What to do about our anniversary?

The Leisure Agency's first anniversary is coming up. Saturday, October 25th, will be here before we know it, and I'd like to do something special to mark our first year of operations - possibly something different than a regular old party, especially due to the following restrictions:

1) We are scattered hither and thither, making a regular old party somewhat difficult to plan, not to mention expensive if traveling to a physical location is involved.

2) Speaking of which, unless one of you is a secret millionaire, none of us is exactly rolling in it.

I'd like to put together an idea for an anniversary celebration that is both fun for all, and easy for Agents and Friends to participate in, if you want to. This should not just be a project for the website,* but something we can enjoy in our real-life lives. Thus, I turn to the vast creative and organizational powers housed in the minds of my Leisurely comrades. Please throw your ideas out in the comments and let's try to come up with something worthy of this momentous occasion! Thanks everyone!

*Although if there is some sort of photographic or written record of the event(s), well, you won't see me complaining.

Secret Agent Spork toys with your optic nerve

New York, NY: Join Secret Agent Spork at the Sardine Can in Williamsburg for a micro-festival of under-the-radar music videos, art film shorts and obscure a/v stimulants!

The Sardine Can
Thursday, April 11th
322 Grand St. (btwn Havermeyer & Marcy)
Williamsburg
8PM - 12AM
Subway: L to Bedford, walk south on Bedford to Grand
St., left onto Grand
*FREE*

The Twins for Peace Project!

Agent PerfectChild is rallying anti-warchests world-wide to take a stand for peace, love, and global understanding. For more information about how you and the girls can get involved, go to the Twins for Peace Project and help rack up the resistance to war.

Poor Taste Campaign

For some time now, I have been troubled by a blight on my environment. Upon disembarking from the T at the Longwood stop in Brookline, Massachusetts, one is immediately confronted with a monstrosity known as "The Longwood Towers - an Avalon Community." As the name so evocatively hints, this is a ghastly housing complex modeled on some sort of vaguely medieval theme, with little turrets and parapets and the like. In the front, blue awnings direct one to the "Ballroom" and the "Veronique Restaurant;" in the rear, a gently sloping lawn is peppered with "No Trespassing" signs. The entire structure gives off the reek of money with nothing better to do. Clearly some development committee sat down, whipped out their bulging and greasy checkbooks, and bandied about words like "luxury units" and "classic" and "market share" and "rich suckers," and the Longwood Towers were born, thudding onto the horizon with a mighty "Oomph!" of alleged Good Taste.

We Deserve Cyclops!

The UK's Natural History Museum has developed a fabulous and virtually-free-of-redeeming-educational-value-but-a-really- good-excuse-for-an-animatronic-dragon touring museum exhibit called Myths and Monsters: Unraveling the Truth. Check out the one-eyed guy. Extremely sweet.

Alas, though this exhibit tours internationally, it has yet to hit these old Pilgrim shores of Massachusetts.

My latest project, therefore, is to bombard the Boston Museum of Science with requests for this important and, particularly in light of the recent discovery of elephant skulls on the island of Crete, relevant exhibit.

Please, friends of Leisure, take a moment to draft a short e-mail to the good people at the Museum of Science (information@mos.org) and tell them you want Myths and Monsters. I have taken the liberty of drafting the following e-mail as a template. You may, of course, wish to substitute your own thoughts.

I write in the hope that you will consider booking a touring exhibition produced by the Natural History Museum in London. The exhibition is called Myths and Monsters and it explores the tales behind mythical creatures, how they came to be, the myths surrounding them and their possible origins in the natural world.

It features an animatronic Cyclops.

I would be proud to attend such an exhibit and proud to bring the whole family. You may learn more about the exhibit at the Museum's website (www.nhm.ac.uk).

Thank you for your consideration.

All the Leisurely are cordially invited to join me for a massive scorpion bowl at the Hong Kong after this sucker debuts.

Help with Finishing Funds

Friend of Leisure Dave Rankin is seeking finishing funds for his new film, Atlantic City Serenade. Visit their website to learn how you can help!

Agent Courtney Seeks Musicians

Agent Courtney is seeking participants in her all-girl Smiths tribute band. She's got the Morrissey vocals and the fabulous angst down pat; now she just needs some musically inclined, like-minded cohorts. See her Agent Page for the details.