• As if there weren't enough networking site candy kicking around to rot your teeth...I've been creating new ones on the web.  Please feel free to visit any one of them, as they're all different.
  
  A few fans alerted me to the existence of Paganspace.com, and it would be silly not to have a page there:  http://www.paganspace.com/skinnywhitechick
  I don't have a lot of stuff up on Paganspace yet, but soon, soon I will send music in to 'paganradio' there, which seems to run on my profile automatically. 
  
  Lastly, and this is the big announcement of sorts, I created last night a Myspace page for The Lost Girls Pirate Academy:  http://www.myspace.com/lostgirlspirateacademy
  Next on my list is creating a Tribe for the Academy on Tribe.net, but for now, Myspace will hold down the fort.  It's our dream to launch lostgirlspirateacademy.com very soon, also--and all of the sites we create, Myspace or otherwise, will hopefully serve as a forum and as a trading post for fan art and fiction about Wendy, Green-eyed Sue, and their crew.  We have a good bit of stuff to share already, but we want more!  Know that you're welcome to share how the Wendy Trilogy has inspired you with me, especially as a comment or a story or drawing or other form of awesome creative output.
  
  If you're lost at sea about all this, I'll explain briefly:
  On my albums Sirens, which I released in 2006, I included three songs about what might have happened, had Wendy chosen to become a pirate instead of sticking with the Lost Boys and staying the proper little mother figure.  The three songs take you through Wendy's difficult transition to pirate as Hook's adopted daughter--he double-crosses her, of course, but she catches him in the act and, with the help of Tink and Pan, she 'inherits' the ship and the crew.  Gradually, Wendy replaces the crew with Lost Girls handpicked by Peter Pan.  Green-eyed Sue is the first to arrive, and Mr. Smee is the last to go. 
  
  There's more, of course. 
  I'll post the songs themselves to the Lost Girls Pirate Academy Myspace page today so that you can hear them if you haven't heard them before. 
  
  For now the Wendy Trilogy can be heard on Sirens or on the Tricky Pixie Live album.  I plan, by the end of the year, to give the Trilogy its own single/EP, called Pirate Girls, which will also include the Academy's new Alma Mater (up on Myspace right now), and perhaps a few other choice nautical songs.
  
  The Wendy Trilogy is so beloved by so many people across the world at this point that I am quite happy to give it more attention, and to breathe new life into it by getting the Academy project going.  We've got t-shirts, stickers, an official logo, exclusively commissioned art by Amy Brown depicting the Academy's two saucy founders (shown in this entry, and used by gracious permission), many many stories of how the songs have touched one person or another, and one rollicking bit of fan fiction so far.  Please, if you want to be a part of this piratical adventure, do!  Feel free to get in touch with me with your music, stories, and art.
  
  

It is, in this case, two counties in my home state.  It was, just a few days ago, an F5 tornado, which is no joke.

Just as in the case of the two twisters that hit my home town last February, there were no deaths in Stuttgart.  I will take a tornado with no deaths, if we have to have such an increasing number of tornadoes each year, as it seems.

You can help, if you so choose, by following this link to KATV and the Neighbor in Need Fund.

The rivers are down, somewhat, here in Arkansas.  I am home in the house of my childhood for a couple of days, recharging, and I am grateful for this time and this place.  I wish you all well, and I hope that you are in a safe place yourselves, tonight.

The hurting comes, and the hurting stays.

The wheel's gonna turn and our hearts disobey.
We will stand if we're the last ones standing,

to send you on your way with love.

I'll not make it home in time, not for the first time, not for the last time.
But it's not about me. So it's all right.

Instead, I'll stand from where I am, and I will sing all day.
And I will do my tiny part to send you on your way
with love.

How I hope you know that we'll miss you when you go
and how we'll hold you dear when you return.
The wheel's gonna turn
our hearts will disobey
but for love of all who love you
I will sing all day
and sister you will go your way
with love.

Go gentle, as you've always gone.



This Sunday, June 1st, from 3-7pm, Summerland Grove will hold a Crossing Over for Mallorie Gareis at the home of Rhyno in Bartlett. Bring a dish for potluck afterwards.

My sweet heart, who turns 33 today, and I will be unable to attend. Instead, it is our hope to give a memorial fire dance in Mallorie's honor at Festival of Souls this October. If you plan to attend FOS in Memphis this year and you'd like to help out as a safety or be part of the performance, leave me a comment here.