HELLO from backstage & note to auckland/NZ/waiheke patrons (Patreon)

KIA ORA!

11 days left, my loves, and then I haul myself back to the USA. Lots to say and no fuckin time to say it so up I shut.

I'm deep in prep for the three-night fundraiser for Artworks Theatre here on Waiheke Island...as you can see from the video....and here's a few stills...KORO AND I ARE GONNA KILL THIS SHOW!!!!!! I'll try to get some video footage to share with you for kicks.

I wish we were streaming it but I'm also glad we're not. It's just gonna be 85 sweaty people in a theater making dick jokes nobody will ever hear and that's just fine with me. If a Drag Queen and an Amanda Palmer make a Dick Joke in a Crowded Theater and it wasn't live-streamed, did it even happen?

I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to the higher-level patrons (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE) who generously donated VIP tickets to the lower-level patrons in Auckland who couldn't tix before they sold out. YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!! FUCK I LOVE PATREON.

If you wanna just donate....the theatre is weeping with y'all's generosity. Donate here: https://www.artworkstheatre.org.nz/

MEANWHILE

......MEETING UP !!!!!: 

I will surface next week and write more, but for now, I know a few of y'all were asking about PATRONS MEETING UP on Saturday, since I mentioned it! 

Why don't we all gather - whoever is around & coming to the show, or just...around - for a quick HI AND HUG right in downtown Oneroa? Let's meet in the little look-out courtyard right between the Ray White & the Wai Kitchen @5pm tomorrow (Saturday, May 21st):

If there's 5 people, great, if there's 30, great...you can all meet one another and hang out as I wend my way up the hill for the VIP party at Mudbrick! There's great places to hang in town while you wait for the show to start! (Get pizza at Fenice!)

BUT - since that'll be so short and sweet, my dear Aucklandsiders, also.....SAVE NEXT TUESDAY afternoon (31st!)! 

If I have time during the afternoon, which I SHOULD...I'm gonna try to have a little gathering right in the CBD at Freyberg Square if I can manage it.  It's literally the day of my flight and I'll just fucking cry and flail and ukulele-wave goodbye. Don't you dare prepare presents unless they are the size of a grain of sand, I can't take FUCK ALL with me!! I'm already trying to figure out what to throw away :)

I'll confirm the day/night before...ok?

I LOVE YOU ALL

see a ton of you over the next three days.

FUUUUUUCKKKKKKK

xxxAFP

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