Be sure to buy soon if you want to take advantage of the offer!  You’ll get the Digital CD right away, a signed copy of the physical CD, a free digital copy of Clockwork Carols, your name in the liner notes and five dollars off anything at the DNBS store!  Buy now!!!

http://www.deadlynightshadebotanicalsociety.com/dnbspreorder.html

The Preorder download of the CD is available now!  If you preorder today, you’ll get access to the CD as soon as your order has been verified.

Order today, get the CD today!

Also, if you’ve already preordered please take a moment to check your email.  You should have received the information to get your copy.  If not, please contact me ASAP!

We have begun the pre-order for the new DNBS CD: Accoutrements and Oddities. In celebration, we’ll have a couple songs from the CD available on the MP3 player as well as the Christmas Songs.

 

If you pre-order the CD, you will gain access to the digital CD on November 21st, you’ll get Clockwork Carols for free (2 songs on the 21st from it and the rest in the first week of December), five dollars off any item in the DNBS Store (T Shirts, books, CDs for friends), your name in the CD Liner Notes (let us know what to call you!) and of course, our undying adoration and gratitude!

 

This offer is only available for a short time so don’t wait! It’s 14.99! You can buy it right here on this site under ‘A&O Pre-Order’! 

 

Loki was an amazing animal with more personality than some people I’ve met.  He was a willful friend, a worthy companion and a loyal family member.  At eleven years old, he still romped as a puppy and made no secret of his opinions with his personal brand of conversation that involved the traditional Siberian Yowling and his own grunts.  It’s no surprise that his nickname was ‘The Yapper’ both for the sounds he’d make and the fact that he was such a bitey little puppy.

 

The upbringing of this dog was very rounded.  As a puppy, he enjoyed kung fu training, putting this skill to good use against his fellow initiates in the martial arts.  He later grew older and learned to pull a small scooter with a person on the back riding along like a true sled dog but that didn’t last overly long after the rider took one too many spills.  He was well traveled, experiencing the ocean and forests of the northwest in ways that some natives might never enjoy even with lifespans seven times as long.

 

His diet was eccentric for a dog.  He enjoyed salads, relishing the lettuce and veggies just as much as he would savor a juicy meat.  He would speak out for meals, a high pitch mix with his low growls.  These were often used to solicit treats and explain his dislike of being ordered to do things such as ’sit’ or ’shake’, though he was quite fond of whacking people with his hefty paw.

 

Loki adored the snow.  He loved sleeping near his humans, always happy with company.  During the many times that I stayed with him during vacation time for his family, I was happy to have bonded with him as if he were my own dog.  He was there for me during a few difficult times and I can recall every stage of his life from puppyhood to the very end only a few nights ago.

 

Sadly, Loki succumbed to complications from surgery to remove a particularly nasty tumor.  He passed away quietly in the arms of his most loyal companion and was honored with cremation. 

 

Loki was more than a pet.  He was not ‘just a dog’.  He was a member of the family.  He will be sorely missed but remembered fondly as having lived a long, full life; a life of happiness, comfort and a liberal amount of yapping. 

 

This small eulogy may not be much but it is my farewell to a good friend.  I believe that there is somewhere better in the universe where benevolent spirits may reside.  I know he’s there now playing and frolicking for all time. 

Beach Dog Wanders

Today, Sepiachord has made The Ballad of Mister Raisins the song of the day.  That was a fun thing to wake up to this morning.  Their site is consequential so yay and thank you Sepiachord!

Check them out right over here: http://www.myspace.com/sepiachord

Hello!

I am selling a couple of things to make way for something brand new!  Check them out here.  These aren’t pictures of the actual units but they are in excellent condition.  The Variax has only really been used for recording (they can be heard on the DNBS site).  It comes with a gig bag, the special Variax cable and a bag for the Line 6 XT Live. 

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So the Variax 700 is going for between 500 and 700 bucks on ebay.  The Line 6 XT Live runs from 100 to 400 (though the latter is new).  The bag is 65 bucks online.  I’m selling BOTH units for 650 bucks with all the mentioned accessories.

Anyone interested, contact me offline.  If we have to ship the stuff, that will probably cost a bit but it’s worth it.  These were used for some Abney Park songs, DNBS songs and a few other bands so they’ve got a little history.

Thanks!

I have created a store for Dark Repast.  There were just too many items to make the PayPal buttons make sense anymore so I decided to find a simpler solution. 

The new store still uses PayPal as the form of payment.  It calculates shipping and it will also handle digital downloads (like the Digital DNBS CD and the eBooks).  Overall, this seems to be an easier and better system than the list of stuff on the right side of my blog here.  From now on, I’ll just leave Featured Items up like this (for direct purchases). 

The link for the store is at the top of the page.  Thanks and I hope you buy some stuff!

Questions. Historians are all about the God damn questions. Where to begin? How to end? What’s important? What’s not? They’re like manic depressant hamsters running back and forth in their cages until they’re finally so tired they just say ‘fuck it’ and start writing something down.

 

Sometimes they even stumble on the truth.

 

They face a desire to embellish or coat the facts in a more enticing format that ultimately makes them deceiving. The masses rely on the integrity of the author but if you’re naïve enough to think that someone’s being honest with their writing, you should stick to picture books and reality TV.

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