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keep amaze and carry balls? help. also, news flash: occupy boston TODAY at 4 pm!!!!!

hola comrades!! two quick pieces of news…. thing 1, for AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: THE DRESDEN DOLLS ARE COMING FOR YOU!!!! i am working on a massive blog’o’info ‘bout it, but MONA FOMA announced we’re playing and i wanted you...
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abortions, window smears, drunken little girls, and finding digs for superkate.

hola comrades…… even if you were a ninja, if you were a ninja you’d still be a talker, talker thinking that you’re all protective that you’re self-selected i know it’s so awkward, awkward today neil and i went to see...
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grab-blog: tonight in boston, the new haus blog, st. vincent, swordswallowing & married life.

good morning world. it’s a gorgeous fucking day in boston, massachusetts, where i’m currently holed up for a day of email and coffee. i decided it’s a good to to blog a nice long random blog filled with random ephemera,...
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nancy upton’s “plus-sized” rebellyon

you guys will love this one. nancy upton, a chick who’s got a dresden dolls’ heartplane logo and the lyrics JUST SING from “sing” tattooed onto her forearm, made national news this week, after winning an american apparel model-search contest...
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a portait of the artist still in fucking bed

new york. the sound of the traffic travels up here to this little room. i leave the windows wide open overnight, so outside can come as in as it can come. i wake up with a head full of amanda-voices...
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ten years ago today…

…i was in my bathroom and my cell phone rang. it was my mother. “planes have hit the world trade center and the pentagon”, she said, with a franticness in her voice that took me aback. i rushed upstairs to...
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lots of answers: on touring, working with exes, marriage and ukulele.

hola my dears…. thank you all for all the cyber-hugs and wellwishes. it really does help. i love you guys. things are getting better. one more day in edinburgh, tomorrow we head to brighton for the show there on thursday...
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missive from edinburgh, warrior style

hola my dears. i’d planned to do a blog a day this month, with my excessive amounts of time-off energy. i did not do that. i also had planned on doing a lot of ninja gigs while in edinburgh. i...
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Amanda Fucking Palmer’s Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe (+ ninja shows update!!!)

for those of you not in edinburgh….you might want to read this ONLY if you want to drool and blubber at the exciting things you are missing. if you’ve not been following the plot, this is my 6th (i think)...
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the art of audience courtship

hola my dear comrades. the other night i wound up talking into the wee hours with neil and margaret cho, and wanted to share some important things i’ve learned. before i do that, though, the weather. if you’re not from...
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