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This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, so the LiveJournal team is offering users a chance to support the Depression and Bipolar Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping improve the lives of those suffering from mood disorders. Proceeds from purchases of the Emerging Sun v-gift during May will be donated to the DBSA, so feel free to buy one. Or, if you really want to rack up some good karma points, get a bunch!

And don't forget: Mother's Day is this Sunday. Be a dear and check out the v-gifts shop. Send something that'll make her smile.


L to R: Emerging Sun, #1 Mom, Gift Basket, Chocolates, A Dozen Red Roses


We know how you salivate over the prospect of new themes, especially when they're designed by users with a unique handle on both form and function.


L to R: Shiny, River at Night, Live and Learn, Vector Drips.

( Winners of the HP 'What Do You Have to Say?' Theme Design Contest )


We'd like to remind you that the nomination process for LiveJournal Advisory Board user-representatives has begun. If you think you're fit for the job, now's the time to nominate yourself! After all, you're the only who can do it. In two weeks, on the 22nd, the voting process will begin; we'll remind you about it again here.

If you're interested in keeping up with the nominations, watch lj_election_en. We'll post the results and announce the winner by the end of the day on May 30th. The new user-representatives will be seated on June 1st. Further details can also be found in lj_2008.

Advisory Board Nominations Begin

This morning we are opening the nomination process for the user-representative positions on the LiveJournal Advisory Board. A full description of the process can be found here.

To get you started, here are the basic things you should know:

- You may only nominate yourself
- Each nominee will need 100 motions of support in order to be eligible to be a candidate
- We ask that you keep your comments on the nomination posts to "I support this nomination" or something to that effect; be kind to those who will need to count the "supports", please.
- Although the nominations and election poll will take place in lj_election_en, you do not need to watch the community in order to keep up with the election; we'll announce everything here as well.

Everyone here at LiveJournal is looking forward to this first-ever User-Representative election! We'd like to thank everyone who is participating. Some words from our current Advisory Board members:

danah boyd: “LiveJournal is filled with very passionate users. These users have helped shaped LJ's various communities over the last decade and it gives me great joy that LJ is recognizing and incorporating users' voices into the decision-making processes. Having user representatives from different parts of LJ on the Advisory Board will help make sure that the company is meeting the needs of its diverse constituents.”

Esther Dyson: "I'm sure we'll learn a lot from the process, and later on from the two users selected as well. Especially, I hope that the discussions before the voting will be more meaningful and more focused on policy than those in some offline campaigns."

Brad Fitzpatrick: "It's cool that SUP is getting users involved with the LiveJournal decision-making process. I look forward to seeing who the community elects and the results of our efforts working together."

Professor Lawrence Lessig: “The user elections will provide a critical check on LJ's process of maintaining a valuable and trustworthy environment for the LJ community. The mandate of the elections will give the user representatives pride of place among the members of the Advisory Board. Each of us will look to them to guide us in our judgment about how best to make LJ the community we all aspire that it will be. I look forward to welcoming the user representatives, and learning a great deal from them.”


chasethestars has also made some banners for you to use, if you'd like to show your support for the candidate of your choice!

( Banners + code for you to use! )

So we (me and Mr. Angelo Spencer and little Miss Panda) just got home the other night from our whirlwind 2 month United States tour! It was incredible! We got to play shows, do stuff, and hang out with Jeffrey Lewis, Jack Lewis, Herman Dune, Tiny Masters of Today, Schwervon, Karl Blau, Patsy Grace, Paul Baribeau, Paleface, Midtown Dickens, Spoonboy, Erin Tobey, Matty Pop Chart, Underthrust, Good Luck, El Olio Woloff, Metal, and Mecca Normal (and probably others I am forgetting). You should look all of these people up. They are all amazing. It was a dream come true. And in SF I got to play all the songs from Alphabutt with the kids from the album!!!! Sophia, Macalaster, Amani, Jason, Ange, and Panda all onstage with me!!! AND for a bunch of the tour I had one of bestest ever friends Matt Tobey as my band. Holy Smokes. I am a lucky girl.

And it may seem like I forgot, but this band needs a paragraph all to themselves. The second month of the trip was with our dear, sweet friends L'Orchidee D'Hawai. Holy shit. They blew my mind every night and were wonderful travel companions every day. And an awesome backing band on a couple of my songs. Panda misses her four funny uncles already. (They have a REALLY good photo slide show from the trip on their profile).

I took a lot of pictures too, mostly of all the good playgrounds we hit. I will do a photo post another time. And, oh man, we got to see so many good friends, and so much family along the way. I will post one picture of Panda and her cousins in Colorado. So good! Those boys are big. Some of you might remember when the twins were brand new and little Emerson was sooooo sick and we all thought good thoughts for him! Look at him now!!!!

Emerson, Charlie, Jaden, and Panda


So, yeah, here is the info for the upcoming stuff. I am sorry there is not much stuff in Europe. We have a lot of family and friend visiting to do in the time over there. When it looks like off time on the tour schedule we will be busy with Papi and Mimi and Great Granny and Baby Zoe. Sweet baby Zoe!!!
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ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND

Fri-May-9 London UK Ladyfest London Underworld

Sat-May-10 Brighton, UK Duke of York Cinema w/ Your Heart Breaks

Sun-May-11 Manchester, UK Night and Day w/ Your Heart Breaks

Mon-May-12 Bristol, UK Thekla w/ Your Heart Breaks

Tue-May-13 Edinburgh, UK Caberet Voltaire w/ Your Heart Breaks

Wed-May-14 Glasgow, UK ABC2 w/ Your Heart Breaks

Thu-May-15 OFF

Fri-May-16 Dublin Crawdaddy w/ Your Heart Breaks

EUROPE

Fri-May-23 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso

Sat-May-24 Bruxelles, BG AB Club

Sun-May-26 Paris, France L'Ahambra w/ David-Ivar Herman Dune

HOME FOR A MINUTE FOR AN EXCITING EVENT

Fri-Jun-6 Seattle, WA NORTHWEST FOR BREASTS BENEFIT for Susan J. Komen for the Cure

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Tue-Jun-17 Melbourne, Aus Northcote Uniting Church Hall w/Angelo Spencer

Wed-Jun-18 Melbourne, Aus Northcote Uniting Church Hall w/Angelo Spencer Fri-Jun-20 Sydney, Aus Manning Bar w/Angelo Spencer

Sat-Jun-21 Brisbane, Aus Brisbane Powerhouse w/Angelo Spencer

Tue-Jun-24 Aukland, NZ Auckland Girls Grammar School

Wed-Jun-25 Wellington, NZ Paramount Theatre

SUMMERTIME SHOWS

Wed-Jul-2 Williamsburg, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg Aaron Wilkinson 5 Year Memorial and Benefit Concert w/Graham Wilkinson and the Underground Township, Levy, Paleface, and more...

Sun-Jul-6 Tacoma, WA People's Park w/ Ghost Mice, Heathers, Cody Gordon

Mon-Jul-7 Olympia, WA Hall of the Woods w/Ghost Mice and Heathers

July 18, 19, 20 Anacortes, WA What-The-Heck Festival

Fri-Jul-25 Seattle WA Capitol Hill Block Party

August 15, 16, 17 Philadelphia Folk Festival

Sept 12, 13, 14 North Dorset, UK End of the Road Festival