The Internet is our Friday

Hello friends.

I began this experiment as a way to keep myself connected during a period of my life which is neither certain nor predictable. It won’t be nearly as dramatic as that seems, but I do intend for this to be a sounding board for any number of the following subjects around which my life revolves including dancing, animal rights, traveling, urban planning, and of course (what blog would be complete without) a liberal smattering of questionable judgement and extreme self righteousness.

I currently live with my partner Jay in central upstate New York. We both work for an animal protection organization. The route we took to get here was one we both chose and shunned. The specific details will have to wait for another post, but at this moment, we are busily planning the next phase of our lives, and look forward to the future.

To occupy ourselves, we began arranging and hosting a monthly dance party in a nearby city. Aptly named, American Weekends, our dance party features an aggressive mix of soul, electro funk, new-jack swing, hip hop, and r&b. Artists in heavy rotation include Prince, The Time, Klymaxx, Stephanie Mills, Parliment/Funkadelic, Kool and the Gang, New Edition, SOS Band, Gap Band, and dozens of other black artists whose musical heyday fell roughly between 1975 and 1995.

American Weekends actually derives its title from the tag of a turtleneck recently purchased by a friend, although the philosophical implications of the name run much deeper. An American Weekend knows no beginning or end. It is the true expression of the very tenets upon which America was founded – we will do what we want, when we want, as long as it’s fun and/or profitable. American Weekends is not profitable. Quite the opposite in fact. But it is fun. A lot of fun. So much fun that we have been featured in three newspaper articles, and one magazine since our inaugural Weekend last February. Considering it’s only July, I think we can be confident that we are doing something right.

I promise, this is not going to be a blog about our dance party, although it will be a blog about our American Weekends. Adventures in the lives of two meandering vegans who are attempting to carve their way in a misguided world of pessimists, capitalists, two-party systems, and the New York Giants. We are going to have fun if it kills us, and this blog will be here to dress the wounds and ask us how many fingers it is holding up.

Thanks for reading. You may be the only one.

xoxo – Weekends

~ by Reno on July 22, 2008.