2:44PM - Today.....

Games @ Gilligan's Hide Away (Procrastinator's Xmas Party)
Date: Sunday December 27, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Type: Party

Location: 2601 Atlantic St Las Vegas, NV 89121 (702) 214-8610
Street: 2601 Atlantic St between Sahara and Karen
City/State/Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89121
Phone: (702) 214-8610
Please join us for a special party. Everyone, please bring a gift you don't want/can't use/doesn't fit etc... and we'll make a game out of exchanging them. There will be other goodies as well.
Great food, good service and lots of fun games...

2:45PM - Game Night @ Winchell's Pub & Grill, not Screwballs

Date: Saturday November 21, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Author: polyvegas
Type: Party

Location: Winchell's on Warm Springs, just east of LV Blvd.
Street: 199 E. Warm Springs Rd (near LV Blvd)
City/State/Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89119
Card Games, Word Games, Board Games, Fun Folks, Find Friends
Non-Smoking Dining Room, Full Bar, Good Food
Be There!


Winchells Pub & Grill
199 E Warm Springs Rd
Las Vegas , NV 89119 Map

* (702) 309-7600

Just a few blocks east of Screwballs. A little pricier, but more upscale selections, including soup, steak, fish, better beers, wines and desserts!!! Screwballs once again is hosting the UFC pay per view on the 21st.

2:35PM - new location for 3rd sat game night

What: Game Night @ Casa Blanca on Charleston

When: September 19, 2009 7:00 PM

Where:
Casa Blanca
6320 E Charleston Blvd, Between Treeline & Hollywood
Las Vegas, NV 89142
(702) 452-8080

Alternative location for our 3rd Sat. game night. Great food, amazing view. We'll be on the enclosed patio playing card, word and board games. Play ours or bring your favorites.

Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/The-Las-Vegas-Polyamory-Meetup-Group/calendar/11390618/

6:31PM - All Game Nights @ Putters Cancelled

Since our food server Nikki left to start her nursing career, we have been subjected to continuous bad service. Met with the manager today and was basically informed that we aren't the kind of people they want there. So we are moving to other locations. I have another east side eatery that wants us at least once a month, and would really appreciate someone volunteering to host one in the northwest monthly. Just please don't plan it on the 3rd sat. or the 1st. sunday. Everything else is open at this point.

Current mood: infuriated

1:52PM - Game Nights and Meet ups

PolyVegas now has something going on every week of almost every month.

1st Sunday of every month will be our Meet Up. Jay of Vegas BDSM was
kind enough to sponsor us on the meet up site, but this a a PolyVegas
event. For more info and to RSVP go to
http://www.meetup.com/The-Las-Vegas-Polyamory-Meetup-Group/

2nd and 4th Fridays are our Game Nights at Putters, next to the
Pinball Hall of Fame, at Pecos and Tropicana. 7pm -10pm is our
scheduled time, but a few of us made it til dawn last time. Tonight
will rock!

3rd Sat is the original Game Night at Screwballs, which have gotten a
bit too big for some of our shyer members, hence the other game nights.

Come to one, two, or all 4 events. Or plan your own and share with the
group.

Polys with kids are planning an outing soon, so come meet with other
parents to plan kid friendly events at the game nights.

12:10AM - Tonight and next Sunday

Title: Game Night

Date: Saturday November 15, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Saturday.
Location: Screwballs on Warm Springs, just west of LV Blvd.
Street: 2460 W Warm Springs Rd (near LV Blvd)
City State Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89119
Notes: Card Games, Word Games, Board Games, Fun Folks, Find Friends, Non-Smoking Dining Room, Full Bar


And next week:

Strategy Sunday
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008
5pm-???
Dec. 14th, Jan. 11th, Feb.9th
Freakin' Frog
4700 S Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89119
Across from UNLV
Behind Adam's Ribs

For those of you who wanted more involved games, we'll be playing everything from Canasta to Monopoly, Magic to Axis and Allies , Diplomacy, Risk and AD&D too.
Non-smoking bar with good cheap food and excellent beer

5:44PM - Weirdness

So this site gives a choice of 3 answers, but all 3 sorta fit, so I post them here.

4:37PM - Special gathering for the Poly, Bi, Kinky and Friendly folks of Vegas Sat. 11/1 at 7pm

OK, so I got lots of email today about the lack of lead time for the Freakin' Frog show last night. Apologies, my bad.

So, tomorrow night we'll be doing a party in honor of Penelope Swales.
http://www.myspace.com/penelopeswales
$10 will include a pizza and fingers buffet, soft drinks and a short concert by Penelope, followed by games and socializing.
If you want alcohol or other food, that's your resonsibility.

Date: Saturday Nov. 1, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm - ???

7-9pm Dinner
8-9pm Penelope storytells and plays great songs about her bi, poly, kinky life.
9pm-????? Card Games, Word Games, Board Games, Fun Folks, Find Friends

Location: Screwballs on Warm Springs, just west of LV Blvd.
Street: 2460 W Warm Springs Rd (near LV Blvd)
City State Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89119

Non-Smoking Dining Room
Full Bar, Good Food
Be There!

3:39PM - Tonight 7:30pm at The Freakin' Frog the Mistress of Merriment presents "Lyrical Ladies"

FREE FUN SHOW

http://www.myspace.com/penelopeswales
Melbourne Singer/Songwriter Penelope Swales will tour internationally in 2008 to promote her 9th solo CD Skin: Deep - Polymorphous Love Songs
"I used to traipse around the place, having love affairs and singing about politics" quips Penelope. "Now I study politics and only want to sing about love.”
Fans of Swales's political material should not despair. In truth, there is plenty that is political about Skin: Deep. "So Lucky" is the obvious track here, as it invites the listener to consider the ways in which we in industrialized democracies take our good fortune for granted, both forgetting the role previous radicals played in creating our freedoms and overlooking the fact that, as willing consumers, we play a central role in an economic system that creates massive inequity on a global scale.

But there is also running through the album a deep chord of rebellion. At a time when sexual conservatism seems to be again on the rise, Swales is championing the individual woman's right to explore, own her body and define the nature of her desires. Skin: Deep ventures deep into the uncharted territory of human relationships exploring themes such as polyamory, jealousy, compassion, grief and confidence. The nature of loyalty and disloyalty, greed and generosity, and the often unspoken role that power plays in eroticism are all addressed with unnerving honesty and accuracy. Swales, now in her late thirties, has clearly lived much of what she is writing about, and brings an astute sensibility to the subject matter that younger, less worldy or less truthful songwriters fall short of. There are no ideals here, just bulletins from a life lived with passion and veracity.



http://www.myspace.com/traceyhope
Tracey "Hope" Miravite
Tracey began playing guitar at the age of 12 and by 13, she had paved her way into the realm of music, by learning drums and bass guitar. Slowly but surely, she began to write and compose her own music. By the age of 17, with a few songs under her belt, she decided to start recording, and turned her childhood pastime into a lifetime passion. "A life without music is no life at all," says Tracey, and her life is expressed genuinely in her music and vividly in her performances. Influences include Travis, the Cardigans, Stereophonics, Radiohead, Weezer, Sarah McLachlan, and Charlotte Martin. She lives in Vegas and fronts a couple of bands.


And, your hostess, Renee Christy, will be doing poetry, comedy, chiding and dirty blues between these lovely sirens. No cover, but if you like these ladies, please tip and/or buy CDs.

Apologies if you see this more than once. It means we probably have things in common and you should come meet us. Bi, poly, kinky, geeky and sexy are good things.

The Freakin' Frog is a non-smoking bar, with good food and great beer. Located on Maryland Parkway, between Tropicana and Harmon, behind Adam's Ribs.

Current mood: giddy

Current music: Penelope Swales

10:21PM - political silliness

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.

Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

4:23AM - Support Local Music NOW! Amplify!! thrills Downtown

Most of us love telling "I saw them before..." stories. With over 100
bands competing for prize packages exceeding $25,000, this week
promises lots of opportunities to see our next favorite bands, in
their pre-corporate form. Local personal favorites, needing our
support, are Random Eye, Leo Starwind and the Raft and Lydia Vance.

ONE TICKET GOOD FOR ALL NIGHTS!!
One ticket includes all Dates, Venues & Headline shows!!.
See all schedules here:
Amplify!!

$15 Advance / $20 Day of Show
Tickets available at participating Venues, participating
Artists, or online at Ticketmaster
Or call Anthony at 343-4300 to arrange Advance tickets before 3pm today.

Random Eye mystify at the Beauty Bar Weds. at 8:30.
Check them out at www.myspace.com/randomeyelv
The Raft rock the Brass Lounge Thurs. at 10pm.
Check them out at www.myspace.com/leostarwindandtheraft
Lydia Vance will be at Jillian's at 9:30.
Check them out at www.last.fm/music/Lydia+Vance/+wiki

The final will be Friday night at Jillian's.

Hope to see you all there.

Renee Christy
Mistress of Merriment

7:48PM - Game Night

Date: Saturday July 19, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Saturday.
Location: Screwballs on Warm Springs, just west of LV Blvd.
Street: 2460 W Warm Springs Rd (near LV Blvd)
City State Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89119
Notes: Card Games, Word Games, Board Games, Fun Folks, Find Friends
Non-Smoking Dining Room, Full Bar, Good Food
Be There!

10:30AM - Book meme yanked from Pern Dragon

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (see #33)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick Herman Melville I wish there were some way to show HATE
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

A couple of very important books they somehow missed:
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand
Dragons of Pern- Anne McCafferty

8:46PM - 48 states

create your own visited states map

6:48PM - Poetry, Playing and Pizza!!!

Tonight is the 5th anniversary party for Mark and Megan of the M&M poetry readings, now helded at ReJavanate coffeehouse, Flamingo and Pecos, between Food 4 Less and Hollywood Video. Show starts at 7pm and goes approxamately 3 hours. The list of features is wonderful, but if you specifically want to see my performance, I'll be on after 9pm, as I'm closing the show.

Saturday night is Game Night at Screwballs, starting at 7pm. We are looking at a good turn out. It will be a final, local, public appearance of Ross and Sandy, who have hosted some grand parties at their place. We wish them luck, in their new home in Northern Nevada, but we'll still beat them at cards, boardgames and all the other stuff we'll be playing that night. LOL! We all got lots of new games for Xmas, but there are always willing players for the classics, like Spades, Euchere, Backgammon, Scrabble, etc... Screwballs is on Warm Springs, just west of Las Vegas Blvd., with easy freeway access from the 15/215 interchange.

Monday afternoon, Martin Luther King Day, which many of you have off, Mistress of Merriment Productions is doing a fundraiser for Burners Without Borders, to help finance the repairs they are doing in Fernley, NV, where the levy broke and flooded the town. Fernley is the last stop for gas and supplies, for most of those heading to Burning Man, so helping the town is one way to support art in Nevada. Go to the BWB website for info on this and other great progects.

Pinball Hall of Fame
Pecos and Tropicana (next to Tropicana Cinemas)
2pm to 7pm
$5 All you can eat pizza
Bring your own drinks, or buy them there.
Bring quarters to play games
And any other amount, or relief equipment, you might want to donate to BWB.
The party will be in the back right hand corner of the museum.
Pinball HOF website

Current mood: happy

11:22PM - Merriment Ensues

Tomorrow, Sun. the 30th, we'll be visiting the corner of Tropicana and Pecos. At 6pm we'll be hitting the Pinball Hall of Fame, and at 7pm we'll be dining, chatting and gaming at Putters next door. There will be free chocolate cake and lots of fun people.

On Friday, Jan. 4th, we will be at the Star Trek Experience for locals appreciation day. The rides are free, for those with local ID, and we'll be meeting up afterwards at Quark's Bar downstairs. Figure 6pm if you want to do the whole thing, 7pm if you only want to do the Borg 3D or the Klingon fight or the Future History Museum. Or just meet us at Quark's, the most out of this world bar in Vegas, around 8pm.

On Tuesday, Jan. 15th, I'll be featuring at ReJavanate, Flamingo and Pecos, next to Hollywood Video. Cool locally owned coffee house. It's the M&M poetry hosting team's 5th Anniversary Show. I don't know what time I'm on, but come for the whole show starting at 7pm, or 6:30 if you want a seat and drink before the rush.

Saturday, Jan. 19th, is Game Night! Screwballs on Warm Springs just west of Las Vegas Blvd, from 7pm to 10pm...at least. Bring that crazy game you got for Xmas and find some willing victims, I mean participants to try it out. As always, backgammon, Scrabble, Taboo, Trivial Pursuit, and myriad card games will be played.

RSVPs not required, but appreciated.

Happy Ho Hos to All,
Renee
Mistress of Merriment

Current mood: amused

8:48AM - Come on Down!

Title: Game Night

Date: Saturday November 17, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Saturday.
Location: Screwballs on Warm Springs, just west of LV Blvd.
Street: 2460 W Warm Springs Rd (near LV Blvd)
City State Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89119
Notes: Card Games, Word Games, Board Games, Fun Folks, Find Friends, Dining Room, Full Bar, Good Food!

Be There!

Renee
Mistress of Merriment

1:39AM - Games Tonight

Title: Game Night
Cost: Free, but do buy food or drink to support the venue.
Date: Saturday October 20, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Repeats: This event repeats every month on the third Saturday.
Location: Screwballs on Warm Springs, just west of LV Blvd.
Street: 2460 W Warm Springs Rd (near LV Blvd)
City State Zip: Las Vegas, NV 89119
Notes: Card Games, Word Games, Board Games, Fun Folks, Find Friends, Dining Room, Full Bar, Good Food

Be There!

A Mistress of Merriment Production

6:11PM - Fun-raiser for the Pinball Hall of Fame

Hosted By::
Renee Christy
e-mail: renee at mistressofmerriment dotcom

When:
Wednesday July 4, 2007
at 12:00 PM-3:00 PM

Where::
Pinball Hall of Fame
3330 E. Tropicana/Pecos
Las Vegas, NV 89121


$10 all you can eat Pizza and Wings at the Pinball Hall of Fame. Bring quarters and gold dollars to play the amazingly well maintained games dating back to the 40s.

Please RSVP for an wild afternoon of Pinball, Pizza and People. A great way to make friends in Vegas.
http://pinballmuseum.org All profits go to the PHoF.

Current mood: nostalgic

9:40AM - Famous Female Poets Night

DANNA BOTWICK AS ANNE SEXTON

RENEE CHRISTY AS JONI MITCHELL

MARY L. CARTER AS MAYA ANGELOU

VANESSA MARCO AS EMILY DICKENSON

MEGAN MILLIGAN AS SAPPHO

TIANAMARIE AS NIKKI GIOVANNI

HANNAH MARISAHL AS SYLVIA PLATH

WHERE: reJAVAnate

3300 E. Flamingo/Pecos
(702-253-7721)

WHEN: TUES. JUNE 19

TIME: OPEN MIC 6:30 PM

FEATURES: 7 PM

Please excuse the ALLCAPs, copied from the LV Poets list.

Current mood: excited