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YOU CANNOT LOSE This Wednesday. YOU CANNOT!

Is CraftNight still $2?

Oh my goodness YES.

Currently, the lowest cost of a tank of crappy-quality gas in the Silverlake/Echo Park area is $2.97 CraftNight packs music, crafting, ambience and access to the friendliest cocktails in Silverlake all into one fun-filled night every week for LESS THAN A TANK OF CRAPPY GAS.

And what are we offering this week? You can’t lose, repeat: it is so great that you cannot, repeat, CANNOT lose.

This Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 from 9pm until 12-ish at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: Metal OR Wood, whichever works out

$2 processing fee, please

$4 cosmo special, you better believe it!

I ordered metal embossing supplies a little while ago… and I checked the package and the supplies are currently in Chino, with an estimated delivery of April 28th. IF somehow the metal supplies don’t show up, DON’T WORRY, we’ll just do that craft the week after Cinco de Mayo, no tears, no wailing, no strife.

Because here with me NOW that just came in unexpectedly and to my great delight is a box of thrilling little items. These are those little knickknacks where you press on the base of the toy, and (according to the weird catalogue description) the little animal on top “dances.” Personally, I think “dance” is a little bit of a demented description, in fact, it’s downright misleading because it really does seem to just sort of slump, not dance. Ridiculous. What they won’t say to sell stuff these days. I’m here to deliver the truth: Wooden SLUMPING animals!

But the thing is, slumping wooden animals are still exciting! These little toys are just so agonizingly cool because they are simple sanded wood, and you can paint and decorate them anyway you want!

So get in here, you can’t lose. No matter what we end up making, be it metal embossed relief-portraits of clowns and praying hands and locomotives OR really neat-o mini-slumping animal toys, it’s just going to be incredible.

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday Night (TONIGHT!) April 21st, 2010 from 9pm until 12-ish or so, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!

Project: Rainy Day Craft!

$2 Processing Fee, Please

$4 Magical Kooky Cosmo Drink Special!

It says “Pod Craft” on the CraftNight home page, it really really does. But it’s raining. I don’t feel like doing a pod craft. When you’re a Craft Captain, you’ve got to step out onto the deck, feel the sea air, look at the clouds and decide if it’s really time for a pod craft. I think instead we might be doing a craft that actually involves WARMTH tonight, because BRRRRRR! It’s been kind of cold!

So… you should come in, because we ARE DEFINITELY HAVING CRAFTS, just like last Wednesday, and the Wednesday before that and so on, but be ready for a little something special, because as usual, I’ve got something up my sleeve. It just doesn’t involve pods. Or does it? Hee hee hee!!!

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

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Akbar’s Site

This Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 from 9pm until 12-ish at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: FUNDIES in yer UNDIES!!!

$2 processing fee, please

$4 Cosmopolitan special, poured by Mr. Mikey, your dashing bartender!

We thought we’d kick it up a notch, we thought we’d get crazy and out-of-hand. We present to you a CraftNight FIRST: FUNDIES in yer UNDIES. What the heck does that even mean, exactly? It means you need to throw away the boring, stow the bowl of noodles and the TV primetime and get your butt in here to find out!

Not to brag or anything, but it will be rather deluxe, possibly even a bit tawdry or perverted or both!

Not to make you curious or wonder if you’ve been having enough fun enough lately but YOU HAVEN’T. Not if you miss this.

The clue is in the title of tonight’s activity. Beyond that I will say no more, I just really really really hope that you will throw down for this one, because we did research, we had a meeting, we delved. Don’t stay in and wonder… come out and EXPERIENCE CraftNight’s “Fundies in yer Undies!”

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

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This Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 from 9pm till midnight-ish, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: GRAB BAGS
$2 processing fee, please

Mmmm, ah, well. Yes.

The earth shakes, something we know all too well in California. You just never know when, or how much the shaking’s going to rock-n-roll the land around us. Uncertainty is older than dirt, but sometimes it is the very dirt we walk on that reminds us of this handy fact.
Therefore, taking that theme and running with it in an extra corny fashion, is your very own neighborhood CraftNight. What will you craft? That’s an excellent question. I’m gonna sit right down, pour myself some coffee and wrap up about three dozen “mystery craft packets” and whatever you pick on Wednesday night is whatever you MAKE!

It’s GRAB BAG Night!
Pick and choose, you’ve got nothing to lose!
Every special mystery packet packed by hand and with heart, guaranteed to bring delight or confusion, nobody knows which!
There will be sparkly doo-dads, glue, puffballs and things for you to decorate your project, and there will be tunes to craft to, and the extremely good-looking staff at Akbar will be there to keep you company, and there will be varieties of delicious cocktails and our usual Wednesday Night Special: The $4 cosmopolitan.
See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

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TONIGHT! March 31st, 2010 from 9pm until 12-ish, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!

Project: EASTER EGGS!

$2 Processing Fee, Please

SPECIAL GUEST: DJ E-Z Cheeze! Kickin’ it up a notch, adding color and swirl to your evening.

Eggs: not just for breakfast, but before pagans started being thrown into lion’s dens and being stuck on trees, the epitome of FERTILITY! And guess what? We still like to acknowledge all the baby puppies, kitties, bunnies, lambs and wildflowers and that time of extra green grass and dozens of exciting flora and fauna by taking part in an ancient ritual: coloring the shelled, hard-boiled ovum of a chicken.

The traditional PAAS egg-coloring kits will be here, so will the little wire-thingy you dip the egg into the cup with, AND the crayons AND the glitter glue AND the fun! Celebrate SPRING, gather all that hippy energy and celebrate Mother Earth and the egg-ness of the season!

See you at the Craft Table!

JP Craft Captain

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