Daily Archives: June 19, 2002

There is an ad in the paper for the new Century Theater; bring a can and get in free for a movie. The catch is that they don’t say which movie they will be showing and that it starts at 7pm and seats are limited. I still kinda want to go, just to get out the house. But I really need to take a shower, and I really feel exhausted.
Amber came by the warehouse today and hung out for awhile. Brian also came out and was impressed with what me and the guys have done. Shit is slowly rising towards the fan, but I think that I am just going to sit on it for awhile.
Tomorrow, I head up to Vacaville to see Mew. She is up for her brother’s graduation and she is taking me out to dinner. I can hear about her New York trip and show her pictures from Susanville.
I am really, really tired. I am thinking about taking some Nyquil just to push me over so I can go to sleep early. Nothing else to do tonight except read my books and to think about my future.
Hmmmm. Going to take a shower and think about what I am going to do in the future, i.e. after I am done with my shower.
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The future is looking scary. Good thing that I am on the right side of the fence…
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OMG, I thought that it was going to be in Vallejo/Amer. Canyon
Lavezzo represented the American Canyon site’s landowner who wanted to locate the fair there and got Solano County supervisors’ approval to amend land use codes to allow the fair in as a seasonal use. The landowner was also working with the Open Space Foundation to develop trailheads and a conservation easement over the property if it was used for the fair. Things started going wrong when it came to working out environmental issues with the state Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It would take too long to mitigate the fair’s impacts and still open in time for the 2002 Northern California fair season which traditionally starts in September. “It was our understanding that the project became too difficult, that the approval process was to be too lengthy and difficult,” Lavezzo said. The Renaissance Pleasure Faire called the Blackpoint Forest near Novato home for two decades until it had to move to make way for a golf course and housing.
Fair officials initially tried to move the fair to sites that included Sunol and Lagoon Valley, but opposition killed those plans. Vacaville with an empty Nut Tree on its hands, welcomed the fair there on a year-by-year basis for three years with the last season ending in October 2001. During that time, the fair tried to get a site near Antioch, but that fell through, too.
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2002 Dates
Northern will be at Casa de Fruita, Sept. 14 – Oct. 20, 2002. Notice there
is no 3 day and this is only 6 weeks. It was described as southeast of San
Jose, but I understand that it’s really Hollister out on Highway 152. They
didn’t start Labor Day for several reasons, including weather being cooler,
construction and a long-running craft market/show in San Jose Labor Day
weekend. The weather being cooler should be really nice. That also means you
won’t be constructing so much in the early part of August. You’ll be able to
work 3 Day weekend also.
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My Tribal Costume

Well, I do look good in all of my costumes for the Renaissance Faire, but this is Halloween that we are talking about. A couple of years I have dressed up as a woman, heels and all, Not that that’s an uncommon thing to see here in the S. F. Bay Area. I was good enough to be hit on by some drunken Mexicans cruising inn a van one year. However, I think that the best costume that I have had would have to be the Tribal Witchdoctor costume that I got for a Halloween rave in 1998, I believe. The rave was Mo’ Lil Monsters I believe and it was at the Berkeley Ice Ring. I went with my co-worker Jon Blair, his brother Ben, Ben’s girlfriend Misty, another coworker, Som, and 1-2 other people who I can’t remember. This was such a last minute thing too. I think I got the costume either the day before the rave or on the night of the rave, which I think was Halloween. I originally wasn’t expecting to find anything, but the lady found this costume in the back and it fit me. It also had a huge headset made out of grass and stuff, but I left it in the car because I was afraid that I would loose it or that it would catch on fire.
We had to goto 2-3 different places in the Bay before we got the final direction to the ice rink in Berkeley. But once we got there and got it, it had to be the coolest experience that I have ever had. The there was 2-3 room and the ice rink and if you wanted to, you could skate. The best part was that whenever I got hot from dancing, all I had to do was go out to the rink and cool off. But I guess I’m supposed to be describing my costume.
I had on a leopard print skirt with a black velvet shirt. On top of the shirt was a huge feather mantle piece that covered the shirt. Around that I wore a tiger print cloak, also velvet. I bought some orange and white face paint and just smeared in on my face to make a stripe pattern. Not sure what I wore for shoes. And there is an orange necklace that I have on that I have no idea what it is. I think that it might have been a clock.
Well, at this rave I did some ecstasy, along with most of the ravers there. So everybody including myself was rubbing my costume. I remember that feeling so good. Oh yeah, I also had a Ewok puppet that I had found earlier that week. So I was dancing with this puppet for most of the night. I think I ended up giving it to this girl who was X’ed out and had lost her friends.
The only other thing that I remember about that night is that after it was over, Jon and I had to take a pee. So we are pissing against this wall and Jon finishes after about a minute, but I continue for almost 5 mins. It was like that Adam Sandler skit where he can’t stop peeing. It was funny and scary at the same time.
After the rave, I got really sick and was homesick for the longest time. I really don’t remember that part; Suzannecould fill in that bit of history better than I could.
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