in a last frontier fashion ...

Friday, September 11, 2009

clear eyes. full hearts. can't lose.

I was delightfully surprised to find out that on the Monroe Catholic Rams football team there's a girl kicker. Primarily a soccer player, Christin Davis is a first year football player. At 4-foot-10 she's about a foot and 100 pound less than most of the players but she gets up there with the boys anyway. For Monroe's game against the Valdez Buccaneer's last Saturday she put on her mascara and painted her nails Monroe yellow to punt and make those extra-point kicks that led to their 61-14 victory against home team Bucs.

And she's not the only girl varsity football player in Alaska. There's another girl on Eielson's team and apparently in North Pole.

Check this rad article about these girls from the Fairbanks Daily-News Miner

In the Anchorage School District they have girls' flag football which seems super cool. Wish they had that when I was at Chugiak High.

Friday, July 17, 2009

ak adventurers

My cousin Emmarnem from San Diego came and visited Alaska a few weeks ago! We had so much fun palling around the state--visiting musk ox and wolves, thrift shopping in Glennallen, drinking smoothies in Copper Center, bar hopping in Los Anchorage and kayaking in Prince William Sound. And of course all of these activites were done in the cutest of outfits!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

John Harris' shoes!!

Alaska State House Rep.

John Harris, Alaska

governor hopeful for 2010, paid a little visit to Valdez yesterday looking rather dapper in a grey suit and gingham tie.

Someone was suppossed to come as well, who's well known for her nice shoes, but she did not show up due to foggy weather.

But look at Harris' shoes! They're shiny and black and look like half-cowboy boots!

bakery street style!

Had lunch at Magpies the other day--a dleicious vegetable medley. While at the bakery, which feels like a warm loaf of bread inside, I also spied some lovely looking people and so I captured them in photographs.

Pretty Girls and Lumberjacks

Hippies!

Doorags!

Carhartts!

dirty birdies named Magpie

Thursday, June 18, 2009

the people we know

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

valley boy

so uh what's the scuttlebutt about Levi Johnston?

There's a profile of him in GQ magazine as an all-American/Alaskan boy and dad-- hunting sheep and changing diapers.

And then he goes to L.A. to go shopping for his way to break into show biz with his alter-ego "Hollywood Ricky." whaaa?

Personally, I think he looks better in camo than stunner shades and the like. It's just bizarre that he's being featured as an icon in his hunting garb and possibly having a hunting-themed reality show? Weren't his 2 mins of fame over after he knocked up the first dude's daughter?

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

beards and 'staches

Was I in heaven or was I at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Anchorage Alaska last weekend?

Really, I couldn't tell.

So many amazing fellas sporting fuzzy faces I couldn't help but feel a bit twitterpated. I actually met (and got a photo with!!) previous "natural beard and styled moustache champ" Burke Kenny from Olympia, Washington. He didn't place this year at the championships but he won the Alaska Beard Team's "Black Bear" award.

Burke and I

Lots of other fashionable males were present at the event including Moses, Santa Clause, Claude Monet and plenty of Alaskan fishermen, whalers, trappers and miners.

The bi-yearly event had more than 300 competitiors and 50 of them were from Alaska--I knew I moved back to the right state.

And hilariously enough, Bob Gengler, the president of the South Central Alaska Beard and Moustache Club, said that most Alaskans are so independent so they don’t want to join any team--even a beard team!! I just imagine all those potential beard champions in the Alaskan Bush too wild to organize, hiding out with rifles and "get off my land" threats.

On Friday, there was a beard parade and then this rad band from Australia called The Beards played. Their whole schtick: songs about beards for people with beards. The hits: "If your Dad doesn't have a beard you've got two Moms" and "Beards don't kill people, People with Beards kill people." Wowza.

Listening to the band I almost felt like I was in a magical dream world--kind of like in Harry Potter but replace the magic with lotsa facial hair.

I'm still feeling a little whimsical about the whole thing and wouldn't object to any guys with beards and/or 'staches pinching me to make sure I'm not dreaming! ha!

Freestyle Beard Champion and Ultimate World Beard Champion David Traver