The Arizona Renaissance Festival starts February 7th and runs weekends and President's Day through the end of March. I will be performing with Jamila Lotus Bellydance Carnivale on the Dancing Pig Pub stage four times a day. Come See!

I am currently teaching a Bhangra class at the Plaza de Anaya Studio on Mondays. Check out their site for more ( Read more... )

My Captain, Evil Ryan Meyer, in a video about nautical cannon battle tactics
with footage of a battle sail (I was gunning that day):
http://www.thenewstribune.com/942/story/405851.html

Awesome photo of my friend Billy, Gunner's Mate and Engineer of the
Privateer Lynx -
http://www.thenewstribune.com/942/story/405289.html

Horrifyingly written article, but ( Read more... )

So many things have happened!

I got on board the Lady Washington June 5 in Portland after spending some time visiting the amazing, clever and witty Shane. Lucked right into a forecastle rack. Lucked right into being the gunner.

Okay, so at first I thought it would be interesting to just learn a new thing, you know? I have always been interested in ( Read more... )

I posted this as an answer to where I will be this summer... but if you are in the area (NW coast... Portland north into BC) you really should see this. Especially if you like the Age of Sail. This is where the Lady Washington will be when I am sailing on her... as Bosun's Mate. Yay!

At some point you may need a Glossary of Nautical Terms to read ( Read more... )

( If you are in the area, come and dance with me! )

On New Year's Eve I was living and working on the Lady Washington which was docked (at that time) in Long Beach, CA.
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Hillary Clinton Believes War With Iran Would Be Funny

Once again, I must state... I am not posting this because I am open to debate about which candidate is the best... I am merely disseminating information.

Hillary Clinton scares me.

This is a result of the combined genius of the three programmers in my office: Mike, buffbikedude and myself...

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I am doing a tribal bellydance show with Melissa of Bedouin Tribe, tomorrow night - Saturday (8/25)! It is at this super cool new restaurant, Lamassu, in Gilbert. Our part of the show starts at 9:30... actually there will be a cabaret dancer on before us (sometimes it is Ellisha - she is sooooo yummy) so perhaps you should call the restaurant to ( Read more... )