Friends, Countrymen;

In a few days I will be retracing the path of thousands of ancient conastogas, puttering up Shasta and down Grant’s, charring and grimacing under the Oregon blaze, just to get to my homeland of Seattle, Washington.

It’s very rare that I show my art publicly. After last time, when an angry mob showed up early with torches and pitchforks and ate all the cubical cheese, I had really lost hope in the Seattle art scene. I tried showing down here in the Bay Area, where I now reside, but had to take down early due to hippies protesting a yeti that had climbed one of the campus trees.

It is for this reason that I would be terribly obliged if only you’d find some way to drop in at either one of the art shows I’m launching this weekend.

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SCENE: #ectomo on EFNet, also reachable through ectochat, early in the AM. Qais (Qnonymous) begins describing in details his eyebrow-dying process: no one is paying attention. Finally, the New Scum testily snaps…

Qnonymous: Nothing drives me up the fucking wall more than being ignored

Brownlee: Nic0, did you hear something?

nic0: nope?

nic0: where?

nic0: here?

Brownlee: Must have been some sort of gay technicolor sheep bleating outside.

Brownlee: JUST IGNORE IT.

nic0: OK

Qnonymous: Also being interrupted

Qnonymous: SOMETHING YOU JERKS CAN’T DO HERE

[10:57] * Florian has kicked Qnonymous from #ectomo (Qnonymous)

[10:57] * Qnonymous (~mister.sw@blah.net) has joined #ectomo

[10:57] * Qais gives channel operator status to Qnonymous

Brownlee: CHECKMATE.

Come join us in Ectochat! There’s usually a couple dozen of us alternately chatting or idling, all day, every day.