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    T.h.e. .M.u.s.e. .a.n.d. .W.h.i.r.l.ed.. .R.et.o.r.t. Special 6 year anniversary issue!!!

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    - BRAND NEW 9/15/05 - VIDEO FOR "9TH WARD NEW ORLEANS"
    Watch it here: http://chrisvids.org/videos/9th_ward_new_orleans.html

    "Something's In The Air" http://www.chrisvids.org/

    The New CD is doing great! By Far the best record I have ever made.

    TO GET THE BRAND NEW 2 VOLUME ENHANCED CD SET "American Storyteller:"

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    Exile on Bourbon Street coming soon: Baltimore, Atlanta, (Cancelled Pennsacola, Gainesville, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Waco, OKC) St Louis, Carbondale, Indianapolis, Champaign, Bloomington, Louisville, Cincinnati, Akron, Athens, Kent, Syracuse, Boston, Western MA, NH, NERFA, and surrounding areas. We need dates, can you help?

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    NEW: New works by Phil Rockstroh
    https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes&display=201&from=0

    And now after the above crass commercial announcements!. . .

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    T.h.e. .M.u.s.e. .a.n.d. .W.h.i.r.l.ed.. .R.et.o.r.t.
    Special 6 year anniverery issue!!!

    Volume 7 Issue 1
    September 1, 2005

    Baltimore, MD

    Hey everybody,

    It's that time of the month again.

    Insert grief and despair over the demise of New Orleans here. I feel it. Karen Kilroy, David Roe, The University of Western Florida and I made this video that may interest you.

    http://chrisvids.org/videos/9th_ward_new_orleans.html

    Thank you for all the letters. All of my friends are accounted for though I have not heard from many acquaintances — largely due to losing contact with them, not for fear of losing them. I do have a personal list at https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes&display=185&from=0 and if you have any knowledge of any of these folks please take a second to look and let me know.

    I hate to say it, though if ya think about it Katrina may have been the best thing that could have happened for George Bush in the past month. It has kept the other news out of the headlines. Another 100 killed in Iraq in the past 24 hours alone. I see Bill Frist has used the profits from the sale of stock in his family's hospital company to invest in hand baskets while Dick Cheney awarded Halliburton the contract to widen the superhighway to hell. Bill Bennet had a frank discussion about abortion with John Roberts, who announced Roe V Wade would not be overturned in an effort to reduce the crime rate.

    Tom Delay was indicted on a money laundering scam that would make Tony Soprano blush. The scam involved funneling money from one account of the GOP and out of another and led to the redistricting of Texas so it now looks like it was drawn by the blind boys from Alabama trying to draw a rumbas on an etch-a-sketch.

    While George Bush's approval ratings have sagged through all of this it has not taken long for the right to retaliate by adding cross braces to The Neo-Con's Leaning Tower of Babel. I have been hearing stories on the news criticizing the good folks of New Orleans for exaggerating their plight. It has gone as far as conservative talk show hosts such as Neil Boortz saying things like, "they made it all up." These folks sound like the conspiracy nuts who still claim the landing on the moon was done in a Hollywood sound stage.

    Yes, the death count was lower than first believed. I see that as a testament that maybe "Those idiots in New Orleans" actually do know how to evacuate — not evidence of a left wing media conspiracy.

    Rumors circulated over the course of those darkest days. How could they not. Stories of "babies with their throats cut piled in a refrigerator in the basement of the superdome" turned out to be false. Thank God. But now, the right is trying to use these really understandable rumors to show that George Bush actually handled this crisis well. They even imply that all the images of poor black people suffering more than they do on a daily basis in the Desire Street Housing Project were a tool of the left wing media and may have even been planted in the Superdome just to make George Bush look bad.

    Of course rumors developed - put that many people in a dark building with no flush toilets and no outside — or inside for that matter - communication and yes rumors are going to be spread. Add in a few unattended dead people lying in plain sight leaving their imagination to conjure and stories are going to form. They are not pretty stories. These are people who have just seen their entire lives float down the river. Is that not horrible enough?

    It becomes on big game of telegraph. Ya ever play that in school? Ya start off with a sentence and you whisper it in the ear of the person next to you and so on. When we played it — it didn't matter what ya started with it always ended up with — "the Principal is an asshole." He was.

    Play this game in a setting of people who believed long before the flood that they were being pissed on and the game of telegraph begins, "There was a baby crying because he needed changing and there are no diapers" and the rumor become "piles of dead babies with slit throats in the basement freezer of the superdome." These stories are fed by genuine fear and despair, not an armature agenda to make little George look bad. How dare you!

    It is the blackest of farces (no pun intended) Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure meets Henry,

    portrait of a serial killer. Just because there was no electricity to run a freezer and there is no basement in the superdome does not mean the events that manifested these rumors were not tragic.

    Remember back to 9-11? On 9-12 we were hit with rumors of hundreds of thousands of deaths as well as super human acts of heroism such as tales of people climbing down 100 stories outside of the burning building - even one guy was rumored to have ridden a piece of sheet rock down the collapsing building like a surf board.

    No one in the twin towers rode down the building on a sheet rock surf board carrying an arm full of puppies but that does not mean there were not heroes. There were not hundreds of thousands of deaths as was first reported - that did not make it any less tragic for those who lost so much.

    And to be fair to the other side, Karl Rove was not seen in SCUBA gear driving an underwater car-bomb Chevy to the levee to blow it up and drown the 9th ward. Just because it was done in 1927 does not mean it was done this time. But it also does not change the setting that would make people genuinely suspect it to have happened.

    What is a rumor anyway? Rumor manifests itself in truth. It is in sense folklore. The entire Judeo-Christian culture is based on it. Our American culture is steeped in it.  There was no Paul Bunyan, knocking out whole forests in Minnesota with one mighty swing of the ax but that does not mean that the forests did not fall quickly. There was no John Henry racing a steam drill but that does not mean there was not anxiety throughout the American industrial revolution of machines taking the jobs of men. John Henry may not have had a 50 pound hammer but that does not mean that even brawniest laborers would be killed if they tried to compete. In that context John Henry is real.

    Just because Moses did not part the Red Sea does not mean Moses did not part the Red Sea. These stories are exactly as far fetched and exactly as dead on accurate as the tales that came from New Orleans in September of 05 and New York City in September of 01.

    Using understandable human propensity for hyperbole as cover for failed leadership is like saying Jesus Christ did feed the multitudes with five barley loaves and two small fish. He did.

    Stories or rumors or tall tales or myth are actually hard scientific fact. They are the air we breathe, which is as pure or as poisonous as we make it. Air is gaseous and it fits the exact size and shape of the container it is placed in. If you put in too much pressure it will blow up. If you remove it from the container, we will live in a vacuum and we will suffocate. But if allowed to be filtered properly stories become pure oxygen. Healthy. Volatile. Highly combustible.

    Essential. True.


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    we are looking for dates if you see a whole in the calendar that you think you could fill -

    please let us know.

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    Thank you to all who bought a copy of "Something in the Air/But it's not on the Airwaves."  

    You helped make it a top seller at CD Baby!  They had a contest this month and we made the

    cut!  Who-Ray!

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    "Something's in the Air/But it's not on the Airwaves"  will be screened at the Eureka Film

    Festival in New York on October 30! http://www.eurekaiff.com

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    We are looking for showcase opportunities at NERFA - got any ideas?

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    The Pageant of the Paterson Silk Strike made song of the month on the terrific Labor Notes

    web site: http://labornotes.org/songs/songOfMonth.shtml

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    I am so sorry to have to cancel the Gulf Coast and Texas tour this month - please forgive me

    and please have us back - weather, hurricane and FEMA permitting.

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    American Storyteller would make a terrific Christmas Gift - it is a 2 vol CD set which will play in

    a CD player but is enhanced when played on your computer - complete with 3 never before

    released short films - lyrics, loads of extras and a cracker jack surprise!

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    Have a radio show or write for a magazine that would review the CD?  Drop me a line and I

    will send you a copy!

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    Please visit the many first hand accounts of New Orleans at https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=notes


    HERES DA DATES

    Also, you can always check the up-to-the-minute schedule and get more details here:
    https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=booking

    If you can schedule a show in an open date, please contact me right away.
    https://chrischandler.org/index.php?page=contact

    Saturday, October 1st, 2005 8PM
    Creative Alliance at The Patterson
    3 1 3 4 Eastern Ave,
    BALTIMORE, MD
    phone: v.410.276-1651 f.410.276.3206
    website: http://www.creativealliance.org

    Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 10am
    Takoma Park Street Festival -- Takoma Park
    Chris Chandler, David Roe, and Nick Annis as "Three Wise Guys"
    Takoma Park
    website: http://takomafestival.com/contact.htm#Directions
    presented by David Eisner

    Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 2 pm
    Kennesaw State University --
    Wilson Bldg. Rm 227,

    Friday, October 7th, 2005 8 pm
    Stillwell Theatre at Kennesaw State University --

    Saturday, October 8th, 2005 8 pm
    Stillwell Theatre at Kennesaw State University --

    Monday, October 10th, 2005
    CANCELLED
    The Home -- Gainesville

    Tuesday, October 11th, 2005 9PM
    CANCELLED
    Sluggos -- Pensacola

    Friday, October 14th, 2005
    CANCELLED
    JP Hops House -- Houston

    Saturday, October 15th, 2005 7PM
    CANCELLED
    Community UU Church -- San Antonio

    Sunday, October 16th, 2005
    CANCELLED
    Nuevo Chile -- Plantersville

    Monday, October 17th, 2005 8PM
    CANCELLED
    Nuevo Chile -- Plantersville

    Tuesday, October 18th, 2005 8:30
    CANCELLED

    Friday, October 21st, 2005
    Venue TBA - St Louis

    Saturday, October 22nd, 2005 8pm
    Yellowmoon Cafe -- Cobden, IL
    110 Front Street
    phone: (618) 893-2394
    website: http://yellowmooncafe.com

    Sunday, October 23,
    OPEN, NEED SHOW

    Monday, October 24th, 2005 8pm, doors open 7:30pm
    Channing Murray Foundation -- Urbana, IL
    1209 West Oregon
    phone: 217-344-1176
    website: http://www.prairiernet.org/channing-murray

    Tuesday, October 25
    OPEN, NEED SHOW

    Wednesday, October 26
    Louisville, KY
    Brigid Presents a House Concert

    Thursday, October 27th, 2005 9:30pm
    The Lime Spider -- Akron, Ohio
    Concert and and Screening of "Something's In the Air"
    207 South Main Street
    website: http://thelimespider.com

    Friday, October 28th, 2005 8:00 PM
    The Wire -- Athens, Ohio

    Saturday, October 29 - OPEN, NEED SHOW
    maybe Columbus or Dayton, Ohio?

    Sunday, October 30th, 2005 7:30PM
    Maitri Center -- Cincinnati, Ohio
    4120 Hamilton Avenue,
    phone: 513-477-4298
    website: http://Anne Feeney's site: www.annefeeney.com
    $10

    Monday, October 31st, 2005 7:30pm
    Barking Spider Tavern -- Cleveland
    11310 Juniper Rd.,
    Cleveland
    phone: 216-421-2863
    website: http://www.barkingspidertavern.com/
    Martin Jurkedine No email addy for venue

    Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 10pm
    Electric Community Cafe -- Kent
    Concert & Video Release Party, "Something's In the Air"
    252 N. Water Street,
    Kent, Ohio
    phone: 330-676-1950

    Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
    World Cafe Live -- Philadelphia
    In the same building as WXPPN, in University city.

    Thursday, November 3 OPEN, NEED SHOW

    Friday, November 4th, 2005 8pm
    with Godfrey Daniels -- Bethlehem
    7 E 4th St,
    phone: 610 867 2390
    website: http://www.godfreydaniels.org

    Saturday, November 5th, 2005 8pm
    House Concert -- Philadelphia

    November 6-9 OPEN, NEED SHOWS

    Thursday, November 10th, 2005 7:30pm
    The Home of Kathy Barry / Brian Caulfield -- Syracuse
    1115 Euclid Ave,
    Syracuse, NY
    phone: 315 425 7257
    This is a house concert, so seating is limited. Its a good idea to call ahead and reserve a spot.

    Friday, November 11th, 2005
    Kutsher's Resort & Conference Center -- Monticello
    website: http://www.nefolk.org/

    Friday, November 11th, 2005 9PM
    Caffe Lena -- Saratoga Springs
    47 Phila St
    website: http://www.caffelena.org

    Saturday, November 12th, 2005
    Kutsher's Resort & Conference Center -- Monticello
    website: http://www.nefolk.org/

    Sunday, November 13th, 2005
    Kutsher's Resort & Conference Center -- Monticello
    website: http://www.nefolk.org/

    November 14-16, OPEN, NEED SHOWS

    Thursday, November 17th, 2005
    Ft Benning GA -- Columbus
    website: http://www.soaw.org/new/

    Friday, November 18th, 2005
    Ft Benning GA -- Columbus
    Chris Chandler and David Roe
    website: http://www.soaw.org/new/

    Saturday, November 19th, 2005
    Ft Benning GA -- Columbus
    website: http://www.soaw.org/new/

    Sunday, November 20th, 2005
    Ft Benning GA -- Columbus
    website: http://www.soaw.org/new/
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