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Tour De Fat - Tempe, AZ - Saturday, October 11th
The New Belgium Brewery’s Tour de Fat is coming to Tempe, Arizona this Saturday! Location: Temple Town Lake It's a celebration of bicycles with a little beer to add to the fun. I'll be there and would love to see you there too! Get all the information at their website - http://www.tour-de-fat.com/city/tempe.
Here are the important schedule things to note:
9:00am Registration for the Bike Cruise-ade (aka Bike Parade)
10:00am Bike Cruise-ade departs
11:00am Riders return from the parade, kegs get tapped & the festival begins!
There's lots of stuff going on at the festival - bands, presentations, raffles, and stuff. I hear there will be some impromtu games of bike polo. I'll be there playing! People watching should be prime since rule # 4 says you should come costumed..."because when everybody’s weird, no one is." And, of course, there's beer! (All profits from beer sales go to local non profit organizations.) It goes until 4:00pm. Hope to see you there!
Dog Cuteness
Stewie with the new blue ball. Mac following closely behind.
Ladies Ride
On Thursday nights I've started getting together with some ladies to ride bikes. It's a good opportunity to be social and get some exercise at the same time. Plus, I'm making friends with some very cool women. Yesterday, we rode 14 miles and stopped to see Arizona Falls, which is a public art piece on the canal.
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Swimming at the Dog Park
There's a dog park in Gilbert, Arizona with a pond for the dogs to swim in. It's called Cosmo Dog Park and it's the best. While Gilbert is technically considered part of the Phoenix area, this dog park is an hour away from our house. (What a sprawling city!) Despite the distance, we took the dogs to the park a couple weekends ago. We met up with Rachel, Jamie, and Tyson. Everyone, especially the furriest of us, had a great time.
Bettina, a documentary film
On Tuesday night, Chris and I went to a free movie at the Phoenix art museum with a couple friends. I love, love, love the movies at the museum. It gives me a reason to wander around the museum a bit. I saw some new stuff as well as some of my favorite pieces.
Most importantly, we saw Bettina, a film by Sam Bassett. Sam lives on the roof of The Chelsea Hotel and Bettina lives on the 5th floor. They met in the hallway. He helped her clean up her apartment which was being investigated as a fire hazard since she had rooms full of stuff. It turns out all the stuff was Bettina's art. The film is both about her art & life, but it is also about Sam's friendship with Bettina.
It was quite good, even though it was difficult to watch at times. I really, really liked it. I also really liked the question and answer session with Sam Bassett, who was in Phoenix. I only wish that session could have gone on for another couple hours. (Or that Sam could have joined us for drinks afterwards.)
Take a look at Sam's work:
Sam Bassett's Films
New York Times, Scenes from Bettina
Also, iPhone pictures of art at the museum:
Pictures of my New Niece
Isn't she beautiful?!
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Best Tweet Ever
Karen, my sister, is going to have a baby!! I'm going to be an aunt to a new little girl very, very soon!
