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Hooping Category
Hooping. Yes. As in HULA HOOPING, but with bigger, custom-made hoops. I wrote so much on Electrolicious about hooping that it got ridiculous, and so some friends and I got together and started up hooping.org. That’s where you can find most of my hoop talk, now.
This morning as I was driving to work, I ended up behind a red convertible with two hoop bumper-stickers and a Washington state vanity plate that read HOOPIN. The driver was a woman with purple-tinged hair. The fact that I have absolutely no clue who she was is pretty solid evidence that I’m officially 100% out of it with the local hooping scene. I’m ok with that, but it was still an odd moment. I guess it really has been a year since I resigned from my duties with hooping.org.
Community service
22
Oct
2006
In: Hooping
Yesterday I ventured out to Kirkland, WA, where I led a “hooping for fun & fitness” workshop at a community event for boomers and seniors. I usually avoid teaching hoop stuff, but it was fun to get folks moving … despite the tiny demo room! Here are some photos by Michael Mussman.
Today I resigned from my duties at hooping.org. Whew. It’s been a great project for three years, but I’m excited to get myself focused on offbeatbride.com. Plus, like Lotus Magazine, I found that the administration challenges of running a community media project eventually eclipsed the joy I originally found from the community. I’m hoping that I realized it a little sooner with hooping.org than I did with Lotus, so that I can still squeeze out some hooping joy without worrying about the socio-cultural dynamics … oh, who am I kidding. My head is always a blur of socio-cultural dynamics. Whereever you go, there you are. That said, now I can focus on the sociocultural impacts of weird weddings instead of hula hooping. One must pick her battles.
… or do they? (Posting here instead of hooping.org for a change!)
A piece about hula hooping that includes an interview with me aired on NPR’s Marketplace. Listen to the segment!
Last night I did all the NPR nerds in my family proud and was interviewed for an upcoming Marketplace story about the business of hula hooping. It was pretty exciting to get to sit in the little studio at KUOW wearing big headphones and talking into an enormous fuzzy orange microphone as I was interviewed, via ISDN, by the journalist in Los Angeles. Supposedly the piece will run next Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted. After the interview, my friend Phyllis gave me a tour of the studio, and I got to talk hoops with Amanda Wilde, who used to be my favorite DJ on KEXP. All in all, it was an exciting afternoon, especially when you factor in my humor/nostalgia trip through an old U-district head shop before the interview. Nothing there has changed (nsfw)!
This morning as I was driving to work, I ended up behind a red convertible with two hoop bumper-stickers and a Washington state vanity plate that read HOOPIN. The driver was a woman with purple-tinged hair. The fact that I have absolutely no clue who she was is pretty solid evidence that I’m officially 100% out of it with the local hooping scene. I’m ok with that, but it was still an odd moment. I guess it really has been a year since I resigned from my duties with hooping.org.
Community service
22 Oct 2006 In: HoopingYesterday I ventured out to Kirkland, WA, where I led a “hooping for fun & fitness” workshop at a community event for boomers and seniors. I usually avoid teaching hoop stuff, but it was fun to get folks moving … despite the tiny demo room! Here are some photos by Michael Mussman.
Today I resigned from my duties at hooping.org. Whew. It’s been a great project for three years, but I’m excited to get myself focused on offbeatbride.com. Plus, like Lotus Magazine, I found that the administration challenges of running a community media project eventually eclipsed the joy I originally found from the community. I’m hoping that I realized it a little sooner with hooping.org than I did with Lotus, so that I can still squeeze out some hooping joy without worrying about the socio-cultural dynamics … oh, who am I kidding. My head is always a blur of socio-cultural dynamics. Whereever you go, there you are. That said, now I can focus on the sociocultural impacts of weird weddings instead of hula hooping. One must pick her battles.
… or do they? (Posting here instead of hooping.org for a change!)
A piece about hula hooping that includes an interview with me aired on NPR’s Marketplace. Listen to the segment!
Last night I did all the NPR nerds in my family proud and was interviewed for an upcoming Marketplace story about the business of hula hooping. It was pretty exciting to get to sit in the little studio at KUOW wearing big headphones and talking into an enormous fuzzy orange microphone as I was interviewed, via ISDN, by the journalist in Los Angeles. Supposedly the piece will run next Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted. After the interview, my friend Phyllis gave me a tour of the studio, and I got to talk hoops with Amanda Wilde, who used to be my favorite DJ on KEXP. All in all, it was an exciting afternoon, especially when you factor in my humor/nostalgia trip through an old U-district head shop before the interview. Nothing there has changed (nsfw)!
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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