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This Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 from 9pm until the cows come home, at Akbar,  it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Craft: Holiday Craft Project!$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Cosmo Drink Special – Yule be sorry if you don’t try one! 
SPECIAL EVENT(S)
SQUARE DANCING WITH TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT and Expert Square Dance Caller Extraordinaire, Susan Michaels!
MINI CRAFT FAIR Featuring Goods from Panorama Press, Erickson Ceramic Designs and PinkFouffy!

It’s that time of year, when Los Angeles gets bonkers with Christmas lights and people are scurrying around from one holiday party to the next, trying to make sense of how we suddenly arrived at DECEMBER! How did we get here?!? It’s true it’s true, eleven other months went by and somehow now its all holly berries, merry making and jingle bells chirping out of every store in town!

At some point, you just have to take a good long look at all the stuff that’s happening, and decide there’s only one thing to do tonight: CraftNight.

If you come and visit us, it’s basically a 5-in-1, you can do A LOT all in one place:
1.) Delicious cocktails in the Akbar Ice Cave (if you haven’t seen the ice cave yet, get in here, it is unprecedented)
2.) LIVE Old Time Music being played by Triple Chicken Foot!
3.) AMAZING Square Dance Calling Specialist, Susan Michaels, who will help you realize what an awesome square dancer you are, even if you’ve never been to a square dance, or know what square dancing IS
4.) Mini Craft Fair with some really cool items for sale made by local artists!
5.) Fun Holiday Crafts that you can make for friends, family, or yourself!

It’s a treasure trove of holiday magic, please come and join us!

And one last thing, my puppet show is this final weekend, and I’m going to say this right now: Get your tickets HERE and use the discount code: CRAFT to get 5 bucks off admission!!! Seats are going very fast, you don’t want to miss it!

See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday November 30th, 2011 at Akbar from 9pm (ish) til midnight it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Elves (felt)
$2 processing fee please
$4 Cosmopolitan drink special, pinkie drinkie!

Veronica LeBron, CraftNight Lieutenant offers up some felt fun with ELVES tonight, tiny little critters who want to meet you. Tiny little people who use popsicle sticks for skis, haven’t you always wanted to know people like that?
Also: This is a plug for our upcoming holiday show, visit www.sparkleblob.com

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
(stay tuned for square dancing holiday party with triple chicken foot and probably something mint flavored)

Wednesday November 16th, 2011 – NO CRAFTS – Craft Captain too sick to craft (Akbar’s open though! $4 cosmos!)
Wednesday November 23rd, 2011 – NO CRAFTS – Akbar Annual Awesome Dance Party! (Hot dancers, hot drink specials!)
Wednesday November 30th, 2011 – CRAFTNIGHT! – TBA

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, but no Virginia, there will be no CraftNight for TWO HONKIN’ WEEKS! Forgive me, but I caught a cold, and not just a cold, but some kind of phlegmy leviathan that has attached itself to my ribcage and won’t let go. It has caused headaches, respiratory misery, coughs from hell lethargy, sore throat and total grumpiness.
Talking is uncomfortable, and since
1.) I’m sure you don’t want to get this unsavory malady before the Thanksgiving Holiday and
2.) Talking is a fair amount of being a Craft Captain
I think its best that I just stay home and get better in order to return fit as a fiddle for CraftNights to come. This is actually the VERY FIRST cancelled CraftNight of 2011, to my recollection. I have had Lieutenants in my stead hosting CraftNIght to make sure we’ve had nearly 52 for you to attend this year. There is LOTS of FUN scheduled for December Crafts, and I’m not gonna miss any of that, dang-it.

Next week is the Akbar pre-Thanksgiving holiday dance party, so there will be no crafting, but there will be plenty of tail-shaking! Rumor has it there will be a fun visual treat in the bar very soon, so keep checking our lovely neighborhood oasis, it may be transformed before you know it for some holiday magic.

See you in two weeks at the wellness Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

PS – If the Kitchen next to AKbar is serving their chicken noodle soup: HAVE SOME!!! It’s delicious, and fights the good fight, you’ll feel like you can lift 5 logs after eating it.

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This Wednesday November 9th, 2011 from 9pm(ish) to midnight(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Corn Husk Dolls
$2 Processing Fee, Please
$4 Cosmos! Tastes Great, Less Filling! 

Man is it cold, I could use a night of assembling corn husk crafts! Last week I was talking to Terry (your illustrious Akbar door associate) and we started talking about corn husk dolls, and how awesome corn husks are, and how you can make them into just about anything!
Corn husk crafts are a great way to instill sentimental feelings about fall and the bright blue sky and how the stores are overstocked with canned pumpkin and brown sugar.

“The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.”
– Emily Dickinson

Or… like… I dunno, you know it’s Fall when you see a courageous woman kayaking down the gravy river from the banks of the baked potato. (see photo.)

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday November 2nd, 2011 from 9pm(ish) to midnight(or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Fall Grab Bag Crafts
$2 Processing Fee, Please
$4 Cosmos! Put a tiger in your tank! 
Special Guest: Allison Moon reading an excerpt from her werewolf Lesbian Novel, Lunatic Fringe around 10 0r 10:30!
Yes, you can get your very own copy here, and yes, I illustrated the cover, hee hee hee! LESBIAN. WEREWOLF. NOVEL. I said it, do I really need to say anything else? Sheesh, you’re smart, get your butt over to Akbar, don’t miss it!

There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to flash point. For a few days now we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night. I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too. We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down, given over to whatever it is in the air. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior.

JOAN DIDION, Slouching Toward Bethlehem

To live with the Santa Anas is also to thumb your fingers at every oblivious character who insists that Los Angeles has no seasons. To live with the Santa Anas is to have your face turn into a raisin and feel your snot making craggy rock formations inside each of your nostrils with with fierce purpose. This is also when you want to travel the country on a bicycle named “Rocinante” wear a jean jacket with a dragon and some gems on it, and drink whiskey with strangers on traffic islands. Rumor has it that we might see rain on Friday! CRAZY! Kick up your heels, and start off the “devil winds” by turning off your e-mail, getting real and daring to be perilously recreational… c’mon, just for a night!

We’ve got a bevy of fall varietal crafts for you this evening, some are just “fall” and some are Thanksgiving oriented. Maybe you want to do some sand art, or perhaps work on a turkey paddleball coloring project, or put together a teepee… it’s all here for you to choose! Consider the crafts, consider the wind, consider the werewolf lesbians, consider being unproductive on purpose! Take your allergy pills, put on your chapstick, take a swig of water, don’t forget to slap some moisterizer on your face, and make your way to the most fun-filled Wednesday of your week.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

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