I’ve been completely obsessed with soccer lately. Maybe it’s that Basketball season is coming to an end or that MLS has started or that the Kickers season will start soon. Or maybe it’s just because soccer is such a fantastic sport! To give you a glimpse of how great it is enjoy this video:
(ht: Soccer By Ives)
With today’s announcement that the Renegades are going out of business we are left with only one single professional sports team in Richmond at the moment, the Kickers. They are about to start their season and could use our support! I’ll be updating this blog with more info about games as they come up.
Regarding the title of this post, this may be a pipe-dream but as I was thinking about sports in Richmond I couldn’t help but think that what sport really belonged in the bottom was soccer. All the best soccer experiences in the world have a couple things in common… they are soccer-specific stadiums near pubs and public transit. No place in the greater Richmond area represents that possibility better than the bottom! What do you think?
The newly renovated Robinson Theater Community Arts Center opened this weekend! Last night they kicked it off with a free jazz concert featuring local bands No BS Brass and Fight The Big Bull. They had a really good turnout and the concert was a lot of fun.
This afternoon was the grand opening open house. They had a couple of jazz musicians playing, some information out and some drinks and snacks available.
I’m really excited about the potential of this place! They will be doing after school programs for kids and some concerts and the rest of the time it’s available for people/groups in the community to come up with creative uses for it.
It’s about 6 blocks from our house at 29th and Q streets and it’s really in the center of the whole neighborhood. I look forward to walking there a lot!
I had been growing a beard in for a couple weeks recently and kept it through our trip to Minneapolis to keep my face warm. This is what I looked like this morning:
I decided that I prefer to be able to kiss my wife(she hates the prickliness) to looking like a lumberjack so I decided to shave it off today. But I didn’t stop there. After I shaved it off I thought I looked like I had a mullet so I took the clippers to the back of my head and made a mess. Alicia took it upon herself to fix it and gave her first ever haircut(thanks babe!). Now I look like this:
I feel like I should be entering a witness protection program or something.
Some friends and I will be heading up to the frigid north of Minneapolis in a couple weeks to take part in The Common Root 09. It’s put on by The Common Root which is a very neat network of Anabaptist and Monastic folks. I’m very much looking forward to being a part of it.
I should mention that when Alicia heard that I was interested in going to it she insisted that I go even though it’s over Valentine’s weekend. She’s great like that.
