I gotta admit I am flattered at the speed of my demise here! I think this is the fastest flaming I have ever seen! I hope to be a record breaker here generating comments! LOL!

Charmion, you ask -
"Kirsten, what do you play?"
Which reminds me of an old Roche Sisters song where the lyrics say something like "Have you sung with anyone famous?" then they site people like Paul Simon for validity...

I have played classical violin for 35 years, I play slide guitar, regular guitar, washboard...I was the washboard player and lead vocalist in Seattle Swing...We opened for Dan Hicks, etc.

"What is your singing voice like?"
I am considered one of the best voices ever on the streets of Seattle, according to the locals. I have many letters from local performers telling me that I have an exceptional voice and I have made many a performer sob with my singing as well. I have a solid following for my music and voice among NW performers, from the Karamozov Brothers, to Amber Tide, to Baby Gramps, to Artis the spoonman, to jim page...all of them have complimented me on my music and voice in the past 3 decades...I believe Reggie Miles here at mudcat cafe would also validate this, that I have one of the strongest voices of all women ever on the streets in Seattle...I am loud, strong, with a wide range and able to harmonize, on pitch naturally, wide range of tone, etc...I have won vocal scholarships in every school I have been in, I won vocal applied music scholarships in opera in college, I was the lead in all musicals in high school, I have been the lead singer in many bands, including my own duo Raw Sugar. I have been a backup singer in one of Seattle's most famous motown revues, Annie Rose and the Thrillers, I have sung with many famous singers such as Laura Love, Jan Luby, Rebo Flordigan...I was asked by Neil Young to open for him in Santa Cruz when he saw me busking out front...I was asked by June Millington to go on tour with her after she heard me sing at a Univ of Santa Cruz Women's Festival...

"Have you written any songs?"
My songs are actually legendary...my song Great Big Belly about birth control is a classic that people request constantly for decades, as well as other hits like Myth in Genesis, Message From the Media, etc...they have been sung around the campfires at the Michigan Women's Music Festival for two decades. My original music has produced reams of fan mail from women and men telling them that my music has profoundly influenced their lives...and I have sold an insane amount of cassette tapes on the street in my earlier years, Jim Goettler says that me and my partner in Raw Sugar were the FIRST street band in Seattle to sell cassettes on the street and that may well be...we began doing it in 1984. By 1985, every street band around us had them after watching us sell them hand over fist. I still sell CDs...I have created a ton of comedy pieces as well..I have played with Europe's Golden Nose Award winning clown Hacki, I have performed with many vaudevillians doing comedy skits onstage as well...I have closed the elitist Midnight Show at the Oregon Country Fair as a solo woman act...and was drafted to perform in that show in the last hour of the show for 20 solid years...

(And yeah, the patriarch that posted here that wanted me to be a youngster, good try...I am not a youngster. That is a pretty common thing tho, I stir up controversy by my mere being and the men try to poohpooh me as a youngster who will lose all political passion with age like them! Nope, not all of us sell out with age! I have another example of that patriarch painting me as ignorant youth now on my website at http://resist.ca/~kirstena/pagetimharrispovertypimp.html - it is a pretty common tactic..)

Would you like to post them - If you are interested in my credentials, so to speak, you can go to http://resist.ca/~kirstena/pagefeministcomedy.html
there is an mp3 there...and yes, I did post links to it here, you must have missed them.

So Charmion, did I pass the test? What do you play? How is your singing voice? And do you write music? Have you posted it here?

I don't know why I answered this one, I guess I cannot tell if it is sincere or not...is Charmion really asking what my credentials are? If so, here they are...

But I do not expect to visit or comment on this thread again...so take this apart with a fine tooth comb all you want...but I am sticking to my mud smears when wet theory...and will just flick it when dry later. I see no actual purpose in reading or contributing to this thread. My writing, my work, it stands on its own.

And it is not true that I only talk in monologue either. I have contributed to dialogue and threads I did not start!