RIP Jake

Jake & me on Roof at South 8th in Williamsburng, originally uploaded by tarafireball.

Phat Orange Cat Jake & me on Roof at South 8th in Williamsburg

Jake Man Jack enjoying the Pre-Mermaid Costuming Party at home

cat & viking gear, originally uploaded by tarafireball.

RIP Jack Man Jack - Best Phat Orange Cat ever. He died in my arms Sunday October 19th, 7:18pm.

Lady Kong break dances at Honk!

IMG_2553.JPG, originally uploaded by tarafireball.

The third year of HONK! This was a massive good time with 25 bands and over 300 musicians in a quaint little town outside of Boston, MA in Somerville, MA

We came, we played, we loved, fought and when we weren't performing spent a great deal of time in the parking lot.

This is Kong break dancing in the street during a parade with all the Honkers! & local community groups from Somerville to Harvard Square Octoberfest celebration

little mister E

little mister E, originally uploaded by tarafireball.

This is a photo from a wild kid party. I am going to see if I can post to my blog from my Flickr account and see if it works

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Kids Rubulad

Kids Rubulad is a monthly affair for adventuresome parents and their rambunctious spawn. The atmosphere ranges from madhouse mayhem to a calm lull. The lull tends to be during the craft making and mealtime. The rest of the time is pretty much a constant din of children wilding and someone nearly always gets hurt but injuries are quickly forgotten so as not to miss out on the action. There are often balloons, hula-hoops and music combined with rowdy games, dancing and plenty of opportunities for teaching moments. The food is always spectacular and vegetarian.

Jessica Baldwin in the founding mother and keeps the action going. Each month features a different theme with crafts, games and food in thespirit of the theme. Everyone can participates in whatever capacity they choose. We generally tend toward the have a glass of wine, chill out, make a craft while keeping one eye on the kids, keeping the small fry out of harms way.

Some of the past events have included a dradle game, horticultural crafting, pumpkin carving, clay sculpture making and even bow and arrow shooting a turkey piñata. Yes, it was a real bow and arrow. There is sometime a DJ, the ever patient Kamal or the kids DJ.

There is no email list for this event and most of the coordination is done via phone calls and the advertising is old school grass roots postering.

Here's a couple of sets of photos
Kids Rubulad Dec 2007
Kids Rubulad Oct 2007

Santa Con

Our time at Santa Con was very brief this year as we had the little one in tow, which can be particularly problematic with hordes of Santas careening on subways. We opted for getting dressed up in our Santa finery at a leisurely pace and joining them at the end of the day in the East Village at Tompkins Square Park.

When we arrived and started toward the park, we could see santas scattered around bars and meandering the streets. The massive horde was stationed at the main entrance of the park at the end of Saint Marks. We ran into some of our friends there including Suzie Q, Samantha, Jasun, Mark & Becky Party. I had the opportunity to experiment with the new camera as the sun was setting.
Santa Con 2007 Photo Set

Utopia #7 - Grand Finale

We performed as a diversion for Critical Mass, stopped for pizza at two boots and then took the subway out to DUMBO where we marched down the street to Rebar and played outside for a bit, then we went inside for two wild rousing set with Draw-a-thon Nation.

Here's a link to a camera phone set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmm/sets/72157602206785599/



For more Pics from the Finale Utopia - Go to http://hungrymarchband.snapfish.com/snapfish. The room name is gorilla.

Utopia #6 - Protest

We protested with the restaurant workers. Again I was having such a great time i forgot to take pictures.

Forks & Knives, Unite!!!!

Come join us as we noisily support the Resaurant Opportunities Center.
The ROC organizes restaurant workers, mostly immigrants, throughout the
city. They are now engaged in a campaign against the Fireman
Hospitality Group who owns most of the large, fancy restaurants
surrounding Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and which owes over $10
million in stolen tips and unpaid wages (along with sexual harassement
and racial discrimination claims) to 250 workers whom the ROC has
organized to file two federal lawsuits.

You can imagine what a boost it will give their protest to have HMB
brassily agitating on their behalf, and it wouldn't hurt if you join
them, too!

The protest will take place at Cafe Fiorello, at 64th and Broadway
(across from Lincoln Center) on Thursday the 27th from 7-8pm.

See you there!

Utopia #5 - Bar Crawl

Started out at Continential and then moved on through the LES, what seemed like it was going to be a quiet march between bars was not so quiet and we annoyed the neighbors and ended up with several summons from the police. oops! Sorry LES. We will make it up to you.

FYI: I wasn't there