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Down to the River
Jun. 7th, 2015 06:30 pmRemember when I griped about the maps and I said that I wanted to go to a thing but was afraid I'd end up in Timbuktu instead? Of course you did, because that was the last update I did. Yesterday was the Cambridge Arts River Festival, which wasn't at all close to the river, but closer to the river than the map on Facebook. The weather was ok. Cold for June but not as cold as it's been this week. I had to carry around a hoodie because there's a pretty noticeable difference between being in the shade vs being in the sunlight, or that moment when the wind picks up, or when clouds veil the sun. Nice when the sun's out but enough to make me feel like it's the last major festival of the season rather than the first.
The way there:
The people of Boston love my art. Isn't that right, people of Boston? Yahhhh!!!!
I told the woman with the astrological symbol for Venus and/or the biological symbol for female and/or an alchemical symbol for copper and/or the symbol for female co-ax bus connector on a necklace about how Désirée noticed that I'm getting more confident and she could see that if only I had my other sketchbook with me. P.S. Guess how the Venus Fly Trap got its name.
You know, this: ♀
as seen here:
♀+♂=love
♀+♀=love
♂+♂=love
Alexa (for some reason, I think "Alexi." Alexi seems more male than female. Alexa seems to be exclusively female and also a genus of legumes) looks like Melissa. Actually, she looks a bit like Terra Branford, if only Alexa had Gabriella's fashion sense. She's not an artist and the reason she had paint on her pants is because she was painting her room. No, she works with bacteria cultures, which is a kind of artistry according to us. She sees beauty in everything. There's beauty on that train we were on and I certainly noticed that. I said once that the average person is, in fact, beautiful. Erica is Asian but sunburns like a white person. Hong is Asian but talks with his hands like an Italian. She says that Cambridge has the most interestingly-dressed people and that's totally true. I was talking about how I sometimes feel like each line has different people and she's never been on the Blue Line but she knows there's a stop called Wonderland, which was an amusement park and ceased to be an amusement park before my paternal grandfather was born (he died before I was born but he'd be over a hundred today), and knows about the disappointment of not ending up in Alice In Wonderland. I guess people who commute to Boston from Lynn or Revere or Salem use the Blue Line.
So. I explained Atlas Lab to Alexa, Hong, and Erica as "Atlas, like the Titan, lab like the dog," so I hope they remember it.
She said "held up the world" but that's a misinterpretation. He was chained up and forced to hold up the sky. And if he let go, the sky would collapse and everyone would probably drown or something.
I said when I'm 70, I'm dying my hair pink, because the whole point of being old is that there's no one to stop you from doing what you love.
Alexa says someone mistook her for someone named Alyssa. Or maybe it was Alex who said that.
I think Melissa was taller, actually, or maybe I'm mixing her up with Shannon. Alexa knows she's short.
Alex (female, like Morbo's Good Friend Alex, not Atlas Lab Alex*. If the drummer of Atlas Lab was a green woman, Atlas Lab would have recorded King Roger with all the roles played by somewhat degraded cassette tapes of Emma, or at least they'd be as divinely rapturous as they are noisy and twee**) also looks like Melissa. It's the green hair. I told her about Alexa.
For what it's worth, Alex is also a parrot and a geometer moth genus. It seems to be pantropical. Also, for what it's worth, Emma is a genus of bryozoans and the Japanese name for Lord Yama.
Alex was in Cambridge, not on the T. I'm just putting her here because it makes more sense.
Alexandra was at the Gallery 263 booth. They were having everyone fill in a map of Cambridge coincidentally like Emma's abstract map in Nicosia, Cyprus, in which the Charles River is a road (she says they're kids and didn't know, I added someone hoverboarding because he has POWER! and there was a red mess, and I added Jaws and Alexandra said the red took on an entirely new meaning. A zombie infestation is arriving from what we think is Watertown and one square is officially the Zombie Zone, which makes me think of a Sonic the Hedgehog level with zombies. Sofia drew insects.
Alexandra does not have green hair, unlike Alexa and Alex.
They'll scan it hopefully.
*he's also vermin in the eyes of Morbo.
**Or so I think. I've never actually read Signs of Life and I'm lamenting that I can't reference it. I did reference Harrison, at least.
What I saw:
This guy did a puppet show in which he asks the audience to name an animal (a tiger), a profession (animal doctor) and a sidekick like in all good disney movies (a squirrel) and a bad thing that happened (fell into a fire) and made a 5 minute show about a greedy animal doctor who laments that there aren't any patients (hahahaha… yeah, right.) and so sets up the first ever rectangular fire for the tiger to fall in, but since the tiger has no money, his plan doesn't work but he takes all the squirrel's nuts in exchange for treating the tiger. The official name is Cardboard Anarchy, which I love.
He was wearing a hat with a cardboard bunny on it so guess who got a portrait.
improvBoston asked the audience to pick occupations (astronaut, race car driver), movies (Jaws meets Titanic… I 'd see it), personal relation (captain and first mate), and locale (Hawaii… I shouted out Socotra) and then they ran around in circles.
And there was African drumming. If Emma was anywhere at the River Festival, she was watching that. I don't know, I thought she was going. Still, there were tens of thousands of people there.
These are the bands I saw.
12:30 or so because spoiler alert, they have to set up: Dirty Bangs
For you time travelers in the audience, go watch some Iranian dance. Yep, that's a thing. Probably more apt to describe it as Persian dance or Azeri dance because I'm pretty sure dancing is banned because Iran has been run by the villains from a Beatles cartoon since the 1970s. Iran needs farts to set them free. Or maybe see a Marimba band.
Anyway, they describe themselves as shoegaze indie rock, they sing about the summer and love and stuff like that, the booklet describes them as channeling the best of too many genres.
http://dirtybangs.bandcamp.com
1: The Wiles, which involves three female vocalists, two fiddles, two guitars, a double bass. I totally read "featuring" as "guest musicians" and not the names of the band members. They're from Maine, apparently.
Unfortunately, I can't be everywhere at once.
http://www.thewilesmusic.com/
https://soundcloud.com/thewiles
2: Mini Dresses
They remind me of Orange. The booklet describes them as a raw pop rush of 60s dreambeat of shangri-la's cool chic mixed with k records lo-fi off-kilter production, smothered in hazy reverb, and I'm sure that would sound apt if I knew what they were talking about. I'll just describe them as "they sound like Orange." If it helps, look up Feijoa, Daisy, or Starwheel if you want to hear some stuff from their album or Sweet Briar and Painted Tongue if you want some really good stuff exclusive to compilations. Maybe "a more aggressive Orange with more coherent lyrics" is more apt. Although pretty much every band ever has more coherent lyrics than Orange, and that includes the Cocteau Twins.
They're originally from Austin, which I've heard described as a misplaced piece of Massachusetts.
http://minidresses.bandcamp.com/
3: American Echoes: So here's the thing: When Mini Dresses were playing, I drew Nina, one of the member, because she had awesome tattoos of strawberries and butterflies and cool hair (dark blue) and a nose ring and a cool shawl-jacket thing and she was like "We're on next?" and I'm like "wait, you're in the band?" and then we introduced each other, and I drew Laura, the other twin, who had a rose tattoo. I think it was a rose, anyway. Nina had a bird and sun tattoo and someone wanted a picture of it.
Laura plays guitar and I'm not quite sure what that thing Nina was playing was. I want to say mandolin or mandola (mandolin comes from the word mandola, which was the standard pitch for that instrument family).
For some reason, they switched places with Mini Dresses and one of the names was Sharpied out.
https://americanechoes.bandcamp.com/
https://www.reverbnation.com/americanechoes/songs
I don't think they've had a proper release yet. There's very little on their bandcamp and very little on their reverbnation, which is a shame because they're really good.
4: The Barbazons, formerly called the Fagettes.
These guys are really good. She plays the saxophone. She plays the drums. She plays the maracas. She plays the drums with the maracas as drumsticks. If I were to describe them, I'd call them surfgaze. One of the members is named Emeen, which makes me think of the Dhrevate of Immeen. Wait a minute, Peaches (see: it was heaven sent) is their drummer. Speaking of surnames, I found a wonderful site that shows maps of name distributions. Bata, for instance, shows up in Hungary, but it's coincidentally common in Mozambique and India and the Philippines.
But not that common in Israel, strangely enough.
I don't write things in order. If I did, I'd have mentioned that one of the members of The Wiles is Abenaki, going by her surname.
https://thebarbazons.bandcamp.com/
I thought Emma would be here. And though I, a, don't drink, and 2. because I'm an idiot and don't carry around my ID everywhere, I wasn't allowed in the beer garden but I could see everyone there and Emma wasn't among them.
Also, I hope that when TT the Bear's advertised something like US Air Guitar, it's an actual air guitar band.
5: Jesus Andujar and Grupo Sazon, which was Afro-Caribbean jazz performed by a band with members from Poland, Ecuador, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Chile).
The women next to me each had collages they made.
things for you to look up: Mili Bermejo Quartet, Rebecca Cline Trio, A Latin Jazz Septet, Ruby Rose Fox and the Steinems (they had a plush fox in their bag so I showed one of them the baby fox), Blinders, Abadabad, The DuPont Brothers, Cuddle Magic, Sun Parade, Danielle Miraglia and the Glory Junkies.
I'll share my thoughts on them when I've listened to them. I'm sure you'll like it, and I'm sorry I didn't get to hear them play.
Other things, in no particular order:
There was an art gallery with the entrance manned by a very big dog with feathers stuck to his collar and a woman with short blue hair in a white dress and combat boots who was busy painting their sign. The man who runs it knows who Emma is, unfortunately, I missed the works she had up.
A whiteboard asked what was great about Cambridge (diversity, beauty) and asked what it needs (I said more diversity because you can never have too much diversity, I also said free pie, they said pizza and jet packs but don't allow drunk people to use the jetpacks or TRA-LA-LA-LA PA-DOO it's Saint Ajora's Day all over again but not zombies) and the other side had awesome drawings of octopuses and suns with sunglasses.
Ophelia is named after her great aunt and doesn't identify with the Hamlet character because she's a bit unstable in more ways than one, but she likes my shirt of Shakespearian insults anyway. She also likes the sound of Cats Against War. She's for nuclear disarmament.
The guy, I think his name was Mike, is interested in Central Asia and neither of us can understand why it of all places is a nuclear free zone. He was surprised to learn that South Africa disarmed under the apartheid regime, although it was the beginning of the end for apartheid by the time that happened.
Atlas Lab could use a kalimba, crafted from a coconut husk and plywood, and maybe a walking stick flute. The woman who makes the flutes says you have to smile to play the flute.
There was a sculpture race that I didn't get to see and didn't know where it would take place, but one of the sculptures was a giant mouse trap and sparked this conversation: "I wonder if this thing works. There's a padlock, so maybe." I said "maybe you could learn to pick locks." and he said "Look at those teeth. I'm not messing with lockpicks if it has teeth like that."
Other sculptures included a donkey with books, a giant baby carriage, a boat with wings, a wheeled "creature that audibly interacts with the audience," a 23 foot long fish, a sailboat with square wheels, a cat named Dizzy.
Ria of Ria's Pottery Haus had blue hair with hints of purple. Her companion had sunglasses, a bandanna, chestal hair, a braided goatee.
Fran Gianfriddo made hugging arms that I think Emma would appreciate (one day, and by that, I mean, as soon as I see her, I need to talk to Emma about her hugging her friends and how I have a tendency to only let people I have feelings for get that close to me… I'll explain it when it happens) and watercolors in a series called Bugs Are People Too, of bugs doing people things when people aren't looking.
I wanted to draw a woman with red-dyed hair and a silver gorget necklace but she said she had to go.
I drew her companion, a woman with dark hair, a scarf, bracelets and a fuckton of rings.
A woman had an anthropomorphic representation of the sun with the rays as its hair and waxing crescent moon in an embrace on her shoulder.
Another woman had maori writing that she didn't understand (what I do understand is it's not the lyrics from Running With Scissors) and perhaps planets or something.
Another woman had an octopus.
I ended up with a recipe for southwest chickpea cakes. They look good. I'm not a vegan myself but I'll eat vegan food.
I actually wanted the tofu Thai salad but Ploy's Kitchen only had chicken. I thought "I'd think chicken would run out first, even if this is Cambridge."
Ploy is a Thai name but Ploysto is a town or city in Ilavia in The Grand Ellipse. Ploy does cooking videos on Youtube.
I hope someone photographed the chalk art tribute to Sidewalk Sam. Lots of rainbows. Rainbows look really cool in chalk.
A woman wrote Not All Who Wander Are Lost on the road in between those yellow lines, because she never feels lost. She asked me if I knew what it was from, I said Lord of the Rings but she says actually it's from the Hobbit and she asked me if I knew the context of it because she doesn't. Turns out I was right. It's a line from a poem that refers to Aragorn according to Wikipedia.
She had a pendant that was either a hexagram or a snowflake, or maybe a snowflakified hexagram or hexagramified snowflake.
The way home:
There was a guy playing songs like Paint It Black and Strawberry Fields Forever on guitar on the inbound platform at Central and I don't feel so bad for missing the train.
Someone was blowing bubbles on the opposite platform.
I just noticed the tiles above the tracks.
On the way home, I drew a woman with teal hair and Batsignals on her t-shirt reading a book by Octavia Butler, a couple in which one of the girls looked like Lia and had a Martin Luther King pin saying "keep the dream alive" or something like that and "wicked proud" and the other had a rainbow V for Victory hand, a woman in a black leather jacket with a key necklace.
I hope she wasn't Lia (or was it Jill?) because the other girl didn't look like Jill (or was it Lia?). She didn't have a hummingbird tattoo that I noticed, but if she had one, it was covered up by her shirt.
burning question: What does your hometown need? Aside from diversity or more diversity, free umbrellas, bicycles, and pie, and jetpacks, I mean? That's a given.
The way there:
The people of Boston love my art. Isn't that right, people of Boston? Yahhhh!!!!
I told the woman with the astrological symbol for Venus and/or the biological symbol for female and/or an alchemical symbol for copper and/or the symbol for female co-ax bus connector on a necklace about how Désirée noticed that I'm getting more confident and she could see that if only I had my other sketchbook with me. P.S. Guess how the Venus Fly Trap got its name.
You know, this: ♀
as seen here:
♀+♂=love
♀+♀=love
♂+♂=love
Alexa (for some reason, I think "Alexi." Alexi seems more male than female. Alexa seems to be exclusively female and also a genus of legumes) looks like Melissa. Actually, she looks a bit like Terra Branford, if only Alexa had Gabriella's fashion sense. She's not an artist and the reason she had paint on her pants is because she was painting her room. No, she works with bacteria cultures, which is a kind of artistry according to us. She sees beauty in everything. There's beauty on that train we were on and I certainly noticed that. I said once that the average person is, in fact, beautiful. Erica is Asian but sunburns like a white person. Hong is Asian but talks with his hands like an Italian. She says that Cambridge has the most interestingly-dressed people and that's totally true. I was talking about how I sometimes feel like each line has different people and she's never been on the Blue Line but she knows there's a stop called Wonderland, which was an amusement park and ceased to be an amusement park before my paternal grandfather was born (he died before I was born but he'd be over a hundred today), and knows about the disappointment of not ending up in Alice In Wonderland. I guess people who commute to Boston from Lynn or Revere or Salem use the Blue Line.
So. I explained Atlas Lab to Alexa, Hong, and Erica as "Atlas, like the Titan, lab like the dog," so I hope they remember it.
She said "held up the world" but that's a misinterpretation. He was chained up and forced to hold up the sky. And if he let go, the sky would collapse and everyone would probably drown or something.
I said when I'm 70, I'm dying my hair pink, because the whole point of being old is that there's no one to stop you from doing what you love.
Alexa says someone mistook her for someone named Alyssa. Or maybe it was Alex who said that.
I think Melissa was taller, actually, or maybe I'm mixing her up with Shannon. Alexa knows she's short.
Alex (female, like Morbo's Good Friend Alex, not Atlas Lab Alex*. If the drummer of Atlas Lab was a green woman, Atlas Lab would have recorded King Roger with all the roles played by somewhat degraded cassette tapes of Emma, or at least they'd be as divinely rapturous as they are noisy and twee**) also looks like Melissa. It's the green hair. I told her about Alexa.
For what it's worth, Alex is also a parrot and a geometer moth genus. It seems to be pantropical. Also, for what it's worth, Emma is a genus of bryozoans and the Japanese name for Lord Yama.
Alex was in Cambridge, not on the T. I'm just putting her here because it makes more sense.
Alexandra was at the Gallery 263 booth. They were having everyone fill in a map of Cambridge coincidentally like Emma's abstract map in Nicosia, Cyprus, in which the Charles River is a road (she says they're kids and didn't know, I added someone hoverboarding because he has POWER! and there was a red mess, and I added Jaws and Alexandra said the red took on an entirely new meaning. A zombie infestation is arriving from what we think is Watertown and one square is officially the Zombie Zone, which makes me think of a Sonic the Hedgehog level with zombies. Sofia drew insects.
Alexandra does not have green hair, unlike Alexa and Alex.
They'll scan it hopefully.
*he's also vermin in the eyes of Morbo.
**Or so I think. I've never actually read Signs of Life and I'm lamenting that I can't reference it. I did reference Harrison, at least.
What I saw:
This guy did a puppet show in which he asks the audience to name an animal (a tiger), a profession (animal doctor) and a sidekick like in all good disney movies (a squirrel) and a bad thing that happened (fell into a fire) and made a 5 minute show about a greedy animal doctor who laments that there aren't any patients (hahahaha… yeah, right.) and so sets up the first ever rectangular fire for the tiger to fall in, but since the tiger has no money, his plan doesn't work but he takes all the squirrel's nuts in exchange for treating the tiger. The official name is Cardboard Anarchy, which I love.
He was wearing a hat with a cardboard bunny on it so guess who got a portrait.
improvBoston asked the audience to pick occupations (astronaut, race car driver), movies (Jaws meets Titanic… I 'd see it), personal relation (captain and first mate), and locale (Hawaii… I shouted out Socotra) and then they ran around in circles.
And there was African drumming. If Emma was anywhere at the River Festival, she was watching that. I don't know, I thought she was going. Still, there were tens of thousands of people there.
These are the bands I saw.
12:30 or so because spoiler alert, they have to set up: Dirty Bangs
For you time travelers in the audience, go watch some Iranian dance. Yep, that's a thing. Probably more apt to describe it as Persian dance or Azeri dance because I'm pretty sure dancing is banned because Iran has been run by the villains from a Beatles cartoon since the 1970s. Iran needs farts to set them free. Or maybe see a Marimba band.
Anyway, they describe themselves as shoegaze indie rock, they sing about the summer and love and stuff like that, the booklet describes them as channeling the best of too many genres.
http://dirtybangs.bandcamp.com
1: The Wiles, which involves three female vocalists, two fiddles, two guitars, a double bass. I totally read "featuring" as "guest musicians" and not the names of the band members. They're from Maine, apparently.
Unfortunately, I can't be everywhere at once.
http://www.thewilesmusic.com/
https://soundcloud.com/thewiles
2: Mini Dresses
They remind me of Orange. The booklet describes them as a raw pop rush of 60s dreambeat of shangri-la's cool chic mixed with k records lo-fi off-kilter production, smothered in hazy reverb, and I'm sure that would sound apt if I knew what they were talking about. I'll just describe them as "they sound like Orange." If it helps, look up Feijoa, Daisy, or Starwheel if you want to hear some stuff from their album or Sweet Briar and Painted Tongue if you want some really good stuff exclusive to compilations. Maybe "a more aggressive Orange with more coherent lyrics" is more apt. Although pretty much every band ever has more coherent lyrics than Orange, and that includes the Cocteau Twins.
They're originally from Austin, which I've heard described as a misplaced piece of Massachusetts.
http://minidresses.bandcamp.com/
3: American Echoes: So here's the thing: When Mini Dresses were playing, I drew Nina, one of the member, because she had awesome tattoos of strawberries and butterflies and cool hair (dark blue) and a nose ring and a cool shawl-jacket thing and she was like "We're on next?" and I'm like "wait, you're in the band?" and then we introduced each other, and I drew Laura, the other twin, who had a rose tattoo. I think it was a rose, anyway. Nina had a bird and sun tattoo and someone wanted a picture of it.
Laura plays guitar and I'm not quite sure what that thing Nina was playing was. I want to say mandolin or mandola (mandolin comes from the word mandola, which was the standard pitch for that instrument family).
For some reason, they switched places with Mini Dresses and one of the names was Sharpied out.
https://americanechoes.bandcamp.com/
https://www.reverbnation.com/americanechoes/songs
I don't think they've had a proper release yet. There's very little on their bandcamp and very little on their reverbnation, which is a shame because they're really good.
4: The Barbazons, formerly called the Fagettes.
These guys are really good. She plays the saxophone. She plays the drums. She plays the maracas. She plays the drums with the maracas as drumsticks. If I were to describe them, I'd call them surfgaze. One of the members is named Emeen, which makes me think of the Dhrevate of Immeen. Wait a minute, Peaches (see: it was heaven sent) is their drummer. Speaking of surnames, I found a wonderful site that shows maps of name distributions. Bata, for instance, shows up in Hungary, but it's coincidentally common in Mozambique and India and the Philippines.
But not that common in Israel, strangely enough.
I don't write things in order. If I did, I'd have mentioned that one of the members of The Wiles is Abenaki, going by her surname.
https://thebarbazons.bandcamp.com/
I thought Emma would be here. And though I, a, don't drink, and 2. because I'm an idiot and don't carry around my ID everywhere, I wasn't allowed in the beer garden but I could see everyone there and Emma wasn't among them.
Also, I hope that when TT the Bear's advertised something like US Air Guitar, it's an actual air guitar band.
5: Jesus Andujar and Grupo Sazon, which was Afro-Caribbean jazz performed by a band with members from Poland, Ecuador, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Chile).
The women next to me each had collages they made.
things for you to look up: Mili Bermejo Quartet, Rebecca Cline Trio, A Latin Jazz Septet, Ruby Rose Fox and the Steinems (they had a plush fox in their bag so I showed one of them the baby fox), Blinders, Abadabad, The DuPont Brothers, Cuddle Magic, Sun Parade, Danielle Miraglia and the Glory Junkies.
I'll share my thoughts on them when I've listened to them. I'm sure you'll like it, and I'm sorry I didn't get to hear them play.
Other things, in no particular order:
There was an art gallery with the entrance manned by a very big dog with feathers stuck to his collar and a woman with short blue hair in a white dress and combat boots who was busy painting their sign. The man who runs it knows who Emma is, unfortunately, I missed the works she had up.
A whiteboard asked what was great about Cambridge (diversity, beauty) and asked what it needs (I said more diversity because you can never have too much diversity, I also said free pie, they said pizza and jet packs but don't allow drunk people to use the jetpacks or TRA-LA-LA-LA PA-DOO it's Saint Ajora's Day all over again but not zombies) and the other side had awesome drawings of octopuses and suns with sunglasses.
Ophelia is named after her great aunt and doesn't identify with the Hamlet character because she's a bit unstable in more ways than one, but she likes my shirt of Shakespearian insults anyway. She also likes the sound of Cats Against War. She's for nuclear disarmament.
The guy, I think his name was Mike, is interested in Central Asia and neither of us can understand why it of all places is a nuclear free zone. He was surprised to learn that South Africa disarmed under the apartheid regime, although it was the beginning of the end for apartheid by the time that happened.
Atlas Lab could use a kalimba, crafted from a coconut husk and plywood, and maybe a walking stick flute. The woman who makes the flutes says you have to smile to play the flute.
There was a sculpture race that I didn't get to see and didn't know where it would take place, but one of the sculptures was a giant mouse trap and sparked this conversation: "I wonder if this thing works. There's a padlock, so maybe." I said "maybe you could learn to pick locks." and he said "Look at those teeth. I'm not messing with lockpicks if it has teeth like that."
Other sculptures included a donkey with books, a giant baby carriage, a boat with wings, a wheeled "creature that audibly interacts with the audience," a 23 foot long fish, a sailboat with square wheels, a cat named Dizzy.
Ria of Ria's Pottery Haus had blue hair with hints of purple. Her companion had sunglasses, a bandanna, chestal hair, a braided goatee.
Fran Gianfriddo made hugging arms that I think Emma would appreciate (one day, and by that, I mean, as soon as I see her, I need to talk to Emma about her hugging her friends and how I have a tendency to only let people I have feelings for get that close to me… I'll explain it when it happens) and watercolors in a series called Bugs Are People Too, of bugs doing people things when people aren't looking.
I wanted to draw a woman with red-dyed hair and a silver gorget necklace but she said she had to go.
I drew her companion, a woman with dark hair, a scarf, bracelets and a fuckton of rings.
A woman had an anthropomorphic representation of the sun with the rays as its hair and waxing crescent moon in an embrace on her shoulder.
Another woman had maori writing that she didn't understand (what I do understand is it's not the lyrics from Running With Scissors) and perhaps planets or something.
Another woman had an octopus.
I ended up with a recipe for southwest chickpea cakes. They look good. I'm not a vegan myself but I'll eat vegan food.
I actually wanted the tofu Thai salad but Ploy's Kitchen only had chicken. I thought "I'd think chicken would run out first, even if this is Cambridge."
Ploy is a Thai name but Ploysto is a town or city in Ilavia in The Grand Ellipse. Ploy does cooking videos on Youtube.
I hope someone photographed the chalk art tribute to Sidewalk Sam. Lots of rainbows. Rainbows look really cool in chalk.
A woman wrote Not All Who Wander Are Lost on the road in between those yellow lines, because she never feels lost. She asked me if I knew what it was from, I said Lord of the Rings but she says actually it's from the Hobbit and she asked me if I knew the context of it because she doesn't. Turns out I was right. It's a line from a poem that refers to Aragorn according to Wikipedia.
She had a pendant that was either a hexagram or a snowflake, or maybe a snowflakified hexagram or hexagramified snowflake.
The way home:
There was a guy playing songs like Paint It Black and Strawberry Fields Forever on guitar on the inbound platform at Central and I don't feel so bad for missing the train.
Someone was blowing bubbles on the opposite platform.
I just noticed the tiles above the tracks.
On the way home, I drew a woman with teal hair and Batsignals on her t-shirt reading a book by Octavia Butler, a couple in which one of the girls looked like Lia and had a Martin Luther King pin saying "keep the dream alive" or something like that and "wicked proud" and the other had a rainbow V for Victory hand, a woman in a black leather jacket with a key necklace.
I hope she wasn't Lia (or was it Jill?) because the other girl didn't look like Jill (or was it Lia?). She didn't have a hummingbird tattoo that I noticed, but if she had one, it was covered up by her shirt.
burning question: What does your hometown need? Aside from diversity or more diversity, free umbrellas, bicycles, and pie, and jetpacks, I mean? That's a given.
