heidi - 12/07/10 01:20
It's the one at the end of Porter St (North turns into Porter @ Symphony Circle). I think this looks like great fun - Buffalo needs little places to sled. The mounds could be hobbit hills! (e:dcoffee) & (e:mmtornow) made a snow fort out of their mountains of snow a few days ago.

tinypliny - 12/15/10 19:26
Maybe I should just get that tattoo I have been coveting for so long AND do the braid/bald thing...

tinypliny - 12/15/10 19:24
Good point, (e:heidi). You are correct, she might have got the locations wrong... I am considering braiding my hair. You have no idea how long it is right now! :) It is the longest it has been since I came here. But I am in half-minds whether to chop it or to braid it. I am slightly tired of looking so uninteresting, braiding seems like the way to go to get some "street cred". I went bald for a bit, and kind of liked it... so I don't know. Maybe the real question is to go bald or braid it?!

heidi - 12/14/10 18:48
I think the yelp.com review confuses the shop that is on Allen with the one on Main Street. The one on Allen hasn't moved and they aren't natural-focused.

heidi - 12/14/10 18:46
I've heard good things about Hair to go Natural.

But all this begs the question of why? You have very short hair.

tinypliny - 12/04/10 05:17
Heh, it's not a lot of time but a chunk of mindspace. Salsa is one hour a week and fashion is ten minutes when I think of a direction. But you see, it *seems* like all of the time because at (e:strip), my mindspace expands to fill almost 100% of my journal. I write about 95% of my conscious work elsewhere. :-)

But I have to admit, I am fascinated with Salsa and the whole culture around it. I am drawn to the intensity of the dance and in love with how the music transports me to a very tropical beach when I am walking in a bleak landscape of snow. Its a way to reconnect with art physically - something which I have sorely missed for so many years now.

Fashion is a way of doing the same, in a more subtle way. I miss the wild colours, the mirrors, the embroidery and the precisely tailored clothes I used to wear. They were part of me and who I wanted to be everyday. I miss waking up everyday and knowing that I was not going to be worried about whether my clothes were depressing or not. So, I want to regain at least a minimal part of my expression. I think I now have a hang of how fashion works here. Since tailoring is so expensive, people find alternative ways of avoiding feeling like a dowdily dressed rag. Either they have lot of money (which, I don't) or they spend time hunting for the right fit, the right size and whatnot (which is a herculean task for me since I don't fit the population average and don't have a lot of time or the means of transport to do it anyway).

The only other alternative is pretty clear - personal tailoring. You might think that this coat is a complicated project (and it probably is, technically speaking). But it is just a way of trying to see if I can overcome the sense of being utterly plebeian and expendable - a feeling that I get everyday wearing clothes that clearly were not made for me. It's an experiment, in that sense. I may not necessarily finish this experiment or even get anywhere but atleast, it will have graced my mindspace as an art form!

It's strange that both the Salsa and this insane sewing obsession are really the same thing in a lot of ways...

heidi - 12/03/10 23:31
How do you suddenly have all this time for salsa and fashion?

paul - 12/02/10 22:27
sounds fun, good luck!