i’m trying a new thing where i add stuff to this draft over the course of the month instead of making a summary at the end. truly some diary shit ~

jk it’s the end of the month, i did not do that at all actually. hi! i’m a lil late for november and my brain is soup. here’s your monthly newsletter. i hope you’re hanging in there. i have no comment on the various ongoing atrocities today.

upcoming!

flyer transcript: tender perennial (oly bedroom pop - last show?), guidon bear (oly nightmare pop), mini golf water feature (tacoma tweemo), the etnos (oly dreamo) on december 7th, 7pm at decay (402 washington st ne). 5-10 doll hairs, all ages, masks required + provided, ADA accessible, air purifiers & co2 monitoring by clean air oly.

i’m playing (probably) my last show (i’m tender perennial) on saturday, december 7th at 7pm. i’m going first and i’m prepared to play to an empty room, so if ya wanna see me, be there early! gonna be trying to test all performers who wanna unmask with a pluslife before the show, coordinated kindly by my friend william. they’ll also be setting up far-UVC. it will hopefully be the safest dang show i’ve ever played! i’m retiring partly because my voice is gonna change on T, and partly because i basically can only play shows that i book myself re: covid precautions, and i don’t hate myself enough to do that more than just this once lol.

i’m taking a holiday break! the 20th thru the 1st. so if you’d like to order something from my shop, get it soon!

i’m holding another clothing swap at DECAY december 27th from 2-5pm, no crafts this time! all leftover clothes will be donated to EGYHOP, food not bombs and possibly Oly MAP.

i’m planning a mask chain workshop, it’ll be a sunday, january 12th, 2-5pm. you can RSVP here.

clean air oly

i started a grant program this month but i didn’t really publicize the application process because i shared it once and got 4 applicants, which is about all i can handle this grant cycle. i could really use donations for it though! <3

graphic detailing how the purifier micro grant donations go to support a handful of vulnerable thurston/pierce county community members (with priority towards those who are experiencing long covid, immunocompromised, high risk and/or QTBIPOC).

anyway, wild!!!! absolutely fucking wild amount of reservations lately. i’m taking a break in late december to figure out how to delegate tasks and rework my process because i need HELP.

screen grab of jenny slate saying, “i need so much help” from her special stage fright.

second home

is officially donezo, i just have to close our bank account and liquidate the rest of our funds. some of those funds have already been donated to EGYHOP & DECAY respectively (i’m not yelling, they’re just both acronyms lol). the remaining big chunk will go to crips for esims for gaza & if there’s anything left it’ll go to clean air oly’s grant fund.

some songs

my friend heather mastered this song! ffo: alex g, elliott smith. i’m repeat listening in hopes that this song knocks ‘i never’ by rilo kiley out of my brain’s broken tape deck. no shade to rilo kiley, it’s a great song, but it’s been like an intrusive thought the past week.

and here is a poignant song from my aforementioned friend heather:

on a pennsylvania music roll here, so why not add this new song from lancaster’s sweetie, tyler burkhart:

breaking the PA streak with this beautiful one my friend sarah played for me recently:

tiny victories

• i rode my ebike downtown for the first time and didn’t get hit by a car!

• monday night skate jams at skateland with ella <3

• sunday night dinners with clover <3

• landed a date with someone from the cursed apps (and the date fell thru, but not due to ghosting, due to travel logistics, so there is still hope!)

• i’m hot and cool and i deserve rest and i am successfully internalizing this after many years of trying

that’s all for now <3 <3 <3 love y’all!