You can download the album for $4.50 at DigStation, get it from us at our performances for $5.00 or order it from CD Baby for $7.50. Go figure! Is that why we called it "Fortune's Fools"?
Saturday, June 14, 2008 - Private party.
Saturday, July 19, 2008 - Something different... Lynn is teaching a Solar Cooking Class through Communiversity. Call 816-235-1448 or check their website to register.
July 24-27, 2008 - Kansas City Fringe Festival 2008. Details to follow.
Saturday, July 31, 2008 - Martha and collaborator Mike Walker are teaching Play Well With Others: How to Jam Like a Pro through Communiversity. Call 816-235-1448 or check their website to register.
On June 17, 2006, Checkered Past began a practice of giving away a book at concerts, to share the ideas that inspire us. But the books come with strings attached. The recipient must promise to 1) Read the book; 2) Then, give the book away; and 3) Require the same promise of the next recipient... and so forth.
We encourage readers to sign the books, and to also comment on them in the Books section of this web site. You'll also find links there to more information about the books. We encourage everyone to read and share these books!
Here are the books:
Your Planet Needs You by Jon Symes and Phil Turner - chosen by Lynn. This book is being turned into a curriculum that ever schoolchild in Great Britain will be required to study… How to create a “world worth choosing.” Given out to Donna C. at Karen and Lee's house concert in Kansas on March 1, 2008.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver - chosen by Martha. Locavore was the 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year. It's only natural that Checkered Past contributes to the awakening of America to the joy of FRESH, local, organic food. After a couple of months of eating Community Supported Agriculture produce, Lynn discovered that her body responded to so much of the processed supermarket food as "not-food". Given out at Cheryl's house concert in Topeka on October 13, 2007.
The Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan - recommended to us by Vicki Walker. Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. Rivetting, shocking, and yet hopeful for the future of food. Given to Jennifer at the Delaware Street Commons concert on August 5, 2007.
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and David Goodman - Chosen by the band after we attended Amy and David's Kansas City talk on their book tour - Given to Doug S. at the KC Fringe Festival on July 29, 2007.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Chosen by Lynn. This book exposes the little known inner workings of a system that fosters globalization and impoverishes millions of people around the globe. It is a compelling story that also offers hope and a vision for realizing the American dream of a just and compassionate world that will bring us greater security. Given to a fiber artist at the KC Fringe Festival July 28, 2007.
Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Donated by Bill Langsdorf - Given to a young woman at the Coffee House at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, Missouri, May 5, 2007.
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman - Chosen by Jo Ann - Given to Jackie A. of Columbia, Missouri at the Coffee House sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, Missouri, September 23, 2006 and again at the 2007 KC Fringe Festival to Vicki R. of Homer, Alaska, July 27, 2007. Vicki later commented to Lynn that she was buying 7 more copies of the book to give away.
Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C. Korten - Chosen by June - Given to Gene F. of Kansas City at the Kansas City Fringe Festival, July 30, 2006.
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John C. Ryan, Alan Thein Durning - Chosen by Lynn and June - Given to Amy of Kansas City at the Kansas City Fringe Festival, July 30, 2006.
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy by Ted Nace - Chosen by K.C. - Given to Judith C. at the Kansas City Fringe Festival, July 29, 2006.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder - Chosen by Kerry with kudos from Lynn - Given to Nancy H. at the WriterHouse at Lake Waukomis, June 17, 2006.
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