SF in SF!

If you're going to be in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 19th, come join me at SF in SF! I'll be reading with Ysabeau Wilce and Erin Hoffman at 7 p.m. (the doors open at 6).

. . . no idea what I'll be reading; I need to find out how much time I'll have, and ponder options. But I promise to pick something cool. :-)

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Join us in standing up for reproductive health and education. Planned Parenthood, the organization that delivers reproductive health care, sex education and information to millions of people worldwide, has come under fire in the U.S. lately, with many politicians on both state and federal level seeking to end funding (and in a few cases succeeding).

During the month of May, you can send a specially designed Planned Parenthood vgift to your friends to help support this cause. (And if you need someone to send it to, frank is always happy to receive gifts!) There are three variations ($1, $5 and $10) for you to choose from, but they'd all look good on your profile when your friends know that you stand by something so important.

                    

Thank you all for your help in our support for Planned Parenthood. This promotion ends June 1, 2012; LiveJournal is not affiliated with Parent Parenthood. For more information about Planned Parenthood, please visit: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

-The LiveJournal Team

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because ordering from Japan is expensive

I don't suppose anybody has any clever tips for how to find kimono and obi (and I do mean kimono, not yukata) for non-obscene prices? I'm looking either for stores in the Bay Area or for websites, but between the exchange rate and shipping costs, ordering from Japan tends to make prices obscene pretty quickly -- I'd prefer something more, er, local.

This query has been brought to you by eBay's utter failure to contain what I want, and Rakuten's tendency to make my eyes bleed with machine-translated Japanese.