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======= Entry 16 ========== August 24 2010: PKD
FESTIVAL IS OVER! Stay tuned to this website for details on the upcoming 2nd Philip K. Dick Festival to be held in the San
Francisco area in 2012!
Paul Williams online benefit auction coming soon! We raised a little
money for Paul Williams at the PKD Festival but not enough! We shall therefore hold an online auction of PKD-related
materials (and other things) to benefit Paul. More details soon. Please contact Lord Running Clam with your donations!
======= Entry 15 ===========August 5th 2010: THE LAST UPDATE
Alright! Are you all ready to meet
your fellow PKD fans, listen to some great speakers, party and have some fun in the Rocky mountains next week? I AM! So let's
get this show on the road! See you next Thursday night for the pre-festival gathering at The Last Shot or at the opening address
on Friday at 10AM, also at the Last Shot.
And we've added another sponsor! Mpingo Fine African
Handicrafts. Located in Boulder you can visit their website here: www.mpingo.com . This is African art from Tanzania and they give back to their community in Dar es Salaam by funding
local educational projects there.
I also want to mention that I've watched Enrique Stone's half-hour
long, PKD-inspired film, NIA, which we shall be showing at the Gilpin Library on Saturday afternoon. Very professional!
And thanks again to all our sponsors and all the people over the world who have wished us well.
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Entry 14 ============ July 27, 2010
The PKD Festival Event Schedule is now on the website! Click on
the 'Schedule' button to the left. And we've added The Millsite Inn in Ward, Colorado to our sponsors! The Millsite
is "the highest joint on the Peak-to-Peak Hiway": http://www.millsiteinn.com/ 303-459-3308. If you're driving north of Nederland stop in at the Millsite for a drink and
good meal. Ask Scott, Kirk or Carol about the Millsite Ghost!
And
check out the upcoming independent movie RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH! Here's link to the RFA website: http://www.radiofreealbemuth.com/blog/
======= Entry 13 ============ July 13, 2010
PKD Festival events start
at 10:00Am on Friday 13th 2010 at Roy's LAST SHOT Restaurant & Bar on scenic peak-to-peak hiway 119 about 10 miles
north of the town of Black Hawk and 10 miles south of the town of Nederland. Come hear the welcoming address from Lord Running
Clam, introduction of our speakers and participate in the first panel: "Who is Philip K. Dick and Why is he worthy of
his own Festival?"
And... We've added two more sponsors! The Mountain Mocha Coffee Shop in Black Hawk - next to the Post Office on State Hiway 279 just off 119 as you come into town from the north. This
is Black Hawk's "one and only" local coffee, tea, smoothies, bagels and sandwich shop -- stop in for your morning
coffee here!
Studio 6 in Ventura, California: showcasing a collection of Ventura County artist's and crafter's obscure and unexpected
creations.
We thank all our sponsors! Do YOU want to sponsor the PKD Festival? It's not
too late! Contact Lord Running Clam: pink-beam@hotmail.com.
On Saturday night at the Festival party
in The Stage Stop restaurant & Bar in Rollinsville (just 5 miles south of Nederland on hwy 119) the PKD-inspired
band Blu Simon will debut their new single 'Palmer Eldritch'! And deliver some kick-ass rock
n'roll! See you there!
We now have vendor booth space available at THE LAST SHOT and THE ARTIST'S
NICHE. Only $90 for all 3 festival days. Contact me as these will go fast.
Coming soon: The
Event Schedule.
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As we get closer to the festival days there is so much going on! We've
had to discard the Gilpin Fairgrounds complex because it was too large, too unmanageable and we weren't able to sell enough
booths. So, although this would be a great place for the festival, unfortunately we can't do it. So, instead we shall
make The Last Shot Bar & Restaurant one of our main locations. The other will be the town of Nederland, with events at
The Artist's Niche in the center of town. I'm working on the event schedule and should have it done soon. Thank you
all for your continuing support and see you soon!
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June 15, 2010
We're happy to add Frank Hollander to our list of Speakers! Frank is one of
those PKD scholars who you find in the footnotes of many sources. He's the one who cleared up the whole 'Did PKD really
survive on cat food?' question and he is active in the Gutenberg Project.
I've been
out fundraising these last few days as we progress towards paying for everything. We've added two new sponsors just yesterday:
Blue Owl Books in Nederland and The Coffee Shop in Black Hawk. I'll be writing more
about these place and more soon!
======= Entry 10 ================ June 7, 2010
I
spent this last weekend with friends in the mountain town of Ward, Colorado. I met lots of old friends at the 25th anniversary
celebration of the Millsite Inn. My good friend, Squid, who is a great drummer, has gladly accepted my offer to play at the
PKD Festival! Another friend and great guitarist is Jordan and he and his band 'J Train' are also happy to play for
the assembled multitude of PKD fans! We thank both Squid and Jordan for their support.
And we have added
another speaker to our already stellar lineup! This is Erik Davis, already known by many PKD fans for his
writings on our favorite author. Check out the 'Speakers' page for more on Erik. Thanks Erik!
So, everything is almost
set and we are now in the money-raising stage. If you would like to contribute please send a cheque or money order to: Dave
Hyde, PKD Festival Host, PO Box 293, Ward, CO 80481. Thanks to you all for your support!
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======= Entry 9 ================ June 2, 2010 The
interview on KGNU went well, I was able to talk about the PKD festival during a program on Celtic music! During June I shall
talk again on KGNU radio. They also stream the audio online for a couple of weeks after the event, so check kgnu.org
At this time we are making a push for sponsors, vendors, donors, volunteers,
artists, contributions to our charity and door prizes. Please contact me with your ideas. Thank you.
The poster contest is still in effect and we will likely use all designs so, please, design a PKD Festival Poster and send
it to artistsniche.org
An intergalactic first will occur at the festival! Author E.J. Morgan will
debut her novel A KINDRED SPIRIT at the festival. This is a novel with Philip K. Dick in the afterlife, settling a few things
before he can move on. PKD's friend, Bishop Pike, also makes an appearance and this should be a fascinating novel. You
can buy your limited-edition PKD Festival copy of E.J. Morgan's A KINDRED SPIRIT only at the festival! The author
herself will be here to sign copies.
======= Entry 8 ================ May 18, 2010 Sam Umland, Professor of English at The University of Nebraska is joing our excellent line up of speakers. Sam will
speak on THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. Thanks Sam, and welcome aboard! We have enlisted the support of THE STAGE STOP bar & Restaurant in Rollinsville. This is another great mountain
restaurant with lots of room inside and out and a great view of the mountains. Ron and Margie, owners of THE STAGE STOP are
pleased to welcome Philip K. Dick fans to their fine establishment during the festival. Thanks Ron and Margie!
Another great addition to our supporters is THE ARTIST'S NICHE in Nederland. This is a collective of local
artists - photographers, painters, jewelers, sculptors and designers, who are busily working away behind the scenes to make
the PKD Festival art show and charity auction a success. Thanks guys! Check out the Artist's Niche website at artistsniche.org. They are also helping us with our festival poster and are running a contest to select the best poster design.
On May 26th about 7pm Mountain Standard Time. I shall be interviewed on KGNU radio in Boulder, Colorado. I shall have lots
of time to talk about the festival and inform the listerners in the Boulder area. Tune in! KGNU.org
Lots more going on as we progress towards the festival days in August. Spread
the word!======= Entry 7 ================ April 20, 2010 Lord
Running Clam (Festival Host) met with The Rev. Eggplant Jones in Central City yesterday. The Rev. is a big PKD fan and has
volunteered his services to the PKD Festival. He will be helping us organize events in Central City / Black Hawk. Thank you
Rev. Eggplant Jones for your enthusiasm!
We have also been talking to various businesses and individuals
in Nederland and are signing up new businesses in Ned to participate in the Festival. In this great little mountain town
we have also found some artists who will display their work at the various Festival locations. More on this soon!
Also, I shall be interviewed about the Festival on KGNU radio in Boulder in the next week
or two. More details as we get closer to this date.
Vendor booth information is now online
and can be found here: VENDORS======= Entry 6 ================ April 8, 2010 THE
LAST SHOT: Roy, the owner of The Last Shot restaurant and bar is all fired up about the PKD Festival and has
offered us the use of his establishment during the festival and the time leading up to it. This is good news for us as The
Last Shot is a huge place with internal seating over 230 people and large patios outside where we shall hold relaxed meetings
and have at least one evening party here. (It will be here and only here at The Last Shot that you will be able
to order such fine beverages as Pink Beams and other concoctions of the bartender's art!)
Check out The Last Shot website and if you're in the neighborhood stop in for a great meal!
The Last Shot website also has
a fine expandable map of the festival area. Zoom in and out to see exactly where we're at (The Last Shot is only
4 or 5 miles from the main festival location at the Gilpin County Fairgrounds)
We are also in discussions with
several other area businesses and will have more information soon. Please keep an eye on this website as we progress.
Local hip-hop musician 'Intravenous' and his band 'Proof of Life' has offered their musical services
to us at the PKD Festival! We shall take IV up on his offer and are pleased to announce to the PKD fans that a vibrant local
hip hop artist and his friends will be entertaining us during the festival. Here's IV's facebook link: Proof Of Life.
======= Entry 5 ================ March 26, 2010 Thanks
to the efforts of PKD fan Michael Fisher in Indianapolis we have fixed the problems with the website! No more
bleed-over from Stateside Nursing International!
I've added a page for Paul Williams to
the site and designated Paul as the PKD fan most deserving of our fund-raising and sales efforts. As much as we can raise
at the festival we shall send to Paul's family.
We've added Kitty Gainer's video company,
Filmhaus from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as the official PKD Festival videography company. We
look forward to seeing Kitty and her team in August!
Our friend, Daniel Forthuber, of Nederland,
Colorado is a still photographer who has worked as a commercial and production photographer for many years. Dan will be taking
the photographs at our 'fest.
All God's children gotta eat! And we are especially pleased
to welcome Sherri Spitz of Ward, Colorado as Chief Cook and non-bottle washer. All festival guests will be satisfactorily
stuffed with wholesome mountain food at the main festival site. We are very fortunate indeed to have Sherri!
I've added a page titled 'Festival Shop'. This page displays items which will be for sale at the Festival Shop.
At this point we have lots of little booklets from Lord Running Clam, Frank C. Bertrand and Guy Salvidge. We hope to add more
soon! Also coming soon: some artwork!
Thanks to sterling work by our international PKD fans we now have
versions of the Festival website in Polish, Spanish and German! Look to our 'International' page to find this information.
I've added a better map of the main festival sites.
Lastly, a reminder:
Remember the movie Total Recall where Arnold gets the phone message and the video terminal plays over and over the message,
"Get your ass to Mars! Get your ass to Mars!"? Well, the message playing over from here is get your ass to Colorado
this August! Get your ass to Colorado this August! See you at the Festival!
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March 11, 2010 We are still experiencing problems with the Festival website but
we've had some generous offers of help with this from web-savvy Dickheads and hope to have a better website in place soon.
(Please ignore and references to 'nurse recruitment' on this site - unless you are a nurse or doctor looking
for a job then, please, contact pat@statesideinternational.com and she will endeavor to place you in a hospital or healthcare facility in the USA and the world!).
We're
still in negotiations with several hotels in Black Hawk and Nederland, Colorado for the best room rates for our attendees.
Black Hawk (where I live) is Colorado's premier gambling town. Lots of casinos, hotels and restaurants here!
Nederland is a great little mountain town that has just hosted its 9th 'Frozen Dead Guy Days'
festival. I attended this and it was great fun with people diving into frozen water holes cut in the ice of the town's
lake, coffin races, pub crawls and many other fun events. About 8000 people attended this year's 'Frozen Dead Guy
Days'.
I'm also in constant commuications with PKD fans worldwide, spreading the news about the PKD
conference and festival and as more news becomes finalized I will include it in this website.
In international
news we've had lots of interest from fans in many countries and we hope to welcome them to the festival in August. At
the least for our international fans we shall set up live videoconferencing during the festival. More on this later.
With the help of more fans I'm preparing books, pamphlets, zines and artworks for sale at the Festival. As these reach
completion I will post details on this website.
I want to thank everyone for their positive support for
this venture and ask you all to SPREAD THE WORD!
=======Entry 3 ================= Feb 24, 2010 By this date we have reserved the main festival site. This is the Gilpin County Fairgrounds
complex near Black Hawk, Colorado. A great place with lots of indoor and outdoor room for many festival events. I am at the
moment conferring with hotels in this area for the best room deals for PKD Festival attendees. As soon as I have final details
I will post them on this website.
Camping: This is Colorado and in the PKD Festival
area there are many campgrounds available for those who like to camp out while attending the festival. Costs are reasonable
(about $15 per day but I will find out for sure once the campgrounds open up) and the campgrounds offer excellent local nature
attractions: fishing, hiking, biking, horesback riding, bird-watching, and much more. If you would like to camp out for the
Festival please contact me and let me know.
New Guests! Anne
Dick will do her best to attend the Festival! Anne still lives in Pt. Reyes Station, California and has published her book
SEARCH FOR PHILIP K. DICK in a revised edition available for only $17 from: http://www.pointreyescypresspress.com/. Order your copy today! This is a limited press run and all copies will be valuable collector's items soon! You can read
reviews of Anne's book here: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=13630>http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=13630
and here:
http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/2009/10/14/an-interview-with-anne-r-dick-philip-k-dicks-3rd-wife/
Coming soon: we have industrious PKD fans working on
translating pages of this website into German, Spanish and Polish! Soon we shall have these pages included in the Festival
website.
Hey artists! We shall be posting items for sale on
this website soon. If you are an artist please send us a picture suitable for display on website of any PKD-related art you
have done and we shall happily put it on sale on the site. A percentage of the sales price will go towards Festival costs.
Please contact me for details of how this will work. =======Entry 2 =================
Feb 2, 2010 At the beginning of February we have confirmed the festival dates
as August 13, 14 and 15th 2010. Location is in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains upslope from Boulder in the mountain
towns of Black Hawk, Nederland and Ward. See the map.
We have two more honored guests joining us! First is Frank C. Bertrand, eminent Philip
K. Dick scholar who has contributed to all of the PKD-related zines and newsletters since 1982. Frank has unearthed many obscure
interviews with Philip K. Dick and has transcribed them for print and on the internet. We're happy to have him aboard.
Another welcome addition is Marleen Barr of Fordham University. She will speak on BLADE RUNNER. Marleen
is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches in the Department of Communication and Media Studies
at Fordham University. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science
fiction criticism. Barr is the author of Alien to Feminity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in
Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction and Genre Fission:
A New Discouse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the special science fiction
issue of PMLA.
While we are, of course, incredibly pleased to have scholars like Marleen Barr and
David Gill address us at the Festival (and we welcome more) I want to make clear that this PKD Festival is primarily for the
fans of Philip K. Dick and is not an academic convention. Nor is it a general science fiction convention.
This is a Philip K. Dick Festival -- a celebration by his fans who for the first time on American soil can come together
and talk with like-minded people. Naturally, it being a festival we shall have music, food, drink, vendors, and all the usual
stuff one finds at small festivals everywhere. And we will have a few surprises!
Please watch this space for future
developments.
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It is now mid-January 2010 and we
have some tentative attendees to the PKD Festival!
I've asked Patrick Clark, publisher of
PKD OTAKU and a friend of many years to be our Festival Fan Guest of Honor and he has graciously accepted!
Patrick is a PKD fan of many years standing. He has contributed articles to the Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter,
For Dickheads Only, Radio Free PKD and has published his own PKD zine PKD OTAKU since at least 1996. His occasional PKD-related
zines (like Simulacrum Meltdown and Interference On The Brain Screen) are a welcome find in one's mailbox.
Particularly noteworthy to Philip K. Dick fans is Patrick's discovery of the PKD papers held by the Bowling Green State
University in Ohio. Also, his definitive resolution of THE UNTELEPORTED MAN problem (uncertainty once reigned over what, exactly,
constituted this novel - until Patrick came along) and his work on DR. FUTURITY are noteworthy.
PKD OTAKU can be found
online here: http://pkdotaku.sinnsitiv.de/viereck.htmAnother likely attendee is Jason Koornick who operates www.philipkdickfans.com. When we needed a PKD website Jason stepped in and delivered. He has been operating PKDfans.com for ten years
now and is up on all the Hollywood doings and everything to do with Philip K. Dick in this new millenium. Jason's knowledge
will be a great asset for all who attend the Festival and have the opportunity to talk to him.
I'm also very
happy to announce the probable presence of PKD expert John Fairchild. John lives in California and has contributed
to The Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter, For Dickheads Only, Radio Free PKD and PKD OTAKU. John assisted in the
editing of THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK (Underwood-Miller Press) and his knowledge of PKD minutae is second to none!
We look forward to seeing you all at the Festival (once we set a final date). I am also contacting PKD fans around
the world and inviting them to come to Colorado for this PKD celebration -- and i have a few more experts in mind! I'm
excited things are shaping up so well at this early date!
Watch this space for more breaking news -- Lord RC
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