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This Wednesday May 23rd, 2012 from 9pm until midnight or later at Akbar it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Wooden Planes (two different types!)
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmos: Think PINK!

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Craft Captain speaking.

On behalf of the flight crew, let me welcome you aboard CraftNight Flight 4356 to Akbar with continuing service to Echo Park, Downtown and Santa Monica. Flight Attendants, we’re cleared for take-off, set phasers for fabulous! We should touch Akbar at 9pm local time, depending on the reported headwind.

(A little later…) Folks, we’ve just hit our cruising altitude of 11,000 feet. I’ve turned on the “Good Times” light, which means you are now free to move about the cabin. The “Enjoy a Cocktail” light will remain on throughout the flight, in compliance with FAA regulations, as well as the “Make your own personal miniature flying wooden airplane at CraftNight” light, but please remember to fasten your seatbelt in case we encounter any overzealous inebriation. At this time, all cell phone ringers must be amplified, in case you hear from friends who need directions to Akbar, or in case you get a booty call and need to text them back and tell them to come to CraftNight if you ain’t puttin’ out.

Please leave your inhibitions and doubts in their upright and locked position, you won’t need them on this trip, and please be careful opening overhead bins, because glittery doohickeys may have shifted during the flight.

We hope you’ve enjoyed your flight! We hope you choose CraftNight Airlines again for your next exciting journey.

Fly the Crafty Skies, See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain
www.crafthead.com
www.akbarsilverlake.com

This Wednesday (tonight) from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: SHRINKY DINKS!
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special – If you don’t have time to cut a sandwich in half, calm down and cosmo it. 

This Wednesday (tonight) from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Wooden Jungle Animal Puzzle
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special – Takes a Drinking and keeps on winking!

Be it gorilla, monkey, tiger or toucan, whichever one you pick tonight is yours for the assemblage and coloration to fit your fancy. I’m saying “puzzle” but that’s really a loose term, they come with instructions that are pretty easy, and we’re pretty relaxed about instructions around here anyway, when it comes to building your own kickass art project. It’s time to get wild like the jungle, like the clouds approaching from the Pacific’s weather system, mighty and unpredictable.

Upon viewing the weather reports, I was skeptical, but now that the trees are blowing fairly sideways and it’s a rollicking swirl of various native (and not so native) plants heaving about losing leaves… it might be safe to say that it’s going to rain. And if it rains, I implore you, visit us anyway, visit us because it’s SO MUCH FUN to brave the rain and feel like an explorer/adventurer in your own city! The big drops aren’t supposed to start until 11pm, if that. Maybe we’ll just get hit with wind and that’ll be that. However it turns out, we just want to see you walk in the door!

Attend CraftNight without any worry of some algorithm-seeking robot sending you ads by spying on your behavior, leave such onerous and creepy tasks to Google and Facebook! Try analog tonight and surround yourself with the company of very real humans and very real cocktails! Fight the borg! Use your hands! Do something useless, enjoy frivolity to the full extent that our physical quantity allows!

See you at the Craft Table (I’m back from Brooklyn!)
JP Craft Captain

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