The Secret Life of Antlered Girls

Justin Mott for the NY Times
Porter’s story of our bike ride across the Mekong comes out in the NY Times travel section this weekend.
The pictures are gorgeous. Read it here.

Come on up to MassMoCA if you’re free. It’s Miss Rockaway’s first art project in a museum!
Here are some pictures Tod Seelie took of the build going on there
It feels funny to say it, but it’s true, I’m really glad to come home after traveling for so long. I can’t wait to help build the […]

A pic of me and muffin on Chicken’s bus driving out of New York on our first voyage to the Mississippi.

I had to do it. I´m back in St. Louis paying my respects to the boat and tearing it all apart. I´m at CAMP right now and Alexis is flamenco dancing in the next room. Mendon is fixing bikes in the bike shop and I just made a quesadilla upstairs and took a cold […]

I’ve been on the river! Yesterday was so amazing! I interviewed a whole Christian biker gang called the Bond Slaves and they totally blew my mind. Not in the make-you-convert kind of way but more in the oh-my-god-that-story-was-incredible-and-you-guys-are-so-cool kind of way. I’ll get those stories online in a couple weeks. Also, my mom visited the […]

Honey Space An independently produced solo New York debut, in a formerly abandoned warehouse in the heart of Chelsea. Thomas Beale has culled the products of years of concentrated effort and woven them into a single, thick installation environment. Opening party features performance by Mickey Western, Mary Go Round, and New Orleans brass sensation […]

i’m still on the hunt for a fishing boat in minneapolis to convert into my storyboat. therefore i troll craigslist regularly.
here’s the saddest looking fishing boat ad. it’s just the loneliest thing:
14′ CRESTLINER FISH BOAT - $355
Reply to: sale-336420649@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-05-22, 8:32PM CDTGREAT ALUMINUM FISH BOAT
THREE BENCH SEATS
MEDIUM SIZE–FAIRLY LIGHTWEIGHT
TAKES UP TO 18HP SHORT […]

OMG WOULDN’T MISS THIS IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
The Silent Barn
915 Wyckoff Ave
With
Erica Freas
Dark Dark Dark
Hira Panna Lesea and Friends
Frozen Form the eyes of the a.m. - a short play by the Dome Theatre Companie
Projections by Zoch and Nastia
late night dance out with DJ PorkChopChopChop
Friday, May 25th | 8pm | $Donation: Bring Dollars for […]

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Swashbuckler’s Ball
A Benefit for the Miss Rockaway Armada
Thursday, May 10th
Europa Nightclub in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
98 Meserole Ave., (corner of Manhattan Ave.)
G train to Nassau
Doors at 7 pm, $7 or $5 if you dress up real
crazy like a pirate or other nautical character
Shake Your Booty to the Fantastic Talents Of:
Rude Mechanical Orchestra (radical marching band)
featuring Team Awesome […]

WANTED: Your fishing boat for Huck Finn! (Miss Rockaway Armada) - $1
Reply to: sale-309533235@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-04-10, 4:17PM CDTI’m looking for an affordable or donated aluminum (maybe fiberglass) 14′-16′ boat with a 15-40hp motor, flat floor, pedestal seats (ideally no furniture except a steering chair, or a sideways bench) and a steering wheel and […]

Oh well! So. All is well. No. All is grand! I resigned from one of jobs today. Woo hoo! I’ll be going down the river this summer. Yay!
Okay, so. Lots of good fun things have happened lately. Much partying and carrying on. I haven’t spent any money on anything except laundry in 2 days. I […]

Tonight I learned to tune a guitar. Last night at Ashley and (Bonfire) Madigan and Jane LeCroy’s birthday party I sang the night away and it was fun. Thursday’s Miss Rockaway Armada benefit show went very well. There are still some amazing pieces left, so if you haven’t seen the show, look at it on […]

oh hell yeah. come get the Miss Rockaway Armada down the river. This Thursday!!! Also, catch up with us on flickr and read about us in the new york times.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
For Press Inquiries contact A’yen Tran, ayen@missrockaway.org

Rolling on the River:
Art Exhibit to Benefit the Miss Rockaway Armada

Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart St. […]

NYC->Philly to see Dark Dark Dark (missing them with all my heart, and not just because they took Todd away, I wince at the departure of Marshall and Nona and George) at Fancy House->DC for NCOR->Philly to drop Josh off at NotSquat, 2nd visit to Finley at Fancy House->NYC to Todd’s then biked up to […]

Looking for a cheap boat for an amazing project - $1
Reply to: sale-292462723@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-03-12, 12:04AM CDTI’m a member of the Mississippi River’s Miss Rockaway Armada. You might have met us when we came to Minneapolis, Red Wing, Winona, LaCrosse, Prairie Du Chien, Dubuque, Clinton and all the cities along the river before Andalusia, Ill. […]

OK, at long last I have finally uploaded all the miss rockaway pictures!! Click here to see them and scroll down for the flickr pool.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Justseeds fire sale last night and Todd’s bday party. It was rad. Thanks to Wooster for posting it and to Visual Resistance for workin so hard. Thanks to Dark Dark Dark from Minneapolis & the Miss Rockaway Armada for playing a slammin show!

Todd’s birthday show and Justseeds fire sale and art extravaganza. Yay. Feb 8. THERE WILL BE A SHOW BY ARMADA MEMBER MARSHALL AND MINNEAPOLITE NONA AND TODD CHANDLER HIMSELF!
From Josh MacPhee:
For all of you in New York City, there is a giant Justseeds art show and sale on Thursday night. A giant firesale, with […]

erica freas and the helm of miss rockaway. new york will miss you so much, erica.

So I’m home. I know I didn’t mention it. Having some serious post-partum with the raft and life on the river. Here’s a pic I took of the story booth Todd and I made with Callie and David Ellis to do our oral history project in. That part was amazing. When I put my 2900 […]