Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Roller Derby Hipster Fun

With the title of this blog (and the tag line I created under it) you would assume all my posts would be busting with hipsterness.  I’m sorry to admit that sometimes I’m nothing but a boring, average girl.  Lame, I know.  I go to work from 9-5 M-F.  I eat the same “let’s see what’s in the fridge” salad every night.  I go to the same unoriginal HH* every Thursday.  Really, I’m nothing but cliché hipster ever so often.  That time was definitely this past Saturday when I went to the most fun hipster event on this planet…Roller Derby.

How is the derby hipster you ask? 

#1 The main sponsors is Pabst Blue Ribbon (so PBRs are the cheapest beer at $6)
#2 Women on skates with names like “Condoleezza Slice” wear fishnet tights and beat each other up
#3 IT’S A ROLLER DERBY in 2012!

Before I headed out to the derby, I reveled in some coffee and a good book.  The book is called Making Kind Choices and it is by the founder of PETA.  I heard about it through my yoga studio (she came to do a talk and a book signing there to which I'm actually sad I missed).  I think the book might make me look a little more hippie than hipster but I love learning about this stuff.  Do YOU know why many vegans don’t eat honey?  And there's a foreward by Sir Paul McCartney so you know its good.  I personally enjoy this photo because you can see how awesome my new lipstick color is!


 


I especially liked one quote I discovered in the chapter “Putting Organic-, Worker-, and Bird-Friendly Coffee in Your Pot.”  When I read the quote out to my friend she knew exactly who said it and where it was written.  It made me realize I need to brush up on books that are a little more scholarly than Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography written by Rob Lowe.**



I then met my DC bff and we walked to the derby on one of those rare sunny warm winter days.  We even discovered a place called Crapes on the Corner that is opening in “January.”***

We got to the Armory, got wand-ed down by security, grabbed our seat on the floor, bought our mandatory for fun PBR, and took it all in.  NOTE: You have to be 18 to sit on the floor.  A lady came around to ask our age.  Apparently we don’t look 18.  It made us feel really good and bad.  I still say it is because I was eating gummy sharks when this all went down.







We had so much fun!  I mean there was even a drum circle inbetween battles!





Afterward we went to Capital City Brewing Company where I enjoyed a new/different beer called “Amber Waves Ale" and a delicious black bean burger (with an avocado spread…mmm).  I wish I had pictures of this last stage in our adventure but seeing as I only had coffee, PBR, and gummies that day, I inhaled my meal before photos could ever be taken.  I do want to share with you the image of the beer I selected.  I think you have to admit, I HAD to try this.


*Happy Hours for those of you who aren’t in the know
**An extremely undervalued memoir by an extremely undervalued actor
***NOTE: it is the end of January so of course people attached “tic tok tic tok” to their “opening in January we promise” sign

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