“Let this be her legend, let this be her voice,
let this be her vision, let this be her choice. To remain as we knew her, strong and poised,
as the one we love.”
- Katie Reider, Her Song
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I invite all of my readers to watch this video made by my good friend Kiersten. It’s a brief look back at her life— filled to the brim with love, friends, and family.
After you finish the video, please visit 500Kin365.org, where you can download 9 of Katie’s songs for only $1 (of course you can always donate more if you wish.) All proceeds benefit Katie’s partner Karen and their two sons, who were left with massive medical bills not covered by insurance.
If you want to do even more for Katie and her family — tell 3 of your friends about Katie’s music, send a quick email with a link to 500Kin365.org. Through your message, her music and spirit will remain with us forever.
Also, a memorial service for Katie Reider will be held at 11am this Saturday (July 26th) at Crossroads Church, 3500 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hope to see you there.
Katie Reider 1978-2008
A friend and favorite musician of mine (and many of my friends) passed away this morning after a courageous two-year battle with a mysterious illness called a Myofibroblastic Inflammatory Tumor.
It’s about the saddest ending one could conceive of for one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever met. Everyone knew Katie. She made us all feel like her close friends. Everyone would swear when she was singing, she was looking right at them and nobody else.
But it’s not her ending we must remember, it’s her life and her spirit. She touched sooooo many people’s lives. So many friends from different parts of my life were connected through her music. It’s amazing what one person can do.
There will be a candlelight vigil for her tonight at 9pm at the Goodale Park Gazebo. I hope some of you read this in time and can join us.
It’s 64 minutes of music, life, death, war, peace, history, future, everything. It’ll knock you over… but when you get back up, you’ll be stronger than ever.
“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
- Arundhati Roy
In this thirteen minute documentary produced by The International Association of Fire Fighters, fire fighters, fire officers and family members give dramatic testimony about Giuliani’s leadership failures — before, during, and after 9/11. Their dramatic stories tell how Giuliani failed to provide the FDNY with radios that worked, which led to the deaths of 121 fire fighters inside the World Trade Center’s North Tower because they were unable to hear orders to evacuate.
“The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that’s why what happens in Iraq matters to the security here at home.”
“This is as close as we’ve ever come to a dictatorship. When you have a situation where Congress is stepped on, that means the American people are stepped on.”
Listen to Last.fm and XM online while you still can.
First they came for internet radio, and I did not speak up because I didn’t listen to net radio. Then they attacked internet neutrality, and I didn’t speak up because I had no clue what that meant. Then they came for the entire internet, and I did not speak up because surely they can’t take that away! Then— we were totally f—ked.
Fans of the police state, you will love this one:
Some cops start beating a guy that ran out on the field at a soccer game and the crowd actually stand ups against it and attacks the police! Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKK9EjEEG_Q
Tickets just went on sale. I was obsessively hitting refresh starting at 8:59a and guess what seat I got?
Front row, center.
See the red circle? That’s me!!!!!
This makes me so incredibly happy that I won’t even bit@h too much about the $15 worth of Ticketmaster charges. They have a monopoly on the music industry and rob us blind, we all know this already. I paid $50 and I don’t care. It’s Patty!!
This Sunday it will be 4 years since the United States ILLEGALLY and IMMORALLY invaded Iraq, using September 11th as justification.
Since then we have lost over 3,218 US soldiers, over 23,785 have been maimed and injured, anywhere from 100,000-655,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, over 2 MILLION Iraqis fortunate enough to get out alive are now refugees, and over $408 BILLION has been spent.
AND FOR WHAT?
Join us for a day of protest, music, speakers, and unity. A day to refuel, remember what we’re up against, and what wonderful people we have in the trenches with us. It’s all ages and a meager $2 will get you in.
Another year, another “anniversary.” Don’t know about you but I’ve had ENOUGH.
Iraq.. Afghanistan.. Iran.. Syria.. the lines are all blurring together. Shall we just hit the big red button and get it over it — put us out of our misery?
