WORM QUARTET UPDATE AND BLATANT PLUG - 2/28/07

Holy CRAP I've been busy!!

Wanna see?

HURRY UP AND PRE-ORDER NEWS
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The new Worm Quartet album, "Mental Notes," officially enters the world
on March 2nd! All orders BEFORE March 2nd (so basically tonight and
tomorrow) will still be considered pre-orders, and will ship with a free
super-spiffy ultra-unnecessary bonus disc, packed tight with over an hour
of radio show appearances, live crap, alternate versions, oddities, and
other stuff most people won't give the slightest crap about (and topped
with cover art by the great Luke Ski!)

You can pre-order right this very second for a mere $9.99 plus $1.50
shipping at: http://www.wormquartet.com

Pre-orders will ship early next week.

And are all of you planning to head for Minneapolis on Friday?

WORM QUARTET PRANCING ACROSS AMERICA NEWS
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This friggin' weekend!!!

March 2-4, 2007 - Minneapolis, MN

MARSCON 2007

The only convention with a dedicated "Dementia" track returns!
I'll be doing a late Friday night show so I can actually SWEAR
this year! YAAAAAAY PROFANITY!! And I *WILL* have my new CD
available for purchase, dammit!

Here's the Dementia schedule:
FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND:

10:00 pm - D.J. PARTICLE
10:30 pm - ROB BALDER
11:00 pm - *** WORM QUARTET *** <-- LooK! LooK!!!! MEEEE!!
11:30 pm to Midnight - THE GOTHSICLES

SATURDAY, MATCH 3RD:
2:00 pm - ERIC COLEMAN
2:30 pm - CARLA ULBRICH
3:00 pm - POSSIBLE OSCAR
3:30 pm - SUDDEN DEATH
4:00 pm - THE GREAT LUKE SKI
5:00 to 6:00 pm - OOKLA THE MOK - MUSIC GUEST OF HONOR CONCERT

SUNDAY, MARCH 4TH:
1:30 - ART PAUL SCHLOSSER
2:00 - CARRIE DAHLBY
2:30 - POWER SALAD
3:00 to 4:00 - DEMENTIA SMACKDOWN (Dementia artists, including
yours truly, covering other people's funny crap!)

And of course, there's LOTS of other crap going on outside of
this comedy music tripe. Check www.marscon.org for details and
registration!

@ The Holiday Inn Select
Three Appletree Square
(I-494 and 34th Ave. Exit 1)
Bloomington, MN 55425

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March 23-25th - Long Island, NY

I-CON

I'll be performing along with Rob Balder, the great Luke Ski,
Sudden Death, and others! More info coming soon!

@ Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794

More info at http://www.iconsf.org

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April 20-22nd, 2007 - Troy, MI

Penguicon 5.0

Musical guests include Worm Quartet, Tom Smith and Luke Ski!

Check penguicon.org for details and registration!

@ The Troy Hilton
5500 Crooks Rd
Troy, MI 48098

BUTTON SLUT NEWS
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Any interest in getting high-quality custom 1" buttons made for your
band, business, cult, or what-have-you? You're in luck, dammit! My
wife's button-making site is finally up and running!
http://www.buttonslut.com

Submit art, paypal money, approve proof, and voila - buttons arrive on
your friggin' doorstep.

And in other "stuff my wife is doing" news...

MRS. SHOEBOX SELLING HANDMADE JEWELRY AND OTHER ARTSY STUFF NEWS
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My wife is a metalsmith with a degree in fine arts, and is therefore
capable of crafting stuff that doesn't suck! Go forth to
http://www.damselflycreations.com if you're interested in checking out
some of my her hand-crafted jewelry, prints, and plush baboon butts.
Yes, really.

FuMP NEWS
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If you've been visiting http://www.thefump.com regularly, then you've
already heard a couple of new Worm Quartet songs, along with songs by a
buttload of my contemporaries (many featuring appearances by me!) If
you HAVEN'T been, then YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON FREE FUNNY MUSIC, DAMMIT!
WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?

WORM QUARTET ON DR. DEMENTO AGAIN NEWS
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Hells yeah! Worm Quartet's FuMP debut, the parental rant "C Is For
Lettuce," just recently made its debut on the Dr. Demento show,
and returned again a couple weeks later, popping up on the Funny Five!
If you missed it, you can listen to the song on the FuMP page or
the Worm Quartet myspace page ( http://www.myspace.com/wormquartet )
and of course you can always go forth to http://www.drdemento.com
and request that he play it again!

Can't find Dr. Demento? See http://dmdb.org/stations.html for a
list of known stations that carry the show. The good Dr. also offers
his shows in streaming form at http://www.drdemento.com

ODOR NEWS
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Those of you who have seen me perform are aware of the important part
deodorant plays in my live shows - after a concert I am generally a
sweaty messs, and without proper stank mitigation, I become a sweaty
stinky mess, which tends to adversely affect my sales because nobody
wants to come near my merch table. I've always viewed my Power Stick
as the "Fifth Worm" in the band, but unfortunately, due to a recent
apparent change in my body chemistry, it's lost its effectiveness,
and we just don't work well together any more.

However, after weeks of tryouts, I'm pleased to announce that I've
finally found a replacement: Speed Stick 24/7 Fresh Surge will be
making its live debut at MarsCon this weekend. Please take a moment
after my performance to stick your face in my armpit and welcome my
new scent to the band.

The Power Stick will be moving on to other projects, namely sitting at
the bottom of my trash can, unless I can sculpt the top of it so it
looks new and get Wal-Mart to take it back.

That's it from me - I've still got a buttload to do before MarsCon, and
of course I have this day job to work around, so it's time to brew the
coffee and get crackin'.

Thanks as always for your support - you guys kick so much ass that if
you were in ass-kicking competition, you'd, like...um...do well in it.
Yeah.

Rattling the liquified despondancy trees,
-=ShoEboX=-

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