A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous

Here in Boston, there's this thing call First Friday, where the SoWa Artist Guild building has an open house on the first Friday night of each month. The building was, not so surprisingly, a warehouse/factory-type building in its former life and it has like 50 studios and many galleries. For this First Friday thing, most of the artists clean up their studio and let you poke around it. There are jewlery makers, painters, sculptors, print-makers, photographers, etc. There are also gallery openings. Some of the fancier ones have nibblies and live music. But pretty much all of them have a bottle of wine out for the people to help themselves. Translation: this is a great chance to dress up and freeload on cheap wine and dark chocolate M&Ms. (Have you had dark chocolate M&Ms? They're AWESOME!)

The event is equal part cosmopolitan and casual, with people drinking cheap wine out of plastic cups while signing cheques for some $5000 painting. Hear that Coco Chanel, you can't get any more classy and fabulous than this!






But the highlight of the evening is undoubtedly this:


You might need to click on it to see a bigger picture. But that's a transformer, fighting a bunch of stormtroopers, with an astronaut and a car caught in the crossfire ... in the desert. Oh, there's also an oil derrick in the background. AWESOME!!!!!!!

I wish I could afford it because that's like the greatest painting ever. The artist has a whole series of pictures with astronauts in it. I find the post-apocalyptic-esque Guggenheim one and the giant squid one to be quite good. The laundromat with Boba Fett one is a fav as well. But this one, aptly titled: Rock the Casbah, is definitely the best one.

Maybe we can pool our money together for this?

(Also, I've finally updated the blog links to include Leah and Dan's new blogs.)