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Appearances and other fun
Jun. 24th, 2020 11:31 amSO MUCH GOING ON! See local updates below. In the meantime:
- I appeared on the Super Relaxed Fantasy Club YouTube channel, changed hats a lot and talked about Queen of Swords Press this week!
- I have a new letter up to my high school self at the Letters to Yesterday Podcast.
- Queen of Swords Press is also a vendor at Twin Cities Pride Virtual Marketplace on 6/27 and 6/28. I'll be doing a virtual hangout on Sunday night from 5-7 (check TC Pride website for code). I'm also running a sale that's going on right now: get 15% off any purchase over $3 direct from the QoSP website using code TCPride2020 now through 6/29. Print and ebook available1
- The Pride StoryBundle is going into its last week and change. Pick up your copy today and help support Rainbow Railroad's work with LGBTQ refugees at the bonus level!
- Me and Minneapolis - well, things are still very lively, though with less sense of immediate peril. There's a bunch of volunteer requests at the George Floyd Memorial site as well as at the new homeless sanctuary in Powderhorn Park and for various food giveaways and cleanups (too many to list - ask around or check online). Fundraising is still ongoing for everything, but a lot of restaurants, etc. are calling it quits since between the COVID shutdown, the economic impact and the riots, there just isn't anything left to keep going (so please keep donating to emergency funds here and elsewhere in the Twin Cities - it's going to be a very hard summer).
- I took a sick day yesterday (mostly due to just being very tired and having a growing migraine) and went to see my dentist - she's an African-American woman in her sixties who runs a dental practice that's entirely staffed by women of color, located a few blocks east and south of us. They're all pretty edgy about everything, not surprisingly, but on the pandemic front, they have the whole office divided into tents and are sanitizing like mad. I'm noticing that those of us who live here are beginning to talk about time in terms of before and after George Floyd's murder so I think it will be a pivotal event for a very long time to come. At any rate, after that, I did a Seward Co-op run, then went up to Lake Street briefly. I find that I'm having to take it in small doses.Yesterday was a visit to Bill's Imported Foods (open) and an attempt to stop by Steamship Coffee and Games (open, but not when I was there). I could see take-out signs in front of Bryant Lake Bowl. They all looked pretty good, but the gas station is a burnt out husk and several of the other businesses were trashed and are either closed forever or for repairs. From there, I went on to the Lake Harriet Rose and Peace Gardens (open for walking) and spent a lovely soothing hour there before heading home to read and nap and recover. Doing a bit better today.
- The video from last week
