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February 2007

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February 2007

-- Survey Update
-- Site News
-- EduKate
-- Monthly Trivia Contest: Win a Anniversary T-Shirt
-- Kate Clinton Tour News
-- Fan Spotlight
-- Booking and Publicity

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Did anyone say Ash Wednesday? (Kate at her Communion!)

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Survey Update
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As you know, we haven't wasted any time implementing some of your suggestions! Last month we started with introducing our new EduKate section within the newsletter. Each month, EduKate will feature Quotable K8T, Outspoken (highlighting activists and community organizations), and Page One (Kate’s current magazine and literary choices). In the near future Kate will write about more ways one can be part of the political movement, challenge younger lesbians to blaze a trail, publish podcasts, and answer questions from fans. We will continue to implement your ideas - they are very helpful to us! And remember it is still not too late to be part of the survey.

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Win a Date with Kate!

That's right, a get-together with Kate herself! Also due to feedback from readers like you, this offer will be exclusive to newsletter members only. Look for contest details in the April newsletter.

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Take Kate's Survey and Win!

So many questions, such little time. So we decided to put all those inquiring mind questions into one Kate Clinton survey. The optional drawing, open to those who take the survey, will put you in the running to win an Anniversary T-Shirt and Kate's new here!Comedy Presents DVD.

Take the survey now:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=243463058143

The survey is anonymous. To be entered in the drawing, take it and then send us your contact details.
kate@kateclinton.com

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Site News
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Survey-licious New Items on CafePress!

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Thanks to your feedback on the survey, we've got all-new stuff for you at CafePress! Check out Kate's new Climate Change tour apparel including black shirts, hoodies, and all new products featuring fan-favorite one-liners like "Lazy Top" and "Women laughing together is like women coming together."
http://www.cafepress.com/kateclinton

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New Blog Category: Climate Change

"Truth be told, and it so rarely is, I generally do the crossword puzzle while my gal pal is watching..."
http://kateclinton.com/communikate/climate_change/

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Hot off the Press: E-Cards

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Have you sent a free electronic Kate Clinton greeting card? Surprise someone with a note in their mailbox:
http://pub28.bravenet.com/postcard/post.php?usernum=2381952992

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here! Comedy Presents Kate Clinton

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Beloved political humorist, Kate Clinton, cuts lose and runs with the burning issues of the day - same and same old sex marriage, pop and pope culture, good and bad Bush fatigue - in this one-funny woman, standup performance. You'll laugh til you think!

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http://www.heretv.com

Check out the latest review in the Southern Voice:
http://www.sovo.com/2007/2-2/arts/DVD/6469.cfm

Find out more and order your DVD now:
http://kateclinton.com/katemart/2006/07/here_comedy_presents_kate_clin.html

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The HA [Humor Activism] Corner

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We want to hear your activism stories. Did anyone attend the Peace March in Washington, DC? Don't be shy, share some of the witty, gay civil protests you've done, in our HA [Humor Activism] Corner.

Check out the latest HA! Corner entry from Laurie: "My partner Janice and I attended a public meeting over the hubbub concerning public television stations airing (or not airing) the Buster Rabbit series "SugarShack" episode!"
http://kateclinton.com/communikate/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5

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Step Into Our Forum: Get in on the Action!

"Hey there, Recovering Catholics. I know you're out there. I've seen you at my shows -- sung with you in fact. I'd love to hear from you. Anyone have any horror stories to share?"
http://kateclinton.com/communikate/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83

"There are a million amazing books out there full of strategies for impeaching Bush... Have you read any of these? Which ones would you recommend?"
http://kateclinton.com/communikate/forum/viewtopic.php?t=101

Check out even more discussions here -- and join in!
http://kateclinton.com/communikate/forum

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EduKate
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Quotable K8T

"I dreamed last night that Suze Orman was going down on me. Anything to shut her up."
- Kate Clinton

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Outspoken Activist Of The Month: Julie Goldman

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Goldman is working with Rosie O'Donnell's production company on the new Big Gay Sketch Show for LOGO Network. She just wrapped production. The show debuts 2007.

Read more about Julie's work:
http://www.julie-goldman.com/

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Outspoken Organization Of The Month: CodePink: Women For Peace

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CodePink is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. CodePink rejects the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law. With an emphasis on joy and humor, CodePink women and men seek to activate, amplify and inspire a community of peacemakers through creative campaigns and a commitment to non-violence.

http://www.codepink4peace.org/

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And don't forget about V-Day!

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http://www.vday.org

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Page One: K8T is reading...

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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

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Bitch Magazine
http://www.bitchmagazine.com/

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Monthly Trivia Contest: Win an Anniversary Tour T-Shirt ===========================================

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The first person to email us with the correct answer to the following trivia question gets an Anniversary tour t-shirt from CafePress. Score! Here's the question: What is the name of Kate's hoped-for back-up band?

Click here to email us your answer:
kate@kateclinton.com

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Last Month's Contest

Last month's question was, How many times Kate has performed at the Michigan Women's Music Festival? The answer is 4. We received responses with every other number but the right one. Thanks for playing - better luck this month!

Check out Kate's CafePress stuff here:
http://cafepress.com/kateclinton

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Kate Clinton Tour News
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Heidi, Kate and the Gang at the Dallas show

For complete event listings, visit:
http://kateclinton.com/kates-dates

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Only One more Anniversary Show Left in 2007: Get ready, Denver, Englewood and Boulder, Colorado!

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4/6/07
25th Anniversary Show Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre 1-866-468-7621

Get your tickets online:
http://www.ticketweb.com

Event produced by:
http://www.mavenproductions.com

More Kate's Dates:
http://kateclinton.com/kates-dates/

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Get Ready for Climate Change!

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3/3/07
Seattle, WA Moore Theater (206) 467-5510
More info:
http://www.foolproof.org

3/6/07
Palm Springs, CA Annenberg Theatre (760) 325-4490

3/8 - 3/11/07
Gill Foundation Conference Private Event
More info:
http://www.psmuseum.org

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Kate Comes Marching In: Special Appearances

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March 19th at the Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS annnual gala "Nothin' Like a Dame":
http://www.broadwaycares.org/events/dames.cfm

March 24th at The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute 25th Anniversary Gala:
http://www.womenmarchforth.org

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March 26th at the 18th Annual Glaad Media Awards:
http://www.glaad.org/events/mediaawards/index.php

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Hey There, Vacation Planners

Many of you see Kate while on vacation, right? To make life a little easier for you, we've posted a full Provincetown, MA schedule and put in Ticket On-Sale Dates for other events. Check it out:
http://kateclinton.com/kates-dates/

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Kate's Posts from the Road

Read Kate's latest Tour News from Minneapolis, New Paltz and Dallas:
http://kateclinton.com/communikate/2007_tour_notes/

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Kate Blogs her way onto the Huffington Post

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-clinton/

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Kate's Latest Review

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http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/artistswriterset1/p/KateClinton.htm

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Bring Kate to Your Workplace

Prudential and Stride Rite have - why not your employer? Whether it's a training seminar, holiday party, caucus meeting, trade show or sales meeting, Kate offers a variety of shows to fit your many corporate entertainment needs. Remember Kate can design a show to meet your particular requirements.

For personal appearances/performances (i.e. standup, hosting, emceeing, business and organization presentations) contact:
Tam Martin, Artist Representative
Beachfront Bookings/Productions
[Beachfront Bookings/Productions logo]
P.O. Box 13218, Portland, OR 97213-0218
(503) 281-3874 phone | (503) 281-3881 fax
tammartin@aol.com
http://beachfrontbookings.com

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Kate on Dallas Pride

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Find out more about Dallas Pride:
http://www.prideradiodfw.com/pages/pride/

Listen to Kate's interview:
http://www.prideradiodfw.com/pages/jenaustin.html

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Fan Spotlight
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Send Kate a letter or a photo - we're always posting new fan photos on the site and Kate loves to hear from you! Here are some recent letters and photos. Keep 'em coming!

See more fan photos:
http://kateclinton.com/kate-multimedia/

Send Kate a photo or letter:
kate@kateclinton.com

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Laughing at Yourself (and Others) 101

Dear Kate (aka Miss Clinton),

I think I may have repressed all my memories of JD high school (it was that horrible!!!), but a few days ago while looking for DVDs at Island Entertainment in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, I saw a familiar face looking out at me from a DVD. Hey, isn't that my English teacher?!!!!

I am sure you wouldn't remember me (class of '78) and I think I may have had you you for one semester -- Ray Bradbury is what come to mind. I was shy and didn't say much back then. I do, of course, remember that you were so funny and made class fun.

At 47 one thing I have learned from life is the importance of having a sense of humor about anything and everything. Shouldn't they teach a mandatory class in highschool: Laughing at Yourself (and Others).

We laugh a lot here in my family, though my son claims that I am freak out his friends out with my sarcasm. My eleven-year-old daughter Clare who is quite shy is part of a comedy improv group.

So, thanks for spending a few years teaching highschool. It is a time where kids need to learn to take themselves less seriously. Enjoyed the DVD. Haven't had a chance to really look over your website, except for one piece on the superbowl, and had to laugh because by halftime I had completed the NYTimes puzzle -- it was an easy one! -- and was on to reading about the inter-breed dog action. Couldn't stop thinking about the Janet Jackson nipple incident, I kept hoping Prince would do something (besides remove the strange handkerchief) so red state Americans would have something to be outraged about.

All the best,
Laura Coit

P.S. Had to go -- couldn't politely escape it -- a few years ago to a party called a "Mom Prom" -- it was excrutiating. Did you know that these parties exist?? You wear your prom dress -- Who still has it? In fact, if you still have your prom dress that is a sign that you need to clean out your closet or get therapy. Anyway, I brought I picture of me and my date. I didn't suspect then that he was gay, but somehow, innately, I knew I wouldn't have to worry about a goodnight kiss.

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How Kate Clinton Made Me Gay

I can't recall if I've ever recorded this tale in my LJ before. I know I've told people in real life.

Long ago, before the wheel was invented (or, well, possibly somewhat after; I was a life sciences major! what did I know?), I was in college. I picked the wrong college to try first, and wandered around it like a lost soul, and stood outside the college GALA meeting (this was also before bisexuals and transfolk were invented, apparently) in a long black cloak at night under a tree, trying to make my hide in shadows roll and failing repeatedly, for half an hour. I watched the meeting of perfectly normal gay people through the walls of the large glass meeting room in which the introductory meeting was being held -- whose bright idea was that? -- and felt that piquant terror that many geeks feel at the idea of mingling with normal people.

Fortunately, I failed my hide in shadows roll at just the right moment and was found by a wandering pack of science fiction geeks who dragged me off to join THEIR club. None of them, alas, were willing to be gay at me, but I happily shoved the idea of gayness to the back of my head.

Then I went to a different college. I was too busy to try their GLSU meetings, but I eventually found a slightly geeky gay man who worked with me to come out to. I came out to him on one of our long, boring summer afternoons of watching over our brooding ranks of Apple II+ computers (before the invention of the hard drive). He told me the GLSU was a seething mass of politics, so maybe I didn't want to try them. Besides, I told myself, I was bisexual (this was after I invented bisexuality), not a lesbian. Perhaps there was still hope.

The next school year, I lived in a dorm that was next to a set of train tracks. After getting used to the sound of the train running by my back door every hour, I started wandering the town a bit more. One store I walked past on an almost daily basis was Wonderland Records.

I was certain it was a Head Shop.

I wasn't really sure what, precisely, a Head Shop was, but I was certain that it wasn't the sort of place a Nice Catholic Girl like myself should be. (This was before I invented paganism.)

It took me something like six months before I dared cross that Heady threshold.

It wasn't, actually, a head shop or anything of the sort. It was a record store. It sold records. You know, those vinyl disc things that play on phonographs. It also sold cassette tapes, but I didn't have a cassette player, so I didn't even bother looking at those. There was a bargain bin of 8-tracks in the corner.

I looked around the store very carefully. I found a tiny section in the racks near the windows marked "Women's". I thought, "Women's music?" and flipped through it.

I don't remember seeing anything in there except two records by Kate Clinton. One was called Thanks for the Mammaries and the other, Making Light. (This led to later confusion and disappointment when I discovered the blog of the same name.)

There was something deeply subversive and intensely scary about women's comedy, so I fled.

It took me something like six months before I chose Making Light because it had a less intimidating (and revealing) title. I carried it to the cash register with an exaggeratedly casual air, paid the uncaring clerk for it with cash, and ran for the hills. When I got to my closet-like dorm room, I played it.

I laughed and howled and played it again.

The line that stays in my head from that album: when she's talking about removing stuck tampons, she notes, "Fortunately, we have friends to help us."

Over the subsequent years of waffling and confusion, that album was one of those things I returned to like an orbiting comet. It made me wonder what I could be sometime, maybe, possibly. And every return felt a little more like home. I mean dykes! Making jokes about being dykes! How cool was that? And she wasn't mean. Well, not to anyone who didn't deserve it. So much humor about women is based on meanness.

I thought, wouldn't it be nice to be a woman and funny and not mean about other women? It sounds like dykes have so much fun!

(Clearly, Dykes To Watch Out For had not yet been invented. Or, well, it had. I remember seeing the title on the table of the women's book co-op I went to twice, and wanting to flip through it, but I ran away.)

Meanwhile, I kept getting closer and closer to realizing that being a dyke, being part of dykedom, was what I wanted.

It took me a long time to come around to coming out.

Fortunately, I had friends to help me.

Several years ago, while in Provincetown, I bought another Kate Clinton album, this time on CD, in Womencrafts (10% Dyke Discount!). I took it home and forgot it. A month or so ago, I found it again, unwrapped it, and listened to it on the way to work. I laughed and howled and played it again, this time for Akycha.

When I think about lesbians, the first thing I think of is Kate Clinton's voice. I didn't realize this until I listened to this album.

Someday, I'd like to see her perform live. And maybe if I'm brave, I can shake her hand and thank her for helping to make me gay.

http://heavenscalyx.livejournal.com/1033918.html

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Booking and Publicity
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Whether you're with an organization, corporation, club, theater or bookstore, feel free to inquire about having Kate entertain you for the evening. You can now find workshop and presentation descriptions here:
http://kateclinton.com/booking-publicity

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For personal appearances/performances (i.e. standup, hosting, emceeing, business and organization presentations) contact:
Tam Martin, Artist Representative
Beachfront Bookings/Productions
[Beachfront Bookings/Productions logo]
P.O. Box 13218, Portland, OR 97213-0218
(503) 281-3874 phone | (503) 281-3881 fax
tammartin@aol.com
http://beachfrontbookings.com

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For College and University lectures, contact:
Jodi Solomon
Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau, Incorporated
325 Huntington Avenue Suite 112, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 266-3450 phone | (617) 266-5660 fax
http://www.jodisolomonspeakers.com

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For media & merchandise inquiries, contact:
Michele Karlsberg Marketing & Management
47 Dongan Hills Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306
(718) 351-9599 phone | (718) 980-4262 fax
karlsbergm@aol.com

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kate@kateclinton.com
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