Saturday was for talking. The next 17 days are for action. And music!
The postcards don’t have to be fancy, or pretty. Thought they can be!
We just need to get the message out to as many people as possible.
If you want to write postcards, please send email to WaterGirl and let me know how many addresses you would like.
If you are uncertain of my email address, you will find instructions under Contact Us in the white menu bar up top.
Thank you!
Hope we have some folks supplying music tonight, too!
Open thread.
WaterGirl
Two more options for wording!
WaterGirl
And the other side.
wonkie
Is someone going to post how to get addresses? And when is the drop dead date for mailing? I live in Western Washington.
H.E.Wolf
I’m only here on a quick fly-by tonight, but this looks like an excellent chance to do some effective GOTV in the home state of some very valued BJ commenters! Thank you to the organizers who made this possible.
Mousebumples
With the election on February 21, the last day to mail should probably be the 11th or 13th? Or maybe 1 more day for those in Wisconsin or an adjoining state?
I’ll be here, but my little guy has conjunctivitis and is needing extra cuddles tonight so responses may be delayed.
If it would help to not need to decipher my handwriting, I can try to type up the messaging options, too.
dkinPa
I’m willing to write postcards, too. Just need to know how to get addresses. Thanks!
MazeDancer
Addresses are available, as always, from PostCard Patriots.
http://www.PostCardPatriots.com
Or just click on my nym.
mvr
I’m doing some of MazeDancer’s voters he got from another source, along with my spouse who is helping me since I write slowly. We’re each doing some. I’m also just going to name the two decent candidates and let voters choose for themselves (they likely will anyway and the point as I see it is just to get them to the polls). Did my first one now on to the 2nd.
BTW, he had some cards you could print out on cardstock and I’m using one of those.
UncleEbeneezer
Seventeen Days you say? Here is a hard rocking cover of Prince’s song “Seventeen Days” recorded by Living Colour. It was part of the session for their album Stain, but was only released as a b-side cd for another single, “Auslander.”
https://youtu.be/Qc2-vrKbq5c
Have a great party and postcard writing time.
WaterGirl
@dkinPa: I am handing out the addresses from Voces.
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StringOnAStick
I’ll be here to write after I get back from music group tonight.
WaterGirl
@UncleEbeneezer: Hey UncleEb, do you think any of your Indivisible peeps would want to write some postcards for us?
SpaceUnit
My handwriting has become a disgrace in recent years. It’s awful. Seriously.
But if there was a BJ fund to help pay for postcards and stamps I would contribute. ???
WaterGirl
@SpaceUnit: Thank you! If someone lets me know they would like to write but could use help with the expense, I am glad to know there is a volunteer for that!
Leslie
I’m confused. I did not request addresses from Postcard Patriots because I thought we were receiving addresses from Voces. What am I supposed to be doing for addresses?
Mousebumples
@mvr: We do have 2 great progressive candidates, you’re right!
I’m hopeful that these postcards will get more liberal voters to the polls! 🤩
mvr
@mvr:
Oops. Sorry to mis-gender MazeDancer in my previous comment.
SpaceUnit
Okay, music. Here is a shockingly beautiful song that some staunchly Christian folks might find objectionable. It’s about a recently converted pagan praying to Mary, asking to be released from all the religious mumbo-jumbo in order that they might attain a true state of grace.
It’s quite heretical. The song was written by Richard Shindell, but this version by the band Solas can reduce you to a puddle of goo . . .
On a Sea of Fleur de Lis
WaterGirl
@Leslie: Sorry for causing confusion!
I am handing out addresses from the Voces list. Just send me an email message t ask for addresses.
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Mousebumples
Also, I think another music & postcard thread is planned for Saturday, and next week at this time!
Leslie
@WaterGirl: Well, your answer doesn’t explain why Maze Dancer is pointing people to the Postcard Patriots website instead of saying to ask her for addresses. Unless she *is* the website?
WaterGirl
@Leslie: I can see why that would be confusing! Let me think on this for a minute.
Leslie
@WaterGirl: I am filling out postcards in the meantime, so once I get addresses I can just add them.
WaterGirl
@Leslie: How many addresses would you like?
Send an email to my nym at balloon-juice.com and I will send the addresses to you.
Mousebumples
@Leslie: If it helps, MazeDancer runs the website. She has a form you can send in on that website, where you include your name (or nym), email, and how many addresses you’d like.
I just requested 10. Hopefully I/we won’t be overwhelming her with requests every few days for more, but I don’t want to overcommit, and end up with more addresses than I can write in a timely manner.
I’ll get these mailed tomorrow and request more later this week, when I have another free night.
I’d love to see what everyone is creating, if WaterGirl is willing to post up more pictures! I’m still fine tuning where to put everything on my postcards!
Leslie
@WaterGirl: I have 40 postcards and stamps, and will spend the evening on this, so go ahead and send me 40, and if I don’t get them all done tonight I can finish them tomorrow.
mvr
@Mousebumples: I just keep changing mine. What they have in common is asking them to vote on the 21st, that they can vote for one person, that the two named will protect voting rights and reproductive rights, that Wisconsin’s Court is on a tipping point and that we need one of these to make it to the general election. And a “Thanks” w my first name. Not original, not clever but it should do.
SpaceUnit
An oldie-but-goody by The Shins. Also a compelling video . . .
Phantom Limb
Alison Rose
How fitting to have a music(-ish) thread. So a lot of you know my family’s history with the Grateful Dead, which includes that my father played in the band which was the precursor to the Dead. They were around for maybe a year and a half or so, mostly played in the Bay Area. One of their shows at a club in Palo Alto was recorded for the local radio station. 35 years later, that tape surfaced and GDP had it remastered and we released it on CD (I was working there at the time). It was pretty wild that my dad started getting royalties checks so long after the fact.
You can find all the tracks uploaded to YouTube, but I was thinking about it today and I also found someone who had uploaded the whole thing, including a little interview with the band at the end. I remember when I first heard this back in 1999, it was wild because it was like…damn, this is when my Dad was only 24, almost a decade before he and my mom even met. Listening to it again now, what also blew me away was that he sounds almost exactly like one of my brothers. It’s uncanny, really. But super cool. This link should go right to where the interview portion starts, and if you listen for a few minutes, it’ll come around to Dave Parker :)
Also — he did sing lead vocals on one track, which in that video starts around 28:35. If you like jug band music, bluegrass, folk, and just kinda silly stuff with lots of kazoo, give it a listen :)
mvr
@Alison Rose: That’s pretty cool!
Kristine
@SpaceUnit: I love The Shins!
Also James Mercer’s band with Brian Burton, Broken Bells.
MazeDancer
@Leslie: Apologies, after 4 years of spamming the threads with “Write PostCards” thought most people interested in PostCard writing knew I ran PostCard Patriots.
Email me at PostCardPatriots @ the Google mail place and I will send you 40 addresses from Voces.
Mousebumples
Last day to mail postcards for the primary:
Monday, February 13th
If you live in Wisconsin, or an adjacent state (IA, MN, IL, MI) –
Last day to mail will be Tuesday, February 14th.
With President’s Day on Monday, February 20th, please make sure your postcards actually go out the day you mail them, once we get closer to that deadline. (eg don’t put them in your mailbox at 8pm)
And after this set of postcards are done, we can work on the next campaign!
SpaceUnit
@Kristine:
I think James Mercer is a musical genius.
WaterGirl
CHANGE OF PLANS
Sorry for the confusion on how to get addresses. I want to keep this clean for MazeDancer, so I will be handing out the addresses from Voces for the Wisconsin elections.
Can you please reply to this message if you already requested addresses through MazeDancer. That way we can make sure nobody falls through the cracks.
WaterGirl
@wonkie: Hey wonkie, I can send you your addresses.
Can you send an email to my nym at balloon-juice.com and let me know how many you would like?
Thank you!
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: Requested 10,got 10,so I think I’m good?
Kristine
@WaterGirl: I requested/received addys via the Postcard Patriots website.
WaterGirl
@dkinPa: Hi! I can send you your addresses.
Can you send an email to my nym at balloon-juice.com and let me know how many you would like?
I will send them to you right away.
Thank you!
WaterGirl
@StringOnAStick:
I can send you your addresses.
Can you send an email to my nym at balloon-juice.com and let me know how many you would like?
Thank you!
mvr
@WaterGirl: I have a MazeDancer list from last week. I’m part way done with it and might as well continue until it is finished. Then I may ask for another. But I’m good for now.
MazeDancer
@mvr:
Worry not. How would you know?
One of the great things about nyms is no one knows your gender, age, race, ethnicity, good looks, or geographical location.
SpaceUnit
@MazeDancer:
Or whether or not you’re wearing pants!
MazeDancer
@SpaceUnit:
Important point. Which also has nothing to do with gender. Or fashion sense.
Omnes Omnibus
I would ask that anyone who is not a WI voter, please just encourage people to vote in the primary. As I stated below, I am not really sure that this blog should be taking sides in a primary. Thank you for caring about WI though. I’ll leave it there and leave you to it.
mvr
@MazeDancer:
Thanks! But I should have known I did not know and defaulted to ‘they’. I’m old and a bit slow these days.
SpaceUnit
Okay, here’s another musical genius. Kate Bush . . .
Somewhere in Between
mvr
Also, for the music part of the thread, someone linked this Clash concert from 1980 on YouTube the other day and it made me feel sad. They were very good and a kind of touchstone of my youth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLKl6FIBH0U&t=958s
trollhattan
This is a BBD–the Pebble Mine proposal has been threatening Alaska for decades (IOW Sarah Palin, big fan).
James E Powell
@Leslie:
Now that you mention it, I’ve never seen them both in the same room.
Leslie
@MazeDancer: No worries. I knew you were associated with them, just didn’t realize you were them when you put on your superhero suit. :)
WaterGirl sent me addresses, so it’s all good. Thank you!
Leslie
@James E Powell: I had not seen your comment when I left mine just below. GMTA …
Leslie
@Alison Rose: Very cool! Thanks for the link.
mvr
@trollhattan: Yes it was. Lots of people did a lot of work to push this across the finish line. Now let’s hope Supreme Court doesn’t abolish the relevant laws.
Wyatt Salamanca
RIP Tom Verlaine
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/28/tom-verlaine-frontman-and-guitarist-of-us-band-television-dies-at-73
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/13/he-was-tom-verlaine
Venus – Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOYZcP9o-4
Marquee Moon – Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4myghLPLZc
SpaceUnit
@Wyatt Salamanca:
Nice. RIP Tom.
NotMax
Falconieri: Folias.
Praetorius: Dances from Terpisichore.
Scout211
I guess the new series “The Last of Us” used an old Linda Ronstadt song from 1970 in the last episode and now the song is popular again. Streaming of the song on Spotify increased 4900% after the episode.
Here she is in a live performance of the song from the way back machine:
Long, Long, Time.
SpaceUnit
@NotMax:
You know you’re watching something special when the tambourine player needs sheet music.
NotMax
Something a bit more moderne. As it is, after, all, Wisconsin –
Franc Moody: Big Cheese.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m guessing your “I guess” means you don’t watch it? I’ve seen some positive headlines and tweets, but avoid reading further since I’m extremely spoiler-averse. Maybe I’ll check it out this weekend.
Scout211
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yes, you are correct. I haven’t seen it. My rural “broadband” is not streaming friendly.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Ob open thread, as I think Scott says
they’re doing this still? or they’re doing this again?
couldn’t bring myself to watch it
Alison Rose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Oh JFC. He pulls out the “First they came for the etc etc” poem. Can we plop him in a Delorean and let him go take a little tour of Auschwitz or something.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Their ridiculous comparisons to the Holocaust makes me think of one of the great John Cole rants of all time.
It went something like this.
That’s my model for the answer to “What’s like the Holocaust?”
prostratedragon
@Alison Rose: Wow, such interesting history.