By bluerasberry on 2023-02-10
Chinchilla Café is a concert venue, community center, and animal coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Robin Brown, Gabriela Toledo, Eli Draizen, Fabian Garcia, and I Lane Rasberry established it last year in 2022. I want to describe what it is, the shows we have presented, and what we are trying to accomplish by hosting it. See […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival | Tagged chinchilla, coffee, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2023-01-03
For New Year’s Eve we went to the Southern concert venue in Charlottesville for Shagwüf and the Falsies. When I first moved to Charlottesville Fabian and I went there on 16 March 2018 to see Southern Culture on the Skids. Fabian had not been back since but I had gone there for concerts sometimes. Robin […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, gay stuff | Tagged holiday, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2019-09-08
On Saturday 7 September 2019 I attended the 18th Annual Youth Film Festival in Charlottesville. A nonprofit organization called Light House Studio presents this. I like that there is an organization which provides a channel for youth to produce and publish films locally. Because I am a media access advocate, I liked less that all […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, non-profit | Tagged movie, youth
By bluerasberry on 2019-08-30
The 2019 Wikimania reception was Sunday 18 August in the Nordic Museum. The theme was Nordic Culture and the conference organizers had prepared for us to have a traditional blot, or animal sacrifice, in the lobby of the museum. The organizers announced none of this in advance. I only came to realize what was happening […]
Posted in animal, festival, museum, religion, Stockholm | Tagged blood, vegan, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2016-03-17
On Sunday 6 March, Fabian, his housemate and I went to “Saint Pat’s For All”, which is an all-inclusive Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. The complaint was that the organizers of the traditional Saint Patrick’s Day Parade restrict who can march in the parade, notably, by banning LGBT people. St. Pat’s for All is not an […]
Posted in festival, tour | Tagged Fabian, march
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-22
The night of 13 February I returned from Kumbh Mela with Sou, and I had wanted a peaceful 14 February morning and day with him. Hotels were crazy overbooked in Varanasi and I had not been able to find a room, and I asked Nadya if she could share a room with her cameraman so […]
Posted in festival, gay stuff, India, love, religion, tour | Tagged Kumbh Mela, Nadya Kadrevis, Sherwin, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-19
Tanvir met me at my hotel in the morning and we got in an autorickshaw. He talked about everything we passed detailing what happens in which neighborhood and the sort of development which happens in Dhaka. He proposed his own alternative urban planning schemes including the destruction and rebuilding of entire neighborhoods and and minor […]
Posted in Dhaka, festival, tour | Tagged Chobi Mela, Shabab, Tanvir Rahman
By bluerasberry on 2012-10-01
Marcus and I went to the Maker Faire on Sunday 30 September at the New York Hall of Science. It was fun. Stephen Wolfram was there giving a talk about the future of personal drones. Lots of people at the fair were showing off their drones both live and with video displays. There were 3D […]
Posted in education, festival, New York City | Tagged conference, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-07-05
I have been very upset since Nathan’s Hot Dogs would not allow Takeru Kobayashi, known also as Kobi the world’s greatest competitive eater, to compete in their contest. In this report Kobi talks about how unjust and cruel they are. The Wikimania conference in DC is upcoming and many international visitors are here in Manhattan […]
Posted in festival, Japan, New York City, rights | Tagged competitive eating
By bluerasberry on 2011-09-18
On Saturday the 17th there was a cupcake eating contest at this event in Interbay called the Mobile Food Rodeo. Trophy made the cupcakes so they were awesome. The organizers called me because they knew that I like to compete in eating contests. There were three contestants and I got reminded of something important at […]
Posted in festival, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating