From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V10 #23 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Thursday, April 6 2006 Volume 10 : Number 023 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Susan on Huffingtonpost.com ["Susan Werner News" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 07:28:39 -0400 From: "Susan Werner News" Subject: Susan on Huffingtonpost.com Ms. Werner goes to Washington - or, to HuffingtonPost, anyway Boston, April 3, o6 hello to everybody, and here's the latest: i visited historical-icious Faneuil Hall this afternoon, site of passionate speeches by Samuel Adams and James Otis and others, in favor of American Independence - and stood at the gravestone of Paul Revere in a little churchyard off Tremont Street - i got all inspired and everything - really - i'm heading to Wolf Trap outside D.C. again saturday night - and it does seem an auspicious moment to announce that an animated version of my protest song "My Strange Nation" has been entered into competition at HuffingtonPost.com's Contagious Festival. with graphic design by chicago artist Gretchen Hasse, the song joins tens of other entries in a cacophony of protest, humor and insults. some of the entries are diatribes, some are kinda slapstick, some are thoughtful meditations on the times, some are flat out nasty (aka ugly), and some are absolutely hilarious. since an astounding 1,418 of you individdles downloaded the music file to "Strange Nation" in the first week of its release, we know there's plenty of enthusiasm for this patriotic little number out there. so go to the huffingtonpost.com site, stand up, turn your torso towards the nearest flag - - while turning your head back to watch the graphics - a bit of yoga involved here - cover your heart with your right hand and sing along :-) and then send the link on to all your like minded friends: http://strangenation.cf.huffingtonpost.com/ and in running up the number of hits, you'll invite other peeps to hear "strange nation" and to consider the possibility that, despite all its flaws, they might just love their big, odd shaped, odd minded country, too. you'll also (indirectly) invite other peeps to the susiewerner website and wernerworld. this can be a good thing. i tend to think so, and i'm not even afraid to say it. thanks everybody, see you somewhere soon, yes, even in kansas, where i am coming in person to see what the hell's the matter, if anything, with you. ("what's the matter with kansas" by thomas frank, 2004) susan werner ardent patriot and brewmaster (same as sam adams) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SCHEDULE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As always, please check with the venue before making the trip Friday, 4/7/2006 Tin Angel PhiladelphiaPA 215-928-0770 7:30 pm Saturday, 4/8/2006 The Barns of Wolftrap Vienna VA 703-938-2404 8:00 pm Friday, 4/21/2006 Westside Folk Coffeehouse Lawrence KS 785-865-3655 7:30 pm Saturday, 4/22/2006 Manhattan Arts Center Manhattan KS 785-537-4420 8:00 pm Sunday, 4/23/2006 Old Settlers Inn Moundridge KS 620-345-2733 4:30 pm Sunday, 5/7/2006 The Howmet Playhouse Whitehall MI 231-894-5656 3:00 pm Friday, 5/12/2006 Tupelo Music Hall Londonderry NH 603-437-5100 8:30 pm Saturday, 5/13/2006 Club Passim Cambridge MA 617-492-7679 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm Thursday, 5/18/2006 Black Rock Center for the Arts Germantown MD 301-528-2260 7:00 pm Friday, 5/19/2006 Joe's Pub New York NY 212-539-8778 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm Saturday, 5/20/2006 Music at the Mission West Milford NJ 973-728-4201 8:00 pm Sunday, 5/28/2006 Concert Under the Stars King of Prussia PA 610-645-0837 7:00 pm HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V10 #23 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message