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FLG Fundraiser on Friday night

I’ve posted this flyer around the interweb…
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You may have heard of us. We’re the Flaming Lotus Girls. We rocked the playa.
and we’re having a little shindig to celebrate!
(It’s also a bit of a fundraiser since we went just a teensy weensy bit
over-budget!)

Here’s a link to the FLG supperclub party flyer.
http://tinyurl.com/rnr4e

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supperclub, Flaming Lotus Girls and Get YER Freak on!
Present
“Return of the Serpent Mother”

Friday Oct 20th, 11pm-3am

at supperclub – 657 Harrison St @ 3rd

in an evening of celebration for the Serpent Mother There will be a photo exhibit of FLG work with silent auction, FLG gear and if you’re lucky, the infamous Flaming Lotus “Kissing Booth”
Part of the Serpent Mother will be there to accompany us throughout the night.

La Salle Neige
M3- Green Gorilla Lounge
Majitope – Flaming Lotus Girls
Laird – LUSH/Get YER Freak on!
Goldilox – Brass Tax/LUSH

Ladies room
Hosted by Sister SF
Amber, Seraphim Delush
Forest Green, Samira
Audio Angel (live vox)

$10-20 donation http://www.flaminglotus.com

for dinner reservations, please call 415-348-0900 or visit http://www.supperclub.com
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images & video!
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Serpent+Mother&search=Search
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22Serpent+Mother%22
http://lee.org/blog/2006/10/03/serpent-links/
http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film
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Trogdor!

Do you know who Trogdor is? If you don’t, your life is worth nothing.

You can turn things around right now
http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html

FLG references

I just thought this was cool. An artist in Ventura, CA contacted FLG looking for help with a permanent fire & water installation art piece for a restaurant/bar. An email went to the list with all the particulars. One bit stands out in my eye…

The burning man office suggested I call you.

:-)

Serpent Panorama Images

Peep Happiness

This image was found on a Tribe website by my very good friend Marah

That is our camp mascot in the picture!

Serpent Mother Links

Here are a few links to photos of the Serpent Mother. If I missed your link, please leave a comment.

http://flaminglotus.wordpress.com our blog

http://lee.org/pix/serpent-mother-2006/page1.html My own panorama images

http://www.jesshobbs.com/brc2006/ FLG Jess Hobb’s Burning Man 2006 photos
http://www.jesshobbs.com/brc2006/flg/ Jess’ FLG photos

http://homepage.mac.com/red0x/bm06/ photos by Ryan Du Bois

http://waves-of-change.org/Gallery/BM2006 photos by Angela Knowles

http://www.orangecone.com/archives/selfindulgence/ Burning Man 2006 Art Review by Mike Kuniavsky

http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film Videos by FLG Mad Nomad

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/230767953/ the fondest wish of one burner

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Serpent+Mother&search=Search Several Videos on YouTube

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22Serpent+Mother%22 500+ photos of the Serpent Mother on Flickr!

Individual Flickr photo pages
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mills42 by FLG Mills
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34483565@N00/236453052/ by ropersf
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40512430@N00/236169205 by mack reed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53674854@N00/236548276/ our FLG Marlise!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/almostjaded/236615540/in/photostream/ by AlmostJaded
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bm05/236891433 by spacehippymatt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limelike/236649205/ by limelike
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mullingitover/234570583/ by mullingitover
http://www.flickr.com/photos/playapollo/ by redmonkredux
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakeme/ by sakeme
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49695992@N00/ by Michelle Palmer ‘In de Skies’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/237497988/in/set-432859/ by loupiote

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mills42/sets/72157594294145867/ ‘Mills’ Caroline Miller – Chicago installation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60927639@N00/sets/72157594297908023/ by Lynn – Chicago installation

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==More Text than Images==
http://blog.wired.com/burningman2006/index.album?i=28 WIRED – if you look there are more photos of our snakey than the man burning

http://tinyurl.com/jyxdm 9,000+ Google links to the Serpent Mother

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/20/PKGP6KEOAM1.DTL&type=art The Serpent Mother was featured prominently in this article: GOING FOR THE BURN by Bill Picture, Sunday, August 20, 2006

http://bm.tribe.net/thread/c04a2214-c577-4f24-a21b-ce9c91375f6b – comments about the Serpent Mother

http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?s=c202fd8971e31e7daee4e7ecbd24aa29&postid=1664954 Copy of Mozes pre-art preview

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More
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60055.htm
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60061.htm
http://yomster.com/pictures/bm2k6/source/bm2k60053.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60927639@N00/sets/72157594322514892/ from Lynn

http://burningcam.com/2006/photos/large-15.html   BurningCam shots (look at this one and the next couple)

http://www.figureonalandscape.com/mystikalmysfits/vidz/98-06/99carnaarmada/carnaarmada.html

New Long Distance

saveonphone.com recommended ECG long distance so I switched. I’ll tell you in a couple months if they are any good.

Where to park near the Dover NJ NJ Transit train station

dover-train
Use the large triangular parking lot to the left. The train station is just above and to the right. The train and station is on Dickerson St. (If this map doesn’t work any more, look for “50 S Morris St, Dover, NJ 07801”. Across the street to the west of it is a large parking lot. 50 yards to the north and then 20 yards east is the Dover train station.)

Note that most of the spaces are “Monthly Permit only”. Some of them are 12 hour meters. It’s like $3 for 12 hours. The lot closes at 10 or 11pm… They don’t close the gate but you might get a $30 parking ticket after that time.

If you plan on getting there late and staying late, you might be better off with street meter parking near the station… though I haven’t tried that.

Talk Like a Pirate Day is Tomorrow

Will ye be ready to talk like a pirate?

September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Investments I’m happy with

How should I invest my money? Here is what I’ve got right now. Could I do better? I prefer to monitor my investments a few times per month.

Key
L long term investment (I’ll check on this every couple months and reconsider my investment)
L+ I highly regard this long term investment (I’ll leave my money here for a long time and not think about it)
S short term investment (I watch it every few weeks and might get out if there is a dramatic change)
S+ I highly regard this short term investment (I think I have a ‘pick’ here)

S+ Paypal Money Market – Currently earning 5.03%. Not FDIC Insured. Money markets very rarely lose more than 3% a year (making it a pretty safe, if low interest investment)

L+ BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway has dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 consistantly for 40 years, earning an average of 20% interest/year vs the S&P’s 10%

S JDSU – JDS Uniphase – makes very high bandwidth data transmission gear and other things.

L STZ – Constellation Brands – large worldwide wine, beer and liquor producer

S+ UARM – Under Armour – sports apparel maker. They are getting big fast and are in the process of getting into thousands of shopping malls in America. Be warned that apparel makers often have very tight sales margins and don’t usually do spectacularly

L NFLX – Netflix – They do DVD’s by mail better than anyone else. Walmart hasn’t done well against them in the market, which says a lot

L UPS – UPS – shipping stuff for the new mail order universe

L FDX – Fedex – shipping stuff for the new mail order universe. I’ve been told that I should only invest in one parcel company and that should be Fedex. That sounds shortsighted to me.

L TXT – Textron – they make golf carts, helicopters, small planes and lots in between

L+ TREMX – T. Rowe Price Emerging Europe & Mediterranean Fund – a mutual fund that has done well in the long term comprised of smaller European and Mediterranean companies.

L FLR – Flour Corporation – a competitor to Halliburton.

L ESLR – solar panel manufacturer

L BTU – Peabody Energy – coal mining company

L DNA – Genentech – a large Biotech company

L GILD – Gilead Sciences – They make a “one a day” tablet for AIDS patients instead of the 20 pill regimine they used to have to take

L+ MON – Monsanto – makes genetically modified crops