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Hey Fabulistas! We have gone out into the world and we have brought you back a summery picnic basket of goodies! We're giving away TWO copies of the new Ed Harcourt album, and TWO copies of the new Ravens and Chimes album. So... (counts on fingers).. that's FOUR winners. We're upping your chances to get some free stuff to cool you off this fine week in July, or heat you up, whichever you prefer.
How do you win? Just leave a comment below with your favorite thing to do in summer. (Mine: Skipping in the downpour of a summer thunderstorm.) We'll pick four winners at random from the pile. Good luck!
Check out more from Ravens and Chimes here, and more from Ed Harcourt below.
Ed Harcourt - Revolution
More at Ed's MySpace, or at his official site.
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Fabulist reader Uriel just wrote in to remind me that for you Livejournal users, we have a syndicated feed up. Add us as a friend and somewhere a fairy will get its wings.
(link)
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Fabulist readers! We are issuing you a challenge. As you may or may not know, Elaine has outed me. (Shh!) Je suis une chanteuse! And in the lovely bouncy small world that it is, a lovely someone named Greg wrote in with a seemingly small idea:
Make a one minute song, three times a week.
And I went, I can do that! (See, that song right there? Uh-huh. That was last Monday's!)
Olga Nunes - Feather
(From Minute Minute Month.)
Fabulista extraordinaire Charissa is putting up poems and photos. Fellow Fabulista Elaine along with Friend-of-the-Fabulist Belinda are turning out 600-character stories three times a week at 600 Characters. Friend-of-Fabulist Glenn is doing one-hour drawings. Inspiring the whole kit and caboodle, Fabulist readers Greg and Max are doing one-minute songs and 100-word stories over at Two Minutes.
So where does that leave you, dear reader?
We'd like to encourage you to take the challenge. Start a blog somewhere with your 1-minute song or 100-word story or 1 hour drawing or a photograph a day, and we'll post it up on the Fabulist. Email your URLs to we.are.fabulist@gmail.com with the subject line "Minute Minute!" -- or post your URL in the comments, here -- and we'll enter you into a contest for something awesome. (We don't know what yet, but we know it will definitely be awesome!)
Let the games begin!
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It had to happen eventually. It happens to everyone. And today it has happened to us.
WE HAVE CHANGED OUR CLOTHES.
We're all comfy in our new digs, and have some possible new whizbangs we're working on behind the scenes, so pardon our dust bunnies. They're ever so cute, those bunnies, but they do have a tendency of chewing stray bits of site here and there, so we'll be rounding them up with little dust bunny lassos as best we can. Hope you like it as much as we do! In the meantime, we've also been doing fun things like playing with our Last.fm account-- why don't you be our friend?
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Happy Halloween! You thought we'd forgotten, hadn't you? It's the best time of the year, and you should celebrate, with wonderful things like Halloween-themed songs on the amazingful Hype Machine, or go giving your eyes candy with the spooky-cool stuff at ThisNext. Or, really, you should go watch this. Because. Well. You just should.
By the by, the lovely beautiful girl holding the pumpkin is the infamous Maddy Gaiman, and she is our Halloween spokesmodel. (And please go tell her what she is just dying to know. Because she is spooky, and you never know what she might do.)
Trick or treat!
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Just a heads up, we're still giving away a whole bunch of fun stuff-- but time's running out. Add us as a friend on MySpace to win a super special black ugly doll-- you can only get it here or on ebay, folks. And we're still giving away muuuusic, too, check out the contest page to find out how to win. Good luck, fabulistas!
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This happy-making thing arrived in my email today, complete with pictures, from Ian Fitch-- and I had an overwhelming desire to share it with you:
From: Ian Fitch
To: Fabulist
Date: Aug 3, 2006 7:16 PM
Can I work for fabulist? I make grood omletts. And I have a snakes on a
plane tattoo.
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Patrick from Dancing Ferret was nice enough to put together a giveaway package for the Where's Neil When You Need Him? LP . We're giving away goodies to three winners, including the LP and a poster of Dave McKean's fabulous cover art!
What you gotta do: link to the amazon page for the CD. It can be a text link, a banner you create, a flash animation, a video, a webcomic, or a YouTube video of a puppetshow enacting the joys of Where's Neil When You Need Him? The three most creative links to the album gets the prize! (If it's really good, we'll just have to post it here on the Fabulist, too!)
Drop us an email once you've got your link up, and if you didn't catch it the first time around, here's a track from the album.
Future Bible Heroes - Mr. Punch
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A while back we had a contest where we gave away records and toys and things. And I never did congratulate the winners. So, congratulations! To Felicia, Liz, Adrienne, Megn, Meaghan, Nicholas, Angharad, Steven, Andrew, Vanessa, Alana, Burcu, Anthony, Angela, Elena, and the post office! (Cause, boy, did they love me that day.)
So, that out of the way, I'd like to congratulate the winners of our latest contest! Hooray to Erik, Audrey, Jen 1 (Captain Berlin) and very especially to Jen 2 (Miz Gambel), the winner of our Cactus Friend. (Mmmm, poems.)
So that out of the way, I have gone mad with power and am giving even more stuff away! While at Comic-Con, I managed to snag a couple of never-before-seen-in-the-wild black UglyDolls. They don't even sell them in stores yet! And I want you to have them. No, really. I insist. All you gotta do to win is add us as a friend on our brand-spankin' new MySpace profile. (Ooh, shiny.)
...and since you're already here, go say hi to our very nice guest writers. They like pocky, long walks at the beach, and the tiny white fluff inside of Popples.
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It's that time of year again. I'm going to douse myself in glitter like a spastic eleven-year-old and travel to the distant land of San Diego for that yearly ritual, (cue dramatic adventure music) The Comic-Con.
We'll be off hunting and gathering, foraging and scavenging for little bits of shiny, and hope to return with a knapsack full o'goodies. And maybe kittens. I like kittens.
In the meantime, here are some things you should remember:
1. Oddica is the best thing since sliced baguettes.
2. Preshrunk gets points for recognizing this. (Hey, check out our guest post!)
3. We know what your iPod likes to eat.
4. Never take candy from strangers, unless it is Pocky. Then you should follow them anywhere.
5. If you write us a poem, we might give you really really cool stuff.
Wish us luck, and if you see us don't be a stranger!
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So, I thought I'd take this time to introduce you a little bit to Olga, head honcho at this here Fabulist, and to myself. Olga would be on your right side of these pictures, whereas I am the stripy one.
Jewlie likes to giggle. Olga knows your favorite kind of sushi.
Jewlie has something on her face. Olga has a Jewlie on her face.
Jewlie is shocked by extreme body modifications and atrocious library late fees. Olga is shocked by very little, except she is fairly easy to surprise.
Jewlie wants some goddamn candy. Olga is saddened by the starving Ethiopian children.
Yeah, that’s pretty much all there is to it. We love you.
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Ladytron. Elf Power. Art prints, handmade plushies, baskets full of goodies that want to make their way into your hot little hands with the passion and fire of a thousand suns.
Really. All these treasures want to be yours, and there's just a few more days to lay claim to them-- enter our contest and your beating heart will be radiant with happiness and joy. (Plus, we'll like you more.)
(link)
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Mandisa on 
