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Shake it
The Mediterranean Fantasy Festival is an annual weekend-long indulgence in non-stop belly dancing. Each year the boundaries of what constitutes belly dance are stretched. The operative word in the festival name is fantasy. Its not about an art form frozen in academic purity for these people. Its abo …
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The Cookies of Atonement
Never underestimate the power of baked goods. Once, my keyboard amp fried three days before a show. I called the electronics repair shop in a panic. The guy said it was at least a weeks wait just to look at it. But I have a show! Everyone has a show. It was time to break out the heavy artillery. I w …
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Tip of the Old Derby
A cyclist went down. In the 69 years that the Redmond Criterium has been running (and boy are their legs tired!), I dont know how much biker skin has become incorporated into the pavement of downtown Redmond, but I imagine its enough to make a whole new biker. The nations longest running bicycle rac …
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The odds are good that the goods are odd
Personal Ads © Eva Moon Tired of sitting home at night waiting for my shining knight Personal ads might shed some light looking for a man who’s… Having fun… with the personal ads Just begun… in the personal ads On the run… in the personal ads Son of a gun… in the personal ads The odds are good that …
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12:34:56 7/8/9
Just saying. A friend reminds me, if I go to europe I can experience it again in a month.
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Mr. ESP
From the CD release party Mr. ESP © Eva Moon My heart has been abducted and flown around the globe My head’s been deconstructed I’m ready for your probe You’re using psychic powers to send me to the moon The rapture lasts for hours the heat could bend a spoon Ooooooh, Mr. E.S.P. You’re playing wit …
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Lying Eyes
Some optical illusions you can get once you see whats going on. But some are so persistent that you flat out dont believe it no matter how many times you drag swatches around in photoshop. Like this. I came across another one. The blue and green spirals really are the same color. Really, they are. N …
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Zombiespeak: A Linguistic Analysis
The phenomenon of Dudespeak is well-known. According to Urban Dictionary its The language or mode of conversation that includes, but is not limited to, use of the ever-evolving term, dude. Meaning and connotations of the word dude depend on the circumstances and tone and attitude of the dudespeaker. …
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Our First Review!
Its nerve-wracking sending your baby out to be judged by people who dont know and love you. We worked so hard on Moon Falling Down, striving to give it every advantage, but now it must toddle out into the world and stand on its own merits or lack thereof. The albums first review is gratifying. Im re …
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Video is a Slut
So there we were. All the months of recording, mixing, production, promotion, preparation for the new CD and at last it was time to stand on stage and play it. And it was a blast! We played in three worlds Saturday night. First, to our audience at Soulfood Books. (Thank you all for coming out!) Seco …
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A Four-way with Eva
Theres more than one way to be part of our party for the release of our new CD Moon Falling Down tonight. Join us from anywhere in the world. Soulfood Books, Redmond. This is where the moon will fall to earth tonight. The party starts at 7 pm with visiting friend, Alex Whitmore playing a set of his …
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The Power of Levitation
It would be hard to overstate the influence and popularity of Goran Bregovic in Eastern European music of the last three decades. For anyone from that little piece of troubled real estate, the opening strains of one of his songs has the power of levitation. Bodies rise from chair to floor to table t …
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Moon Falling Down, Mother Goose Take
Synchronicity is everywhere. My CD Moon Falling Down is being released this week. Sunday, an ABC mini-series about the moon crashing into the Earth aired. And also this week, my son, Eric, shared a charming scene he had written for his scriptwriting class about the moon coming down to earth in human …
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Moon Falling Down, TV Disaster
I would not have subjected myself to the ABC mini-series disaster that is Impact had it not been for the incredible synchronicity factor: The release of a movie about the moon falling down the same week as the release of my CD Moon Falling Down. Before I comment, let me torture you with the trailer. …
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Just You Wait
Vignette: The scene, Tullys Coffee. Im sitting at a table with a cup of mint tea. My 24-year-old son appears a moment later and sags into the chair opposite, sighing. I feel old, he announces. Oh? I raise a warning eyebrow. The cashier looks really young to me. Just you wait, I tell him. At some poi …
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Spice It Up
The Lunatics have made a very pleasant habit of sharing a meal after band practice. I hesitate to use the word glue in any context containing food, but the practice does help to bind us as a group. Gah! Another poor word choice! Last night was my turn to cook again. If youve read any of my other re …
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Parking Fail
Our local movie theater has an overflow parking area. Its just a dirt and gravel lot with no markings, but its often the closest spot to the doors and its often raining, so we park there. Today, after the movie we were confronted with this: WTF? An entire row of cars was completely blocked in. What …
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Moon Falls to Earth!
A CD 9,000 years in the making has finally arrived! Ive got 11 boxes of the things people. Please order one today! Once again the UPS guy got the first one. With my thanks.
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How Not to Plumb
Todays Lesson: How to Turn a $5 Gasket into a $360 Emergency Plumbing Bill Our upstairs hall toilet sprung a leak recently. We dont use it much, so I just turned off the water at the cutoff and went about my business. But we have visitors arriving shortly and it occurred to me that access to a loo t …
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Practice, my son…
Performing artist, Penny Orloff has been my teacher, mentor and friend for nearly a decade. Its been a while since Ive seen her, but she was in town yesterday and it led to the closure of a curious circle of events nearly two decades in the making. Penny is the co-founder, with orchestra director Ch …
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