{christmas in September}

so for all of you who have some disposable income and love good art, let me recommend the following:

Heather Shayne Blakeslee's fantastic folk album "Treon's Cut Rate" -- if you don't know Blakeslee's music, you should! and check it out -- she's got a great deal going on at CD Baby.com where you'll get a free bonus CD. just because she moved away and doesn't play at Bar 13 anymore doesn't mean you can't adore her! details below.

AND for those on the poetry side of things: my favorite reading out here in LALA land, the Ugly Mug, what I consider our sister series on the wrong coast, has a new compilation CD out, called (appropriately enough) Live at the Ugly Mug. it's fan-bloody-tastic, I am not kidding. It has poems by Rachel McKibbens, Mindy Netifee, Buddy Wakefield, your own Marty McConnell, Brendan Constantine, June Melby, Derrick Brown, Jeff McDaniel, Jack McCarthy, and more. 20 tracks! details below.

*** BUY THIS STUFF! SUPPORT ART! ***

FREE CD OFFER from Heather Shayne Blakeslee:

CD Baby is having another contest for top-sellers this month, and so I'm offering an incentive to by a CD from them by the 25th of September: A FREE CD OF NEW MUSIC, SIGNED AND ALL. I'm recording two new songs and re-recording a song from Bones next week, for a short recording called Mercy Mountain. It's yours for free if you help me out this month by buying a record by the 25th, and giving me a chance to be on the CD Baby Top Sellers Sampler CD (again!). Just go to http://www.cdbaby.com/blakeslee2 to buy Treon's Cut Rate, and the new music is yours!

LIVE AT THE UGLY MUG:

should be available soon online -- for now, go to www.poetryidiots.com and email the good folks there at host@poetryidiots.com and they'll get it to you!

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yay! go consumerism!