Electrolicious

Last night I broke out of my agoraphobic bubble and went to The Echo to meet up with Megasoul. I decided, on a whim, to bring my hoop into the club with me…just in case there was room to dance with it.
Since there was no cover, the dance floor was packed, but I did [...]

This morning my favorite online radio station (Flaresound.com’s Jazzy Beats) played a song I hadn’t heard or thought of in years: Electric Skychurch’s “Deus.”
It inspired me to pull out the album, Together. What a classic! This CD has definitely stood up to the test of time, taking its place in my audio history as a [...]

…Comes around. Take a peek at the hooping article I wrote on-spec for the LA Weekly.

The hooping workshop was a fun, although I could have used a bit more technical direction and/or focused instruction. It was more like just a hooping party. Regardless, I got myself an awesome new hoop (smaller than my first, and much prettier), and picked up a couple new moves.
Sadly, the car ride home found me [...]

Interesting hoop trivia: in general, right-handed hoopers spin counter-clockwise, lefties clockwise.
In other hoop news, I had a frightening experience yesterday. A guy ran up to me in the desert and asked if he could play with my hoop. I’d been loaning it out all morning, and was happy to pass it off to him. Then, [...]

The mother sits on the soil next to a small campfire, admiring the gorgeous alpine lake beneath the knoll she’s camped on. She meditates and muses about how thankful she is to be there. She breathes deep, and sighs contentedly. She waves her hand gently around her head, thanking even the swarms of mosquitos around [...]

Last night I went and traded dinner and drinks for a homemade customized hula hoop almost five feet in diameter. My friend Holly gave me a “fitting,” where she brought a bunch of hoops she’d made out into her yard, and I “tried on” each one to see which felt the best. I ended up [...]

This weekend Jolayne introduced me to hooping as a form of dance. I’d seen it done before (most recently just last weekend), and know it’s a burgeoning dance form in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but I’d never actually given it a shot. I think it is my new obsessive hobby.
[Update from 2003: Oh dear. [...]