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Tonight at Lick is going to be one heck of a good time. The brand new East Van queer dance party, Prance, has arrived. I don't know much about DJ's but the one they have booked (DJ Mickey Moniker) at least sounds like they would play some amusing and light hearted stuff. I'm defenatly going to keep my fingers crossed for some Aqua.
Their goal with the night is to raise some awareness of their movement and to get some funds to book a more expensive but necessary fully accessible space for their events. Somebody in their crew built a ramp for the entrance but the bathroom stalls aren't equipt with the necessary space or accessories to be useful for all.
9pm-late
$5-$10 sliding scale
I'm taking pictures so that's always a good reason to come out....oh yes, and there is to be a "prance-off" at the end of the evening. If bragging rights for winning that isn't good enough for you, you must be pretty lame.
http://pranceparty.wordpress.com/
xoxo
Sarah
I have this problem; I am particular.
I know what I like, which isn't much, but the things that I do like have a tendency to be boutiquie things that put me in a tough jam that I can't seem to work my way out of. The battle of style vs cost seems to be around every corner. I'm not broke, far from it, but that is all due to this squirrel like instinct in me to save away for a rainy day. It is the bane of my existence..ok, well it really isn't - but it is frustrating!
My nit-picking at fashion has come to a new head with my current search for a new pair of glasses. Scouring the city two days ago I thought I had found a good compromise; big ol' nerdy things, but stylish and at a reasonable cost as the frames came from a box that the store had from the 80's and 90's. However this nagging feeling wouldn't let go - they were a bit too drastic - too far over the edge into a look that is very current but would make me sick to see them after a month. Sort of like that pillowcase full of candy from Halloween; exciting and then terrible.
(current frames)
Anyways, I checked out the frames the next day and decided that my gut instinct was right on the mark and I walked away from them, trustingly albeit little sad as I contemplated the thought of more months of duct taped glasses that had had their time. There was this one pair of frames that stayed in the back of my mind though...but they were the ones that my girl really didn't care for. Thinking about them for three days straight meant that I had to have another go - and I did - and I loved them, but I also found another pair that got me thinking further.
These are the Dita Joya glasses. Cute, smart looking and a combination of eras that creates it's own little modern twist. They are quite a good size on my face - eyes square in the middle - and they look quite a bit bigger on me than this model. The cat-eye top makes me want to read books in a park during late September while wearing an over sized sweater, comfortable skirt and bobby pins in my hair. Perfect, no?! My one tweak would be that the roundness to the bottom portion could be a bit too nifty lookin for me, perhaps a bit too feminine.
These Oliver Peoples NDG-1 seemed to fit much of the same retro-bill as the Joya and satisfied my fear of a rounded bottom, but the edges on the outside seemed so be a bit too sharp and the adorable cat-eye top was all but lost.
...and then low and behold...the internet proved that it is the greatest thing ever.
This is the Dita Lavish. Cat eye, softly squared edges, beautiful construction...siigh...I think I'm in love.
Further updates to come!
As gardening for me seems to be about trial and error, I figured that it would be good to post up some pictures of my green beans that have hopefully gone to seed. I'm not quite sure of the variety but they are some sort of a bush bean that I seem to think works better with my elevation and soil than I would imagine the climbing varieties would fair.
This years batch was grown from the beans collected from last year after I figured that purple flecks meant something, that I wasn't going to eat them anyways now as they looked a little hard and that it was worth a shot to figure out if they amounted to anything when planted. Not all seeds popped into the soil sprouted a seedling, (around 15% failed) but all-in-all the relocation from a rocky back plot to my new one cut out of the grass in my front yard, meant a happier patch of green.
Without a hefty crop, and the fact that my dad had bought a giant bag from the market, my little things mostly amounted to me snacking on them while gardening as opposed to becoming side dishes with dinner. I have to say that it reminds me of that Christmas tree movie from the 90's that is all heartbreaking because all he wants to be is a "proper" Christmas tree with a star on his top and presents underneath.
For the most part my harvest today has appeared to be a bit hasty. I left about 30 beans growing on their little branches but pulled about 16 that once opened I don't think will create much other than a good lesson for next time
When the pod is still mainly green and has a thick wall the beans inside are quite pale, with only a little purple colouration.
At this stage you can see that something is really starting to happen. The pod is dying back, turning yellow and is much thinner than at the earlier stage. The beans certainly look like something is going on inside but they still have a milky pearlised luster to them. I get the feeling that this will can still go towards next years crop but we will just have to wait and see.
Ahh...now here is where I think I hit it right. When I picked these they looked like nothing I would want to eat - dryish yellow pods with thin walls that seem to have had all of their goodness leached into the little beans inside. It's fruit are smaller, more densely compacted and dark purple.
For my next steps I'm going to peel back the rest of the green pods I had picked, organize them by colour, and put them in little dishes to dry out for the time being. It would be most adorable to make little paper packets for them which will note their 'classification' for next years planting. Once organized into rows this will help me to better understand what works and what doesn't for the seeding process as well as make cute little presents for friends when it comes to passing on the dark purple ones.
-Sarah
