For those looking for a weekend of solitude, get over it

Dear Patrons of the Arts:

We haven't been resting on our laurels (they're at the cleaners) and the October Haunting of Bluegrass continues apace.

-- Saturday, we'll be in amongst the pumpkins at the Tierra del Sol Fall Festival (you'll be able to tell us from the pumpkins because somebody will buy them and take them home). For those not haing on every off-key Flaw note, there will also be other acts including a fantastic juggler, and equally fantastic barbecue.* Full details are here. Come on out and buy stuff -- these people do great work and need your money. For a $500 donation, we will stop playing. You may want to take up a collection in your neighborhood.


-- On Sunday we'll be out in Moorpark at the Underwood Family Farms Bluegrass and Old Time Weekend, once again offering a living tableau of What Happens When You Don't Practice. There will be two flawed sets out there, one at the unheard of hour of 10 a.m. and the other at our normal rising hour of 2 p.m. In between will be other, fantastic acts or you can just gather around and watch us argue about who messed up in the first set. (Answer: Banjo player). Details are right here. Hope to see you one last time before you develop musical taste and leave us forever.

-- Many people** have been clamoring for details of our recent stock issue under the (tenderly) holding company of Flawco Inc. The stock, traded under the counter under the symbol PTUI, has been a rock of consistency in the volatile storm that is the current stock market, trading unchanged at $0.00. We believe this reflects the true worth of the company, and therefore are quite happy. Stock certificates will be available both at Tierra del Sol and Moorpark, with our business plan printed on the back of the certificates.

Billionaire Warren Buffett, whose motto is "be greedy when others are fearful; fearful when others are greedy" has lately been extolling stock purchases as a rare bargain. However, he has somehow neglected to include Flawco among his holdings.*** We're assuming it's a clerical error.



*However, juggling barbecue=bad idea
**By which we mean nobody
***Flawco motto: "Would you like fries with that?"

We're Going Public!

Dear patrons of the arts:

We've been watching the stock market pretty carefully of late and we're convinced the time is right:

Murphy's Flaw is pleased to announce the Initial Public Offering of

Flawco, Inc.
(a tender, holding company)

Our business plan will be modeled on several we've read about in the paper: You pay for us to perform 10 songs, we sing one, and then we promise to sing the other nine at a later date, but at greater volume.

Then we go on Craig's List and offer to perform those nine, sing one, and offer the other eight on Recycler.com. We keep this up until eventually we've sung our original 10 songs -- but we've been paid for 55!

It can't lose. And if, by some freak chance, all our audiences should want us to sing our songs at the same time, we'll just ask the National Endowment for the Arts to send in extra bluegrass bands. We'll call it a rescue. Not a bailout.

Bottom Line: Everybody wins!

This is a smart investment opportunity: Flawco stock is worthless, so you know it'll never go down in value, even in a bear market.

Still not sure? We understand; due diligence is important.

So if you want to check out our assets, we'll be on-stage at the "A Taste of Folk Music" Festival this Sunday, Oct. 12, at Encino Park, 16953 Ventura Blvd. We're on shortly after 11:30, but the festival starts at 10 a.m. and goes to 5 p.m. Great music, great food. Kettle Corn, probably. Full details are here.

Many other fantastic bluegrass bands who could well be part of the eventual "rescue" plan will also be appearing. They, of course, do not issue stock. What can we say -- some people don't have the Flawed Vision.

There will be Flaw T-shirts for sale for $10, and we'll be issuing certificates for one share of FlawCo stock.

Operators will be standing by -- if you miss the chance to get in on this business opportunity, you'll be glad you did!

See you Sunday!