Beltaine '06 we found a baby rattler nested in the streamers of the old pole. It was released live, and returned this year all grown up. Hush put it right back where it started.
Apart from Nuh-uh's googly eyes, Most Disturbing prize goes to Jeff Whitty, who came up to me on the knoll on Beltaine and put her hand in my mouth. Was it something I said? No, just the Lady Rizo operating a second set of hands.
At some point it occurred to them they could spend the entire day on the couch.
People brought them coffee and food.
The idea caught on and sofapallooza was born. Next year it will be a fundraiser, will you sponsor me?
Paul Festa's award-winning film Apparition of the Eternal Church - hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times as "perhaps the finest film ever made on how people experience music, and one of the best-crafted and moving documentaries in a very long time" - has screened at venues including Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, London's Barbican Centre, and the Library of Congress. He is the author of OH MY GOD: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever, based on the film. His essays appear in three Best Sex Writing editions, in Nerve: The First Ten Years, and online (The Daily Beast, Salon). He gave the US, Boston, NYC, SF, LA and, in the Coolidge Auditorium on the "Betts" Stradivarius, DC premieres of Messiaen's Fantaisie. Stage credits include Kunst-Stoff, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, North Bay Shakespeare Co. and, this 1/23 – 2/14, the TheaterFIRST production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Oakland's Fox Theater. Residencies include MacDowell Colony, City of Paris / Centre des Récollets, and ODC Theater. He lives with his husband James and their dog Ziggy in San Francisco, where he was born and raised, and where he is writing a novel.