Kari's Lair: Home of the Virgo Folkie

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THE LAIR'S SITEMAP LAIRLINKS DIRECTORY INDEX The LairMistress's Musician's Bio Musician's Resume
VirgoFolkie LiveJournal Lair NEW URL: Youngblood Circle (The Confundus Conspiracy) The LairMistress's Sonicbids EPK
Seattle PI Bands Page Band Page at The Stranger Karen the LairMistress: Myspace Page LairMistress Photobucket Gallery

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And It Shall Rain Forever and Ever...

Photo Courtesy of KIRO-TV.com Webcams.

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NEWSFLASH (WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009): LairCronies, a new PromoLair has just been Excavated! After thinking about it Awhile, we decided to start up a blog that promotes our Cafepress LairShops (in lieu of a CP newsletter), and have it Attached, more or less, to the Home Lair at Angelfire. The blog will promote the LairShops; now we have to get Going like gangbusters and promote the blog! It's called The LairShops Beckon.

In the process of Dredging out this PromoLair, we learned a thing or two about what they call "Advanced Customization" (that thing they don't really let you do with free LJs). We are learning how to tweak the Stylesheets, the code for Main page entries, the LairLinks sidebar, and such like. We just put up our first two posts in the past couple of days; now we have to alert the Entire planet to the existence of this thing; and by extension, the LairShops! Just click on the image Below, or the text link Above, to check it out...

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Artifacts of the Lair: Lair Logos and other Originals for LairLurkers!	The LithicLair: Graphics and scanned ceramic images inspired by Neolithic European art!	Éireann85: Images of photos taken during the LairMistress's travels in Ireland in 1984-1985!
GoddessKRING also has three Cafepress eStores: multi media aRtmaker KringCOLLAGE Art Shoppe Face of KRING	All Bunnyz, All The Time: Another Cafepress Store. My dad sent me this Bunny pic. It looks a little spooky, But some people dig that stuff.	Also, check out The Violin Case eStore: Cool Products with a Violin theme, by my childhood friend, violin teacher Julie Tebbs of Kirkland, WA!!

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Newscap No. 237,441, for Your Lurking Pleasure...

MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2009: So, LairCronies, what's been happening Lately since we last updated the Home Lair? We've just Now archived my Dad's tribute article; it's now Available to read at Archive Lair 1. This year's Northwest Folklife Festival has been Here and Gone; I was busking there three days out of four; on the third day, Sunday, I took the day Off from busking and snapped a bunch of digital photos Instead. I'll see what I can do about uploading them.

UPDATE (SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2009): OOPS! As usual, it's taken me Awhile to get Around to this newscap. So, what is the Lair up to at the moment; and what Else is there to report?

• We've upgraded the Imagekind Gallery to a Pro account; and we are even Now expanding the number of galleries within this account! We started with one small gallery with 23 images, not all of them Related to each other; we now have 15 smaller galleries, each of them Specialized by theme of photos or digital art images. In the Pro account, we're Allowed up to 100 galleries, with up to 50 images in each. And we've got a Huge backlog of images to get Busy processing and uploading!

• Over the Past week, we've gotten quite Worried over our folksinger friend Liam Clancy, who is struggling with health issues at present, Including rheumatoid arthritis (RA); and more Recently, pulmonary fibrosis (at least, that's what we think he's referring to). He's currently doing inpatient therapy for these conditions; and we, and our friends on Liam's Message Board (see LairLink near the bottom of this page) are Waiting for updates on how he's doing. So, please be sending him good thoughts, prayers, healing energy, or Whatever your preference happens to be. He likes hearing from well-wishers on the Board too, of course.

• As everyone on the planet knows by Now, Michael Jackson passed Away on Thursday, and has Since taken over the internet, and the pop charts, Thereby. The immediate cause of death was cardiac arrest; now everyone wants to know what brought that on. Our guess is that he pulled a Heath Ledger, with too many Different medications in his bloodstream; but the test results from his autopsy are still Awaited. Though not huge fans of his, we have been Shocked by this rather-Sudden departure; and we send him our best wishes, along with Sincere condolences to his children, family and friends.

• Condolences also go out from the Lair to the family and friends of actress and activist Farrah Fawcett, who also passed Away on Thursday from a Rare form of cancer. Her face was Everywhere in the 1970's. After the "Charlie's Angels" decade, she was a bit less Visible, but no less Busy, as she starred in a number of dramatic films and TV movies, including "Extremities", "The Burning Bed", and "Small Sacrifices." She also left her mark with activism on behalf of cancer research and domestic violence prevention; and though her life wasn't always easy, it was well-Lived. RIP and Best Wishes to Farrah and her loved ones.

• We are now planning to upgrade at least a couple of our Cafepress LairShops to Premium stores, now that we can Better afford the Accompanying dues! We just haven't Quite taken the plunge and done So just Yet. We'll let you know when the deed is Done.

• We want to invest in a zZounds H2 Zoom portable recorder to help with the CD recording project. We plan to read Up on it a little First, and wait until the Next installment of our inheritance arrives in the mail. It's time our Original song files on Myspace sounded a little more "Finished"...

• It's also time we got our noses out of the laptop screen and started scouting Alki and West Seattle for busking spots! And started performing, indoors and out, more Often besides! I mean, the weather has been quite charming Lately, if a little cloudy on occasion...

Did I miss anything? Well...the new Harry Potter film is coming out July 15. I've got jury duty Starting the same day (ugh!). I'm working off-and-on on a new video slide show--this one of the Ceide Fields site in County Mayo--with onsite audio of the guide's lecture Recorded during my visit. And my Mom will be in town during the first half of July, to attend another Local music camp. We'll be visiting with her during July 12-14; we'll see if we can come up with anything fun for us two to do...

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Anyway, here Again are some new Antiwar and other Progressive LairLinks that have crossed our path Recently, as well as some old favorites from Before...

CommonDreams.org Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW) Not In Our Name (NION)
WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com Salam Pax's Weblog AlterNet Online
Back To Iraq 3.0 CREDO Action (formerly Working for Change) Seattle Independent Media Center
Baghdad Burning: Riverbend's Weblog School of the Americas Watch ZNet/Z Magazine
The Shalom Center Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity Hate Free Zone of Seattle
World Can't Wait Iraq Body Count Michael Moore.com Electronic Iraq.net
Salam Pax's New Blog Southern Poverty Law Center The Wacky Iraqi (Satire, we think)
CorpWatch.org Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) RaiseTheFist.com
Voices in the Wilderness (Archived) Fellowship of Reconciliation World Youth Peace Organization

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Seattle Spring/Summer Festivals Upcoming: The Newest Update (well, More or Less...)

FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2009: Okay, folks, explain this to me if you can: Why is it that Seattle PrideFest and the Skandia Midsommarfest are ALWAYS held on the same date every June (they're on June 28 this year)? And I do mean ALWAYS. Invariably. Without fail. I've been making a mental note of this every spring for years Now, all the while wondering: are the gays and the Scandinavians intentionally competing with each other's festivals?? Plus, how do GLBT Scandinavian-Americans handle this Apparent scheduling conflict? Y'know, just Curious, that's all...

Seattle PrideFest 2009 (June 28) Skandia Midsommarfest 2009 (June 28)

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<<<>>>PAX IN TERRA * SÍOCHÁIN AR AN DTALAMH * PEACE ON EARTH<<<>>>

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By the way, these decorative links above and below lead to Affiliate Programs in which the Lair is currently Participating.
We are in the process Now of dropping some affiliate programs, and joining up with new ones. We will Soon be ending our relationship with BooksOnline.com Book Club, and with Apollo's Axes, while staying with Indie-Music.com, and our new Affiliation (see LairBanners above and below). All this, in addition to our Brand-New PhotoStockPlus stock photo gallery!

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What I Hope To Accomplish Here

• Market freelance articles, poems, the Great American Short Story Collection...

• Promote My Own Music (MP3, here I come!): Here is a partial list of Original Songs written between 1978 and the Present.

• LINK (at last!) to my favorite websites.

Here is a more detailed discussion of my musical and other creative goals for the rest of 2001 and beyond.

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My Favorite Web Sites (a Partial Listing...)

Liam Clancy: A World of Music

• Guess what?! Liam's site has a Brand New Message Board, that's What!!

Jason Webley: Independent Musician/Accordion Guy

• Here Again is our lovely Jason Webley Halloween 2001 Special Page.
• Awaiting the Spring, the Jason Crowd continues to post messages and nostalgia at the
  Jason Webley Forum; and, more Recently, the Jason Webley LiveJournal Community.

NEW! Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Turkish Fansite: The new Nusrat site we've been waiting for!

• Nusrat Forever.com is Another Strong contender for "Nusrat site we've been waiting for"!
• Read a personal tribute to Nusrat, penned by the LairMistress.
• Here, also, is an Interview with Nusrat, excerpted from Inside The Music by Dimitri Ehrlich.

GoddessKRING: Shannon Kringen's Website and ArtShrine: Caution! Delicious Adult Photographic
Artwork and other Audio/Visual Delights to be found Within!

My Epinions Record Review Collection

BeliefNet.com: The Mother of all Multi-Religious discussion and news sites. Never a dull moment.

Starhawk's Tangled Web: Adventures, Projects and Writings of the Lair's Favorite Witch.

Makem Central: Tommy Makem and the Makem Brothers

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The lovely Celtic circle at the top of this page (and the turquoise cross atop the Goals 2001 Page) comes to us courtesy of the Free Celtic Clipart Page at Ireland-Information.com. For the best in free Celtic clipart, do pay them a visit!

Likewise, the LairMistress has had great fun with the cool animated graphics provided free of charge by The Animation Factory--as you can see, I've got animated critters all over the Lair by now! At least one new animated critter is birthed on their site every day! Check them out at the LairLink above!

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