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Cow Palace Front Page News - Public Forum Tonight!

Banasidhe — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:29:35 GMT

Check out this mornings chron (link below). The article is very well written and it drives home important nostalgia (family) vs. big development theme which is critical to our success. We are NOT DONE. Hit the Chronicle comment board. We want to flood it. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/28/MNE0V9LPS.DTL&tsp=1 Also, if you are so inclined, please take a minute right away to call the Daly City Manager and tell her she is wrong... Daly City Manager Patricia Martel has just gone on record as saying the Cow Palace contributes NOTHING to the community. This is dead wrong. Help us get two hundred calls to her office as soon as possible. Flood her lines. Christmas, dogs, trains, ice skaters, circuses, Globe Trotters, and millions of dollars in income to hotels, restaurants, gas stations and jobs contribute nothing.? Right. PROGRAM INTO YOUR CELL AND CALL ALL DAY, EVERY DAY: (650) 991-8127 and (650) 991-8092. While you're at it, call Senator Yee's office again and again...and again. (650) 340-8840 Local Office, 415) 557-7857 SF office, and 916) 651-4008 Sac office. Call 'em all. Senator Yee measures public opinion every day! He is a math guy. Make him count you. Make his staff rue the day he tried to cancel Christmas and destroy California history! Plan to show up tonight Thursday 2/28/08 at the Daly City public forum if you can, or ask someone you know in the area to come. Kevin will be there at 6:00, the meeting starts at 7:00. http://www.ci.daly-city.ca.us/city_news/extra/bcc-info.html The Bayshore Community Center is a very new building with a library. It's right behind the Cow Palace on the hill... Please forward this email to your list at the risk of being redundant. This is the moment. A very strong showing tonight will send a strong message. We will be sure the new media is there. Attire: Daly City Resident circa 1980 to present. If you can organize costumes like giant flowers, trains, cheer leaders, Elvis...even a few Dickensian characters, go for it. Can someone get Martin on a plane from London please? ... We can work on a big costume thing for the next forum (see below) which will keep the issue in the media. Just showing up tonight is the important thing. Thank you!!! >>>PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL<<< We CAN win this. COW PALACE DESTRUCTION PUBLIC FORUMS: Tonight, 7 o'clock: Bayshore Community Center, 450 Martin St., Daly City March 8, 10 a.m.: Visitacion Valley Community Center, 66 Raymond Ave., San Francisco March 8, 11 a.m.: Bayshore Community Center, 450 Martin St., Daly City March 25, 7 p.m.: Saddleback Homeowners Clubhouse, 1800 Saddleback Drive, Daly City

URGENT MESSAGE FROM RED BARN PRODUCTIONS ABOUT THE DICKENS FAIR AND THE COW PALACE

Banasidhe — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:28:08 GMT

State Senator Leland Yee Ph.D., under pressure from the Daly City Council, is proposing to “surplus” the Cow Palace and sell it to Daly City. Daly City will then sell most of the land to condo developers and pocket the profits. Letter writing WILL stop this. Senator Yee has ONLY heard from Daly City. Let him know you oppose selling the Cow Palace!!! Here is a link to Senator Yee's website and his press release on the legislation he submitted Friday February 22nd to the State Legislature, (no voting date is set - but it could be soon). This bill wrongly proposes to SELL the Cow Palace to Daly City! http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={EFA496BC-EDC8-4E38-9CC7-68D37AC03DFF}&DE={49C40B5B-DD5B-48FD-A292-B04E80714184} We must defeat SB1527 or the Dickens Fair will likely die. It would take years, if it’s even possible, to relocate and resurrect the Dickens Fair. Red Barn Productions has studied all the venues that could physically host the Dickens Fair and there are NO other places that currently work. All are either too expensive, too small, are unavailable between Thanksgiving and Christmas OR require unaffordable retrofits in order to be permitted for public assembly. So, Save the Cow Palace and Save The Dickens Fair. It's that simple AND serious. Here's the scoop: The Cow Palace has a perfectly good plan to meet the needs of the local community and Daly City by providing them 13 acres of its’ unused land. Yes, rock concerts bring public problems, according to Daly City, but they also bring public $$$ to the local community. Senator Yee's Legislation SB1527 is doubly wrong. It proposes we, as California State Citizens, sell OUR Cow Palace to Daly City so they can bulldoze it and profit by selling it to private developers. If that isn’t bad enough, SB1527 also deprives us of our RIGHT to use a facility that WE own!! This is like selling off a chunk of Golden Gate Park because a nearby neighborhood proclaims “unanimously” it needs more space for development. It doesn’t work that way. We get to vote too...by writing letters and emails and calling his office. Officials can’t just decide to take a public asset and sell it…unless it is truly “surplus”. The Cow Palace is not “surplus”. We must stop this proposed sell-off of our property. Here's what you can do to stop SB1527 and SAVE THE COW PALACE: #1 Act Quickly. Senator Yee may believe he is serving the public, but he has only heard from Daly City. Let’s give him the other 99% of the picture before he gets any further down this road. Write a Letter Write to Senator Yee today. Quickly. Early letters are more powerful. Send personal letters to the address below the sample text at the bottom of this notice. Get it in today’s mail, so he receives it on Monday or Tuesday. Write an Email Personal emails may be sent via his website “contact” at page: http://legplcms01.lc.ca.gov/PublicLCMS/ContactPopup.aspx?district=SD08 Emails are not as good as snail mail letters, but they are also effective. Be sure to write in “SB1527” as it is so new it is not on his issue list. … Call the Office You can pick up the phone and call his office, see http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={1317EB89-B124-4498-9C50-9A0EA3C89E91} YOU DO NOT NEED TO MENTION THE DICKENS FAIR. SIMPLY VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO SB1527. That’s it! Give reasons only if you want. The important thing is to contact him NOW. #2 IF YOU LOVE THE DICKENS FAIR, forward this message to groups, friends and individuals and ask them to contact Senator Yee immediately. #3 IF YOU LIVE in Senator Yee’s District #8 - see map on his site: http://www.sen.ca.gov/ftp/SEN/senplan/SENMAPS/MAP08_300.JPG …Contact him AS one of his constituents, (District 8 includes most of San Francisco in the West and South, and goes most of the way down the Peninsula). It is a very large district! Sample Letter: Dear Senator Yee, As a California Citizen, and resident of (…your city…), I object to your proposed legislation to “sell the California Cow Palace”. While you may be responding to the needs of Daly City, please respect my rights to use this public facility. It may need work, but how many California public buildings need upgrading? If you want to help Daly City bring in new supermarkets and shopping to the area, let the Cow Palace deal directly with developers and Daly City to make use of the 13 acres the Cow Palace doesn’t need. This will preserve my rights while helping the lives of local area citizens. It will also continue the flow of millions of dollars into the local economy annually. These revenues, generated by me and many thousands of others who use the Cow Palace, also help pay for police to patrol the area year-round as well as during big events. Please reconsider SB1527. There is a better way to help Daly City and Bayshore than destroying the Cow Palace. I use it every year and plan to continue to use it for many years to come. It is not “surplus”; it is a vital community and cultural asset. Thank you, Signed, (you) Mail letter to both his office addresses: Senator Leland Yee, Ph.D. Re: SB1527 State Capitol, Room 4048 Sacramento, Ca. 95814 Or call 916-651-4008 Senator Leland Yee, Ph.D. Re: SB1527 300 South El Camino Real, Suite 630 San Mateo, Ca. 94402 Or call 650-340-8848 This information is also posted at http://www.cattaylor.com/cowpalace.html Please contact Kevin Patterson at kevin@redbarnproductions.org if you have questions *Update Evidently, Senator Yee's website will only accept email from his District's constituents, but Betty Simmons sends along this contact information: Senator Leland Yee dist08.casen.govoffice.com 400 S El Camino Real # 630 San Mateo, CA 94402 (650) 340-8840 (Please note the address correction) Capitol Office State Capitol, Room 4048 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 651-4008 and Bob Collier forwards this: There is also an SF Office (415) 557-7857 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 14200 San Francisco, CA 94102 Kevin Patterson put together the missive text and is spearheading this campaign. While you are welcome to cc me regarding this issue, please make sure that he is included in all email correspondence. His email address was at the bottom of the missive, but here it is again: kevin@redbarnproductions.org We are working on getting a website published specifically to deal with this issue, Mark hopes to have it up shortly. In the meantime, it's up on my missive site at http://www.cattaylor.com/cowpalace.html I will continue to keep you updated. Cat

I dressed-up as a girl!!

Banasidhe — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:49:27 GMT

4 days in a row, for the Edwardian Ball weekend. Ya shoulda been there. it was a total blast! (NO, I didn't take any pictures, so don't ask!)

WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED:

Banasidhe — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:53:51 GMT

Men Are Just Happier People -- What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100. People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Three pairs of shoes are more than enough. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes. Everything on your face stays its original color. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. You only have to shave your face and neck. You can play with toys all your life. One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons. You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look. You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache. You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24 in 25 minutes. No wonder men are happier.

School 1977 vs. School 2007

Banasidhe — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:52:16 GMT

Many a true word is spoken in jest but....... Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school. 1977 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates. 2007 - Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites. Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students. 1977 - Jeffrey is sent to the principal's office and given 6 of the best. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. 2007 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. Counselled to death. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra funding because Jeffrey has a disability. Drops out of school. Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbour's car and his Dad gives him the slipper. 1977 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman. 2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mum has an affair with the psychologist. Psychologist gets a promotion. Scenario: Mark, a college student, brings cigarettes to school . 1977 - Mark shares a smoke with the school principal out on the smoking area. 2007 - Police are called and Mark is expelled from School for drug possession. His car is searched for drugs and weapons. Scenario: Mohammed fails high school English. 1977 - Mohammed retakes his exam, passes and goes to college. 2007 - Mohammed's cause is taken up by local human rights group. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that making English a requirement for graduation is racist. Civil Liberties Association files class action lawsuit against state school system and his English teacher. English is banned from core curriculum. Mohammed is given his qualification anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English. Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers, puts them in a model plane paint bottle and blows up an anthill. 1977 - Ants die. 2007 - MI5 and police are called and Johnny is charged with perpertrating acts of terrorism. Teams investigate parents, siblings are removed from the home, computers are confiscated, and Johnny's dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again. Scenario: Johnny falls during break and scrapes his knee. His teacher, Mary, finds him crying, and gives him a hug to comfort him. 1977 - Johnny soon feels better and goes back to playing. 2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces three years in prison. Johnny undergoes five years of therapy. Becomes gay.

Someone put me on a Plane to London!!!!!

Banasidhe — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:46:09 GMT

Led Zeppelin is playing a reunion show: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6990704.stm

Assemblage 23 w/ Patenbrigade & Equilibrium

Banasidhe — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:37:12 GMT

Tonight @ Mezzanine Doors are @ 21:00 (9PM) Cover is $19.00

August 15th “Scream Bloody Murder” on Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday at BaGG

Banasidhe — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:20:52 GMT

topic posted Fri, August 10, 2007 - 6:55 PM by George@BaGG Blood Wrestling from 11:30 – 12:00 MID Your MC: Steffanos Your Ring Girl: Goth Kitty Jen Your Referee: The Promoter Your Matches: MAIN EVENT! Queen Butch with Bill Boots – Reigning WbW Champion vs. Banasidhe – The Queen of Mean BAGGRUDGE MATCH/Battle of Miss BaGG!! Starr Miss BaGG 2007 vs. EvilPonyGirl Miss BaGG 2005 PLUS… Spartica vs.Crazee Jade Tank vs. The Mighty Minx Trashina vs Ryoga Valentina vs Savage Megan Mean bitches, an all-new ring and BUCKETS and BUCKETS of BLOOD!! BENEFITTING THE BLOOD VESSEL INSTALLATION AT BURNING MAN: The Blood Vessel will be there in its fire breathing glory, with a Silent Auction featuring: 90-minute massage with Chazz BDSM scene with Master Stefanos Rope scene with Master Steven 2 Passes to the Power Exchange 2 Passes to Bent Boot Blacking service from Blast Auction will run from 10:00 pm to 1:00 AM. Verified silent bid from 10pm to 1am. Items must be claimed that night. ALSO:. In Hearse photos from Cy! For a $5.00 donation, you get a professional photo inside the hearse! 10pm - 1am YOU SHOULD DREAM: SCENE inside the hearse! Strap your sub onto the coffin table and scene inside the hearse! $20/20 minutes. 1am - close Oh – music with Damon, Shatter. Starr. Pies, blood and more blood. 18 and older. Not for the faint of heart! Bondage A Go Go A Sadistic Disco 520 4th Street @ Bryant Wednesday Nights San Francisco

Get "Naughty" Tonight!

Banasidhe — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:10:25 GMT

$20 at-the-door You *know* where. (Or PM/call me for details.) The theme is "Back to the Boudoir", so it's time to Slip-on the Silks and Shimmy in your Chemise! :) See you tonight! :)

Call for Costuming

Banasidhe — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:23:05 GMT

OK, So I'm going to Vegas next weekend for DefCon and I'm reprising the role of Vanna Vinyl @ Hacker Jeopardy. I was told I'd be getting a costume allowance, but it's not looking like it's coming through as planned and it's getting down to the wire..... So.... I have to come-up with 4 different outfits for the four separate rounds and as I SERIOUSLY don't have the kind of fundage needed for fetish gear, I was hoping some of my wonderful friends might be interested in loaning me a few pieces I could mix-n-match, to come-up with something new over last years wardrobe. Anyone have any size 8 (Medium) Vinyl that they could loan me for the weekend? Eazy-on eazy-off is the plan, the more pieces the better, as I'll be "losing" my outfit over the course of the game, provided the boys get the Daily Double questions correct. ;) Also, due to my new 'do, I'm looking for a few wigs, as well, to complement the outfits and further separate "Banasidhe" from "Vanna". Any help would be greatly appreciated and if the allowance DOES come through, I'll gladly pay "rent" on the outfits and/or wigs I'm loaned. I'm leaving @ midnight on August 1st, so I'd like to collect any pieces by Tuesday night, if possible, to give me time to work-out combos and get everything packed. Thanks!!!

Homophobia

Banasidhe — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:46:27 GMT

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian. I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman. I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights. We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time. I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room. I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me. I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again. I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear. We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men. I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me. I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman. I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman. I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male. I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men. I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that. I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual. I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me. I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind. I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love. Repost this if you believe that homophobia is wrong. ****************************** Live in love, and this world will be a better place. (Reposted, thanks to Tanya) (With thanks to Ruth Daughters for posting this in her blog!)

Wanna Wrassle? ;)

Banasidhe — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:27:55 GMT

Wanna see some comedy? I'll be "Blood Wrestling" tonight @ BaGG, around 23:30 (that's 11:30PM for you non-military types;) Come on out and join us for what should be a total laugh-riot! Don't know where BaGG is? Learn how to do internet research, ya n00b! (Or check-out the Bondage-a-Go-Go tribe. ;)

Anyone down for dinner and/or drinks tonight before BaGG??

Banasidhe — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:58:35 GMT

Janelle (aka Jenya) and I are planning on getting together for drinks and dinner tonight, before heading over to BaGG to watch the Miss Bondage-a-Go-Go contest and we're looking to make it a group outing. Anyone interested in joining us? Give me a call @ 408.856.4920 (my cell) and we'll take it from there. We're looking @ approx 7:30-8:00 PM start time, although we're both pretty flexible. ;) -= G

All apologies or.. SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM

Banasidhe — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:36:04 GMT

To all those I just "spammed" with the KFOG job posting. The system kept timing out on me and telling me I needed to resend the info. I have no way of checking if it had gone through or not, until I got msgs from several friends informing me they had received 6 copies in their inbox. Again, I AM truly sorry that this happened. Now that I know that it went through, despite the error msg, I've stopped trying to submit it. Please forgive me and if anyone knows how to fix this issue, please let me know. Thanks

"April Fools!" from Google and Gmail, in case anyone missed it.

Banasidhe — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:57:56 GMT

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/index.html