September 6, 2007
Wow, what an awesome summer! We toured for 11 and a half weeks and played over 70 shows! Thank you to every single person who came to the shows and partied with us! You make our lives awesome! Here's some highlights from the summer:
We finally completed our goal of playing in all 48 contiguous states! It's taken us over 3 years of touring, but we did it! Dear Alaska and Hawaii: You're Next! Anyone from either of those states who wants to help set up shows with us should contact me. We WILL play there in 2008!
On June 22nd, we celebrated the 5-year anniversary of our very first show! We threw an awesome PIZZA PARTY in Phoenix!
Joe started writing fanfiction! He debuted chapter one of his first work during the LeakyMug podcast at Prophecy. You can listen here (Joe starts about 38 minutes in) or watch someone's YouTube footage.
We played some awesome whiffle ball games! I've even heard that kids in Nashville are now playing regularly next to the Parthenon!
I ate a lot of great hot dogs. I seriously need to update my dog blog. I also had my first hot dog review published in the Portland Mercury! I got paid $70 and the editor said I have a future in food writing! Attention media outlets: from here on out, I am available as a freelance food critic!
Get pumped!
We birthed a new mascot. Wandicorn!!!!! He's half-wand, half-unicorn, half- giant squid, half-phoenix, half-dragon and he has a lobster claw, a hoof and a flux-capacitor. We're looking into getting some plush toys made. TEAR IT UP!
In Portland, OR we got to watch the 5th Harry Potter movie at midnight with about 300 people who had just come from our show. It was awesome! I won the costume contest!
In conjunction with Pottercast, we sold punk rock pin sets for $5 with all proceeds going to Reach Out and Read. Together we raised over $3500!
We were also selling copies of the Wizards and Muggles Rock for Social Justice compilation, with proceeds going to the Harry Potter Alliance. I just wrote them a check for $750! If you still don't have a copy, pick one up!
We also made a ton of new friends and we read an awesome book! We played a show in a barn, one in a basement, and one in a doughnut shop and we threw some killer dance parties at Prophecy. We played to about 15,000 people in our hometown on the eve of Deathly Hallows, and it all adds up to a summer that we will never forget. Thank you everyone for being a part of it!
With all sincerity,
Paul
P.S. Joe's back in school, so we're taking it easy this fall. We're only playing two shows during for the next 3 months, and one of them is in Brooklyn next weekend at the library! Be there!
-paul
