Chicken:

Chicken: Message

2013-05-13T09:30:07Z

So at my wedding in September, we only allowed the maid of honor, the best man and our dads to toast. What a good idea that was!!!! Behold, here is the edited (thankfully) video of the Toasting Booth!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BcDNl9THpU

You guys were all drunk! But man, good looking crowd!!!!!

There are a few other videos from the wedding on my You Tube Channel if ya wanna see ‘em:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoHJMaDC4UE&list=PLbPLKAf9XGQObFNl7Ju-oRmgCU0kjnQ-J

And here are some of the photos from the wedding:

http://fnphoto.smugmug.com/ChickenEileen/Reception/25999679_Cqqtt6#!i=2157861435&k=CvKDBP2

In other news, the Met in NYC has an installation of the bathroom at CBGB. I heard it was the worst co-opting of our culture yet, and I complained wildly on Facebook of the appartant lack of a Letch Patrol graffiti.

Tracy Feldstein, who just happened to be in NYC to the rescue!!!! With the only tools she had available, she remedy's the situation and gets kicked out of the MET. How punk rock is that? Tracy's hand showing Letch Patrol graffiti on a maxi pad:

Boxes and boxes of SUNBLOCK arrived over the weekend... fancy sunblock. The kind that won't pollute the water at Camp Tipsy. Everyone who buys a ticket gets a tube. $7,000 worth of sunblock!!! You people better come!!!! Petro Chemical sunblock is bad for people, bad for water. Here is the math: 2,500 people apply 1 ounce of sunblock every time they go in the water. If they went in the water 3 times a day for 4 days, that's like 150 gallons of petro chemical sunblock that we are putting in a reserviour. So this is one of the reasons why we have to have a gate this year. Your ticket $ is buying this sunblock. And we get to make our own labels!! Who wants to come over and help stick the stickers on the tubes for endless hours!?!?!?!?!

(here is the place that we are buying from, thanks to Neives for doing all the research: http://kabanaskincare.com)

If you are planning on going to Tipsy please buy your ticket as soon as you are able. I'm spending money like I'm watering the lawn over here....

chicken

Chicken: Message

2013-05-05T16:07:38Z

OK, so the dinner is in 4 hours and we still need to sell 11 tickets to break even. I promised I’d send one more mail out. I just watched their rehursal, it's a crime that this isnt' being filmed and broadcast. There is a bunch of super cool stuff for the live auction you can get, wine donated by White Rock and seriously some hotties running around. It's like being in LA or something... these people are in shape!!!!!

Here is the menu:

1- Barely Legal Barley Leek soup

2- Fresh baked bread with Caramelized Butterscotch Mushrooms & Onions

3- Twelve Greens Chop Salad with homemade vinaigrette dressing

4- Roast Beast with Rosemary Root Roast – special sauce

(veg option: Quinoa with Root Roast)

5- Green Apple/Cranberry Cobbler with Vanilla Ice Cream

Here is the write up for the event. Please join us. Tickets are $40 and include a 5 course dinner and is hosted by Polly Superstar. I'm cooking. Come.
        Springtime Follies
A real cabaret evening for all the lovelies!   YOU are cordially invited to attend our Extravagant, one of a kind event!
Enjoy a 5 course dinner & performance showcase in honor of the life of TWINSPACE, which was eaten by progress and money...

The event will act as a fundraiser to recoup costs and fees accrued through the battle to save and eventually move TWINSPACE dance studio. And to ensure we have a way to reinstall the sprung floor elsewhere.

Get your ticket soon as there are only 30 left.
This group of performers is NOT to be missed! And the food will be amazing!

PERFORMERS!
Blind Tiger Society      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Xu-3974_c

Amber Lee Baker          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYvf1YKz6Xk
Dan Cantrell                            Leslie Schickel
Liz Tenuto

Pearl Marill Dance Theater       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp9mdEh0SKY
TINA ROXX                                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GACeiPKPDSk
& The Fossettes!!                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8vAhA2y9x0
Hosted by the fabulous Polly Superstar

The evening also included a Live Auction with Chicken John featuring special prizes you won't want to miss!!

Tickets here:               http://springtimefollies.brownpapertickets.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/360704637377322/381229421991510/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

Chicken: Come to dinner tomorrow!!!

2013-05-04T10:21:24Z

There are so many tickets still available tomorrow, it's like you guys are fasting. YOU ARE GOING TO EAT SOMEWHERE TOMORROW NIGHT!!!!!!!

Please come. When calculating how much food to buy I asked Elizabeth to make a list of the voulenteers and the performers. there are 22 performers. 22 PERFORMERS!!!!!!

This is going to be great. Hosted by Polly Superstar, I'm doing some cooking and doing a live auction and there are a bunch of acts. Food, wine, beautiful people and we just did a shit ton of work to the space, it's shocking how different it looks.

$40 admission. The first 5 people to email me a screen shot of their confirmation that they bought a ticket I will give a bottle of wine to left over from my wedding!!!!

I really really want this to be packed for Elizibeth.

Springtime Follies

A real cabaret evening for all the lovelies! YOU are cordially invited to attend our Extravagant, one of a kind event! Enjoy a 5 course dinner & performance showcase in honor of the life of TWINSPACE, which was eaten by progress and money...

Tickets here: http://springtimefollies.brownpapertickets.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/360704637377322/381229421991510/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity

Chicken: Dharma Punx @ Chez Poulet Thursday nights

2013-05-02T13:38:53Z

It's a heart wrenching tragedy when an art space is lost. This January we said goodbye to Twinspace, a dance studio and event space on Mission St. by 18th. It was a rad space with a great community. But as it goes with leases in SF, they had no protections and when their lease term ended the landlord chose not to renew. They hired lawyers, they jumped up and down but the marketing company across the hall wanted more space. And that marketing company now has all the space they need to plot and plan to get us to buy more crap.

And so it goes. Elizabeth and Melissa (the twins) spent a shit load of money on lawyers and consultants and moving the stuff out. The last few months were in flux and she lost most of her tennants. It's a spiral. You've all seen it before. We are giving her use of the Chez Poulet this Sunday to put on a show featuring all the talent from that lovely space and I'm going to cook a dinner. We're going to have a great show and great food and have a fabulous time and champion the twins that showed up and kicked down and took a few punches. And we are going to try to restore some of their savings which they spent trying to keep the place open.

Here is the write up for the event. Please join us. Tickets are $40 and include a 5 course dinner and is hosted by Polly Superstar. I'm cooking. Come.
                               Springtime Follies
A real cabaret evening for all the lovelies!   YOU are cordially invited to attend our Extravagant, one of a kind event!
Enjoy a 5 course dinner & performance showcase in honor of the life of TWINSPACE, which was eaten by progress and money...

The event will act as a fundraiser to recoup costs and fees accrued through the battle to save and eventually move TWINSPACE dance studio. And to ensure we have a way to reinstall the sprung floor elsewhere.

Get your ticket soon as there are only 30 left.
This group of performers is NOT to be missed! And the food will be amazing!

PERFORMERS!
Blind Tiger Society      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Xu-3974_c

Amber Lee Baker          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYvf1YKz6Xk
Dan Cantrell                            Leslie Schickel
Liz Tenuto

Chicken: Dharma Punx @ Chez Poulet Thursday nights

2013-05-02T13:08:56Z

Chicken: SPRINGTIME FOLLIES <dinner theatre/caberet this Sunday at the Chez Poulet>

2013-05-01T12:21:59Z

Ganja Yoga at the Chez Poulet every Wedensday night

2013-04-29T22:58:46Z

Or as they say in Jersey: smoke pot yoga.

C'mon, drop the Cheetos jokes and admit that this is a stellar idea. Dee is a super cool lady and I'm pretty confident this is going to be embraced by our community. I have some pot that Dr. Hal gave me 2 years ago, is it still good?

see you there!
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Ganja yoga is cannabis-enhanced yoga. It borrows from relaxing hatha yoga and mystical tantric yoga. The founder, Dee Dussault, describes the sessions as guided relaxation gatherings; a sweet space to hang out with community, get enhanced/medicated, and then journey into juicy stretches that bring relaxation and peace, - our natural state.

Beginners and medicinal marijuana users are extra welcome, as ganja yoga classes are slower, more chilled-out, and much more meditatively-focused than most conventional yoga offerings.

Weekly on Wdnesdays, starting May 1st
6:30 ~ gather in community and medicate 7-8:30 ~ yoga

3359 Cesar Chavez @ Mission

-Love Offering-
Single: $25
Four Weeks: $80
Eight Weeks: $144
BYOB (bud): Joints, pipes, vaporizors, edibles all welcome! : )

Bring your own yoga mat or towel too!

Ganja Yoga is all-levels, for any body. There is space in each class for three pay-by-means students who would like to attend but cannot afford the requested offering. Please email Dee to be added to the â€˜sliding-scaleâ€™ list.

Dee is a yoga teacher, pleasure activist, and psychedelic advocate who has helped hundreds of people connect more deeply to themselves and to their loved ones in her gentle, all-levels sessions. She teaches private yoga and tantra classes, and she has taught in Toronto, Costa Rica, and Vancouver.

Ganja Yoga was mentioned as one of the 100 coolest things about cannabis in High Timesâ€™ â€œPotâ€™s Greatest Hits of 2011,â€ and it has also been featured in the New York Times and The Globe and Mail.

Join us for a puff, some gentle trippy yoga, and sacred community! Please share this invite with friends! Ganja Yoga is new to the Bay area and we can use the help spreading the buzz....

Chicken: Rev. Billy at the Victoria Theatre Saturday night

2013-04-26T15:28:54Z

So Rev. Billy and his 30 person choir and band are in town as this mail goes out annoying the security at Wells Fargo bank and doing other actions to make a difference in the world. Does it actually make a difference? Well, yes. Not to you, you jaded fuck... but to other people it absolutely makes a difference.

But that's extra credit from the show he's doing tomorrow night.

He just wrote a book: The End of the Wolrd. It's a good book. He is here supporting it. Getting the word out. Beating the bushes. Trying to get people to listen to his message of tolerance and eco-logic.

But that book... that's just on top of the show that he's doing tomorrow night...

The show is the thing that you want to go to. You can buy the book there if ya want... but the show is really something to behold. There is an army of people singing. They travel with these people. They wear choir robes, because they are a choir. There is a band. There are sermons. Solos. Dancing. Points are made. Arguments considered. And sometimes; understanding is achieved.

You don't know about this guy? He's a hoot. He's an actor, kinda. He's got this tow-headed southern baptist preacher thing going on. With his partner Savitri D and his choir of singing activists they try to "stop shopping" as if it were killing the planet. Because it kinda is... but they do it in a pretty whimsical way... kinda. Except they keep getting arrested. Dozens of times. Dozens and dozens of times. There is a movie about it: http://www.revbilly.com/work/what-would-jesus-buy

"Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir" are hopping like extinct Golden Toads come back to life!" Village Voice

Yes, the golden toad is no more. Another notch in real estate developments' belt. But that's why they are hopping around in gold frog outfits.

Join the hot godless gospel singers at the Victoria Theater, 16th and Mission, tomorrow night 8 PM.

Admission is cheap, like $10 or something...

Earthalujah!

Chicken: LITTLE ANNIE & BABY DEE AMNESIA, SAN FRANCISCO APRIL 25

2013-04-24T16:04:43Z

If you read my book, you already know who Baby Dee is. Maybe you were lucky enough to catch her last year at Camp Tipsy on Thursday night. Maybe you saw the circus back in the day. Maybe you're really into harpists. If so, you'll want to buy this lady a whisky.

LITTLE ANNIE & BABY DEE
AMNESIA, SAN FRANCISCO
APRIL 25TH 2013

7.30PM $12

LITTLE ANNIE

"She graduated from the school of hard knocks with her soul still intact, a heart as big as the continental divide" -Lydia Lunch

"A raconteur and restless spirit" -Robert Conroy

"A New York baby and a London legend" -Antony Hegarty

Little Annie aka Annie Anxiety Bandez, is a smokey contralto, raconteur and restless spirit who has spent the last 30 years creating a body of work that would take much more space than available here to list. Since stepping onto her first stage at the age of 16, her music â€“ and her life â€“ has defied categorization, limitations and/or restrictions her life often imitating her art and visa versa. A native New Yorker she is a chanteuse and lyricist, a self-taught painter, and multimedia artist, She has recorded with vanguard figures of late twentieth century music -bringing a blend of tortured soul/ sardonic humor & wild love & awe of life to tracks sheâ€™s cut with everyone from Adrian Sherwood & the ON-U Sound Stable to Crass to Current 93, COIL, The Wolfgang Press, Jennie Mathias, Anthony Hegarty to Marc Almond. She is a prolific songwriter who has written for likes of the late Bim Sherman, Paul Oakenfold and most recently Living Color. In early 2012, after literally year s in the â€˜we have to work together stageâ€™, Annie joined up with her dear friend Baby Dee.

BABY DEE

"Completely different and completely brilliant" -Evening Standard

"A quiet beguiling beauty" -Independent On Sunday

"Startlingly affecting stuff" -4/5 Attitude

Baby Dee is an enchanting composer, performance artist, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend. Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. Known originally for playing harp on Anthony & The Johnsons debut album - it was Hegarty who sent Dee's compositions to David Tibet (Current 93) who urged her to produce a solo album. Tibet later went on to release Baby Dee's first album on his label Durtro. Dee's discography now includes seven albums released in the last ten years. Her infectious cackle and extraordinary talent on piano, harp and accordion has caught her many musical admirers. Her sound is quintessentially Dee.

"State Of Grace" is a record that covers love, loss, leaving and the confusion of time. It features collaborations with such luminaries and modern mavericks as Bonnie â€˜Princeâ€™ Billy, Eric Chenaux , Chris Cundy (Guillemots, Cold Specks), Jordan Hunt (The Irrepressibles, The Hidden Cameras), Euan Rodger (Black Carrot, Lustfaust) and Joe Carvell (DON'T MOVE!/Ma Trio).

Go to this God Dammned show. I'll be there. Maybe we go to the warehouse afterwards for a fire. It's fun to chat with Dee around a fire. I've done that many times, it's a fine thing to do.

Chicken: Wow, project container hotel, funded!!!!

2013-04-19T09:55:30Z

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shelkimen/first-container-collision-works-story-box-installa

Project funded. Lets all go to Detroit next summer...

You guys are amazing. It's not 10:00 yet and you made dreams come true with pocket change and a few clicky clicks. Honored to know you!!!!

Next adventure!!!!!!!

Chicken: Build a hotel out of shipping containers in Detroit?

2013-04-18T23:08:19Z

This Kickstarter ends at the end of today!!!!!!!! Lets fund it!!!!!!!! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shelkimen/first-container-collision-works-story-box-installa

Pioneers. What do you think of when I say that word? Daniel Boone and his coon skin cap? The porn industry figuring out credit card processing online? Bio-tech nano-bots blasting proteins on a micro level?

How about I introduce you to an actual, modern day pioneer? Ladies and Gentlemen: Shel Kimen. Sheâ€™s an New Yorker. I met here when I did Lost Vegas the month after September 11th (that was weird). Sheâ€™s one of those cool people who knows everyone and has a hand in everything. I met her once for 3 minutes as I loaded her PA system into the back of a truck (she was lending it to me for free) and we have been helping each other with projects ever since.

She did it. She went to Detroit and bought a house for $800. She wants to start a new community. A real community. She wants to make a difference so she left her life in NYC and moved to Detroit and wants to open a hotel. Made out of shipping containers.

She is a true pioneer.

Really. She, like the pioneers who went west in the 1800â€™s, had no idea what to expect. The highest crime rate in the country. potholes the size of kiddie pools, 50% (60%? 70%?) unemployment, corruption out of control, blight, flight and the list goes onâ€¦ like Montana in 1850, there were many things trying to kill you. Mainly, the winter.

But 40 acres and a mule, now Montana is more civilized then Baltimore and Detroit is going to be awesome because of people like Shel.

And you.

You see, we have to help her. She has to buy the containers. And she doesnâ€™t have access to that kind of money. So we kick in a few dollars and then we all go visit Detroit sometime and check it out. Right?

Huh? Why would we want to go to Detroit? Why do we care if there is a cool hotel there? Sure, Shel is cool and weâ€™ll toss a few coins in her cup, but what do we care about Detroit?

Well. Hereâ€™s where it gets good. Really good. Detroit is the future. Not like â€˜someâ€™ future, or â€˜aâ€™ future. â€œTheâ€ future. There are people who are reading this today who skimmed thus far who are now reading. There are people who know that the pendulum swings BOTH ways who are hedging bets. The artists are going to have to integrate into Detroit and not think they can just â€˜take overâ€™. But the list of artists that have already invested in Detroit is stunning. Iâ€™ll include a comprehensive list at the end of this letter. But the list reads like a whoâ€™s who of Art and Innovation. Yup. A city of Art and Innovation. Has a nice ring to it, doesnâ€™t it?

What is the biggest problem with building a container hotel in SF? Building codes. How about in Detroit? They donâ€™t have them. Next problem. Buying land? Nah. Itâ€™s about $1,000 an acre for unimproved land. How about taxes, how much are taxes there? The Chez Poulet pays $8,780 a year in taxes. A similar warehouse in Detroit would pay about $300 a year.

She has already taken all the risks. She already is there. Thriving. Creating a destination. A beacon for other like minded maniacs to flock to. She needs a hotel, god dammit! And we are going to give her one!!!!

She has just a few hours left to fundraise $4,000. If everyone on my list gave her $1 sheâ€™d be done. We can do better. $5. Everyone give this pioneer $5. You can up it later if you want. But you will forever be able to check out what is happening in Detroit and say that you helped. That you invested in a pioneering art project there. And who knows, maybe someday youâ€™ll be staying in a container hotel somewhere that was made possible because this container hotel paved the way. Thatâ€™s what pioneers do.

Here is Ben Wolf, he does collage work. Here he took dormers, and made a nice collage house: http://www.ben-wolf.com/installation/dormer-house

Here is Monica, from the Swimming Cities project in Juxapoz magazine with her house in Detroit: http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/monica-canilao-returns-to-detroit-to-work-on-the-treasure-nest

Here is Doyle, watch the video: http://blog.defgrip.net/tag/ryan-c-doyle/

Here is Julia Solis, underground explorer: http://www.solis.darkpassage.com/

John Law, yes even John Law has bought a home in Detroit: http://laughingsquid.com/escape-to-detroit/

Here is a video of Swoon making something in Detroit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKyldmMMMhE

Here is the LA times representing yo! http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/13/travel/la-tr-detroit-20111113

I have no idea what is going on here: http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/9/298259/4327267/vodoploi5_2048.jpg

Here is tons more info: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20130210/NEWS/302109956/renaissance-artists-creative-community-revives-overlooked-block-near

The list goes on and on, these are just people from OUR community. There are thousands of artists FLOCKING to Detroit. They are going to need a cheap hotel room!!!!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shelkimen/first-container-collision-works-story-box-installa

If you have a Kickstarter Account, please kick in. If you donâ€™t, it will take you 120 seconds to open one up. Lets make this work for Shel. For Detroit. For the intelligent use of containers. For the place the artists are going to. For the futureâ€¦

Chicken John