August 31, 2001

• My first attempt at email logging.
  
  Labor Day weekend, Friday August 31 through Monday September 3rd, a big
  Arts and Literature Festival is held in the Seattle Center:
  Bumbershoot. WHEEL has a table in the Book Fair, Snoqualmie Room (we
  have six anthology chapbooks, one for each year that we’ve held the
  Homeless Women’s Forum) so if you are in the vicinity come say Hi!
  
  Bumbershoot is EXPENSIVE, but if you have a disabled bus pass you get in
  free, and this year I have one.
  
  The name of the festival is reported to be a the British word for
  “umbrella” — a self-mocking joke about Seattle weather. But I’m going
  to tell you the real story.
  
  The Bumber is the immature form of the Busker. Buskers are street
  performers: musicians and jugglers and mimes and so forth.
  
  We love our street musicians in Seattle, although there is less
  consensus about the mimes. But in our cultural climate, they grow so
  numerous we are always in danger of being overrun. So to maintain some
  control over the population, every year we have a Shoot. To be
  truthful, however, more Bumbers are trampled under the feet of the
  crowds than are actually Shot.
  
  Write On! / Anitra L. Freeman / http://www.speakeasy.org/~anitra/
  “We can’t help everyone. We can’t fix everything. It hurts.
  But it is better to live with pain than to live without caring.”
  
  
  
  

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