Wednesday, October 6, 2010

KC's First Friday & Akiko's B-day

Last weekend ketchup. Accompanying the beautiful Lawrence artists-in-residence, I traveled into the big city of KC, crossing state lines to view/pass condescending judgment upon art. 

My face expresses the homebrew I drank before leaving stomping around in my bladder.

Honestly, I go for the free gallery booze (which is getting less and less abundant each month). Yet, we were given the opportunity to taste this fine tequila by gracious hosts at Front Space.

Our trip's primary stop was to attend the solo show of our friend, the talented printmaker Lindsay Deifik aka Linzilla the Mighty (seen below).

You are, in fact, big time when they spell your name out in glowing marker.

People dig art, people dig prints.


 Here I teach friends the intricacies of a good air guitar stance. Wisely, attention is withheld by all.

After Midnight, it became Akiko's birthday. How else to celebrate but with a Nutella-banana crêpe!

***No visual evidence, but sometime between Friday Night and Sunday Morning we attended the Lawrence Arts Center's 35th Anniversary Event. The food couldn't of been better and Free State Brewery donated their Golden State Wheat and Ad Astra Ale for our imbibing pleasure. Thank you LAC!

Sunday Morning we hosted a Bloody Mary Brunch to continue Akiko's b-day celebration.

I forgot how much fun piñatas can be, especially after a BM-er or two... 



The party table multiplied as guests arrived, bringing more tasty dishes.

Finally, the whacking got underway. El pollo de colores era muy difícil y escurridizo.



Inside there was rubber body parts. Makes sense to me. Below is the candy man, what a sweet dude!

All that was left to do was replace our own organs with ones made from high fructose corn syrup.


Friday, October 1, 2010

Brew Fest Part One

Akiko and Logan Setting up camp. me watching and laughing.

success!!

this is the area we were in. we almost went the wrong way- straight down a boat ramp. I was glad that we took the turn slow enough to realize that we needed to turn around. yikes

our cozy camp. we even raked a little path---cuuuute.

part of the homebrew list- 18 brews an hour. 

my acorn collection
this was about five feet behind our camp. the monster spider sat at the opening of the hole whispering "akkkkkiiiiiiiko- akkkiiiiiiikko can i share your tent with yooooooouuuuuu" haha

Akiko, Logan and I went to the 15th annual Lawrence Brewers Guild Brew Fest at Clinton Lake- about 20minutes away from home. We camped, ate delicious food, danced to some bluegrass music- and of course drank our fill of homebrew. There were 18 homebrew taps an hour to try! crazy fun time. more pics to come!!