April 29, 2011 — 19 Broad­way, Fair­fax, Cal­i­for­nia
Moon­al­ice poster by Alexan­dra Fischer

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice Legend…

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420 Tribal Pow-Wow
4/20/11 Great Amer­i­can Music Hall, San Fran­cisco, Cal­i­for­nia
Moon­al­ice poster by Alexan­dra Fischer

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, there’s some­thing hap­penin’ here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. But then, what is? Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, poster art is fine art. Seri­ously fine art. For tonight’s Tribal Pow-wow, we are cel­e­brat­ing with eleven posters and one screen print. The posters are by Car­olyn Fer­ris, John Seabury, Den­nis Loren, Dave Hunter, Lee Con­klin, Wes Wil­son, Stan­ley Mouse, Alexan­dra Fis­cher, David Singer, Den­nis Larkins and Chris Shaw. The silkscreen is by Ron Dono­van. Enjoy these posters!! Spread the word about poster art.

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April 8, 2011 Put­nam Den, Saratoga, New York
Moon­al­ice poster by Alexan­der Fischer

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, the Moon­al­ice matri­arch in the early days of Saratoga Springs was Gran­ite Palace Moon­al­ice, who called her­self Lil, but every­one knew her as Nancy. To avoid con­fu­sion, I will hence­forth refer to said matri­arch as GP. She owned the land over the well head of the springs when the new folks said they wanted to buy the place. They said they wanted to drink the water. “Drink the water?” GP asked, barely con­tain a body laugh that was build­ing inside her. “Drink the water from that spring?” When GP burst out laugh­ing, the new folks asked her why. Gran­ite Palace Moon­al­ice responded that her kind had been using the Saratoga spring as a bong for gen­er­a­tions on end.

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April 4, 2011 Iota Club & Cafe, Arling­ton, Vir­ginia
Moon­al­ice poster by Alexan­dra Fischer

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, tonight’s poster fea­tures the lovely Iota Moon­al­ice. Iota grew up with the rail­road and spent her later years work­ing at Union Sta­tion in Wash­ing­ton. Her job was in sched­ul­ing. Her job was to make sure it was always 4:20 some­where on the rail­road. In Jan­u­ary 1953, a spe­cial express train – named The Fed­eral Express – left Boston for Wash­ing­ton. It was filled with Mass­a­chu­setts Repub­li­cans on their way to Pres­i­dent Eisenhower’s first inau­gu­ra­tion. As the train approached Union Sta­tion at 80 mph, the con­duc­tor dis­cov­ered that his brakes were not work­ing. The watch­man at the two mile marker real­ized what was hap­pen­ing and sig­naled the sta­tion. They had 90 sec­onds to get every­one out. The train blew through sev­eral walls, the sta­tion master’s office, and the main news stand. As it approached the main con­course, the floor col­lapsed. The loco­mo­tive and front few cars came to rest down­stairs in the bag­gage room. Incred­i­bly, no one was killed. A train filled with Repub­li­cans. 1953. Think about it.

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March 27, 2011 Quixote’s True Blue, Den­ver, Col­orado
Moon­al­ice poster by Alexan­dra Fischer

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, tonight’s poster by Alexan­dra Fis­cher fea­tures the lovely True Blue Moon­al­ice, whose rosy red skin belied her name. True Blue daz­zled all the boys in the tribe with her stun­ning good looks and yummy baked goods. Bak­ing at high alti­tudes is a has­sle, but True Blue over­came the odds and the envi­ron­ment with her break­through con­fec­tion: the True Blue Brownie. Unlike the baker her­self, True Blue’s brown­ies actu­ally came in a blue wrap­per. Best of all, they could inca­pac­i­tate a roadie with a sin­gle bite. It could be that the Quixote’s True Blue is just a remark­able coin­ci­dence. You be the judge.

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, on this day in 1915, Typhoid Mary was quar­an­tined. She was the first healthy car­rier of typhoid fever ever iden­ti­fied and she was known to have infected 50 peo­ple who ate food from her kitchen, 3 of whom died. She was not known for her hemp brown­ies, which is too bad, as bak­ing good brown­ies would have been a point in her favor.

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