Free Kindle "Dig Ten Graves" by Heath Lowrance!

I just found out our dear friend and Detroit-area author, Heath Lowrance of the noir hit The Bastard Hand is offering his short story collection Dig Ten Graves for FREE!  Limited time offer.  Check out Heath's Psycho Noir Blog right now to link to this free offer.  Please leave him a comment that you heard about it HERE on Brilliant in My Poverty.  Thanks and everyone have a great weekend!  

Oh, by the way, the cover of Dig Ten Graves was shot by yours truly and arranged by Aspiring Author Book Covers!


Link to The Bastard Hand on Amazon. Available in print or Kindle.
Link to The Bastard Hand at B&N.

Author Heath Lowrance

I just love this photo of Heath!  He's keeping secrets behind that smirk!  
Photo by Ron Warren Photography

Free Concert at Oak Park Library March 25

Oak Park Public Library Presents:

Planet D Nonet Live in Concert

moved to the Oak Park Community Center ROOM B 

Enter through the WEST entrance

Sunday, March 25, 2012, 2:00 pm 

Cost: FREE 

The Planet D Nonet was founded by (drummer) RJ Spangler and (trumpeter) James O’Donnell in 2007. Both men are lifelong eastsiders and they have been playing together for over 30 years ago.  The band plays the classic swing music of Ellington & Strayhorn, Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie & Benny
Carter as well as more modern jazz by Sun Ra and Pharoah Saunders, and always with a Detroit twist. The Planet D Nonet is about swing, blues, spaceage jazz and classic American songs all served with plenty of good humor.  
Join us for an afternoon of good music and fun at the Library.
Advanced sign-up is appreciated but not necessary.

Concert sponsored by the Friends of the Library 

Oak Park Public Library       14200 Oak Park Boulevard       Oak Park, MI 48237       (248) 691-7480



See the flyer for a photograph.

Earn $50 From Your Face Pays!

It's funny how opportunities arise.  Had to go home early from subbing today, but then, we got a call from this program we signed up for a few days ago called Your Face Pays!  

We set up a photo shoot at their Troy studio this afternoon & at the end, they will pay us $50 each!  So, cool!

This facial recognition software company needs participants to do a one hour photo shoot and bring in about 15 photographs (thumb sized face, looking at the camera) for them to scan into their system.

 

I found out about this through a Facebook post by Troy Patch.  So, thanks PATCH.COM for getting the word out!  

Sign up with Your Face Pays! through their website.  This is only available until Friday, March 23, 2012, so go sign up now! 

Happy First of Spring Deal

Just found out about this at 4:18pm via Ron Warren via Click on Detroit (NBC). SOME Dairy Queens are offering a FREE small cone on the first day of spring! Check that link and scroll down to find out the participating locations. Includes one of the Madison Hts, Fraser, Warren, South Lyon, and Farmington locations just to mention a few.  

 

Favorite coffee shop in metro-Detroit Caribou Coffee.  Today, after 11am, $2.00 drinks.  Yum!
Who wants to buy me a Mint Condition?

 

Let me know if you hear of any other Spring Equinox deals.

Olga's BOGO

YUM!  Just got an email from Olga's that connected me to this coupon for an Olga BOGO: Buy One Olga Sandwich, Get One FREE.  Yum!

 

Museum Adventure Pass MAY 2012

As you may have noticed, your local library has not offered any of the Museum Adventure Passes for the past few months.  They are revamping the program for the FINAL YEAR.  Please check out this link to the Museum Adventure Pass to find out more.  They will start up again in MAY. 

 

For those of you not familiar with Museum Adventure Pass, it is a program that offers people either two or four FREE passes to local museums.  In the past, you would go to your local library, ask for a pass for one of the participating museums and get a coupon for two (or four) admissions that was good for about a week.  I don't think the DIA participated in the past year or two, but I believe MOCAD (which is FREE all the time, offered a discount at their store), Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the Detroit Historical Museum were some of the museums that participated.  


This year, Museum Adventure Pass will be going digital and you will be able to ask questions, print tickets (for admission or discounted admission), and get reading recommendations. 


Happy reading and museum hopping everyone!  I'll write another post in May (or June if I'm tardy) about this program.  


Thanks Tina for prompting me to blog about this awesome FREE opportunity!