Thursday 27th, and I'll be at a series of events on Saturday 29th, but may pop in for some other sessions at other times.
If anyone else is going, and would like to catch up for a coffee/whatever, please send me a pm and we'll set something up.
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| Topic: bellringing & knitting |
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| Topic: Identifying first editions |
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| Identifying first editions [message #14438] |
Tue, 07 April 2009 12:25 |
Meredith B.
Messages: 3
Registered: March 2009
Location: Southern Ohio |
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I have recently purchased a hardcover copy of The Hero And The Crown at a used bookstore, and I'm trying to determine if it is in fact a first edition, and if there were multiple "first edition" printings. It's a hard cover, with a blue stripe around the edges of the cover image, and it says Green Willow Press, 1984 in the front. It does actually say First Edition in the front pages as well, but I know in the past they would sometimes run more than one printing of the first edition, and if there were no changes to the text / layout, they didn't necessarily change the edition number. I don't know if that practice extended into the 80s, however, or if it happened with this particular book. Does anyone know how I can find that information out?
This particular copy would never be of great value even if it was a true First, because it's been rather well-loved, besides having an adhesive book plate in the front indicating that it was a gift from a school to a specific student in 1985. Which is kind of cool in and of itself, actually. I wonder what she did to merit a prize of the latest Newbery title in hardcover, don't you?
~Meredith
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