The weekend is over, and now I’m heading northward to hang out with Baby Hank.
But first! Can I get a witness? Friday night was spent on Bainbridge with the folks. I beat them at Scrabble and gave my father his birthday gifts.
Then! Saturday it was into Seattle to fall into the loving arms of Jenny, my hair woman at Vain. Like a faithful girl, I’d been saving myself for Jenny. She trimmed my hair, and dyed it all a very dark chocolatey brown. This will make it easier for me to go months without seeing her: no roots from those damn blond chunks. (I know this is facinating to all of you.)
Saturday night was fantasticness galore, first meeting at my favorite, The Elysian, then to Aristocrats to dance. The Elysian was a tasty bit of chaos, with 15 or so people converging … some of whom I knew, some of whom knew eachother, some of whom knew nobody. Whee! I was able to have my favorite drink (a black tea cocktail).
Aristocrats was crowded as hell…seemingly filled with every tired out raver this side of the Cascade Mountains. People I hadn’t seen in years made showed up in droves. Wacky. Friends got blazingly drunk. The floor was dangerously slippery. The music was good. Fun was had. And my host, Tim, stayed at his girlfriend Sarah’s house so I got his amazing bed all to myself.
Sunday I walked to brunch with Scott and Twozdai, before going and picking up a hula hoop to give to my mother. Then off to Twozdai’s for a crazy snacky get-together which made me laugh for hours. HOURS I was laughing. It was hard to stop. I don’t want to stop.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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leblanc
December 2nd, 2002 at 10:39 am
i wish i had a good hair colorist. i need one *badly*.
tlc
December 3rd, 2002 at 7:17 am
Air, there is an almost identical hair spot in LA, but it’s all the way in Los Feliz. It’s called Rudy’s and it’s cheap to boot. Read about it and see the pictures: http://www.instyle.com/instyle.....62,00.html
tlc
December 3rd, 2002 at 7:21 am
And, oh yeah, I forgot that the first Rudy’s is in Seattle.
kim
December 3rd, 2002 at 7:55 am
i suck. i am sick, and went to bed instead of going out to elysian/doc martin.
Ariel
December 3rd, 2002 at 10:02 am
Terra, I absolutely LOATH Rudy’s. I have a lot of experience with them, and they have the honor of having given me the WORST HAIRCUT I HAVE EVER HAD! Some woman at Rudy’s decided, in 1996, that my “moving to San Francisco” look should be a mullet. And I’m not even kidding. A MULLET!
And they’re snobby as all hell there…Long after I refused to let them cut my hair, I would still distribute Lotus at Rudy’s three Seattle locations, and they were consistently bitchy and heinous to me. I hate them. Vain, however, is bad-ass AND full of nice people. They never make you feel ugly for coming in with bad hair.
tlc
December 3rd, 2002 at 2:22 pm
hee hee. that’s ha ha funny. i should have suspected you are familiar with them. i never thought bad things of the rudy’s in LA, perhaps because by comparison to what you find in the rest of LA it is laid back. they were always nice though.
greta
December 3rd, 2002 at 4:10 pm
i hate rudy’s too… i only went there once (in seattle, when i used to live there) and that was enough. it wasn’t the worst haircut ever, and the price was right, but they were so surly and unimaginative. some things are worth a few extra $$.
Anonymous
December 3rd, 2002 at 5:23 pm
rudy’s … my few good experiences (aka cute cuts) have been outrageously outnumbered by the negative ones and bad attitudes.
good to see you this weekend! sounds like i missed out on an entertaining night at the doc show, though! crazy twozdai, ha!
*bess.
December 3rd, 2002 at 5:24 pm
oops! that was me up there.