More Tweed Ride Inspiration
I’m starting to get addicted to Tweed Ride porn! Yes, that’s right, I have an uncontrollable urge to search and find and post Tweed Ride images and video!
The videos above and below are from the Washington DC Tweed Ride November 2009.They’re very different in style but both give you a taste for tweed!
Please oh please somebody take some photos and video of our Tweed Rides Feb 5 & 6! Or just take pictures and send them to me! I’d also love to get my hands on pictures from previous rides…
Did you see the guy who put his tweed cap OVER his bike helmet??? Love it! Especially for kids who MUST wear their helmets to ride! Oh and neckties and scarves! Even the weakest Tweed ArtRider can come up with brown or grey pants or skirt, a white shirt and a tie or scarf! Or go all out like the woman below who was featured in DC Style.
PS Today, Friday January 29 kicks off the KCRW Winter Subscription drive–and my subscription drive as well! You can subscribe easily by clicking the button below to get posts by email or along the sidebar where it says subscribe. Thanks!
How to Dress for a Tweed Ride: Very Proper!
We’d love to see you wearing TWEED on the first ArtRide of 2010, Friday February 5!
There are plenty of wool tweedy looking jackets at the thrift store from 50c to $8; I even saw a 44R full coat length real wool grey tweed coat for $8 at Goodwill. Lots of wool tweedy looking pants and skirts too! A dress shirt (preferably white, and even better with a wool vest on top) and some sensible shoes completes your ensemble. Pants too short? Turn them into knickers with some argyle socks! Please no blue jeans, sneakers or lycra! At least wear brown! For n
ight rides, everyone needs a headlight and a blinking red taillight. More blinky, LED & EL wire fun the better on any ride!
These Tweed photos came from here.
More links to fun Tweed photos:
http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/blog/page/2/
Also pictured is the winner of “The Most Snappy Lass” contest from the Chicago Tweed Ride, from the blog, “Let’s GO Ride a Bike” where you’ll find more pictures from their Tweed Ride last spring.
We love having families
on the ArtRides, but for safety sake, we have a few rules:
EVERYONE under 18 must have a helmet (that’s the law) and be with someone over 18.
NIGHT RIDES–children under 8 MUST ridealong with an adult. That means a bike seat, a trailerbike or in a trailer. Children should have a blinking tail light also.
DAY RIDES–children younger than 8 MAY ride without an adult at the adult’s discretion and with the ride leader’s approval. You can ride with us when we are on a bike path or on the promenade; please do not try to ride with us downtown. Exceptions might be made for 6 and older experienced riders on geared bikes with good breaks.
PS While you’re thrift storing it, you might keep an eye out for bridal wear–the next theme is the Brides of March! FFArtRide March 5 and day ride TBA (March 13?)
Poetry Reading January 30: Remembering William Stafford (1914-1993)
Westmont College poet Paul Willis invites you to the fourth annual reading to honor the life and work of the poet William Stafford (1914-1993) on Saturday, January 30 from 2:00-3:00 pm at the location where William Stafford served as a conscientious objector during World War II, the site of the Los Prietos Civilian Public Service Camp.
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I have been LOVING this song ever since I started hearing it on KCRW in November or December 2009. Trying to figure out who it is or what it is and how to get it HAS BEEN MAKING ME CRAZY!
Then today, while I was putting wash in the machine and the water was pouring in, I heard THE SONG! Jason Bentley was spinning it on his program Morning Become’s Eclectic on my favorite public radio station. So I dashed to my computer and tweeted @jason_bentley to ask then looked on-line to see what it was. Not so simple: KCRW offers live streaming of MBE as well as a program they call “Eclectic 24” where I landed first and tried to match PJ Harvey song playing at the time with the lyrics “Open Your Hips.” No go. I clicked over to live streaming to find what Jason was playing. I cut and pasted “Fyfe Dangerfield’s ‘When You Walk In The Room'” and found a you-tube for it but that wasn’t the song of my dreams either.
Then I tried “Thao With The Get Down Stay Down ‘When We Swam'” and BINGO! I found this charming video as well as the song I was searching for. With high hopes, I will head over to one of my local record stores, Salzer’s or Buffalo, which gives a KCRW discount and either buy it or order it. Yippee!
You don’t have to make my word for it that this band is infectious and fun and perfect for brightening a cold winter day or night. According to their press page, the band:
“Packs a subtle punch, sweet but not sappy.” – Spin
“Elliptical lyrics, bright guitar work.” – The Wall Street Journal
“Worn down by the endless pitfalls of romance? Thao Nguyen most definitely is not.” – Time Out New York
“Like tea and honey spiked with a healthy shot of whiskey.” – Elle
Check this out “Cool Yourself” [video] and Know Better Learn Faster [mp3] Learn more about Thao and band on their myspace or their website/blog. And if you’re in Europe right now, go see them! Or watch one more video before you go:
Brides of March: 2010 ArtRide Dates & Theme Ideas
Some of us ArtRiders did some brainstorming today and came up with a few ideas for 2010 ArtRides. What do you think so far? (PS Play the video! Listen to Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Girl” and sing along while you read!)
Feb 5 & 6:
Tweed Rides
Mar 5 & 13?:
Brides of March–We’ve got someone willing to share REAL BRIDAL clothes with ArtRiders! Read more…
After taking this rainy January off, February finds the San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle & Social Club on a roll again! We’re heading into 2010 fashion minded showing folks you can ride in your street chic clothes! That’s right, toe-clips and lycra ARE NOT necessary equipment to ride a bike around town for fun or folly!
So we’re kicking off 2010 with a TWEED RIDE Friday February 5.
Get your mustache waxed, collect your tweed, and join the San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle and Social Club’s first Tweed Ride for all the dapper lads and lasses. The Tweed Ride meets at 5:30pm (sunset) on the Ventura Beach Promenade near the bars at Aloha and C Street and the Artists Union Gallery and rides north on the promenade at 6pm. It’ll be dark by 6pm so remember to have lights on your bike! We’ll visit galleries on the Westside including Bell Arts to see Moses Mora’s show there and we’ll end up on Laurel for an afterparty with live music and beer donated from Anacapa. No lycra, jeans, or modern garb please! Prizes for Dandies dressed most ingeniously! Bring your own device for portage of libations & money for hooch.
Saturday Feb. 6 is the weekend ride for February–TWEED TOO! Read more…
Bid NOW in Radiohead Ticket Auction for Sunday’s LA Haiti Benefit
One of the advantages of living near Los Angeles is there are a lot of celebrities and rock stars around living and working. And sometimes that means the opportunity to attend last minute shows, like the Radiohead Haiti benefit announced yesterday. Radiohead’s recording right now but will take a break to do the show.
You did see that Thom Yorke will be performing at Coachella in April this year? If you can’t wait, check out the Radiohead Channel on youtube. I chose the video above of Radiohead’s “15 Steps” because I felt it fit into the theme of the Haiti benefit–as well as the Rainbow Coalition benefit/Seven Deadly Sins” Fashion and Variety show “Angels & Saints –where members of the San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle and Social Club will be riding bikes down the catwalk!
Guess who’s going to be riding her bikergo down the runway as part of this year’s Fashion Week extravaganza???
You guessed it–Art Predator and a few members of the San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle and Social Club will be riding down their bikes down the catwalk all dolled and duded up as part of the Saints and Angels and the Seven Deadly Sins Fashion & Variety Show Saturday February 6 in the Lodge on the corner of Ash and Main from 6-10pm. Tickets are $15 or $25 for VIP.
Join us that afternoon as we ride around town publicizing the show! Then we’ll ride over soon after the doors open at 6pm to enjoy the pre-show silent auction and socializing. The Fashion & Variety show starts at 8pm and runs until 10pm.
Some of us plan to ride over to join other cast members and friends at the Thursday Feb. 4 Kick-Off Party with live music at Candlelight. That’s the bar on Santa Clara at Figueroa with the huge beds on the back open deck and the giant, splashing waterfall.
Sandwiched between the two Fashion Week events is the San Buenaventura ArtRiders Bicycle and Social Club’s first Tweed Ride for all the dapper lads and lasses. The Tweed Ride meets at 5:30pm on the Ventura Beach Promenade near the bars at Aloha and C Street and the Artists Union Gallery and rides at 6pm. We’ll visit galleries on the Westside including Bell Arts to see Moses Mora’s show there and we’ll end up on Laurel for the afterparty with live music and beer from Anacapa.
Wines for Winter: WBW #65 asks what to drink with a side of snow?
What would you drink with a side of snow? That was this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday prompt from Wine Girl who suggests that no matter where we live, we “imagine Snow. Snowmen, snow balls, igloos, snow trucks, snow … cold, cold snow. Then I want you to imagine what [wine] that makes you want to drink.” She continues, “With a valid story behind you, there’s no reason you can’t pop open a cognac, a brandy, or even bourbon.”
So as my hometown in southern California is getting battered by a week of wet and wild storms, with snow levels dropping fast and Interstate 5 closing periodically, and after a few days of filling some 30 sand bags and shoveling way too much mud during breaks in the weather, I am hiding out inside my house to face the monthly Wine Blogging Wednesday question: what to taste and what to drink? And this time complicated by the option of fortified wines and more!
Since I don’t want to leave the house to go find something for the occasion, my first thought was my go to evening wintry drink, port, maybe tasting one each from three continents–Portugal (naturally!), Australia (probably Jonesy), and a Kachina port that was in the gift bag at the Wine Bloggers Conference last summer (here’s a review of the Kachina port to indicate why I’m looking for a tasting occasion!)
But then I thought about the lovely madeira and the sherries I tasted with Esteban Calabezas in Portugal at the European Wine Bloggers Conference and realized I would have the perfect excuse to open the Gonzalez Byass Solera 1847 Oloroso Dulce I picked up from a tasting by the distributor, Henry Wine Group. I think I paid around $20 for it; online you can find it from $16-$30.
Then I was given a birthday present, a very special birthday present, and I knew that given a choice, this beverage would be NUMBER ONE on any snow day. I was ACHING to pour it over fresh powder! Read more…
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