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clementine was “at capacity” for much of the night.
kids were climbing the walls, bouncers were placed at all entrances to prevent stragglers from sneaking in, the bar downstairs was full of the overflow.
apparently, there is dire need for all ages shows around these parts.
most of the kids mentioned above were underage (which makes them seem like criminals, no?). and completely psychotic for wild animal party.
the bartenders were not so impressed. word on the street is that even those who could drink were lousy tippers. sigh.
come on kids!
i’m a huge proponent of all ages venues and shows. and therefore, i’m a huge proponent of showing a little respect when the opportunity arises or it won’t happen again. just sayin’
i lived in seattle when i was 20, and it was horrible. absolutely horrible. all i did was stay home and feel sorry for myself while my friends went happily to over-21 bar shows. and almost everything was over-21.
so, i’m glad that 1.) bands want to play for everyone and 2.) venues are willing to let everyone in.
the thing is that high-school kids and early college people are often the best fans. really, honestly interested in the music. willing to travel long distances for a favorite band. less likely to grumble about about the cover charge. their excitement not tempered with too much alcohol. devoted. in short, they are who musicians want listening to their music. unfortunately, they don’t help out the bars, who help out the musicians. it’s a broken system. sigh.
i would write some nice stuff about wild animal party’s music, but i was barricaded to the downstairs bar for the duration. (despite my best attempts: pretending to being their photographer, saying “i’m with the band”, i was struck down mercilessly.)
my impression through the speakers was that it was really solid and energetic. if anyone wants to write in a review who was actually upstairs, we’ll post it. it was hard not to be excited, seeing as i’ve never heard of a local venue being at capacity like that…long live the h’burg music scene.
some of those “underage” left for preacher’s surprise set (also a little lame, but beneficial, as i was actually allowed upstairs). it maybe showed a bit that the guys found out they were playing only 3 or so hours before going on (due to sickness in the cinnamon band): they were perhaps a little less tight, a little sweatier, and a little more long-winded.
but still blessedly entertaining (poison drinking was involved) and crazy (on-stage collapse & resurrection). with really really good music thrown in. (“he is a rock” & “i luv you my friends” were consistent crowd favorites. they even were allowed a 12:45am encore of david byrne’s “heaven”. (thanks, jeremiah & all the clementine waitstaff that usually goes home earlier…)
Filed under: -of deals, -of harrisonburg, -of jhumphrey, -of localism, -of sound
brothers & sisters-
HE has SAVED you from fretting about tonight’s plans. no more strife, no more stress from that artificial sense of personal freedom.
for it is predestined;
PREACHER will be blessing one and all tonight in a surprise show at clementine cafe.
due to excessive folly, the cinnamon band has been struck down for the night…(prayer requests for healing will be offered during the show).
wild animal party & nelly kate will begin around 9:30ish.
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preacher will be telling the good news around 10:30ish.
remember, it is your destiny.
see you there.
(bring your $5 or the state will make fun of you in public.)
pssstt. i was maybe just at t.j. maxx and they have loads of korres natural body products for $4-$6.
here’s an short review from these folks:
- We love that Korres products are organic and natural. There are no mineral oil or synthetic ingredients of any kind. It seems as if the company is truly dedicated to getting you the best researched and documented ingredients they can find.
- It’s nice to see products that have an ingredient list that resembles your grocery list instead of all kinds of crazy chemicals that you can’t pronounce.
- The Korres website offers all their products on-line through Sephora.com.
Filed under: -of harrisonburg, -of jhumphrey, -of localism, -of sound
you better get recording a fancy little demo if you haven’t already.
today, the 27th of feb., is the deadline for MACRoCk band applications.
Bands one and all, today is the day, the last day, to apply to perform at MACRoCk this year. Head over the bands section of our site for the application to mail in with a at least 3 song demo. Everything that is postmarked today or earlier will be considered. For all applicants, expect to receive notification on your submission in early March. Send ‘em! Questions? email: harpermacrock@hotmail.com
Filed under: -of deals, -of harrisonburg, -of health, -of jhumphrey, -of kiddos
i was at gift & thrift yesterday, following up on a lead that this precious little consignment store was no longer selling used toys.
not any more...
has anyone heard about this really big, little issue? no? here’s the gist (from the la times):
Barring a reprieve, regulations set to take effect next month could force thousands of clothing retailers and thrift stores to throw away trunkloads of children’s clothing.
The law, aimed at keeping lead-filled merchandise away from children, mandates that all products sold for those age 12 and younger — including clothing — be tested for lead and phthalates, which are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable. Those that haven’t been tested will be considered hazardous, regardless of whether they actually contain lead.
i am particularly interested after a long discussion a few weeks ago with the owners of the flying squirrel – a locally-owned kid’s consignment store in brooklyn. they were discussing (lamenting) which WAHM (work-at-home-mom) & used items they would potentially have to ditch from their sales rack in response to this new mandate. i also wonder what my old friends at bootyland in seattle are thinking and doing regarding this issue…
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have you ever bought an adorable screenprinted onesie?
paypal-ed your way to an amazing handknitted toddler cap?
scored a sweet vintage fisher price winnebago for $5?
the days of being able to outfit and entertain your little ones via local and recycled sources might soon be over.
goodbye etsy. so long kwik, polar babies, green mountain organics, soft star shoes, the pajama squid, cheeky baby shirts, handknit cashmere caps, tiny vintage cowboy boots.
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these small retailers can’t dish out for lead testing.
hello target and walmart. hello plastic and poly-blend.
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i’m honestly disappointed in gift & thrift. why not fight back? put up a big sign that states clearly that they don’t test for lead in all of their toys because they are a thrift store, and ask customers to sign a waiver when purchasing toys? it gets the word out, covers their ass, and all are happy. when they fold and succumb immediately, all it does is pave the way for such legislation to better the already-thriving retail world of target and walmart.
gift & thrift, post this sign. but keep selling toys.
didn’t you sign a waiver when you bought your old house, stating that you understood that your kid could possibly eat the paint off the windowsill and die of lead poisoning and you were okay with this possibility? what’s the difference? expect that the people who loose in this situation are the little people. the small businesses, the old grandpas carving wooden pull-toys, the stay-at-home-mom with a sewing machine. poor people also loose. who buys used toys? poor people. who’s kids will being going without? poor people.
i don’t see the government this worked up about vaccines and environmental toxins as preservatives. nobody is too worried that my kid might have been injected with trace amounts of heavy metals last time he got a shot. i don’t see tuna fish being taken off the shelves in a fish exodus in the name of consumer safety. all the grocery stores have to do is post a little sticky note below the stacks of cans saying that preggos and kids shouldn’t eat a lot of the mercury-laden stuff. we all play the game of risks/benefits every day – especially when it comes to our kids. the world is a fucking deathtrap if you really want to think about it that way.
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i feel a bit terrified that i’m presenting a strong libertarian, anti-regulation stance on this issue. but my point is that the government cares way more about walmart, merck, & the housing market than they do about my kid.
so lay off.
lay off of my kid’s toys. and my friend who sews handmade nap mats (hi amanda!).
transparency and accountability are the keys to regulation. and what better way to be held accountable than to be selling your wares locally to your best friends? (joel salatin, of local polyface farm fame, has an amazing argument against government regulation of meat products that is incredibly applicable to this situation. read his book, everything i want to do is illegal.)
wanna do something about it? good.
1.) go talk to the gift & thrift folks. make suggestions (see above), don’t just complain. are other local consignment stores sending their toys to the landfill? check it out and go talk to them as well. (and then send us an email and let us know what you know.)
2.) you can also do the whole “write to congress” thing – which has been successful in staving off the deadline for one year. as of today, there are 347 more days to comply with these regulations before being penalized. a lot of work is being done by groups representing businesses at risk – such as the handmade toys alliance – to put a stop to the insanity in 346 more days. go to their site for more ideas.
Filed under: -of funny, -of jgrimsrud, -of politik, -of the outside world
the republican party is reborn, & the latest evidence was bobby jindal’s stinging rebuttal of obama’s speech to congress tuesday night.
the finest moments of political genius & inspiration call upon the great spirits of our history & the classic narratives of the uniquely american story. john stewart saw in “bobby” the shade of a great american:
this may be true, and i would love to see, as part of formation of a narrative of economic recovery, “bobby” jindal tour a crayon factory.
but we at the state believe that this is the dawn of a new era. the (briefly) flagging republican party is truly reborn, and “bobby” understands that today is a new day, and demands a new cast of american heroes & american narratives. yes piyush “bobby” jindal, ¡today is the day of kenneth “the page” parcell!
Filed under: -of eats, -of harrisonburg, -of jhumphrey, -of localism
so, i’ve spent several weeks grilling friends and strangers for the scoop on franklin’s.
i have not been to franklin’s cafe and wine bar yet.
but i harbor a deep skepticism.
i had great hopes as the building was outfitted with huge glass windows and sat clean and sleek on the corner of mason & market.
but then the junk began to appear.
the plastic chairs, the weird bad writing on the windows, the inexplicable cart, the multiple cheap signs with sad graphic design.
i heard some bad reports on the wine and food.
costco has a much better wine selection.
they won’t tell you how much the wine costs.
nobody who works there knows anything about wine.
the sandwiches come in red plastic baskets. which is an upgrade from the styrofoam plates.
the lunch is not that great.
the atmosphere is tacky and cluttered.
yikes.
and then, i began to hear a little, repetative, bright spot in all the disappointment: the pizza.
this funny little video has a shot of the grilled pizza. which i hear is lovely. really lovely.
crisp. charred in the right spots. and abundance of toppings. a willingness to allow personalization.
this is what i imagine and hope for:
so, here’s my not-so-humble advice to you, franklin’s:
1.) strip your restaurant. of almost everything. the plastic. the posters in cheap frames. the writing on the windows. the ‘grand opening’ sign.
2.) paint it white. everything.
3.) hire a real graphic designer to help you out. multiple generic fonts are never cool. (okay, this is an annoying an overly picky suggestion. i deserve any comments telling me to stick to the important things…but seriously, look:)
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4.) go with the pizza. PIZZA. you would have the market. there is no good pizza in harrisonburg. you could be the place to go for grown-up beautiful pizza. and a good pizza is truly a beautiful thing. don’t be a cafe. be a pizza place. focus. hone it down. channel your resources and energy to the one thing you have going for you.
5.) go local. with as much as possible. the veggies, the wine, the meat. shop at the farmer’s market. buy your meat from T&E’s. buy your wine from local vineyards. and USE this to your advantage. flaunt it. write it on everything. raise your prices, if you have to. people will pay for local.
so, this is sort of an alternative restaurant review.
i’ll write another – hopefully exceptionally pizza positive – after i actually eat there…
Filed under: -of jhumphrey, -of reads, -of the outside world, -of travel
while we are on the topic of bluebirds, fluff, and bliss…
this is a neat book.
i spend lots of time in the car, and i listened to it recently (i admit this with some degree of shame, as i really feel like a cheater, seeing as i only touched my ipod and no actual paper…).
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it’s not hilarious, but amusing. not a novel, but a travelogue-philosophy hybrid. not straight journalism, but somewhat in the self-help-for-hip-people-who-like-to-travel genre.
eric weiner (from NPR) explains it this way:
Is this a self-help book? Perhaps, but not like any you’ve read before. I offer no simple bromides here. No chicken soup. You will find no easy answers in these pages. You will, however, find much to chew on and, perhaps, some unexpected inspiration. We Americans, it turns out, have no monopoly on the pursuit of happiness. There is wisdom to be found in the least likely of places.
Place. That is what The Geography of Bliss is about. How place—in every aspect of the word—shapes us, defines us. Change your place, I believe, and you can change your life.
i guess i feel like this book is noteworthy because i keep thinking about it. i keep thinking about how strange and impossible it is to gage happiness. and yet, how interesting the results from such surveys are. and i keep thinking about the fact that there are actual happiness institues, and happiness psychologies, and happiness websites.
feeling down? check these out:
If you are an optimist – or aspire to be one – welcome to our world. Here at Optimist World you’ll find daily good news headlines, inspiring stories about charities, positive corporate social responsibility activities, sustainable travel, optimistic stories from the world of sports, and so much more
The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life.
It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.
Subjective appreciation of life-as-a-whole, as assessed in survey studies in nations. Distribution of responses by nation and year.
Dance, sing and laugh as much as possible, for every reason and for no reason. If you don’t feel like it, put on some music that you know will make you feel like it, or watch or read something that makes you laugh.
happy.
happy.
happy.
maybe if we could bump the bike love up a notch around here, it would become a “thing”, and we’d all be obsessed, eco, frugal, and happy (as we rode along on our way to plop the $7 down we didn’t spend on gas for some local tunes), and we’d be inspired to show this newfound bliss via these:
golly. i can almost feel the bluebirds tugging at my collar.
(note: wow. is the above really the iconic zip-a-dee-doo-dah image? i feel almost uncomfortable posting it.)
but, i have to admit that if a stranger tagged my (non-existent) bike with such a sweet, letterpressed, note, i would be inclined towards decreased depression and miserliness. wouldn’t you?
you can order some and start the trend here. they are only $5 for 6 tags. and folks, that’s far cheaper entertainment than either buffalo wild wings or a night with the local bands.
thanks to joanna for the lead.
and we take a breath.
before the next rant. (which, fear not, is quickly developing and shall be appearing in no time at all.)
just a little call-and-response from the previous rant of jgrimsrud that i thought belonged on the big stage rather than tucked neatly away in the comments section:
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blissful happy do-gooders have jolly good time at the blue nile after joyfully paying a $5 cover
reader jon stated:
Seven dollars my ass and I’ll say it again seven dollars my ass. No not really but one should consider that cost is correlated to wages. Unless people are payed more money they won’t pay more for entertainment. I know several local employers have cut raises/cost of living increases this year so one can only expect that people will be forced to cut back as well.
and my humble response:
true, jon – with the economy as it is, people will feel the proverbial tightening of the belt and indeed have less to drop for music and fun. but, many of the folks who gripe about a $7 cover charge would happily run to spend $40 on “wings, beer, and sports” at buffalo wild wings.
it’s all about perception, priorities, and choice.
ESPECIALLY in this current tailspin of a false-bottom economy, it’s essential to stop the gripe and prioritize where the little pocket money we have goes. i would rather throw my $7 to a night mingling with friends and seeing a local band (such as the wolf gang!) than enjoy a frothy-yet-fleeting triple latte from starbucks. wouldn’t you? and wouldn’t you want to do everything possible to encourage others to see it the same way? this outlook could not only improve the local economy, it could improve the local miserly attitude as well. imagine the possibilities, jon…
substance or fluff, people? maybe local music is the needed “chin up” the folks need after a hard season of cutbacks, layoffs, and depression.
and your continued thoughts, lovely readers?…
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i generally pride myself on being a nice guy (it’s nice to be important, but more important to be nice!). that usually entails not bitching at other people.
but maybe, just this one time…
the other day i observed someone make a comment: “seven $$ = my ass.” they were talking about a local music show w/ 3 bands, two of which toured in from out of town.
then, sister, get your ass out of town. (sorry, i won’t slip into character here. read preacher’s take here.)
i can’t think of many ways i could spend 3, 5, 10, 20, or 50 bucks in harrisonburg that would have a more positive impact on my community than paying for a concert. now, i may be biased, since i play music & go to shows all the time. but i think a lot of folks around harrisonburg are pleased at its “downtown renaissance,” and i would submit that a big part of that energy & buzz is related to the fact that main st. bar & grill, & even dave’s taverna, have been upstaged as happening spots by the likes of the blue nile & clementine cafe.
really exciting acts & artists are passing through harrisonburg, and more importantly, the local community of artists & town “activists” is rolling full-steam ahead. the farmers’ market looks great, there are more and more places to live w/in downtown’s walking radius, there are local musicians & artists doing their thing locally every week (& taking their shows on the road), restaurants & shops are generally doing well,
& more is on the way.
the flip side to this rosy picture is harrisonburg’s discomfort with, even inability to think big. e.g.: the food coop can’t get financing; franklin’s wine bar is an eye-sore, 
& out-and-about-town-types are complaining about paying (less than) ten dollars to see live entertainment!
in another college town where i recently lived, i overheard two people talking about friday-night plans, saying “my friend is doing a show downtown, but its three dollars to get & and i’m not sure if i’m up for that.” i wanted to drop my grocery bag & child and wave my arms around and yell, “what are you going to do with your three damn dollars, then!?”
thrift doesn’t have to be a vice, but stupidity dressed up as frugality is disrespectful, irresponsible, & toxic to a vibrant social community. we don’t bat an eye at a gas-station fill-up, a 4-dollar beer, a 75-buck-a-month cell phone, a 100-buck textbook & god-knows-how-many-thousand-a-year-education, 
but we can’t bear to invest 10 bucks a weekend in our community’s culture?
how pathetic.
folks pay 120 bucks for the eagles, they pay 20 buck for eaglesmith. he’s at least worth 18% of the eagles.
so goes fred’s logic, & couldn’t agree more (perhaps, maybe, he’s even underestimating his worth, a bit, compared to that other band…)
i caught the first part of fred’s set at harrisonburg’s clementine cafe last weekend & enjoyed the piece i got. (i also enjoyed the fact that my 2 year old can rock & roll at a clementine show, legally & all.)
this guy has written a couple of my favorite country-ish songs, including:
he’s got a hell of a southern whiskey-drinker’s voice for a dude from rural ontario, & he does a better job than most politicians explaining the current economic crisis (of socialism: “we call it sharing”; of u.s. america: “you’re first in reverse socialism!”).
basically, he put on a hell of a show for a good, mixed harrisonburg crowd. i was happy to know some of our cash was going his way. (but i’ll talk about the money issue in another post; this one’s just for fred.) here’s a bit of fred on budhism, elvis, and spinal tap. ¡cheers!:
Filed under: -of civil rights, -of human rights, -of jgrimsrud, -of localism, -of politik
we have been writing recently about plans and protests related to farmville, va’s plans to host a new, privately-run facility to lock up immigration detainees.
(see posts on second-class citizens & the people united)
so, i wanted to copy a piece from the new york times’ editorial page today:
The failures of the immigration system are many and severe, but the main problem is not that the country is catching too few undocumented immigrants. It is catching too many. Since the early 1990s, you could write the federal government’s immigration strategy on a cardboard sign: Deport Them All.
A report last week from the Pew Hispanic Center laid bare some striking results of that campaign. It found that Latinos now make up 40 percent of those sentenced in federal courts, even though they are only about 13 percent of the adult population. They accounted for one-third of federal prison inmates in 2007.
The numbers might suggest we are besieged by immigrant criminals. But of all the noncitizen Latinos sentenced last year, the vast majority — 81 percent — were convicted for unlawfully entering or remaining in the country, neither of which is a criminal offense.
The country is filling the federal courts and prisons with nonviolent offenders. It is diverting immense law-enforcement resources from pursuing serious criminals — violent thugs, financial scammers — to an immense, self-defeating campaign to hunt down … workers.
The Pew report follows news this month that even as a federal program to hunt immigrant fugitives saw its budget soar — to $218 million last year from $9 million in 2003 — its mission went astray. According to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, of the 72,000 people arrested through last February, 73 percent had no criminal record. Border Patrol agents in California and Maryland, meanwhile, tell of pressure to arrest workers at day-labor corners and convenience stores to meet quotas.
The country needs to control its borders. It needs to rebuild an effective immigration system and thwart employers who cheat it. It needs to bring the undocumented forward and make citizen taxpayers of them.
For all the billions spent on fences, raids, patrols and prisons, the number of illegal immigrants has steadily grown to about 12 million last year from four million in 1992. So has the need to overhaul the many parts of a festering, broken system: to clear out backlogs in legal immigration, to rescue families from limbo, to throw sunlight on the shadow economy, to deter unlawful hiring, to replace chaos with lawfulness and order. All those priorities have languished in the deportation era.
so get involved:
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according to preacher:
remember brothers and sisters, he will only touch those of you who refrain from touching each other.
it was a brilliant show. if i do say so myself. (and absolutely no milli-vanilli action was involved.)
props to clementine & jeremiah for their participation in the revival of the bar/music venue in this town…yours really is a fun place to be.
and justin jones & the driving rain – it’s always a blessing:
while, i didn’t get any pics of sarah white & the pearls myself, i did meet joel-the-photographer, who showed me some nice shots of sarah in the back stairwell of clementine. (who knew that mint green would be such a fine background…) so y’all check out his site for some of those possibly-upcoming images.
fun was had. guitars were played. many were touched. (by him, by themselves, and by each other). amen.
okay. i have a confession.
i can only list a small handful of female musicians who i really truly love.
there. i said it.
here’s my short list:
patti smith.
odetta.
chan marshall.
billie holiday.
nina simone.
dolly parton.
and i’m sure i forgot someone, but really, that’s my list, with patti smith being almost insurmountable.
but, today, we had an inspired, impromtu dance party in the kitchen to the heartless bastards.
erika wennerstom is crazy fantastic.
and their third album, the mountain, – a good time. here’s “the mountain” from “the mountain.”:
i’m trying really hard not to feel like a fool for it being february 20th. recognizing that they JUST played the gravity lounge on february 11th (the above clip is from an in-studio at WNRN in c’ville). i’m 9 days behind, folks. sigh.
so, go dance in your kitchen too…
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despite rumors of vocal difficulties, (read laryngitis), preacher is hoping for some healing and will be hitting the stage tomorrow night at clementine.
even if it involves an ipod vocal track and some milli-vanilli-meets-ashley-simpson maneuvers.
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justin jones & the driving rain (d.c.) is headlining.
sarah white & the pearls (c’ville) will be there too.
you will be there too. right-o?
Filed under: -of civil rights, -of harrisonburg, -of health, -of human rights, -of jhumphrey, -of localism
i got a forwarded email regarding planned action about an important local issue: immigration.
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specifically, the plan to open a “new 1,040-bed immigrant detention center to be constructed in Farmville, VA…a partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the City of Farmville with whom, they plan to contract to house the detainees. Farmville, in turn has subcontracted the construction and management of the center to Immigration Centers of America – Farmville, LLC (ICA) with a no-bid contract.” this would be in addition to the existing piedmont regional jail.
local grassroots organization, the people united, is organizing and educating the public as part of their campaign against this new facility.
listen to a public radio report here.
the following are stories quoted in articles (New York Times & Washington Post) regarding Piedmont Regional Jail’s sub-par medical care and resulting immigrant deaths.
He lived 42 of his 48 years in the United States, and had the words “Raised American” tattooed on his shoulder. But Guido R. Newbrough was born German, and he died in November as an immigration detainee of a Virginia jail, his heart devastated by an overwhelming bacterial infection.
Jack Newbrough and his wife, Heidi, with a photo of his stepson, Guido, who died of an untreated infection while in detention.
…investigators for the federal immigration agency found that the engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, had been denied proper medical treatment, and dragged from his cell to a van as he screamed in pain six days before his death.
…Abdoulai Sall, 50, a Guinea-born mechanic with no criminal record whose kidneys failed over several weeks.
this is the plan for march 7th:
…many of us in Harrisonburg want to show a strong presence in Farmville that Saturday - to stand and march with immigrant leaders, churches, community organizations, students, and many others across the state – opposing the planned immigrant detention facility (which is way behind schedule, now is the time to act!) and supporting just, real immigration reform. The march is permitted, and will be high-energy and fun.
If you want to join us in a caravan or bus (and we hope you do, this march will serve the campaign against this private prison, but it will also help bring us together here) – please meet Saturday, March 7th at 8am in the parking deck on Wolfe St., just east of Blessed Sacrament Church. We will be getting back around 9pm, but should be able to accommodate different needs.
Filed under: -of deals, -of jhumphrey, -of the outside world, -of travel
so, let’s have sharing time.
this is where i use my blogger status for personal gain. while convincing myself that others, too, might benefit.
we’re going to france in june. normandy, to be exact. for a wedding.
and we need to buy plane tickets. cheapest tickets.
in the past, we have dabbled with priceline, expedia, & orbitz. booking buddy, travelocity, & cheaptickets. cheapoair, travelzoo, & lowfares. with varying degrees of satisfaction.
right now, to fly from washington d.c. to paris will be right around $1000/ticket. gasp.
the best prices appear to be on a site called 1800flyeurope, randomly.
and the prices are better if we drive to NYC first…
it’s all a big gamble, i guess.
but, being of the group of people who would gladly forgo a new car, financial security, and heat for a month in europe, we’re willing to gamble.
where have you had success? any good stories? predictions?
