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Weekend Adventures: Elmer Batters exhibit, Mexican food..
This past weekend was an adventurous weekend!
Last week had been a meh week – just normal work woes and minor things, so having a great weekend to refresh oneself and come back with stories is so important.
Friday started off lazy enough: oven pizzas from Trader Joes while Michele worked on Bleeding Cool articles and I played Minecraft.
Saturday we drive to LA to the Taschen Exhibit. Taschen was showcasing the work of Eric Stanton and Elmer Batters, which I was very eager. Batters is one of my favourite photographers, and I really love his many pictures of girls in seamed stockings and hosiery. Seeing all his photography up on the wall, I felt legitimized his craft, gave it a much needed reconsideration. I had an Eric Stanton book, and while his art is sometimes a bit too “bondage-y” for me, many of his pieces where excellently executed. There’s an era captured in both Stanton’s and Batters’ work that I am really drawn to. I did wind up plucking up the new Stanton book, and Michele got inspiration for a Bleeding Cool article after seeing the Stanton/Ditko (the comic book icon!) work that was on display. However, my true love was the photography of Elmer Batters, so I was very glad to have seen the exhibit: photos, magazines, letter head and other articles. Not to brag – but I also own a few of the artifacts.
After the exhibit we went to The Grove to shop around and kill time. I was running low on hot sauces, so I managed to replenish my Marie Sharpe’s habanera sauce along with some spicy peanuts.
We met our friends Barbra and Bryant from Fanboy Comics at El Coyote for Mexican food for dinner. Michele and I are still in the market of trying to find an excellent Mexican restaurant down here to haunt, and El Coyote was quite good. I was so hungry, I GORGED on my chile rellano and washed it down with 2 margaritas (ultimate and house one – the house one being the best). I believe we were at the restaurant for over two hours, talking about important nerd things: Wondercon, comic books, gamergate and video games, writing, space-horror things – all pleasant dialog for a nice evening out. It’s really good to see and have food with folks important to you. And even better when your tummy is so stuffed with yummy food!
Michele and I didn’t get home until way late, but a box was waiting for us: Try the World. It’s one of those services were every month or so you get a box of random stuff inside. Try the World is good oriented – a box of a different country every 2 months. We opened ours the next day to see it was grub from Marrakesh: couscous, rubs, oils, cookies, etc. It was fun to do, but at almost $40, it’s a little too expensive to really subscribe to.
The rest of Sunday was a lazy day: shopping, Minecraft, and being lazy on the couch. Refreshed - attitude and spirits renewed - time to take over the world this week!
Last week had been a meh week – just normal work woes and minor things, so having a great weekend to refresh oneself and come back with stories is so important.
Friday started off lazy enough: oven pizzas from Trader Joes while Michele worked on Bleeding Cool articles and I played Minecraft.
Saturday we drive to LA to the Taschen Exhibit. Taschen was showcasing the work of Eric Stanton and Elmer Batters, which I was very eager. Batters is one of my favourite photographers, and I really love his many pictures of girls in seamed stockings and hosiery. Seeing all his photography up on the wall, I felt legitimized his craft, gave it a much needed reconsideration. I had an Eric Stanton book, and while his art is sometimes a bit too “bondage-y” for me, many of his pieces where excellently executed. There’s an era captured in both Stanton’s and Batters’ work that I am really drawn to. I did wind up plucking up the new Stanton book, and Michele got inspiration for a Bleeding Cool article after seeing the Stanton/Ditko (the comic book icon!) work that was on display. However, my true love was the photography of Elmer Batters, so I was very glad to have seen the exhibit: photos, magazines, letter head and other articles. Not to brag – but I also own a few of the artifacts.
After the exhibit we went to The Grove to shop around and kill time. I was running low on hot sauces, so I managed to replenish my Marie Sharpe’s habanera sauce along with some spicy peanuts.
We met our friends Barbra and Bryant from Fanboy Comics at El Coyote for Mexican food for dinner. Michele and I are still in the market of trying to find an excellent Mexican restaurant down here to haunt, and El Coyote was quite good. I was so hungry, I GORGED on my chile rellano and washed it down with 2 margaritas (ultimate and house one – the house one being the best). I believe we were at the restaurant for over two hours, talking about important nerd things: Wondercon, comic books, gamergate and video games, writing, space-horror things – all pleasant dialog for a nice evening out. It’s really good to see and have food with folks important to you. And even better when your tummy is so stuffed with yummy food!
Michele and I didn’t get home until way late, but a box was waiting for us: Try the World. It’s one of those services were every month or so you get a box of random stuff inside. Try the World is good oriented – a box of a different country every 2 months. We opened ours the next day to see it was grub from Marrakesh: couscous, rubs, oils, cookies, etc. It was fun to do, but at almost $40, it’s a little too expensive to really subscribe to.
The rest of Sunday was a lazy day: shopping, Minecraft, and being lazy on the couch. Refreshed - attitude and spirits renewed - time to take over the world this week!
