Sam (plan-it-x founder) needs your help!

Samantha Jane Dorsett, the founder of Plan-It-X records was pushed or fell off of an interstate bridge about 4 weeks ago in the bay area. She broke two ankles and two vertebra, nearly dying. She had spinal surgery and is at last being released from the hospital and going to physical therapy. She doesn't have enough money for rent or living expenses and needs help. If you want to help you can send donations to PIX, in cash or checks made out to Samantha Dorsett (not plan-it-x) (but you can send it to PIX). you can also pay pal money to me, for her, at chrisclavin (at) yahoo.com

FOR BAY AREA PEOPLE: there will be a benefit show at the LONG HAUL on OCT 24th!

Who is Samantha? She is my best friend in the world, Sam (Samantha Jane Dorsett), started this label as a joke really. you see, Sam was paying to release the first tape by my band and we were at kinko's (scamming) making the tape insert/artwork and there was some blank space on the back. i said "we should make up a fake record label". Sam loved the idea and said "planet X". i said "sounds cool". you see Sam swore back then that she was kidnapped by aliens for 2 years and held on a planet called planet X. i didn't really believe her but it was a fun story. somehow, one of us thought that we should spell it weird. so there is was, plan-it-x. Since then she has started and been involved with many cool projects. In Bloomington, she started SECRET SAILOR books, an anarchist bookstore/venue which was home for the midwest pages to prisoners project and later turned into BOXCAR BOOKS (which is still there and going strong). She lived in Pensacola for a few years and did a lot of work with books to prisoners and a lot of political activism and made some cool 'zines called STRAP YOUR SELF IN and wrote a novel called TROUBLED SLEEP. She now lives in the bay area (oakland) and does the same kind of awesome stuff and works with the LONG HAUL and the SLINGSHOT ORGANIZER.

In less horrible news, the ROSA, "i mississippi you" CD recently came back into print> by that i mean, Kirke sent me 50 copies that he had lying around and you can get them from me until they run out.

i'm sure there is more news but i can't think straight right now. -chris