Big thanks to everyone who came out for Punk Prom 2008. We’d like to especially thank all our volunteers: without you, the show(s) could not go on!
If you got your prom photo taken, you can see it at the
Invasion of the PromBots gallery.
Courtney and Gary of the Monster Women
And don’t forget to support those awesome Prom bands:
It’s PUNK PROM!
In alphabetical order:
Costume Contest! Door Prizes! General Silliness!
When: Friday, April 25th, 7pm-midnight
Where: Bayside Grange, just outside of Arcata [map]
Cost: $5 if in costume (robot and/or prom drag) / $7 if you are boring. Two-buck annual membership always required
Leave yer Drugs/Alcohol at home
When we say ALL AGES we mean it: Everybody Welcome!
Thank you to all the local businesses and organizations who have generously provided prizes, including:
Sunday, April 20th, 5:30 pm
Jacoby Storehouse off the Arcata Plaza
Everybody Welcome
Confirmed Events for April and May. Details are on the calendar, as we get them
MORE TO COME
At the Ink People, 5:30 pm. Ring the bell if you get there later and someone will be down to let you in.
This meeting will focus on Punk Prom and our shows in May and June, including Punk BBQ.
Review by Jasmine Loucks
Finding the Open Road by Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, and Nathan Gebhard [ISBN: 1580087213]
As I can personally testify to, coming of age these days can sometimes feel like a struggle between your dreams and the shared dreams that your parents have for you. For the first 18 years of life (and on into college for many people) we’re stuck in a rigid system designed to send us on the “road to success,” but it can often feel like we’re not the one driving. In what can often feel like mere moments we’re off to college studying for a career picked for us by parents, teachers, or others, but not ourselves. This is where Finding the Open Road begins: three friends who felt like they were moving too fast to a life they weren’t sure if they really wanted.
Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, and Nathan Gebhard were seniors in college who felt like they had been taken out of the driver’s seat. To rediscover where they might be headed they decided to ask people of different professions how they got where they were. The friends planned a road-trip across the country to ask questions like “How do you find a career that you love?”, “How did successful people get where they are today?”, and “How can you shut out the noise of what other people want you to be?”. They took a summer off and set up interviews with people of all sorts of careers from CEOs to lobster fishermen. What they found would change their lives, and give birth to Roadtrip Nation, which would in turn begin to change the lives of many other young people.
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