11:46 am - Portland International Women's Day 2008 - OH SNAP! So if you see me on a regular basis, you've probably heard all about the awesomeness that is PIWD 2008. This year's event is going to be mind-blowing! I have inside info, see, cause I've been helping plan it :)
This Sunday you can catch performances by the amazing belly dance troupe Urban Berbers, the sassy, clever and beautiful hip-hop duo Alpha, Rock n Roll Camp for Girls grads Blubird and the incredible indie soul phenom Liv Warfield, as well as workshops, retail vendors, local writers reading their work and a health fair focusing on women's health issues! The event will be super kid-friendly, so bring your wee ones and dance the day away with them!
Everything will be happening on the third floor of the Smith Student Center at PSU from 2-8pm. Get all your friends and come celebrate with us! We're asking a $3 donation at the door, which is basically the least amount of money you could ever pay for the massive amount of sheer AWESOME heading your way! See you there!
Seriously dudes, this is going to be a rockin event and missing it would only involve sheer foolishness on your part. I know you are not foolish people, my lovelies, so come celebrate International Women's Day with me!
12:22 pm - Let the truth fly perilously close to your heart Ms. Fincher's Cupcake Brigade will soon dominate your consciousness and elevate your wispy human soul to heights as yet unreached by centuries of yogis, wise men and ultimate frisbee champions. You feel me?
To secure vital information regarding cupcakes and the merry making thereof let your email minions fly, guided by a single phrase - caglenotkegel {AT} gmail {DOT} com.
Get with me, ye follies of the gods, and I guarantee enlightenment of a cupcake type nature and the bubbly good time happy feelings that can only occur outside of a laboratory setting when presenting one lucky soul with that fluffy piece of heaven known to us mortal fools as 'cupcakes'.
P.S. If the above made no damn sense whatsoever, just know that Ms. Fincher's Cupcake Brigade will be making millions of different kinds of cupcakes and giving them to people to help spread the happy.
If you are into baking,drinking while baking, dancing while baking, smooching while baking, experimenting while baking, gifting cupcakes or eating cupcakes you are probably destined to become a part of Ms. Fincher's Cupcake Brigade.
11:08 pm - In which our heroine gets all kinds of gushy over a boy who she looooves Sometimes I worry that someone Very Official will knock authoritatively on my door and thrust their official, shiny Badge of Knowledge in my face and tell me in a brooks-no-nonsense kind of tone that I am hogging all the happy and it's unfair and I need to report to the authorities at once so I can return at least half of my happy.
At which point I will simply introduce my fella and all the awesome he brings and Captain Official Badge will simply nod in understanding and invite us over for tea sometime.
06:08 am I got home from work at 10 last night and I'm about to go nanny in Forest Grove for around 10 hours. This has been an intense week.
But! Tonight I'm going to a reading at Powells about culture jamming and why sometimes it can be anti-productive, tomorrow night Dave and I are going to see Livewire at the Aladdin and Saturday morning I'm going to sleep in so hard I may pull a muscle.
My main goal for today is to not let sleepiness punch me in the face. Wish me luck
05:51 pm - Bodies and Bikes: Encore Naked Bike Ride! Did you miss this year's World Naked Bike Ride? Or did you participate in the ride and haven't stopped dreaming about riding with the wind between your legs ever since?
Join us for our Encore Naked Bike Ride!
TOMORROW, Saturday June 23rd 10pm Meet at Free Geek 1731 SE 10th Ave between SE Mill and Market
The completely AWESOME folks at Free Geek are letting us store clothing in the building while we ride, so a huge thanks to them!
We will be riding around inner SE Portland for about an hour before returning to Free Geek for our belongings.
The motto for this ride is "Ride as Bare as you Dare!", meaning nudity is optional! You don't *have* to be naked to join the ride! Anywhere on the continuum between naked and clothed is awesome!
Let all your friends know, cause the only thing better than a Naked Bike Ride is a HUGE Naked Bike Ride!
PS Just in case you're wondering what the heck a naked bike ride is - here is a link with more information: http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/
05:38 pm - a post script a fair amount of my hyperactivity could probably be related to the amount of money i'm getting from the government soon. but also, soap box cars are TOTALLY AWESOME and you cannot deny it.
09:25 am - Vagina Vagina VAGINA! Everyone and their momma should come to PSU's production of The Vagina Monologues, playing only tonight and tomorrow night in the Smith Ballroom of PSU. I helped produce this year and we have an absolutely amazing cast and an incredible producer, so the show is better than any other I've seen. Seriously I don't care if you live in Alabama (REBECCA JACKSON), get on the damn airplane right now and come see this show. It will totally be worth it.
Doors open at 7, the show starts at 8. I believe it's $12 general and $9 for students. These are the last two nights so no procrastinatin!
06:44 pm - Today is an 'I suck at EVERYTHING' day. whee. I really hate being all excited about creating something and then being reminded by the finished product that I really suck at anything even remotely crafty. rumble mumble grumble.
05:51 pm So, the clip of my family on the Daily Show is up on youtube. The fantastically Old-South lady who says "Oh my...Tang? is related to my grandmother somehow and that first couple interviewed are cousins or something. Anyway, enough nattering about family, on to the hilarity.
08:15 pm Today was not a day for communicating. Today was a day for Martha Grimes, fuzzy blankets, cuddlin' with a sweet fella and intensely sugary chocolate cereal.
Unfortunately, today also happened to be a day for work. As such, I will probably be going to bed in an hour or so. Man, pretty sure they're gonna elect me Mayor of Old Lady Town.
10:42 am - ugh Reading about Bush's speech in Salt Lake City last night is making me feel a little sick. Placating us with repeated mentions of victory in Iraq while warning us that the threat of terror will essentially never be over? Change one or two words and that statement sounds exactly like something an abuser says to a survivor. How many more years of this damn fool and his evil, greedy administration? Cripes.
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