SRLC Welcoming Committee BBQ, this Saturday!

Have you heard about the SRLC Welcoming Committee? We are a coalition of New Orleans individuals and groups (including the Committee to Save Charity Hospital) coming together to welcome the Southern Republican Leadership Committee to New Orleans by letting them and the world know what we think of Republican governor Bobby Jindal's ruthless assaults on Louisiana healthcare and education. We're throwing a big ol' Second Line on Friday, April 9th, at 5:30 at Lafayette Square Park, and we'd love to see you there.

In the meantime, please help us organize and plan, to make this the best event it can possibly be. You can find our meeting schedule, as well as lots of flyers and other info, at the SRLC Welcoming Committee website . We would love the involvement of more people and more groups. Our coalition is steadily growing!

We're meeting at the Rail, Friday at 4 pm and Monday at 8 pm, but more importantly, please join us Saturday at 2pm for a glorious time making and eating BARBECUE and also making but not eating SIGNS and BANNERS for the Second Line!

Please bring yourself, and as much banner/sign/craft supplies as you can gather, and also all your artsy friends and their supplies. This is a lovely thing to do on a Saturday!

TUESDAY FREE MOVIE NIGHT REBORN

7:30 p.m., the first & third Tuesdayz of the month. Don't buckle beneath relentless crushing despair and put an end to your empty life just yet... instead, visit the Iron Rail to enjoy FREE MOVIES in Spanish (with English subtitles) and stick around afterwards for Spanish convo. Burnish those language skills like you've been meaning to!

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NOV 3
El día de la bestia (1995, España)
Dirigida por Álex de la Iglesia. ¿Qué pasa cuando un cura, un roquero satánico y un presentador de un show de la tele traten a evitar el apocalipsis que venga con el paro del anticristo? ¡Hilaridad! Con el Diablo como estralla invitada. 666.
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. What happens when a priest, a heavy metal head and a tv show host try to stop the birth of the antichrist and the coming apocalypse? Hilarity! With the Devil guest starring. 666.

NOV 17
Machuca (2004,Chile)
Dirigida por Andrés Wood. Un drama histórico centrado sobre tres niños durante a la revolución del Allende y el posterior golpe de estado por Pinochet en 1973. Pro-bablemente, va a llorar por el fin.
Directed by Andrés Wood. Historical drama centered around three kids around the Allende revolution and the subsequent coup by Pinochet in 1973. You will probably cry by the end.

DEC 1
Plata Quemada/Burnt money (2000, Argentina)
Dirigida por Marcelo Piñeyro. Dos mercenarios gayes y calientez en el año 1965 estropean un atraco a un banco, intercambiando disparos y miradas provocativas de pasión. Super elegante.
Directed by Marcelo Piñeyro. Two hottt gay mercenaries in 1965 botch a bank robbery in Buenos Aires, exchanging gunfire and smoldering gazes of passion. Muy Classy.

DEC 15
Película de Disney/ Some Disney Movie (EE.UU)
Dirigida por una Corporación. Disney hace lo mejor doblado (hay que entrar a las cabezas de los jóvenes de todas las lenguas). Entonces vengan y vuelvan a vivir una memoria sórdida de su niñez y cantamos. Hay varios, entonces vamos a hacer el voto.
Directed by a Corporation. Disney does the best dubbing (got to get into the heads of kids no matter the language). So come relive a sordid childhood moment and get to not sing along (unless you’re fluent that is). Got a couple of ‘em, so we’ll vote.

JAN 5
El Topo/The Mole (1970,México)
Dirigida por Alejandro Jodorowsky (Holy Mountain) hace su cosa y haciendo la locura. Una película de sicodélico del oeste. Más hay alegoría y sátira de la historia de México y La Iglesia Católica añadidas. Y también algo del occidental y los yogis, obvio.
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky (Holy Mountain) is doing his thing and making craziness happen. Psychedelic western cult flick. Plus some allegory and satire of Mexican history and the Catholic church thrown in. Oh and some eastern yogi stuff, of course.

JAN 19
!Ay Carmela! (1990, España)
Dirigida por Carlos Saura. Todavía otra película sobre La Guerra Civil en España, y como las otras es muy buena y todavía algo distinta. Un grupo republicano de vodevil se encuentra en el territorio fascista donde son forzada a actuar. Travesuras chifladas y la muerte de una España libre sigan.
Directed by Carlos Saura.
Yet another movie about the Spanish Civil War, and like all the others so good and still something different. A Republican vaudeville group finds themselves in Fascist territory where they are forced to perform. Wacky hijinxs and the death of a free Spain ensue.

B the change you wan2 C in the Rail

What? You don't like the Rail lately? Hey, me neither! It's gotten way too full of whatever it is you dislike. I totally agree.

But...  rather than abandoning the Rail to become even more full of whatever it is you dislike, why don't we work together to put more of what you like into the Rail?

That way, quality folks such as yourself will be drawn like shy volunteer-minded hummingbirds to the sweet nectar of whatever it is you like, and the goblins who thrive on the bitter ichor of whatever it is you dislike will move on to more ichorous pastures.

Everyone wins!

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YOU DEMAND, WE SUPPLY

I try to get the word out.

Having just mass-mailed a newsletter with no subject line and committed whatever passes for a faux pas in the horrid twilit dork-a-verse that is "Facebook," I cannot but eagerly anticipate what will go wrong with this fuckin' blog posting. Perhaps I will inadvertantly include my social security number? Perhaps I will CC my employer?

Anyway, to the crux:
ASHER is back at the Iron Rail, giving massages!

Today, Sunday, 3-7 p.m.!

Now, I try not to objectify allies, but rest assured, were you to find Asher merely TWENTY PERCENT as charming as does the average person, you would still be more charmed by him than first-time parents are by their newborn.

I say 'newborn' for purposes of analogy, but make no mistake: Asher's hands are unambiguously full-grown. They are the hands of a great sculptor, or perhaps a symphony conducter who splits his own cordwood: the hands of a do-er, a master craftsperson, a kinaesthetic shaper of better destinies.

And folks, it is THOSE EXTRAORDINARY HANDS, those same heaven-infused, sinewed extremities which Asher will deploy to sculpt YOUR VERY FLESH, working out stresses that might date back months, even years... tension you've been carrying for a decade, unawares! This is your chance. He's got the goods; let him heal you.

Asher is a certified, professional masseuse who is generously donating his skills to help raise funds for our ambitious but impoverished littleinfoshop/spa. He's got a chair and everything. Pay what you can, but do not miss out on this...

EXCERSIZE

Get a pen... or since you're on a computer, open a new text document. List the five objects, services or experiences in your adult life that have given you the most pleasure. Go on, write 'em down.

If you have had an exceptionally rewarding time on earth, list ten.

OKAY, THAT WAS PART ONE. Now list the five (or ten) most expensive objects, services or experiences you have paid money for... including houses, cars, university degrees, marriage ceremonies, divorce settlements and taxes.

Do those lists overlap?

Mine kinda do, more than I expected they would.

SUE BUTLER KNOWS WHAT'S UP

It's a very magical little piece of the week, almost. It's the time where YOU get a phone call or text message about volunteering at the Rail! Ha ha I bet a lot of you wish you could somehow "block" messages sent from certain phones. Maybe you can? I'm not too up on this stuff.

Seriously there's no reason filling the schedule should be as stressful & last-minute as it has been the last few weeks. Help us out!!!

And of course the one sure-fire way to not get an annoying text message is to come to the weekly collective meetings, every Wednesday at 8... We love you / miss you / need your input and ideas!

NOTES ON PRISONER SUPPORT

Is there somebody in OPP you'd like to help out?

Books and magazines cannot be mailed or hand-delivered or even ordered from a third-party vendor; they can only be obtained by the inmate herself ordering from the book selection on the commissary list. I'll see what I can do about getting a copy of the commissary list, but in the meantime please join me in making uninformed and overwhelmingly negative assumptions about its contents.

I asked a couple jail employees if the prices on books and magazines are more or less in line with the prices of other commissary items (meaning hyperinflated) and was told yes. This means reading material would be pretty hard for somebody locked up to get ahold of first-hand when balanced against necessities like soap and tobacco.

Inmates can receive letters, however. If you were to lay hands on an electronic text of something, maybe some poems you like, maybe some shakespeare plays, maybe a novel, and broke it into chunks and printed it out, you could certainly send it along, in envelope installments, in 10- or 15-page increments. You cannot send blank envelopes, stamps, stamped envelopes, blank paper, or cards, however... nor can you send a literarily inclined inmate pens or other writing utensils. Stationary supplies may only be obtained via the commissary.

You will need the inmate's actual name, booking #, and location to send mail.

To put money in an inmate's commissary (very important), you can either mail the inmate a signed money order or donate over the web, though the latter does add a fee. Again, you will need the inmate's personal information. The webpay service is here, and for somebody in OPP the Pay Location Code would be 5500 and the Facility Code would be "MSY - Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff (LA)".

To avoid providing the sickening, parasitic war-criminal fucks who run these hideous systems any more $$fees$$ than necessary, I encourage those interested in helping somebody in OPP in these specific ways-- money and reading materials-- to get ahold of me. If you don't know me, or how to reach me, come to a meeting; we can discuss pooling our resources.

Jails are not justice
"Judges" are an illegitimate authority
The legal system is corrupt beyond saving

Burroughs sez

Burroughs sez:

"Boards Syndicates Governments of the earth Pay-- Pay Back the Color you stole--

"Pay Red-- Pay back the red you stole for your lying flags and Coca-Cola signs-- Pay that red back to penis and blood and sun--

ok yeah, penis, blood, sun, sure, yeah, but also... also, and just now suddenly... I... gee willikers, I think I need another Newport.