the a.r.t.'s sleep no more is the most fun i've had @ a dramatic performance in a long time:

http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/sleep-no-more


so much so that i am volunteering!

http://www.theshadowbox.net/forum/index.php?topic=9965.0

come and join in the fun!

enjoy -len

Come to:

Dreamchild Celebrates Sleeping Flowers, Severed, Scream of Slaughter at The Regent Theatre

When:
Thursday, August 27, 2009
7:30 PM to 11:30 PM

Where:
The Regent Theatre
7 Medford Street
Arlingotn, MA, 02474

Come see Dreamchild, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Wisteriax, and Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys!

from a talented writer, who is also a friend

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From: MJ writes
Date: Jun 27, 2009 2:15 PM Subject: Tea Time darlings! Body: Here’s how it works.
For the month of July I am going to post a new story every Tuesday and every Thursday.
Rules.
-Posts before midnight. I’ll try and tack them up by brunch.
-Headed by a picture I took or was taken by a close pal who gave me permission.
-Everything posted will be written/..created that week.
The stories.
Instead of writing a mix of different ideas I happen to come up with and pull together on the spot that day, I am going to write about one thing twice a week for the entire month.
Women. I understand Girl meets Girl had a tendency to show up in my April: FINISHED. project (http:../../..emmmjay...blogspot.com/), which is why I am going with this because I feel like if I had a genre I *had to* pick it would be women. Not that that’s actually a genre. But no one has complained so far. And my friend did say “I foresee a career in the tawdry lesbian romance writing industry.” If there even is such a thing. These stories will range between PG 13 and NC 17.
The pictures.
I sent a big message to a bunch of my friends asking for interesting pictures of them with two or more women. Suggestive, funny, anything different. But if you didn’t get that message and you have a picture you think would be more stellar than any of the other pictures I’ve received, send them here:
mjdearmitt@..gmail.com
I am also open to requests and outlandish ideas. That worked really well last time.
And of course.
Comments & crit. always welcome. Even if it’s “Jesus MJ, I hated that.”
Say whatever you want because I certainly am. (We’ll see how much trouble I get myself into this time.)
Tea Time takes place here:
http:../../..teatimewithmj...blogspot.com/
for this project.
The link & title will always be posted in my status as usual.
Much love, MJ

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from a talented writer, who is also a friend

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From: MJ writes
Date: Jun 27, 2009 2:15 PM Subject: Tea Time darlings! Body: Here’s how it works.
For the month of July I am going to post a new story every Tuesday and every Thursday.
Rules.
-Posts before midnight. I’ll try and tack them up by brunch.
-Headed by a picture I took or was taken by a close pal who gave me permission.
-Everything posted will be written/..created that week.
The stories.
Instead of writing a mix of different ideas I happen to come up with and pull together on the spot that day, I am going to write about one thing twice a week for the entire month.
Women. I understand Girl meets Girl had a tendency to show up in my April: FINISHED. project (http:../../..emmmjay...blogspot.com/), which is why I am going with this because I feel like if I had a genre I *had to* pick it would be women. Not that that’s actually a genre. But no one has complained so far. And my friend did say “I foresee a career in the tawdry lesbian romance writing industry.” If there even is such a thing. These stories will range between PG 13 and NC 17.
The pictures.
I sent a big message to a bunch of my friends asking for interesting pictures of them with two or more women. Suggestive, funny, anything different. But if you didn’t get that message and you have a picture you think would be more stellar than any of the other pictures I’ve received, send them here:
mjdearmitt@..gmail.com
I am also open to requests and outlandish ideas. That worked really well last time.
And of course.
Comments & crit. always welcome. Even if it’s “Jesus MJ, I hated that.”
Say whatever you want because I certainly am. (We’ll see how much trouble I get myself into this time.)
Tea Time takes place here:
http:../../..teatimewithmj...blogspot.com/
for this project.
The link & title will always be posted in my status as usual.
Much love, MJ

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neutral milk hotel asks for your help in preserving a carousel

http://www.paragoncarousel.com/

http://www.theshadowbox.net/forum/index.php?topic=8554.0

rachel is an incredibly talented string player.
& has three incredible musicians "sitting in" with her
{"sitting in" may not quite be the right phrase for a conservatory recital ; - ..
}

note, i decided to not go experience amanda palmer perfom, to hear these four i..
nstead {no slight to amanda, but i get to experience her performances more ofte..
n than i do rachel's ; - }

Rachel's Most Important Gig Ever!!!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=68995106782

http://emmmjay.blogspot.com/2009/04/16-cotton-club...

I think you'll find this site interesting...

MUST READ!

mj is a d.dolls/ap/bv fan

as importantly, she knows how to write

she is doing a story everyday in april

they vary alot, but they have the variety, twists, and varying shades of darkness of amanda's lyrics

check them out for a treat!
http://emmmjay.blogspot.com/

she loves comments,

or just mentioning your favorites!

from
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=59607156403&id=24305196&index=0
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April: 30 stories in 30 days

Friday, March 27, 2009 at 1:40pm

It's
nearly April. 30 days of April. So I am writing a short, fiction story
a day and posting it for all to read. This is the first time I am
simply getting my work out there; also the first time I am challenging
myself to write a new piece a day.
The rules: Post before midnight, and everything I write will be written on that day.
These
stories are guaranteed to be filled with violence, filthy language,
sex…well SMUT is more like it, girls, debauchery, sad things, happy
things, fucked up things, strap-ons, alcohol, affairs, divorce, drugs,
the circus, death, life, fun, revenge, attempts at humor, which always
turn out so bleak, and have I mentioned violence?
Those are the
standards I am setting for myself. I’m kind of nervous that writer’s
block will occur and I won’t be able to write anything. But that’s what
challenges are all about. And to be perfectly honest, aside from the
gross laundry list above, I have no idea what I am going to come up with
Comments & crit. always welcome. Even if it’s “Jesus MJ, I hated that.”
Say whatever you want because I certainly am.
And since FB is so funky these days I set up an open blog here:
http://emmmjay.blogspot.com/
for this project.
The link & title will always be posted in my status.
Much love, MJ

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kim and zoe's van was broken into, and they lost their compies, and much else.

if you have a few dollars to spare, hit up the paypal button:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=13326259&blogID=470694372

facebook is increasingly doing the advertising lossage,
that a while back 'caused me to move most of my social networking from myspace

large picture ads,
that often take forever to load,
and often lock up my browser while doing so

i liked their subtle ads,
and actually clicked through to the more interesting ones.
no longer, they waste my time, they lose

i suspect they have not tested them under firefox,
which is my browser of choice,
and only choice where i most use the internet

sigh

hi,

if you're one of my myspace friends,
chances are you LOVE art

please help culturate the USA,
and sign this petition to urge president obama
to get us a cabinet level Secretary of the Arts!

http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

if you have a little extra energy, contact
* him directly @ the white house
* your congressperson
* both your senators

and tell everyone you know!

here's a video and a washington post article about this!

http://fora.tv/2008/12/17/Quincy_Jones_Secretary_of_the_Arts_Would_Transform_US

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303264.html

thanks! -len

this was mentioned in the comments sent to me on my myspace page.

it's one of the few poems. i've written

from http://www.mit.edu/~tower/poem.Bridge.html

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A Special Moment

Work finished well,
time unknown, not important,
one all-nighter ending,
in that wonderful state of mind.

Dwarfed by one of MIT's canyons,
above, ahead,
rough, cloud covered sky,
the dark grey of night becoming day.

Homeward bound from the Student Center,
no traffic, exhaust free air,
city healed again by night,
bicycling onto the bridge named Harvard.

East, clear sky, bright, blue, full of day,
arcing round a just risen sun,
clouds rimmed with sunrise red orange,
above the shadowed Boston skyline.

West, clear sky, dark, black, full of night,
arcing round a soon to set full moon,
clouds rimmed with pearly moonglo,
above the Boston Basin's sunrise lit hills.

Below, smoots clicking by,
over the Charles' somber lapping waves,
sunrise lit to the left,
moonglo lit to the right,
with a gentle breeze enfolding all.

Wonder to slow down the bicycling,
turn a commute into beauty's moment,
insuring the best of dreams.

- len tower, October 1987

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Please let me know what you think of my poems.
Thank You.

- len tower

on one of many jet flights

a 100 feet or so from touchdown, the jet went vertical at full throttle, high speed, fastest and steepest climb i've been in on a commercial flight

the pilot came on 30 seconds later:

a plane was landing on a cross runway, and it was just too close for me

the tower has apologized, and we'll try again as soon as i can come around

you now all understand why we ask you to fasten your seat belts

smoothest landing ever, the second time around

my doctor told me, when he finally convinced me to lose weight:

it be a shame for a mind as good as yours to have a stroke

i ask him why he hadn't told me that a decade earlier,
when he first started on his "len lose weight" campaign
when ever he measured my blood pressure

i've since asked him, if i was the first person he gave this reason to.

he said yes, and he was often using it with other patients too.

will have to tell him, i've blogged him. ; - }

in 1973 I was hitching from Casablanca to Tangiers. would get a ride to the
outskirts of the next village, walk to the far side and almost immediately get
a ride to the next village. as i crossed town, i would get a crowd of young
children following me. i also brought a bottle of Coca Cola. i noticed the
children's eye go wide when i asked for a coke (i assumed it was a rare
treat), and looked startled when the merchant told me the price and i paid. on
the walk out of the third village, i was ruminating on why the price of a
bottle of coke varied so much. then realized i was expected to haggle. i
picked a price that was 2/3rds of the lowest price i had paid, and got it in
the rest of the villages on the way to Tangiers. the children in the rest of
the villages remained wide-eyed, but now humored by the foreigner getting a
good price.