Advising the Funky Flower

The 20th Perpetual Motion Roadshow (Jan. 3-10) rolls out the wagon to bring their sure-fire holiday hangover cure to the west coast. It features free advice giver Christa Donner from Chicago, Angry Flower cartoonist Stephen Notley from Edmonton, and the wrongway hiphopper More or Les from Toronto.

Click your city for a PDF handbill with the performer bios...

Seattle: Mon, Jan 3, 7pm. Confounded Books (315 E. Pine St.)

Eugene: Tues. Jan 4, 7pm. Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art (537 Willamette)

San Francisco: Wed. Jan 5, 7pm. Modern Times (888 Valencia St.)

LA: Thurs Jan 6, 7pm. Flor y Canto (3706 N. Figueroa Ave.)

San Jose: Friday Jan 7, 8pm. Anno Domini (150 S. Montgomery St., Unit B)

Portland: Sun Jan 9, 7pm. Reading Frenzy (921 SW Oak St.)

Victoria: Mon Jan 10, 8pm. Solstice Cafe (529 Pandora Ave.)

All shows are pay-what-you-can.

NOTE: This month the tour will be hitting Victoria instead of Vancouver.

The Pay Phone Tour Diaries

The crewmembers will be calling in pay phone tour diaries to document their experiences in each city...

Stephen from Seattle: "Tonight we got to hear about the man who wanted to be Wonder Woman, the hair between breasts and... what what the other one...?"

Christa in Eugene: "Eugene rules... it's a really charming town..."

Les in San Francisco: "We just had a real nice sweet time hanging out at the ol' bookstore..."

Stephen in Los Angeles: "We were stunned by the amount of snow there is north of LA..."

More or Les from Portland: "Let's just say that I have learned about snow chains on tires, so we're not only entertaining, we've been educated..."

Check back tomorrow for more! Posted by Jim Munroe at December 16, 2004 12:32 PM