The Blessings of Liberty

BIRTH a play by Karen Brody

2009-10-02T19:50:49Z

This is a "Vagina Monologues style" play on birth. It's well written and will be a powerful performance. We have 4 performances:

Thurs Oct 8, 7pm
Student Night w/ Talk Back Panel

Fri Oct 9 7pm
Talk Back Panel

Sat Oct 10, 7pm
Doors open at 6, Silent Auction, Wine and Hors d'oeuvres

Sun Oct 11, 2pm

Tix avail at: www.brownpapertickets.com

More info:
www.betterbeginningsforbabies.com
www.boldaction.com at Glaser Center, Santa Rosa, CA

Birth is a play based on over one hundred interviews Karen Brody conducted with mothers across America who gave birth between 2000-2004. It tells the true stories of 8 women painting a portrait of how low-risk, educated women are giving birth in America today.

Directed by Frankie Travis

ArtCar Fest 2009

2009-10-02T07:43:53Z

Art Car Central

2009-09-10T04:49:10Z

kinetosis is now on Art Car Central

It's Been a Long, Long Time

2009-08-26T07:19:02Z

Last Friday I rode into San Francisco. Right before the Waldo Tunnel traffic started to crawl so I started lane splitting legally for the first time in four years. There was one motorcycle ahead of me leading the way for a pack of five or six including me. We sailed over the Golden Gate Bridge till the tollbooths then went off in different directions. It was a thing of beauty except for the jerks that tried to squeeze us out by driving too close to a bunch of motorcycles riding down the middle of the of the lanes, perfectly legal!

Last night after rehearsal I rode home from Sebastopol in thick fog. I can’t remember the last time I was in fog so thick it. I could actually see the aerodynamics of my motorcycle. Little eddies of fog swirling about my fairings, illuminated by oncoming traffic. I did not mind the cold air; I was enjoying the ride too much. I am getting into a Santa Rosa, North Bay, and Bay Area grove but feel guilty about it.

I feel bad for Caryn because she is working so hard on her masters while I go swim laps at the pool, bike on the trails around the city and go for runs in the state park full of deer, turkey and mountain lions. We did get to go out together on her birthday and went bar hoping downtown but right now who knows when she will be home because she is attending to someone’s labor.

* YAY, I hear the garage door opening, she’s home!*

The Crush Is ON!

2009-08-16T00:14:49Z

Last Friday/ Saturday I was driving home from Sacramento around 1am. I was driving in Napa and Sonoma counties and spotted a tractor moving around a vineyard. I thought I was hallucinating; vintners don’t work in the middle of the night. Apparently I was mistaken.
http://www.discover.winecountry.com/wine/2009/08/grape-crush-begins.html

FAME! I want to live forever...

2009-08-15T07:31:25Z

I some how became Stage Manager for the 2009, Santa Rosa production of BIRTH a play by Karen Brody. The play has been produced independently in cities all over the world. The Director of the Santa Rosa play is Frankie Travis! She is a Doula, she directs, teaches acting, is an actress and dancer.

BIRTH the play by Karen Brody

Dates From October 08, 2009 7:00 PM
Through October 11, 2009 2:00 PM

Location
Glaser Center
547 Mendocino Ave
Santa Rosa, CA, CA 95403

Price $5.00 - $15.00

Info Line 707 5391544
Website http://www.boldaction.org/
BOLD performance in Chicago, Illinois, September 2007.

The Wizard of Waukesha

2009-08-14T03:46:12Z

I could have seen Les Paul do his weekly show when I live in New York City from 1987 to 1991 when I was in college but no I never did back then. Last year we visited NYC and I had to go see Les’ show. He was rocking till the very end

kinetosis kar

2009-08-13T05:41:27Z

kinetosis is now on FaceBook!

Just do a FaceBook search for Kinetosis Kar, and me

Sacramento artcar happening

2009-08-07T08:03:11Z

kinetosis will be in Sacramento this weekend!

Friday- hanging out at the dive-in theater around 8pm, not sure what movie, but 15 to 20 artcars, kind of hard to miss.

Saturday- second Saturday Artwalk, art cars will be parked in front of Sub Q Body Piercing. Artcars should be in place by 6pm

In good company

2009-08-07T07:38:49Z

Charlize Theron
David Duchovney
Garrison Keillor
zeitmorder

All born today!!! I share the day with some cool people. The best is I share it with Jo "Boobs" Weldon!

L to R- Torchy Taboo, Jo "Boobs" Weldon, Me

Living in a sea of boxes

2009-07-10T16:22:29Z

Its been a week since we got to Santa Rosa. The trailer was unloaded on Monday. In transit some furniture got gouged up, a glass lamp shade broke and we lost one small dish. Now if we have a dinner party over 7 people someone will have to have the odd plate and sit in a srached up chair.

We have been making lots of trips to Home Depot and other shops to fix this place up. The previous renters did not take care of the place and we have been calling the landlord as we find things that need fixing.

The two car garage is full of stuff but it just has to be organized then we can get both cars in with room for my motorcycle. A few more days of hard work and we will have this place in order

Rock’n’Roll Moveout

2009-06-29T18:16:26Z

99.8% of our worldly positions are sitting in an ABF trailer in front of the house. Yesterday the moving crew we hired was very musical. One of the movers was a former member of Creed and another was in Flock of Seagulls!

The only things left in the house are small things that will go the cars. I am exhausted from the load out and still recovering from the marathon.

Saturday I ran, walk, shuffled and limped 26.2 miles in 103F for over 7.5 hours but I finished one of the most extreme marathons out there.

This evening we are having a going away diner with friends
Tuesday going away dinner with family
Super early Wednesday, drive back to the Bay Area, back to places we miss and people we love

1st 26.2

2009-06-27T15:13:10Z

In August I turn 40. I already ride a motorcycle and flight school is out or my price range at this time so I am taking up marathon running as my mid life distraction. My long term goal is working up to Olympic distance triathlons. At this time I have no interest in an Ironman distance triathlon.

So, for my first marathon I picked Running with the Devil Marathon today around Lake Mead. It’s going to be hot! But if I can do this I can do any marathon. My start time will be at10am, I'll be running in the mid day sun, YEA!!!

Boulder City Weather

Today: Sunny. High 104F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.

Barometer:

30.02 in and rising

Humidity:

29%

Visibility:

10 mi

Dewpoint:

44°

Wind:

S 6 mph

Sunrise:

5:25 am

Sunset:

8:01 pm

Runner’s World Magazine blurb on the run- http://calicoracing.squarespace.com/storage/Runners%20World%20Devil%20Article%20June%202009.pdf

U.M.C. - T.I.C.U.

2009-06-25T11:48:44Z

Last night was my final sift at University Medical Center, Las Vegas in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU). I was part of a very small group of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) that could say they have worked in Nevada’s only Level I Trauma Center. I learned so much in the 11 months I was working per diem. Every shift I was exposed to enormous volumes of information, range of emotions and challenges to my interpersonal skills. I have laughed at coworker’s jokes while I was doing chest compressions and felt my eyes well up when I see how easily life slips away. To say I have grown from my time in the TICU is an understatement. I will miss the team I worked with very much.

Desert Landscape

2009-06-21T11:15:12Z

Flowering cactus in front yard

Goodbye Liaz

2009-06-20T10:47:12Z

On Wednesday I attended the funeral of my friend and coworker Liza. She was one of the most loved nurses in the unit I worked at. I worked with her closely on my last day at Summerlin Hospital. Last Friday I stated to get calls from the unit that she pasted away and to call back. I thought the call was a joke till I got more calls. Liza was a great person to work with, always in a good mood and singing along with the radio when we where sitting around the nurses station charting. Her parents just happen to be visiting from the Philippines and staying at her house till there visa expires. Her mother checked on her because Liza should have been up getting ready for work. Her mother found Liza unresponsive and called 911. Her house was within walking distance from Summerlin Hospital so Liza was taken to our Emergency Department. The E.D. was unable to resuscitate her, did not give my unit any information or allow us to view the body before the mortuary picked her up. It was difficult for me to accept that such a wonderful lively person was gone till I went to the viewing and looked at her lifeless face. I hope someday I can be half the nurse Liza was; she was one of the best

Liza's obit- www.legacy.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx

bonafide

2009-06-10T10:58:35Z

My Nurse Assistant Certification came in the mail the other day! I am now officially certified by the state of California to wipe ass and clean viginas. My CA certification is just a cheap paper card from the Department of Public Health. My card from Nevada State Nursing Board is nicer and looks like an ATM card.

Cert Number: CNA 007XXXXX
Cert Title: CERTIFIED NURSE ASSISTANT
Effective Date: 2009-05-28
Expiration Date: 2011-08-07
Status: CERTIFICATE IS ACTIVE, EMPLOYABLE

http://www.applications.dhs.ca.gov/cvl/SearchPage.aspx

Time for house hunting and job searchin'...

Burlesque Hall of Fame 2009

2009-06-09T10:47:22Z

The past four days I was stagehand for all the shows at the annual Miss Exotic World Pageant. A little heavy lifting and broom pushing got me backstage rubbing elbows with the world’s best burlesque dancers. This year the producers made a big deal of giving the volunteers recognition for all our efforts. All the volunteers got many thanks from the audience, dancers and staff. This was the 5th year of volunteering for b_d_s_monkey and the 4th year for me. By now, we get a lot of "I remember you from last year/s." from dancers from all over the county and world.

Among the thanks and pats on the back, I got some great complements. Considering the sources of these remarks are professional burlesque dancers I more than graciously accepted there remarks.

• Dr. LukkI said she liked my makeup

• Foxy Tann said I have nice eyes

• Miss Exotic World 2006 Julie Atlas Muz told me TWICE I have nice lips, so I reaplied more lipstick and gave her a kiss

Reminder to myself- once we get setup in California, contact Joyce “Comrade” Tang, Stage Manager of the Hubba Hubba Revue, she wants me to be a stage hand

Winner of the Miss Exotic World 2009 Kalani KoKonuts

Take this job and shove it

2009-05-30T17:43:10Z

Bed pans, changing dippers and wiping ass. Oh my!

Tonight is the last night I work at Summerlin Hospital. I gave my two week notice last week but next week I have scheduled time off because I’m a volunteer stagehand for the big burlesque weekend. I have worked the past three years in the Rehabilitation Unit. Physical Rehab not drugs. Rehab clients are not any harder or difficult than other patients they just have different needs. I am ready for a break from providing those basic needs for other people. I am just a little burned out working at a for profit hospital and the profits first not the patient mentality. Ready for something different when we move back to CA.

Dichotomy

2009-05-27T20:35:46Z

This morning I drove down to Needles, CA to get Live Scanned (finger printed). It was a choice of driving to Barstow the arm pit of California or Needles the taint of the state. I arrived almost two hours early for my scheduled appointment at the Sheriffs station so I drove around a bit. It must have been laundry day because most of the pedestrians I came across had large trash bags full of stuff slung over there shoulders. A good number of houses had junked cars out on the front “lawn”. Lots of commercial buildings where boarded up. It was not so much a scary place it was just sad seeing such tremendous poverty and not much future or growth for the citizens of the perineum of the GoldenState

I’m very bias towards urban living but I still have dreams of having a large property some place up in the Sierras will enough land to long range target shoot rifles off the back porch, have bonfires, farm Christmas trees and mine for gold.

Development of an art car

2009-05-21T12:12:04Z

Life is too short to drive a mundane car.

So I have been getting some fresh paint on my car. I’m kind of intimidated that my little car will soon be sharing Bay Area roads with some of the most famous artcars and infamous mutant vehicles out there. I’ll be working hard on her till the end of June to get her ready for her San Francisco début. Then, is summer I hope I’ll have the time to make improvements and modification before the www.howberkeley.com parade.

Amused? If you like what you see add kinetosis

Home Coming dances

2009-05-18T12:03:49Z

Caryn and I are coming home soon!

Home for us is the San Francisco Bay Area. Around the first of July we will be driving out of the desert, across the central valley and head for the North Bay. Caryn will be completing the clinical portion of her schooling in Santa Rosa for 4 ~ 6 moths. So we are looking for a place on the east side of Santa Rosa close to the clinic we will be interning at.

If anyone knows of a pet friendly, short term, house that is available for rent in Santa Rosa, CA hook us up. We posted a Craig’s List add but no luck yet-

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/sbw/1173511381.html

…and I am back

2009-05-18T11:42:02Z

I deleted my MySpace account. I prefer blog oriented social networking versus social networking for the sake of eating up bandwidth. So on with it…

17th Annual Ride to Work Day

2008-07-15T22:27:02Z

Ride your motorcycle or scooter on this day to demonstrate:

The number of motorcyclists to the general public and to politicians.
That motorcyclists are from all occupations and all walks of life.
That motorcyclists can reduce traffic and parking congestion in large cities.
That motorcycles are for transportation as well as recreation.
That motorcycling is a social good.

http://www.ridetowork.org/

6/15/2008, Sunday, Mt. Charleston P.M.

2008-06-16T00:58:36Z

Who is up for evening ride to Mt Charleston starting from south side with a pick up point on the north side?

For the South Side folk’s-
Meet- 8:00pm
Ride Out- 8:30pm

In-N-Out next to Shell, cross street Serene Ave
9230 S. Eastern Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89123

Next we pick up the North Side people at-

Arrive- 9ish
Ride Out- shortly after arriving

ARCO, cross street Craig Rd
4401 N Rainbow Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89108

Then we ride up Kyle Canyon Rd, cross over Deer Creek Hwy and take Lee Canyon to the end/ turnaround. Hang out till? Ride back to the 95, once we get back into town everyone can split off. If you run late at the meet up spots you can find everyone at the end of Lee Canyon Rd.

After this I am headed to the Art Bar for Black List a monthly industrial/goth club if anyone wants to ride along.

Map- http://tinyurl.com/3vbpqk