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New Skinny White Chick music for the download

2009-02-24T16:49:09Z

If you haven't seen it yet, S00j has some new music that can be downloaded by going here: skinnywhitechick.bandcamp.com/

Like Solace & Sorrow, and For the Girl in the Garden, this new music is based on a book by Catherynne M. Valente. (Those albums were inspired by her two volume Orphan's Tales.) This new book is Palimpsest. www.catherynnemvalente.com/nove...sest/ I started reading it last night, and couldn't put it down (as the bags under my eyes today will attest.) From the opening words, I was transported, to another place. This book is definitely for adults, but no less magickal.

The music, like before, dances with the written words to create a world.

They are doing a release tour. www.skinnywhitechick.com/shows.php

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Laurell K Hamilton Joins Ravens!

2009-01-23T00:04:49Z

re-posting from here: http://community.livejournal.com/saveours00j/29590.html

It's official!

Three weeks and one day after editor Phil Brucato made a passing comment to her saying "maybe I'll even edit a benefit anthology for Sooj," all the necessary papers are taken care of and Laurell K. Hamilton has donated a tale to the Ravens in the Library collection.

The story in question is a stand-alone short. It's neither an Anita Blake nor a Merri Gentry tale. It is laugh-out-loud hilarious, and we're glad to have it leaven some of the darker goings-on in this collection.

Which story is it? Order the book and find out!

If you haven't already ordered a copy of Ravens in the Library, what are you waiting for? This will be a limited-run publication to benefit S.J. Tucker's recent hospitalization and surgery. This group of authors and artists has never appeared within a single book before, and once this collection goes out of print, it's gone for good.

www.sjtucker.com/ravens.html

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Save Our S00j LJ Community

2009-01-04T23:11:01Z

http://community.livejournal.com/saveours00j/

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S.J. needs help with medical bills

2008-12-27T18:37:58Z

In case there's anyone who hasn't seen this e-mail from Kevin:

Dear friends,

I know that some of you have already heard about SJ's recent emergency and hospital stay. It looks likely that it may actually be appendicitis, although the doctors want to confirm this with another CT scan before they do any surgery.

We -do- know that the hospital bills are going to be significant, since this first trip to the hospital involved two emergency rooms, four doctors, a 45 minute ambulance transfer between the two hospitals, a CT scan AND an X-ray, multiple IV antibiotics, nearly daily bloodwork tests, and five and a half nights in the hospital.

Another CT scan and an ultrasound are scheduled after the next batch of test results come back, and if it turns out to be appendicitis, they'll have to do surgery. If it -isn't- appendicitis, then something else will have to be done to keep all of this from happening all over again, but we don't know what.

In short: we're looking at medical bills that could go as high as twenty-five or thirty THOUSAND dollars by the time this is through.

Have I mentioned that we do not yet have medical insurance?

The biggest reasons that Sooj and I can afford to tour around the country to perform for all of you wonderful folks is that we have been healthy and unhindered by debt. We don't want that to change, so we're turning to you for help.

Please help us raise money to pay for these medical bills. Buy CDs. Spread the word. Share links and diggs and do all that interweb magic. What we need is 1000 people with $25. Do you have $25? Do you know someone who does? If you can't give us money, please tell people who might.

Of course, we want you to get something for your money! Even if you already have every album, you could buy CDs as late holiday gifts for your family and friends. Help us, and make people happy at the same time!

In this spirit, we're offering a "Give a Healthy Dose of Sooj" sale. All current SJ Tucker CDs are $10 each (that's our wholesale price). Find more info on the CDs here: http://www.skinnywhitechick.com/discounts.php

We're also offering digital downloads through an amazing new service called bandcamp.mu: http://skinnywhitechick.bandcamp.mu/

You can download individual tracks and whole albums, and help spread the word by embedding albums or songs in your blogs, facebook posts, and myspace pages!

Now is the time to complete your collection of SJ Tucker's albums. Now is the time to introduce your friends and family members to SJ's music. Please go and buy CDs.

Alternatively, you can sponsor SJ's health directly, and become a Skinny White Chick Sponsor for either a simple donation or a $10 monthly subscription. Money collected through these vectors will be used to cover our medical bills first, and will then be used to set up a decent health insurance policy. (more info at http://www.skinnywhitechick.com/sponsorship.php)

As a special bonus to subscribers and big sponsors, I will begin to periodically upload live SJ Tucker show podcasts to the new forums at http://www.skinnywhitechick.com/forum/, providing our generous donors with recordings of live shows that Sooj has done over the last couple years. These podcasts will be a mix of past and present shows, ranging as far back as 2005.

Anyone can join the forums to discuss shows and projects, but only sponsors will be able to download the podcasts. This is a forum setup I have been working on for about a year, and it was just about ready to launch in the middle of December.

So, $10 monthly subscriptions as Skinny White Chick Sponsors allows full access to the weekly podcasts as downloads for the duration of your subscription. A $100 or higher donation as a Skinny White Chick Sponsor will count as an annual membership. For donations of $1,000 or more, we will discuss something special to thank you appropriately for your generosity.

Please, take advantage of our wholesale CD prices, give albums to your friends and relatives, become a sponsor, use the sharing tools at bandcamp.mu, and tell people about the music and our fundraising needs. We need your help spreading the word, even if you can't afford to give financially.

Thank you very much for your time and attention and your generous support.

Blessings and love to all of you,
Kevin K' Wiley
SJ Tucker's assistant

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Thanks: Sept. 12th show

2008-10-19T02:21:51Z

S.J.,
Thank you to you and to everyone for helping make the show such a success. I hope we can do it again very soon.
Peace,
Otter

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SJ is awesome.

2008-09-10T02:36:35Z

Saturday afternoon in Center Camp. Weapons sparring with Howwoward. Dust and sweat and steel in my hands. Coil, parry, uncoil, thrust. A little nick on the third knuckle. Howwoward is quick. His moves are controlled. Weapons sparring with a paramedic has its advantages. He does not waste energy.

An opening. I take the opportunity offered, and pin him, back to my leg, sabre under his chin. A sweet little victory in our dangerous little dance. And then....

I hear SJ's voice, which has been serenading our duel the entire time we've been holding it, giving a shout-out to the swordswomen in Phoenix Projekt.

How perfect.

Thank you, lady. For the singing that day, and for such an inadvertently timed surprise.

Hope your Burn was as wonderful as that moment was for me.

- Maltese

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Lost Girls Pirate Academy online and more!

2008-05-08T15:14:33Z

As if there weren't enough networking site candy kicking around to rot your teeth...I've been creating new ones on the web. Please feel free to visit any one of them, as they're all different.

I now have a page on Gaia.com: http://pixiebardsooj.gaia.com
I like the way that Gaia seems to work--you can recommend books, post quotes that mean something to you, and share 'seeds' amongst people that you find on the site who seem to be rolling with the spirit of saying something worth saying, living their truth, etc. There's still more about it that I haven't had a chance to explore.

A few fans alerted me to the existence of Paganspace.com, and it would be silly not to have a page there: http://www.paganspace.com/skinnywhitechick
I don't have a lot of stuff up on Paganspace yet, but soon, soon I will send music in to 'paganradio' there, which seems to run on my profile automatically.

Lastly, and this is the big announcement of sorts, I created last night a Myspace page for The Lost Girls Pirate Academy: http://www.myspace.com/lostgirlspirateacademy
Next on my list is creating a Tribe for the academy here, but for now, Myspace will hold down the fort. It's our dream to launch lostgirlspirateacademy.com very soon, also--and all of the sites we create, Myspace or otherwise, will hopefully serve as a forum and as a trading post for fan art and fiction about Wendy, Green-eyed Sue, and their crew. We have a good bit of stuff to share already, but we want more! Know that you're welcome to share how the Wendy Trilogy has inspired you with me, especially as a comment or a story or drawing or other form of awesome creative output.

If you're lost at sea about all this, I'll explain briefly:
On my albums Sirens, which I released in 2006, I included three songs about what might have happened, had Wendy chosen to become a pirate instead of sticking with the Lost Boys and staying the proper little mother figure. The three songs take you through Wendy's difficult transition to pirate as Hook's adopted daughter--he double-crosses her, of course, but she catches him in the act and, with the help of Tink and Pan, she 'inherits' the ship and the crew. Gradually, Wendy replaces the crew with Lost Girls handpicked by Peter Pan. Green-eyed Sue is the first to arrive, and Mr. Smee is the last to go.

There's more, of course.
I'll post the songs themselves to the Lost Girls Pirate Academy Myspace page today so that you can hear them if you haven't heard them before.

For now the Wendy Trilogy can be heard on Sirens or on the Tricky Pixie Live album. I plan, by the end of the year, to give the Trilogy its own single/EP, called Pirate Girls, which will also include the Academy's new Alma Mater (up on Myspace right now), and perhaps a few other choice nautical songs.

The Wendy Trilogy is so beloved by so many people across the world at this point that I am quite happy to give it more attention, and to breathe new life into it by getting the Academy project going. We've got t-shirts, stickers, an official logo, exclusively commissioned art by Amy Brown depicting the Academy's two saucy founders, many many stories of how the songs have touched one person or another, and one rollicking bit of fan fiction so far. Please, if you want to be a part of this piratical adventure, do! Feel free to get in touch with me with your music, stories, and art.

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Girls in the Garden

2006-09-19T04:50:42Z

This is directly related to album and book releases soon to be reality, and New York City.

Curious?

go here: http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/287933.html

Author Catherynne M. Valente and I are hunting the Perfect Place to hold a small soiree/reading/concert between Oct 29 and Nov 1, in celebration of the season and of the release of my new album and her new novel.

More on Cat's writing here: http://www.catherynnemvalente.com

I have an anchoring show at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC (oct 29, 6-7pm).

I am posting about this in the hopes that my tribe peeps might have ideas or a space that would hold us on any one of those dates.

Let's make this happen.
It'll be a once-in-a-lifetime, changing event, I promise you.

And, bonus, if you're ALREADY having a Halloween party, we're just the two grrls to make it even more unforgettable.

Thus ends my commercial.
Please get in touch with me if you can help.

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