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BACK TO THE ROCK

Published
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antlered girl
on October 3, 2007
in boat, miss rockaway and mississippi07
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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 shower. The boat is coming apart nicely though itś sad. Why is the trip stopping you may ask? Well. The boats can´t go faster than the current below St Louis with any motor you put on them, meaning we can´t steer or dock, there are only gas fill-ups every 200 miles and you would need to bring a LOT of food & water to make it 200 miles between stops. Some folks are talking about doing the trip to New Orleans, theyŕe totally out of their minds, but I have hope that they will get a real boat, fortify the hell out of it, stock up on supplies and do the journey. Thereś a good tell-all here.

Anyway, it was nice seeing folks at the chicken hut & timeÅ› up, mccarren park, in my living room and around town.
PictureÅ› to come, seriously serious. like thousands.

xoxo

FUNEMPLOYED!

Published
by
antlered girl
on September 17, 2007
in mississippi07, river07 and updates
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So I went halfway home to learn I was coming back to a job I had actually been laid off from! Whoa. So I’m home and that’s cool and now I’m gonna chill out and see how long I can do odd jobs for. Need a professional toenail or apartment painter? Need someone to update your blog while you’re at work totally not blogging? Professional afternoon bloody mary drinker? How about a style consultant or someone who knows a lot about the coast guard? I’m here for you.

IGNORING ONE’S ELECTRONIC LIFE IS BAD BUT ALSO GOOD.

Published
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antlered girl
on August 14, 2007
in art, boat, miss rockaway, mississippi07 and river07
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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 river recently and it was lovely. I’m currently in Hannibal, MO where Mark Twain is from. The whole town is incredibly mega-Twainy. What else? I’ve spent all my money and don’t have enough money to get home. I’ve weathered tornadoes and police harassment and am still having the time of my life. Coming home pretty soon.

Here are some pictures my mom took:

Lisa and A'yen at Turtle Island on the Garden of Bling
Lisa and A’yen at Turtle Island on the Garden of Bling

The Garden of Bling in the tornado

The Garden of Bling docked at the Quincy Boat Club when they gave us space to dock to escape the tornado

Mark Twain's Boyhood Home
Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home in Hannibal, MO

Jenny on parade in Hannibal, MO

Jenny on parade in Hannibal, MO

Our new friend Grace from Hannibal, MO on parade with us

Our new friend Grace from Hannibal, MO on parade with us

Corey Vinegar and A'yen on parade in Hannibal

Corey Vinegar and A’yen on parade in Hannibal

Also, a poem that I like by Henry Dumas

If I Were Earth
Each tear that fell
from the crushed
moons of your face,
stabbed me,
broke and split
into a thousand pains.
But I held out my arms
and no not one did I miss,
No, not one pain.
And if I don’t let
you soak into me
and bring me up,
if I don’t let you seep
deep into me
and teach me,
then you can cry in
the morning to the sun,
and tell him to rise up
and burn me away.
—copyright by Loretta Dumas and Eugene B. Redmond

NEW PICTURES! ALMOST OUT OF DUCKY’S. SERIOUSLY.

Published
by
antlered girl
on July 7, 2007
in mississippi07 and river07
. 3 Comments

The Storyboat!

The Storyboat.

Painting the Storyboat.

Painting the Storyboat.

Check out new pictures from the Mississippi HERE

Having a lovely time out here.

ON THE RIVER AT DUCKY’S LAGOON!

Published
by
antlered girl
on June 13, 2007
in mississippi07
. 1 Comment


So, I made it here. I picked up my boat in Minneapolis and motored slowly down the river with my brilliant boater friend Porter Fox. The boat, docked up to Miss Rockaway here on the right, is a 16′ fishing boat, made possible by the kindness and support of a nice lady named Rebecca St. Claire, the nice folks who sold me the boat, Phil, Dave, Paul, Eli, John Hulk and the other nice folks on Marshall St. in Minneapolis. Mark from the motor shop who gave me solar panels and all the nice people on the river.

My boat now runs on solar power!

Woot!

Check back for updates. Gonna start recording stories soon when we leave Ducky’s Lagoon.

XO
Antlers

IN MINNEAPOLIS!

Published
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antlered girl
on June 5, 2007
in mississippi07
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Yay! Minneapolis is great. I’ve been to Hard Times, the Seward, gotten solar panels, a fishing boat. Phil, John Hulk, Dave, neighbors Eli & Paul and more awesome people than I can number have been helping me get my boat in shape. I’m all registered and Porter and I head out this morning!

Now I just gotta get some antlers on my boat.