Subject: Viridian Note 00386: House Party

Key concepts:

John Kessel, Viridian Vatican, Turkey City

Attention Conservation Notice:

Basically an invitation to drop by and drink beer. Lots of semi-random links.

(((Remember this from the last Viridian Note?)))

"1. A Viridian friend of a friend sent this portrait of Isobel while she was still at sea."
http://www.viridiandesign.org/isobel/Hurricane-Isobel.jpg

(((Well, it's an urban legend! It's phony baloney! Nice photo, but it's got nothing to do with Isobel! Man, it's tough to trust the "friend of a friend" on the Internet.)))
http://www.snopes.com/photos/isabel.asp

(((Okay, now some guy claims these are Isobel pictures from Baltimore. But are they really? Can you prove that?)))
http://petehawkes.com/isabel/display.php?id=01

Ross Gelbspan waxes wroth, names names.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/1423219&mode=thread&tid=25

Discordia wants you.
http://www.discordia.us

Man, that Murakami. What a cut-up.
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/urbanjournal_0903/MurakamisMrPointy.html

Some seriously retinal-boggling optical illusion art here. Don't drive afterward.
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin-e.html

The Renewable Energy Roundup is this weekend. I can't go. You should go if at all possible.
http://www.theroundup.org/

Check this out: there's a big, ambitious "Austin Green
Festival" next month, and I can't go to that either.
http://www.greenfestivals.com/austin.htm

John Kessel is a science fiction writer and a good pal of mine. John is coming to Austin. We'll be discussing science fiction stories and drinking beer this Saturday. With some friends.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/index2.html

If you'd like to meet John Kessel, send me email and I'll tell you how and when to get to the Viridian Vatican on this Saturday night.