🍲 Soup and vests 🦺
🍲 Soup and vests 🦺
Rusty's Electric Dreams :: Issue #351
Hey friends,
Before another minute, hour, day, week goes by I want to stop and say hello.
Life’s been full and I’ve been enjoying what the Pacific Northwest has to offer. This time of year that’s absolutely stunning foliage, crisp days, and less rain than one would expect for these parts. It’s “soup and vest season,” my friend Veek jokes, which is funny ‘cause it’s true. There have also been orcas in the sound (which I haven’t seen YET) and loads of mushrooms in the wild (which I have seen and photographed).
I recently got back from a little adventure in Portland where I went to spoil SJ for her birthday. She's NINETEEN already, can you believe it? If you’re wondering, she’s doing great at college. It suits her well.
The timing of my trip couldn't have been more perfect. I finally got the chance to experience the All Souls Procession which was the same weekend. It’s this beautiful event, replete with ritual aspects, to remember those we’ve lost recently. My friend Melissa is one of the organizers and has been telling me I should go for a while—she was right! That's her in white in the photo above, leading the way.
The procession itself was a moving sight, with people in masks and costumes, walking through the night from Green Anchors (a place for creative folks you should know about), winding through Cathedral Park, all the way to the Willamette River. At the river's edge, we bid farewell to those we lost this year, including reading their names from a book and burning notes we had written to them. Sadly, among those names was our beloved kitty Missy who left us a few weeks ago.
I wasn’t able to stay for it but the evening ended with a celebration for the living at Green Anchors.
It was a lovely evening. If it sounds like your kind of thing, get on their mailing list now for next November’s event.
— Rusty Blazenhoff
P.S. 37% of you report that, yes, you still dress up for Halloween but 0% of you have sent me a photo of you in that costume! What gives? What’s my costume, you ask? “Rusty Rigatoni” is waiting for you at the bottom of the page.
As seen on the Internets
Maybe it should be “soup and cape season” instead!
:: When a marionette works out
:: One-upping that moonwalk killer from the last issue
:: 🎤 Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today…
:: “Sweet fancy Moses!”
:: The Dime Game
:: Can we please make birthday stockings a thing?
:: I love this
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired,rebuilt,refurbished,refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
—Pete Seeger
Real things you can actually buy: bling-y!
Sea and be seen: Swim goggles that (only?) Elton John would approve of!
Real things you can actually buy: way!
L’eggo my Eggo… robotic vacuum. Bahahahaha, WHAT?!
Featured Events
[Select U.S. Cities & Kent, CT & L.A.] Sooner: The incomparable John Waters is back with a Christmas bang in his one-of-a-kind, one-man show, “Let's Blow It Up.”
Later: Word on the street (and by “street,” I mean my equally oddball friends) is that Camp John Waters in Kent, Connecticut, is a real hoot. Tickets for next September’s event are about to go on sale to the public.
Sooner & Later: See John Waters: Pope of Trash at the Academy Museum.
BAY AREA, CA+
[Bay Area :: ongoing] Go see Richie Rhombus’ “cool happening list” for good/cheap Bay Area happenings. Check out the calendars for Artists Television Access, City Arts & Events, and The Marsh too.
Elsewhere
[Online Radio :: starts 11/18] Princegiving: listen to (nearly) all of Prince’s music in chronological order. “It takes 4 1/2 days. We’ll do it twice.” Thanks, Halcyon!
Meet Rusty Rigatoni, the lesser-known Playhouse puppet pal of Billy Baloney.
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