A few weeks ago I went home to Maine to visit my family, including my sister who was home from France. I had just finished reading “Aninal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver and while I was home I read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. The benefits of eating locally and organically were fresh on my mind and this was certainly helped by my Mom’s garden. In Maine it was still cool enough to have fresh lettuce. I also made up a cocktail with fresh mint and lime concentrate- ‘mohito style’ you might call it. But certainly reading both of those books (though I recomend Pollan’s over Kingsolvers) has made me much more aware of where my food comes from even if I can’t just walk out to the garden and pick it myself.
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Birthday Present
Forgive me for blogging about my cat. LJ found this amazing piece of kitch culture on the street by our apartment and presented it to me for my birthday (the cat clock behind Ida, not Ida herself, though she was also found on the street some years ago). I could not resist posing the real cat infront of these two creepy, 3-D fuzzy felines. If anyone wants this, get in touch. Though I’ve recently decided my apartment is “thrift store chique” (or a clutter magnet, if you look at it differently), this doesn’t fully fit the decor. Or so I’d like to believe. Even I have my limits.
July 4 Water Fight
July 4 was cloudy and rainy in Brooklyn, squelching plans for a beach trip and a rooftop barbeque. Instead, I went to Prospect Park with my neighbors, where we witnessed this strange hipster ritual. We were sitting drinking our watermelon juice on a grassy knoll when a herd of hips kids showed up with buckets full of water baloons. Soon they were launching them at each other with makeshift slingshots or going for the jugular with water guns. We soon made out that there were four teams- the British (union jack apparel, such as tank tops and boxer shorts), the colonists (or Americans, blue, which became evident when one yelled “No taxation without representation!”) and two other teams: Red (French??) and Green (Native Americans??). Yes, it was the American Revolution, re-enacted as a water fight. That combined with fireworks exploding right above our heads later that night thanks for local pyrotechnicians definetly made me feel like this is a great country we live in. For sure.
The Good Life in Brooklyn
I returned from Austin with a renewed summer motive: to live the good life in Brooklyn. Meaning, I want to enjoy all that I can access here and the wonderful friends that I’ve made over the years. I think it’s easy to get sucked into a daily routine and I have to remind myself constantly to snap out of it a little. So far I think i am meeting my resolution: an inpromtu rooftop picnic last weekend, a bike ride to Manhattan beach, Faust and Manu Chau (outside of the paying area) for free in the park, making watermelon juice and cucumber salad. I love the cities I’ve visited where “the good life” seems more folded into the fabric of everyday life (Austin, Paris, Portland), but I think it is fully accessible here too, it’s just a matter of attitude.
Rooftop picnic
I feel like rooftops are the secret, public spaces in New York City. Being on them just feels incredibly freeing, even if you have to sneak on to them.
Ladies Weekend!
Here we are, the three ladies, at the garden party, before swimming and a big night out on the town. It’s fantastic to have friends as awesome as Jennifer and Andi. They are people who are creative and committed to making their lives good and being the sweetest friends I could imagine. You can see more of our adventures on my flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/killerfemme.
Garden Party
Tina Sparkles hosted an amazing Garden Party in and outside of her cute little house! Tina’s amazing taste in design and decor shows in every corner of her house. She is the proprietress of sparklecraft and makes amazing things like custom guitar straps and accessories. Check out her website at http://www.sparklecraft.com
Swimming at Gus Fruh
Andi and I are such city girls, we couldn’t beleive this river was clean enough to swim in! And that it was natural! And warm! We spent the better half of an afternoon lounging on rocks in the middle of the stream. That’s how to spend a weekend if you ask me!
Frozen Custard Zombie
I don’t think that I need to say much more than that… I thought Jennifer was going to be mad at me for revealing her true nature.
On the air with Ear Candy
One of the coolest things we got to do was be guests on Jennifer’s “indie pop and other strange and wonderful music” radio show on KOOP, Austin’s community radio station. I’ve heard about Ear Candy for years and it was wonderful to be in the KOOP studio and get to help choose what songs to play. It has to be said our set was pretty Brooklyn heavy. We also solicited band names from listeners for the band Andi, Jennifer and I will start when/if Jennifer moves to Brooklyn. You can listen (online or in Austin) to Ear Candy on Saturdays from 5-7, http://www.koop.org.
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