I'm sleeping inside tonight!

Hooray, hooray, hooray!!!

[in the spirit of sharing what's going on in our lives, that is very much what is going on in mine at the moment.]

Also: I am listening to Patrick talk about Turkey and it is making me smile/a little homesick.

Fall/Winter Concert List (Repost From Facebook)

I know most of you don't live in NYC, but you should totally time a visit during one of these weekends *or* see these artists in your city!

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The thing I'm most excited about in terms of living in NYC again is having convenient, 24-7 access to anywhere in the city. Which means...concerts. Lots of concerts. Unfortunately, most of my favorite bands blew through here while I was upstate this summer, here are some shows I want to go to with YOU (yes you!)

Saturday, September 10, Xylos at the Tinderbox Festival at the Knitting Factory (http://tinderboxmusicfestival.com/line-up/) -- I hate hipster music but this is my exception. These lads and ladies create truly beautiful music and are so joyful while they do it. Somebody named Holly Miranda is playing after their set? I've heard her name bounced around...

Friday September 23, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers (http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=2110) -- One of my high-school favorites. Definitely a tequila-and/or-beer kind of band.

Friday, October 7, Ollabelle at the Bowery Ballroom

Thursday, October 13, The Indigo Girls at the Beacon Theater (http://www.indigogirls.com/tour1.html)

Thursday, October 27, The Civil Wars at the Bowerly Ballroom

Please come! List is subject to change and I *might* be persuaded to go to your band's concert.

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Owww Owww Owww. Rachel, reformat that please. Stick a html tag for width--just type in width="desired number" in with the image and check it.

I'm personally not in favor of making this just an Image Kombat thread. It's a really shallow means of sharing what's going on in our lives. Thoughts?

stuffed animals are no match for real ones

(I tried to do an < img > tag as a comment to Caitlin's but it didn't work. The early-onset devolution of this blog into image kombat may be inevitable.)

Better stuffed animal?

(I could not figure out how to get an image into a blog comment, is there a way to do that and keep this in one thread?)

let's get to what this blog is really about just right off the bat

image kombat

I'll start

Checking In--Reposted from Facebook

Hello Friends,

I just moved to DC and I wanted to keep you all oriented with where I am and what I am doing. I am working at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), a peace and social justice lobbying group run by Quakers. What am I doing there? For starters, I'm making things like this Command William Riker facial hair Mr. Potato head desk ornament (see photos below; it's the best thing thing).

The setup. The text is courtesy of the results of an office "strengthfinder" team building exercise.

Angry anime eyebrow Riker.

Mama bear Riker.

But I'm also working in communications, helping FCNL "organize, interpret, and distribute FCNL’s legislative strategies to the FCNL network both on and off the hill." See the overly lit picture of me at my staff profile:

http://fcnl.org/about/who/staff/patrick_lozada/

What does this mean? I'm doing outreach, publishing FCNL mailings, and trying to get people involved in working towards a world without war where we treat the earth with loving care. It turns out that you are one of those people, and because you're my F(f)riend I have no compunction in bothering you about it.

So we come down to the meat/ soy substitute of this message. I want you to do two things:

1. Come visit me at my house (a real house!) in D.C. and let me drink you under the table.
2. Sign up to get e-mail from FCNL at http://fcnl.org/.

I have a feeling the second might take a little more persuading than the first, so let me make my case briefly. If you sign up

• You get e-mails from me (and a team of wonderful and patient editors) with the skinny on what's going on in Washington.
• You can make a real difference in shifting our strange political system towards progress by acting on our legislative action messages and contacting your congresspersons.
• If you don't want to read it some week, then you will only spend 3/100 of one second deleting it.

That's my case. I hope you take me up on both of my recommendations. Also, stay in touch! If I tagged you (and even if I didn't), I think you're pretty great and I care about you. Hope you all are well.

With loving care,

Patrick Lozada

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiago?

((Eli, thanks for setting this up!))

Is that how you spell Sandiago? Now all I can think of is the Fools sketch. Anyway, I'm wondering who is settled in their new habitats so far.

I'm for one am still in limbo, waiting to move in to my place in Arcata in 2 weeks. Fuck limbo.

On The Right Foot

May I start this auspicious blog with a few simple words:

“Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!”