Tag: petitions

Song of the Week

Vas, “Amrita”

Good morning! Or afternoon, I guess.

I am writing to you from within a cloud of wildfire smoke today, so I hope you are well and staying safe.

Two more pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week. This chapter should conclude on Tuesday of next week, and then we’re on to the last one! The end of this volume is in sight!

After this volume is edited and published, I want to start the second volume and a new book. I don’t know how that will work with my schedule, but I plan to figure it out. We’ll talk about the new book soon; I want to get your opinions, so please overcome your fear of answering poll questions and leaving comments. I’m nice, I promise.

A couple petitions:

Via Amnesty International: Get ICE out of our communities and Help stop the bloodshed in Sudan

Via The Workers Circle: Protect over 350,000 Haitian refugees from deportation

That’s all I have for you today. I love you, please take care, and stop by again soon.

Song of the Week

Stormclouds, “Cassilda’s Song” (from The King in Yellow)

Today’s post is late because I had a family event to attend, but here it is! Also, my car is working. There’s some brief nudity in the video as it goes through the artist’s tarot deck, just so you know. This is my favorite version of Cassilda’s Song, and one of the few human-made versions to be found on the internet.

New comic pages this week! I think we’re five away from the end of this chapter.

Here are all of the petitions I’ve collected to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli detention. He has been tortured and believes himself to be close to death:

MPower Action

Amnesty International

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Institute for Middle East Understanding

That’s what I’ve got for you today. I love you; take care of yourselves.

Song of the Week

Buckethead, Azam Ali, and Serj Tankian, “Coma”

Good morning!

Well, it happened: the battery in my tablet pen finally died. I sent my husband on a quest for AAAA batteries, which I wasn’t aware existed until owning this pen. They’re very tiny.

So, now that I have those, I’ll have a new page of Last Watch Before Dawn for you tomorrow and Friday. Our protagonists are on the move!

A couple of petitions:

Via Native Organizers Alliance: protect Two-Spirit and trans people, immigrants, bodily and Tribal sovereignty, and organizations receiving federal funding

Via Daily Kos: Close cruel detention centers

Via Demand Progress: Reject $3.3 billion in taxpayer funding for Israel’s military

That’s all for today. Take care of yourselves, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

MAREWREW, “Sonkayno”

Good morning! More Ainu music for today.

I am so sad to have missed the Chicago Pride Book Fest. My car stopped working on the way out of Milwaukee, and despite trying very hard (we got a jump from roadside assistance, but it didn’t help), we ended up having to head home. Fortunately, it managed to make it there (at like 35 miles an hour, max), so we didn’t get stranded. I’m taking it in to the dealership today.

If the newsletter is something that interests you, it’s going to go out at noon tomorrow (Central time). You can put your email in the box at this link. Be sure to check your inbox right after for a confirmation. This edition has garden and cat pictures, plus a bunch of Brooke’s new paintings.

New pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week. This coming month will finish up Chapter Four, and then we’re on to the last one!

A couple of petitions:

Via Native Organizers Alliance: Save the Equal Access Rule

Via Action Collective: Drop the 30-year charges against ICE protestors

Via All Out: Stop deporting LGBT+ people into danger

That’s all for now. I love you, take care, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Mozart Gabriel, “Road Drum”

Good morning!

Slay the Lake Pride Book Fest is this Saturday! Noon to 5 at Soundgrowler Brewing, 8201 183rd St, Tinley Park, IL . It’s free to enter, all ages, and all genres. Here’s the Facebook event and here’s the website. See you there!

New pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week. By my new count, we’re ten pages from the end of this chapter, and there is one chapter left after that.

A couple of petitions:

Via Cosecha: Free Martin Soto

Via US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: No pride in genocide

Via No Business With Genocide: Pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act

Thanks for being here, and I hope to see you on Saturday. Happy Pride and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Ajeemama, “Thillana”

Good morning!

I mostly do the same things every week these days, so this I know this space doesn’t really offer much in the way of news, but I do enjoy the opportunity to bring you some new music.

On that note, two more pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week. We’re about to get our protagonists, and the plot, moving along again.

Don’t forget about Slay the Lake’s Chicago Pride Book Fest on the 27th!

A couple of petitions:

Via Save the Children Action Network: Keep kids fed and thriving

Via Win Without War: Stop the boat strikes

Via Fòs Feminista: End the global gag rule

I’ll be back tomorrow with a new comic page. Thanks for being here and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Yaelokre, “Bird cage blue and yellow”

Good morning! Happy Pride!

Not much to report this week. I’m working on a dense (eight-panel) page of Last Watch Before Dawn for tomorrow, and there will be a hopefully less dense one for Friday.

At the end of the month (the 27th), I’ll be at Slay the Lake’s Pride Book Fest! It will be at Soundgrowler Brewing, 8201 183rd St., Tinley Park, IL. I’m excited to take this show on the road.

Petitions:

Via Just Foreign Policy: Support the Lebanon War Powers Resolution

Via Win Without War: End war on Iran

Via Indivisible: Solidarity with hunger strikers at Delaney Hall

That’s all for today. I love you, be safe, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Kíla & OKI, “Topattumi”

Good morning!

Here is something I didn’t know existed: a collaboration between Celtic pop group Kíla and Ainu musician Oki. The language you hear is Ainu, pronounced very carefully by the Irish gentlemen. There are only around 300 native speakers left, if memory serves.

I got my meds and am feeling much better! I just have to finish this course of antibiotics. I’ll have new pages of Last Watch Before Dawn tomorrow and Friday.

My next market will be Slay the Lake’s Pride Book Fest on Saturday, June 27: Noon to 5 at Soundgrowler Brewing, 8201 183rd St, Tinley Park, IL. More on that as we get closer!

Some petitions for today:

Via Block the Bombs: Block the bombs

Via USCPR Action: No War on Iran, No Weapons for Israel, No ICE in Our Communities

Via Save the Children: Unlock lifesaving aid for families

That’s all for today. Stop by again soon!

Song of the Week

Nadiiife, “Winter Child”

Good morning!

Spooky Frog was a fantastic event, as always, and now I’m looking forward to a nice break from markets until Slay the Lake in Chicago at the end of June.

Two pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week, so be sure to stop by again!

A couple of petitions:

Via Win Without War: Pass a War Powers Resolution

Via Amnesty International: Block the bombs and Free Andrea and get her medical attention

Thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

The Cure, “The Hanging Garden”

Good morning!

This is earlier than I usually post these, because I have been awake since 4AM. All of my children, human and feline, decided that was the time to wake up. I disagreed, but I was apparently outvoted.

Chocolate cake was a hit, but baby seems to still like fruit better. Her ability to pick it up with her hands may be a factor.

New pages of Last Watch Before Dawn this week, and I’ll be at the Spooky Frog Horrifying Book Fair on Saturday! 11-4 at the Sheraton Brookfield, and entry is only $5. There will be DJs, free snacks, a cash bar, and of course indie horror authors and artists. I am looking forward to going back!

A couple of petitions for this week:

Via Action Network: Fund SNAP, not bombs

Via All Out: Ensure shelters in Lebanon are accessible to everyone

Via the Institute for Middle East Understanding: Recognize the ongoing Nakba

Via Win Without War: End war on Iran

That’s all for now. Thanks for being here, stop by again soon, and I’d love to see you on Saturday!