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At the moment, it is still under construction, but I hope it will soon be a fun place and music/writing promotion tool. If it doesn't crash somehow, or I forget my password to get into this thing.
Be sure to check out the links on this homepage (and I hope their originators don't mind my linking to them!)
Today, June 20, 2001, is the birthday of this site. May it have many more anniversaries.
--Karen I. Olsen
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LAIRLINKS DIRECTORY INDEX
The LairMistress's Musician's Bio
Musician's Resume
Youngblood Circle (The Confundus Conspiracy)
The LairMistress's ReverbNation Profile
Karen the LairMistress: New Spotify Profile
The LairMistress on Bandcamp (In Progress)
NEW! Karen on Instagram
Karen's Flickr Profile
The LairMistress Profile at BigStockPhoto
LairMistress Imagekind Profile (Original Pics for Sale!)
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NEWSFLASH (WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009): LairCronies, a new PromoLair has just been Excavated! After thinking about it Awhile, we decided to start up a blog that promotes our Cafepress LairShops (in lieu of a CP newsletter), and have it Attached, more or less, to the Home Lair at Angelfire. The blog will promote the LairShops; now we have to get Going like gangbusters and promote the blog! It's called The LairShops Beckon.
In the process of Dredging out this PromoLair, we learned a thing or two about what they call "Advanced Customization" (that thing they don't really let you do with free LJs). We are learning how to tweak the Stylesheets, the code for Main page entries, the LairLinks sidebar, and such like. We just put up our first two posts in the past couple of days; now we have to alert the Entire planet to the existence of this thing; and by extension, the LairShops! Just click on the image Below, or the text link Above, to check it out...
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Artifacts of the Lair: Lair Logos and other Originals for LairLurkers! |
 The LithicLair: Graphics and scanned ceramic images inspired by Neolithic European art! |
 Eireann85: Images of photos taken during the LairMistress's travels in Ireland in 1984-1985! |
All Bunnyz, All The Time: |
The Lair of Cards: Our first Premium LairShop, entirely Dedicated |
Barefoot Bandit North American Tour 2010: |
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2025: Dang, folks, has the entire Republican Party gone completely Batshit?! Or, perhaps I should say, have they all gone under the spell of the Orange Menace? That's right, LairCronies of Current and Future generations, Donald Trump is back in the White House--likely with the help of TeslaNazi Elon Musk, who chipped in Upwards of $100 million to buy his way back there. And now Elon is Listed, on his Wikipedia page, no less as a "U.S. special government employee"; and many people are starting to suspect that he might be the Actual entity running the federal government by now (with a cabal of college-aged techies in tow). Orange Thing may be the official Leader of the Free World; but at 78, his brain is clearly Fuzzier than an old fleece jacket.
Since being Installed on January 20, he has barred the Federal government from acknowledging Popular events such as Black History Month; he's ordered the use of plastic straws over paper ones, claiming the latter items "don't work" and "may even explode"; he's renamed the Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali; he's banned the use of pronouns in federal employee email signatures (does anyone really care about that?); and he's openly proclaimed his desires to own the Gaza Strip, take back the Panama Canal, annex Canada as our 51st state, and purchase Greenland from Denmark for "national security" purposes. And lest it slip our minds, he's hard at work Rubberstamping elements of a Christofascist agenda Known as "Project 2025." Gag. Orange Thing should be behind bars right Now for Multiple felony convictions; but former Attorney General Merrick Garland dragged his heels so long, it's pretty Obvious that he was "Influenced" somehow by someone with a Trump 2.0 agenda. And, as people like to say in the midst of Calamitous circumstances, HERE WE ARE.
UPDATE (SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025): So, LairCronies, how is it living with a government Headed by an orange-faced lunatic Bent on acting out his own, personal Fascist Dictator Fantasy Camp? He's still trying to deport any foreign student who dares to express solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank, or the Indigenous folks of Lebanon or Syria! I've long Since figured out that our government, regardless of the party in power, has a barely-Disguised aversion to Arab people, and Muslims in general, with a Particular animosity towards Palestinians. But now, with Netanyahu or somebody Similar pulling his strings, Trump wants to crack Down on anyone, citizen or not, who dares to criticize Israel! Now, I have no issues with Jewish people, nor their faith or culture (shoot, Jews have been part of my family by marriage since the early 1960's); but the current Israeli government? Well, they're not exactly on my list of Favorite folks to communicate with. And my country's constitution says I am within my rights to express my honest-to-gosh opinion on any government I please, as long as I'm not threatening or defaming anyone. Unfortunately, Cafepress has been giving me a bit of a Rough time Lately, with my most-Recent uploads of teeshirt designs with political themes; and I've had to tweak the captions a wee bit to pass muster. Fortunately, Seattle is still a haven for Progressive and Eccentric folks (I shall have to upload my small set of photos from our recent "Hands Off!" rally at the Seattle Center); and I expect to be out on the streets Again on April 19 (next weekend) for a "We the People" event, to reassure foreign students and immigrant communities that they are still Welcome and (for now) Safe here. Still, moving to some other country with a Sane government is not off the table Yet. I'm just hanging in there to see how much I can take for Now...
Anyway, here Again are some new Antiwar and other Progressive LairLinks that have crossed our path Recently, as well as some old favorites from Before--Newly Updated (note new URLs for some orgs)! Alas, the Iraqi Information Minister site finally bit the dust a while Back. He probably still regrets that we are too far Removed from reality...
CommonDreams.org
Salam Pax's Weblog
AlterNet Online
Back To Iraq 3.0 (Christopher Allbritton's blog series)
CREDO Action (formerly Working for Change)
Independent Media Center (Archived)
Baghdad Burning: Riverbend's Weblog (Archived)
School of the Americas Watch
ZNet/Z Magazine (New URL)
The Shalom Center (New URL)
OneAmerica (formerly Hate Free Zone)
World Can't Wait
NEW! Fridays For Future
Michael Moore.com
Electronic Iraq.net (New URL)
Salam Pax's New Blog
Southern Poverty Law Center
Salam Pax's Wordpress Blog
CorpWatch.org
Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC):Temporary New URL
Voices in the Wilderness (Archived)
Fellowship of Reconciliation
World Youth Peace Organization
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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025: Happy Season of Lengthening Days, LairCronies! If I don't get Detained by the Border Patrol anytime Soon, we're Due for a new round of Spring Festivals pretty soon, and hopefully some street fairs thrown In for Good measure...
Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival (April 11-13)
Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May 3)
World Rhythm Festival (Columbia Park, April 25-27)
Spirit of Africa Festival (May 10)
A Glimpse of China (May 17)
U-District Street Fair (University District, May 17-18)
Northwest Folklife Festival 2025 (May 23-26)
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NEW UPDATE (WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2024): Dangit, folks; looks like our Affiliate source has scrapped all their lovely banners, ads, and other Fascinating stuff! We're left with little but text LairLinks that we have to decorate on our own! Well, guess the banners just weren't paying for themselves. But we'll do the best we can to monetize Said source with our own free labor! Grumphh...
Liam Clancy: Well, Liam's website, with the man himself now in Spirit, has unfortunately bit the dust. For now, we content ourselves with a Bing resource page in his honor.
Jason Webley: Independent Musician/Accordion Guy
Patheos: For some reason, Beliefnet (formerly "the mother of all multi-religious news sites", etc.) went all Monoreligious on us some time Ago. Fortunately, Patheos stepped Up to fill the Pluralistic void.
Starhawk: Regenerative Culture, Earth-based Spirituality, and Permaculture: Adventures, Projects and Writings of the Lair's Favorite Witch.
Makem Central: Tommy Makem and the Makem Brothers
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The lovely Celtic circle at the top of this page (and the turquoise cross atop the Goals 2001 Page) comes to us courtesy of the Free Celtic Clipart Page at Ireland-Information.com. For the best in free Celtic clipart, do pay them a visit!
Likewise, the LairMistress has had great fun with the cool animated graphics provided free of charge by The Animation Factory--as you can see, I've got animated critters all over the Lair by now! At least one new animated critter is birthed on their site every day! Check them out at the LairLink above!
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