Off to FOGcon!

I'll be at the Holiday Inn hotel from Thursday afternoon through Monday morning. I'm not planning on net access. I'd love to meet you -- text me on six zero eight six nine eight seven eight seven eight so we can plan.

ETA: I misremembered my own damn cel #

Maybe you're not a board games or karaoke person? Friday night you can come on down to the panel I'm co-modding with Lisa Eckstein:

Your Favorite Book No One’s Ever Heard Of
California Room

You get 60 seconds in front of the mike to talk about your favorite book no one’s ever heard of and why everyone should read it. If you try to do a book you wrote yourself, the moderator can throw a squid at you.

And I can say in all honesty that I arranged for a uniformed agent of the federal government to deliver my squid to my hotel room.

The rest of FOGcon is even more exciting, and there are tickets at the door, so any of you westerly folks ready for a warmish weekend in The City, we're there.

Political music for the win!

Yesterday I went up to the Capitol and found it shorn of all the signs. The line from the Republiguns is the blue tape is damaging the marble -- of which none of us would approve. But the good news was a stack of songsheets, so I had the chance to share an hour in song with good-hearted comrades from all over.

A better taste here: Long time favorites Lou and Peter Berryman were rousing the crowd a few weeks back, as captured on video by Luciano. There were stereo interpreters, but they're not always in frame. I don't have the energy or cognition to provide full transcripts: a couple of polished folk singers changed up the lyrics of two standards to fit current conditions.

on the frame of We Shall Not Be Moved....

We'll keep this rally rolling
We Shall Not Be Moved
Although we should be bowling...
We Shall Not Be Moved

and to the tune of My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean:

Wisconsin whose motto was 'Forward'
Was populist as it could be
But now the new motto is 'Backward'
O bring back Wisconsin to me.

and finally, all the verses to Solidarity Forever!
(what a grand song!)