1) Please help us over the last-minute funding hump (and gain access to the Afterparty!) by donating $5, $10, or $20 right now via Paypal, at oldenwilde.org/samhain or this link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5P69BBTQFCHD2. Thank you!

    2) Ol' Charmer urgently needs a human to animate him at the rite so that he can be present to bless the participants with fertility (which can take many forms besides babies -- see the essay aforementioned!). Playing Ol' Charmer is a sacred honor and an experience both mystical and fun, but the Mast Beast demands in return the Pagan Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude: You must be willing to stand and walk slightly hunched, trust the Healer to guide you, and never let him down (literally) while playing him for the approximately two-and-a-quarter hours required. It's easier than you might think, given that his last two players (at Samhain 16 and Samhain 17) pulled it off magnificently despite being physically handicapped! If interested, please contact Lady Passion immediately, (828) 251-0343 or reply to this eUpdate. (To view photos and full working details of Ol' Charmer, see http://oldenwilde.org/oldenwilde/samhain/rite10/photo-gallery-samhain-2010_page2.html.)

 

* The current weather prediction is that the final fringes of "Frankenstorm" will pass from Asheville late tonight, leaving us "breezy with variable clouds" tomorrow, and temperature in the 40s to a high of 51. Goodly cloak weather! 

And we hope that this latest onslaught of climate change will have left all who read this unharmed.