Tag: weekend
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World Naked Bike Ride
So Sunday I rode out to the park where I was meant to meet up with participants of the World Naked Bike Ride. Along the way, I managed to catch up with Bloody Mary of the Rat Patrol. He was piloting as massive two-person bike – Master Gravity Esquire – on his own. His partner…
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Skate Fatale
The grinding of ball bearings and the dud-dud-dud sound of rubber against a polished wooden floor means one thing: roller derby. Tonight was Skate Fatale, with the CRDL Vice City Rollers against VRDL All Stars. As people were filtering through the gates, a band, Annie and the Armadillos plays out classic and easy-listening tunes. They…
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Quick Update
Weekend is going well. I feel like I have nailed down a few things, mostly parts of projects which have been rattling around in my brain for a little bit. Also happened to run into the Rat Patrol as they were making they’re way around the city and ended up riding with them for a…
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Creative Pubtime
Today, I was with Kaelee, in our first sort of creative writing thing, where we try to run a little exercise to quickly drum up some fiction and then read each other’s projects. Today’s exercise was to create a short character description, trade then characters and write a short piece about them, as fast as…
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Moving
I’m in the middle of moving all of my stuff to a new place. Which has been a mixed affair of running around, signing leases, finding boxes and wondering how I managed to accrue so much junk in the last three years. Most of my things are packed now and later I’m going to start…
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Stencil Workshop Fun
I’m a little distracted at the moment. I am perched waiting for a call from work. The reason: they need to me to run some backup for a database that is being moved between servers. Today, I went to a stencil art workshop run by local artist E.L.K. So we cut up sheets of acetate…
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Elmo’s Visit
For nearly the last week, I’ve have been in the fabulous company of Elmo, a zinester from my home town. She had come down to the capital for two things: A Reclaim The Night rally and the Zine Fair that was a part of the Space Invaders exhibition at the National Gallery. Along the way,…
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This Week
An update is long overdue. But this week has been busy. I learned late last week that one of our experts at work is headed for greener pastures, meaning that his work will now spill over onto the rest of us. Not that this is good or bad but really marks the end of era.…
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Friday Night Magic
Went out Friday night, and I’m late as usual. Drove across the town to the scratched-throat vocals of Tom Waits playing through dying speakers. I promised to pick up Em to deliver her to La Chat Noir, an irregular nightclub event that’s run out of the Kremlin Bar. Its a place that capitalises soviet chic,…
The Screaming Wall 