Reindeer and Reindeer

Need a Christmas lawyer?
Santa suing you for a faulty chimney?
Being stalked by a deranged elf?
Sleigh damage on your roof top?

Call Reindeer and Reindeer!





They're on your side and they'll do anything to win!

Toulouse is a hit in Bisbee!

Toulouse worries about how his molting problems and his love of Hillary will be greeted in Bisbee.
He shouldn't have worried ... everyone in Bisbee absolutely adores him!
Here's a few photographs from the party.



Mo, hostess of the party, is horrified at first, but soon loves Toulouse!

Please press "PLAY" for accompanying " Passenger ( pigeon) " song By Iggy Pop


"MARTHA" was the name of the last known passenger pigeon in existence, who died in 1914. My grandfather, from Martha's Vineyard, talked about seeing these last survivors.
Who knew there is still one remaining passenger pigeon?






Suzanne quickly falls in love with Toulouse.





Marnie already adores Toulouse!



She had just visited the scene in New York, to great results, a few weeks earlier!



I'm glad that Toulouse hasn't flown all this way from New York for nothing!







Kate Pearson is the number one all-time bomb!



Bill, Josie and Toulouse!





Heather and Tououse share a quiet moment.



Martin and Julie with Toulouse.






Christine just says YES!



G.B , Christine, and Toulouse!



Roxanne remembers...



Forever Margaret!



Fred and Toulouse



Julia in the mirror



Julia thinks Toulouse would make a great Christmas tree star.





Shawnee with Toulouse

Thank you Mo and Kevin for such a wonderful party!
Toulouse and I had a great time!

Davy Jones interview

I made a lame little video so we could all listen in to Roxanne's awesome radio interview with DAVY JONES!!!

So listen in and check out Davy singing a wonderfully obscure Christmas song. Good going, Roxanne!

Toulouse makes the scene!

Toulouse has arrived safely to Bisbee and is making his grand debut today.
He has been invited to a fabulous Christmas party and hopes everyone will like him.
Photos from the party will be posted later!


Toulouse and Kelly in New York in the Bell Tower.

Hillary Clinton Army needs a new toy

It seems to me the kids of the H.C.A. are in need of a new toy.
We must keep dreaming... it's part of our job description.




Perhaps we need to ask Hillary to give us a special mission.
What kind of mission I don't know.
Any ideas?

Here's one hot off the press from Disco Jeri!

"Hey Gretchen!

The idea is the new Hillary Clinton Army of Art Ambassadors...
The army you lead will be a creative army...of women artists who paint in Hillary's path...everywhere she goes, around the world!

Here's the detail...We need a correspondence secretary to connect with women's organizations worldwide to spread the word to other women to participate in this mission..

There will also need to be a press secretary who will coordinate exhibitions and painting events of women artists in each city where Hillary does international business with the media.

I also suggest that we think about having international exhibitions of artwork throughout her tenure as Secretary of State.

Your thoughts General? Sgt Disco Music"

Flam Chen for New Years!

We are bringing Flam Chen back to Bisbee this year for New Year's Eve!


(Photo from last year's event in Bisbee)

If you live elsewhere, buy your plane ticket today and come on out! Don't miss the party of the year, this is going to be spectacular! Time Square ain't got nothing on us!


Tim Burton Balloon Incident



This year's them is a Chinese New Year's. Think colorful lanterns, hundreds of them.
Oh yes, and we need all the help we can get making the lanterns... Lantern-making party!



We need everyone's help to pull this off.
We still need to collect over a 1000.00 bucks for Flam Chen. If we have any extra loot it will go to lantern-making supplies.
If you can't donate money, please help us make lanterns. If you have a spare room for a circus member, please let me know!
If you donate 200 bucks or more, you will receive a balloon ride over Bisbee! ( special restrictions may apply)




E-mail me at gretchen@gretchenbaer.com if you would like to donate some loot.
Flam Chen is a non-profit organization, so all donations are 100% tax deductible!

Shawnee and I need your help! All Hillary Clinton Army hands on deck!

Avant-Hillary

Let's play Google games! Today's game is called "Avant-Hillary"! Let's link Hillary's name to as many of our favorite ground-breaking artists, musicians, performance artists, outsider artists, and cool, revolutionary thinkers as possible.
Why? As artists for Hillary it's part of our our job. I decided that when I woke up in the middle of the night last night.
Please add to the list in the comments section, then google your results to see if you are the first to link these two amazing people's names together.
Let's go!

"Avant-Hillary"

Hillary Clinton and Laurie Anderson. Hillary Clinton and John Waters. Hillary Clinton and Debbie Harry. Hillary Clinton and Leigh Bowery. Hillary Clinton and Siouxsie-Sioux. Hillary Clinton and Edward Abby. Hillary Clinton and Ken Kesey. Hillary Clinton and David Byrne. Hillary Clinton and The B52's. Hillary Clinton and Klaus Nomi. Hillary Clinton and Nam June Paik . Hillary Clinton and David Lynch. Hillary Clinton and Linda Montano. Hillary Clinton and Yoko Ono. Hillary Clinton and Exene Cervenka. Hillary Clinton and Philip Glass. Hillary Clinton and Andy Warhol. Hillary Clinton and Jimi Hendrix. Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton and Nina Hagen. Hillary Clinton and Jackson Pollock. Hillary Clinton and Frida Kalo. Hillary Clinton and Max Beckman. Hillary Clinton and Salvador Dali. Hillary Clinton and Twyla Tharp. Hillary Clinton and Lenny Bruce. Hillary Clinton and Hunter S. Thompson. Hillary Clinton and Leonard Knight. Hillary Clinton and Howard Finster. Hillary Clinton and Nico. Hillary Clinton and Divine. Hillary Clinton and Kate Pearson. Hillary Clinton and Harrod Blank. Hillary Clinton and William S. Burroughs. Hillary Clinton and Grace Slick. Hillary Clinton and Jim Morrison. Hillary Clinton and Leslie Hall. Hillary Clinton and Venus DeMars. Hillary Clinton and Bill Carter. Hillary Clinton and Sid Vicious. Hillary Clinton and Wendy O. Williams. Hillary Clinton and Brian Eno. Hillary Clinton and Christo. Hillary Clinton and Frank Zappa. Hillary Clinton and Red Grooms. Hillary Clinton and Mark Nilsen. Hillary Clinton and Rick McKinney. Hillary Clinton and Jackie Baer. Hillary Clinton and Rose Johnson. Hillary Clinton and David Bowie. Hillary Clinton and Fred Snyder. Hillary Clinton and Annie Lenox. Hillary Clinton and Vincent Van Gogh. Hillary Clinton and Mo McCoy. Hillary Clinton and Marianne Faithful. Hillary Clinton and Edie Sedgwick. Hillary Clinton and Bridget Berlin. Hillary Clinton and Gene Baer. Hillary Clinton and Russ Myers. Hillary Clinton and Alan Ginsberg. Hillary Clinton and Annie Leibovitz. Hillary Clinton and Charlene Mitchell. Hillary Clinton and Tim Burton. Hillary Clinton and Flam Chen. Hillary Clinton and Calexico. Hillary Clinton and Dennis Dermody. Hillary Clinton and Doug Stanhope. Hillary Clinton and Howe Gelb.
Hillary Clinton and The Handsome Family. Hillary Clinton and Bono. Hillary Clinton and Lena Lovich. Hillary Clinton and John Cale. Hillary Clinton and Nick Cave.
Hillary Clinton and ....

The "Hillary Clinton, America Ferrara fundraising event"

Finally, here are the photos from the "Hillary Clinton, America Ferrara fundraising event"!

For those of you that may just be tuning in, I just came back from a New York City fund-raising event for Hillary Clinton, hosted by America Ferrara, T.V.'s "Ugly Betty". Bill Clinton also made the scene.
It was her last fund-raiser as a Senator, and she will not be allowed to fund-raise as Secretary of State.
I saw this as an opportunity to put into motion a dream that I have.
That dream is to move the Hillary Clinton Army forward as her "Art Ambassadors".
Using art and creativity, the H.C.A. supported Hillary in the primary election. Much to our surprise, our non-traditional approach was extremely successful!
We want to continue cheer-leading for Hillary using art. Hillary is an incredible inspiration, one that just keeps on going!

I think Hillary inspires so many people, why can't we express our excitement through art? There are so many ways that this can happen. I chose to go to New York as a self-appointed art biographer for Hillary. I wanted to put our project on it's path.
I wanted to paint live at the event, I would like to paint live at future events.

My friend Kelly and I arrived at the event carrying the easel and art supplies I had gotten special permission to bring in and set up. This we did without a hitch, which was a refreshing surprise given my all my prior experience with these types of rallies.
During the campaign, there were many times that things didn't go as planned. Even if I had permission to bring the Hillcar to an event, that didn't mean the police and Secret Service would let me.

We set up to the left of the stage, near the 1,000 dollar donor section. Our only neighbor was a Secret Service man.







Painting Hillary was a little difficult, because she was so far away. But I enjoyed the experience just the same.



Kelly wondered how in the world I could see from such a distance that Hillary was wearing gold earrings. Truth is, I couldn't.
I just know Hillary enough to have a pretty good idea of the details.







The main portion of this rather brief event was the question and answer period. Apparently people had sent in questions for America to read and Hillary to answer. Some of Hillary's answers were very funny.









The event ended much sooner than I expected, but I had painted two paintings of Hillary.
Hillary said "goodnight" and exited stage left with America Ferrara. She bee-lined it right towards us, which was giving me a heart attack!
I didn't think my work was good enough to give her, and it was still a little wet. Nobody else was around our section. For this brief period of time, it was just Hillary, Kelly, myself, and an ever-present secret service man. This never happens at these types of event.



Time slowed down to a slow crawl, like in the movies. I had time to stand there and wonder what I should do.



The only thing I heard, was Kelly saying, as if in slow motion... "give....... her........ the..... painting....... "



I gave Hillary the painting. She asked if I had painted it just now, I said I had. She asked if it was signed, I said it was.
She said She must get my address to personally thank me for it.



Time returned back into the usual frantic pace as I gave Hillary's assistant, Uma, my information.
Crowds jammed in, standing all over my art supplies, crawling on chairs. Snapping photos.
Hillary was off and running.
To me, nothing creative is fun if it doesn't include others. I believe the power of art lies in inspiring each other.
To me, art shouldn't be a solitary sport.
SO let's keep playing together and have more Hill-fun!

Davy Jones Live!

Tune in tonight, 7 to 9 PM Arizona time, for Roxanne's show.
Her special call-in guest will be Davy Jones!

Bisbee Radio

To everything there is a season. Turn, turn.

And there is a theme for every season too. I didn't know this until last night, when Dan schooled us about how important it is to give each season a theme. It makes life so much easier, he says.
We decided to give it a try.
I hope this information will make your lives easier too!

WINTER



"Friends and Family".
Dan made this one up and is currently in the middle of it.



SPRING



"Nunspringa!"
I made this one up. It's like Rumspringa for nuns! Ya hoooo!



SUMMER



"Shroud of Mourning"

Jane made this one up. It's very serious. You have to wear shrouds, hang out at cemeteries, eat alot of junk food, and put on a lot of weight.
Teenagers love "Shroud of Mourning".


FALL



"Fallen Priests?"
Jane also made this one up. You have to squeal the words when you say them, place special emphasis on the question mark, and crunch up your face like your trying to get away with something.
You want to keep going on the eating and mourning theme, but question whether others are going to go along with it.

Now that you understand about the seasons, I imagine your wondering about the real reason I came to New York.
Hillary.
But I've been blogging my brains out all morning, so I'm saving this story for the long plane ride home!
The best is yet to come!