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If there's a T shirt with a mustachioed Frieda Khalo, it's coming home with me.
Saturday and Sunday, it's PalmFest, McAllen's art and film festival. International artists, dancers, storytellers, equestrians and performers will be there, plus a festival of short films running concurrently. Since it's Texas, there will be a fajita and pan de campo cook off. Mmmmmm.
Valley Girl will have plenty to write about this week. Next weekend, I'm getting a shotgun and skeet shooting lesson courtesy of Tejas Shooting Sports so that on November 3rd, I can participate in the local Masonic Lodge's fall scholarship fundraiser/skeet shoot.
Twas only two degrees of separation between me and the Masons: One of my early VG columns was on Books N Things (cf: endless shelves of romance novels). The manager there mentioned her husband drove a shuttle bus at the University.
A few months after I'd been hired by the University, I was running late and had to park in a faraway lot. On the walk to my office, I saw a shuttle bus parked at a stop. On a whim, I asked the driver if he was Vickie's husband. Bingo!
We chatted and he asked if I could write something about their upcoming scholarship event. They were hoping to get some publicity and sponsorship and I was happy to oblige--and milk a column or two out of it. If my hand-eye coordination cooperates, I'll be knocking clay pigeons outta the sky real soon, y'all.
6 comments:
Love the Frida/Salvador mashup. I was Frida Kahlo one Halloween before I cut all my hair off. A Frida/Salvador costume would be even better, but sadly even less likely to be understood.
I think I've seen pictures of you in that costume! I wonder if more people dress up as Frieda here? I didn't see any Friedas at last year's Trunk or Treat.
I have pictures of you cutting your hair off! At least one time in my apartment with Di and I think her name was Renee? She is holding the cut-off braid of your hair. I don't think I saw that costume that I remember...
I have a set of pictures of me and RaNae (who got her hair cut, much less drastically, the same day), but I think they were taken in my apartment. I was wearing that ridiculous wine corduroy jumper.
The pictures I have of me in my Frida Kahlo getup also feature Larry Wampler with a putting green on his head. :)
now the Larry Wampler putting green I remember!! And your jumper as well, I need to dig out that picture for verification....perhaps you came by with the braid afterwards...
I wish I had taken more photos in NY.
I did pick up a Frieda T shirt, btw. I couldn't find my size in black, but one of the galleries we visited later had women's Ts in Valley Girl pink.
Art Walk surprised me by being way cooler than I expected. It felt like a big city event, as did PalmFest.
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