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last updated 04/24/07
October 1, 2007
Can I say how much I love and think about you.... really, amazing that this woman, can make such a warm and positive impact... your smile, is deep and sincere... I so wish we were not on opposite ends of the country.,.. but am grateful, just for the opportunity, to have made your acquaintance... wish I could see you more..
hugs
July 9, 2007
Words cannot due justice, but one can merely try.....
Abby, my soul sister on this jugged journey thru life...ever providing support, friendship, and of course, a good time. The most generous and caring heart I have known and to whom I offer abundant love and respect. I am forever grateful to call her a friend. Fuck with her and I'll kick your ass. Peace.
March 19, 2007
How to characterize Abby?
I sat down on a lawnchair on the CARP porch in 2006, preparing to engage in a bit of debauchery, when I noticed Abby sitting next to me. She was passed out in a lawn chair and was covered -- and I do mean COVERED -- in Sharpie of all color and variety. Head to foot. Clown nose and all. Hilarious.
I would've been alarmed by the cigarette hanging out of her mouth had it been anyone else, but thankfully it had been put out by some individual and placed very carefully back between her lips. It's not like they're the easiest thing to come by, even in a city of 40K people, so cheers to whomever had the foresight to leave it there.
Anyway, a minute or 2 after I sit down, she stirs a bit, takes the cig out of her mouth, and inspects her Sharpied arms.
"Wow...I must've been out for a while. I guess it's time to go home and take a load off."
With that, she got up and stumbled off, presumably to her home base on the playa, and that's when I knew she was one of the coolest chicks I'd met so far out in the desert. What a great fucking attitude!
March 15, 2007
God! I miss and love Abby SOOOO MUCH! She is one of the few genuine people in this world. She will always have a very special place in my heart. Can't wait to Fuck MORE Shit Up!
XO
Atomic
Love
January 9, 2007
Missed in NY when your not here, Missed in SF when your not there. We miss you the breath of air so ebullient. Ohh to stand in your shadow yet again.....
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Oh, what to say? Best to leave this blank and let your imaginations run wild...
$teven Ra$pa fan club,
( HRK )HardRockKaffee,
***CherryCRUSH***,
**HAPPY DAY!**,
*OUR BIG OLE TRIBE*,
...KINKY SCi-Fi...,
A bluegirl World,
A Cavallo,
Aaron Muszalski Fan Club,
Abstininthe,
Amazing Larry's,
Asylum of BRC,
asylum-happyhour-NYC,
Bear Posse,
Billion Bunnies,
Black Rock *******,
Blondie's Closet,
Bondage a Go Go,
BRC Rickshaws,
Burners Without Borders,
...
I'm up in Gerlach again, two years in a row...trying to get away from the same ol' same ol', which this certainly is.
The snow that fell over a 24 hour period a few days ago has mostly melted. I hope we get more cause it looks so festive.
Here's to you, all my Tribe frieeennnddds, wishing you a joyous 2008!
xoxo
Abby
Mon, December 31, 2007 - 5:37 PM
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Yesterday was Fence. A huge crew drove in 8.2 miles of t-stakes before lunchtime, a new record. I was on the fence tying crew and we wrapped just over two sides of the pentagram-shaped perimeter in orange plastic trash fence before the end of the work day. It was spectacular to experience everyone's enthusiasm, singing songs, cracking jokes, making the work such a pleasure. The cameraderie is what I love best about being out here "on the job." We had beer thirty sometime around 4 to celebrate and then it was back to the Black Rock Saloon for even more beers....thirty...Got to hang out and chat with David Best a bit before I got too shitfaced. Hah!
They finished the fence today while us Sign Shop girls were bent over our vinyl...in fact, it's almost midnight and I just finished up my day. The sooner we're done MAKING signs the sooner we can start installing them, and get out into the sun.
Tomorrow we move out onto the playa. I cannot wait! Oh, to be in my tent, listening to the wind whipping...to be behind the Ghetto bar serving up lukewarm PBRs... to watch the art and the infrastructure rising out of the dust. There's already SO much stuff out there on the playa...WAY more than at this time last year. The scope of this operation is staggering.
I'm looking forward to all you people arriving and will be keeping an eye out for the NYC containers. Come see me in the Ghetto, 4:20 and Arctic—a sign I designed and painted every damn one of, thankyouverymuch!
Much love, hippies!
See you in the dust...SOON!
xoxo
Beer Abby
Sat, August 11, 2007 - 11:57 PM
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Okay, so as of today, I've been in beautiful downtown Gerlach for one month. It feels like WAY longer than that, I'll tell you!
I've been working in Sign Shop. And I mean WORKING. Sure, we get beer thirty, but I've been more bent over actual work for the past three weeks than I have been in YEARS! Cutting stencils is my favorite job, but I've done all the other stuff too: painting and designing and vinyl, oh my! Yup, I'm Stencil Bitch. After 5 is Vinyl Bitch and Mel is Spray Painting Bitch. She's also Mounting Bitch along with After 5. I'm kinda new, so I'm just a'learnin'. D, of course, is the Boss Lady and online stressing WAY too much! But somebody's gotta do it...
And those signs are fuckin' BEAUTIFUL!
Yesterday was the Golden Spike. It's the first piece of Black Rock City, a spike set into the playa where the Man will be and from whence the rest of the city is surveyed. Everyone here got to walk up and hit the stake...it was very ceremonial and a tradition and a ritual n shit....cool. I wound up staying out on the playa all night, passing out with the Survey Team. There was a stunning moonrise and a very romantic walk beneath it. Heh.
Earlier in the week on my day off (Sunday) a friend and I drove another friend to visit her girlfriend in Mt. Shasta. I've never been...We took the backroads...it was a four-hour drive and we stopped in tiny towns. And coming over one mountain ridge, we could see Mt. Shasta off in the distance. It was stunnnnnnning! Like a postcard! By the time we got there we were hot and tired and Miss Kelly loaded us into her car and took us to the Sacramento River . She'd packed beers, chips & salsa...it was awesome...cold and wet and perfect. Then she cooked us an amazing dinner...we had a few drinks...and I passed out on a futon on a trampoline. Sign Shop LOVES Kelly! (Specifically After 5.)
So...the hippies have started to roll in. Over the past 48 hours we've had about a dozen new people show up. The excitement is building...the anticipation...the dynamic is shifting. Although to be honest, I'm just looking forward to clean-up!
Much love to all of you out there...I'm missing you, wherever you are!
xoxoxxo
A
Fri, August 3, 2007 - 9:54 PM
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Last night I had a few friends over to eat dinner on my roof deck. It was a beautiful night, warm with a slight breeze and a half moon hanging above the East River. I've been doing my best to be outdoors as much as possible...New York City summer nights before they become too stultifying...sooooo delicious...
I leave in two days for San Francisco, Tahoe and Gerlach and making myself useful workin' for The Man. After last year's amazing experience with DPW I'm eager to work again, this time for even longer...I'll be helping in the Sign Shop, so if you make it out to the desert, check out my handiwork and, um, do what the signs tell you to! Hah...
My initial return to Manhattan was jarring...I wasn't sure I was ready for the frenzied madness...but, as you'd expect, I fell back into the rhythym fairly effortlessly and have been partying like a rockstar since...Drinks, dinner, meetings, lunches, bagels and the beach and a bazillion parties and Happy Hours...Seeing friends on the street is probably my favorite thing about living here...it feels like a small town to me. Sigh.
Time to switch gears again...slow myself down to the small town pace...until the 40,000+ participants show up.
I'll be sure to keep you all posted on "My 20" and how the work's coming along. Check in and say hey.
And I'll see you all in the dust!
Blinky Beer Photo by Johnny Irish
Tue, June 26, 2007 - 8:53 PM
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So this is the birthday card my parents gave me:
Do wishes have wings?
Do dreams have a face?
Does sunlight explode in the evening's embrace?
Do rainbows have fingers?
Can poodles smell fear?
The world's filled with magic...
...if you drink enough beer!
Hahahah! Ridiculous and alarmingly accurate!
Tue, June 12, 2007 - 12:16 PM
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