Been a little busy and had a few rough months, but I wanted to make sure to wish everyone a happy new year! I hope you all had a lovely holiday!

Some belated, but still heartfelt! I hope you all had/have a great one!!!!

In chronological order - Happy Birthday to:
wyldemama, hurtreynolds, pollen8, hravina, gazehound, joscelin, cmndrcuddles, schmimi & bd1

Several months ago, Scarlet Danger and I started to work on opening a roller rink in Boise (since there is not a single one in the area anymore - just the jalopy in Nampa). Based on the down payment that would be required for the Small Business loan amount we'd need for start up costs, there was no way we would be able to come up with that amount in the next three decades. Since they're not giving grants to single women nor single mothers anymore (apparently), we pretty much are stuck unless we find some sugar daddy investor. So sad.

I would also loooove to have a catering company (although I am not fond of the hours required) or some sort of pet daycare/self-grooming station....yet again, it's all about the lack of the Benjamens. :(

They're still a favorite of mine, but Fleetwood Mac was probably my first "favorite" band. I remember listening to them on the way to summer camp and school and thinking how grown-up, dark and serious their lyrics were. Add in the mystique of Stevie Nicks, a brooding Lindsay Buckingham and plenty of intra-band drama, my attention was piqued for sure. I'm still sad to say that I have yet to see them perform live - either I wasn't anywhere near the venues they booked or I had insufficient funds.

Although I haven't been fortunate enough to have ever caught the band, RayRo did take me to see Stevie solo (with a Boz Scaggs intro) in 1998 at the Gorge in Washington. That was probably the most beautiful concert I have ever seen. Sounded good too!

Oh I'm so very late for some of you, but here's a slew of birthday cheer regardless!

khayla, thetaet, hiretsukan1970, lonnerz & rag_n_bag......

I hope your birthdays were/are as goofy and fun as a Dr Suess Birthday Cake!

For those of you who have been asking - Darlings won last night - woo hoo!  It was the most painful and physical bout I've been in to date, but it was definitely a good opener. 

Darlings 37 - Derailers 32
B-Town 59 - Cell Block 25

Details and some gnarly bruise pix later, perhaps.

Happy belated birthdays to you guys!

gfym - I hope you had a glorious selection of Hot Pockets at hand....


nyx_hemsut - It is my wish that there was many a festival in your honor....

Did you miss the Treasure Valley Rollergirls this summer? If so the season is right around the corner! We're kicking off with our season opener on September 14th - End of Summer Slaughter in a mere three weeks! Watch the Devilish Demonesses go head-to-head with the undefeated Derailers - we wanna unseat the only team that beat us last season! Cell Block B is going to try to break their losing streak against B-Town Batallion. Both bouts are going to be stellar! We're excited to show off our newly drafted teammates and are ready for another exciting season! We have a lot of fun things planned (including audience participation)!

( cool bout poster art )

End of Summer Slaughter Details
What? Treasure Valley Rollergirls' 2007-2008 Season Opener
Who? Derailers vs. Devil's Darlings and B-Town Batallion vs. Cell Block B
Where? Expo Idaho North at the Western Idaho Fairgrounds on the corner of Chinden and Glenwood.
When? Friday, September 14th - Doors open at 6PM, Bout starts at 7PM.
How Much? Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. They are currently available online only: Purchase End of Summer Slaugher bout tickets!. You can also get tickets downtown at the Boardroom and the Record Exchange - or from your favorite rollergirl (woohooo for no ticket fees).
Who Benefits? Our league is non-profit. All of the proceeds from our bouts go back into the league directly and/or are donated to a different local charity after each bout. A portion of the profit from our season opener will go to the St. Lukes Mammography Clinic
After Party? This time it's at the Nuerolux!.

Interested in 2007-08 Season Tickets?
We have a limited number of Season Ticket packages available as well. Packages include a ticket to each of our 10 scheduled bouts this season (including the championship) as well as a voucher for a t-shirt of your choice from our merch booth! Packages are selling for $90 - it's a great deal!
Purchase Treasure Valley Rollergirls 2007-2008 Season Ticket Packages here.

2007-2008 Season Schedule
1. End of Summer Slaughter (Season Opener) - Friday, September 14th @ 7PM - doors open at 6PM
2. Frankenstomp - Wednesday, October 17th @ 6PM - doors open at 5PM
3. Fall Brawl - Friday, November 16th @ 7PM - doors open at 6PM
4. Jingle Bearings (Inter-league bout) - Saturday, December 15th @ 7PM - doors open 6PM
5. A New Year...of Pain! - Wednesday, January 9th @ 6PM - doors open at 5PM
6. Bruises for My Valentine - Wednesday, February 20th @ 6PM - doors open at 5PM
7. Brawling Bunnies - Wednesday, March 19th @ 6PM - doors open at 5PM
8. Spring Fling-Her II (Inter-league re-match between the Salt City Shakers and the TVR Travel Team) - Wednesday, April 9th @ 6PM - doors open at 5PM
9. May Day Massacre - Wednesday, May 14th @ 6PM - doors open at 5PM
10. Toast 'N Jam - TVR Season Championship - Friday, June 13th @ 7PM - doors open at 6PM</ul>

For More Information
Contact the Devil's Darlings: devils.darlings@gmail.com
Contact the Treasure Valley Rollergirls: tvrgirls@gmail.com
Treasure Valley Rollergirls Website

Top 5 On Friday - Week 135

1. Fleetwood Mac
2. Jimi Hendrix - although that would require time-travel!
3. Madonna
4. The original Guns & Roses
5. Kiss

Take Me Back Tuesday - Week 134
Friday Five for 03-August 2007


Friday Fiver for 8/3 - A dragon lives forever but not so little boys

Friday's Feast - One Hundred and Fifty Four

Finally....How much is my cadaver worth????

If you were one of the unlucky people who weren't able to make it to TVR's last bout of our expo season on April 28th, you're in luck! You can still see it (if you're in Idaho)!

Thanks to our local public TV, our bouts will be airing on local Channel 11! You may have already caught the first few airings of our Spring Fling-Her, but if not, you can catch it again on Saturday, May 26th at 11:30am. Not all of the bout will air, but it is most of it - and there are some great moments you don't want to miss! Watch the Devil's Darlings vs. Cell Block B and B-Town Battallion vs. the Derailers! 

Here is the intro clip of the bout on YouTube.

Final season standings were:

• 1st Pace: Derailers with 3 wins/0 losses
• 2nd Place: Devil's Darlings with 2 wins/1 loss  <-- My team! Yay!
  
• 3rd Place: B-Town Batallion with 1 win/2 losses
• 4th Place: Cell Block B with 0 wins/3 losses

Director "That Guy" will be traveling to Bend with our travel team this weekend taping TVR's FIRST inter-league bout against the Lava City Roller Dolls, which will air in the future on the same channel - more info later. If you happen to have some free time on Saturday and are looking for a good time, you should head over to Bend, Oregon and catch the bout! It starts at 6PM (doors open at 5pm) and it's at the Central Oregon Indoor Sports Center.  Next month, on June 23rd, our travel team will be heading to Salt Lake City to take on the Salt City Shakers - they think they're gonna Bury the Treasure, but they should think again!  :)  Here is the first ever TVR Travel Team:

Back Row: SLAManda (Der), Ssmokin' Joe (Der), Dukes (Der), Ruthless Raven (Der), Devil's Dimes (Der), Koffin Kitty (CBB), Skid'n Nancy (CBB)
Middle Row: Mia Wallups (DD), Scarlet Danger (DD), Cybill Dizorder (BTB), Bar Scar Sally (BTB), Brawly Ringwald (BTB), La Furia! (CBB), Jilldozer (DD)
Front Row: Natas Sin (ref)
Not Pictured: DolLfAce KiLr (Der), Beelzeboss (ref), Popeye (ref), Toby (ref), Seymour Evil (ref), VeRMiN SKuM (ref)


Stay tuned at TreasureValleyRollergirls.net - you can join our forum and talk to the skaters on the league. We'll also have our 2007-2008 season schedule posted very soon!

To everyone who came to our very first public bout last week! We sold out and it was a huge success. We have worked VERY hard to make this happen over the last year and you all helped made it worth every second! The Devil's Darlings all thank our fans for being the loudest and biggest cheering section in the house! You helped us with that extra edge to get our win against the VERY tough B-Town Batallion! Here are the final scores:

Bout 1
Devil's Darlings - 73
B-Town Batallion - 67
High Scorer in Bout - Darlings' Jilldozer (39)
Highest Scoring Single Jam - Darlings' Back Aly Bludgeoner (9)
Most Penalties - Darlings' Scarlet Danger (13)

Bout 2
Cell Block B - 43
Derailers - 90
High Scorer in Bout - Cell Block's Skid'n Nancy (27)
Highest Scoring Single Jam - Derailers' Ssmokin' Joe & SLAManda (tie - 9)
Most Penalties - Cell Block's Lane of Pain (14)

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For those of you that attended, please look into getting your tickets now before they sell out - we want to keep you as loyal fans! Tickets are available via the link below or by visiting The Record Exchange, located at 11th and Idaho, downtown.

For those of you that couldn't make it, here is a clip of the news segment channel 7 did on TVR - it also aired on NW Cable News! Yay!

Who: Treasure Valley Rollergirls (See the B-Town Batallion vs. the Derailers & Cell Block B vs. Devil's Darlings)

What: Sping Fling-Her! - TVR’s second expo season bout

Where: Expo Idaho

How Much: $10 in advance, $12 at the door

When: April 28th, doors open at 6pm, bout starts at 7pm



Buy tickets for Treasure Valley Rollergirls: Spring Fling-Her!

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Would your business like a chance for more advertising?
The Treasure Valley Rollergirls are offering local businesses a chance to sell your goods at our bouts!

We have a very eclectic demographic; children to grandparents, punk rock to peace loving hipsters, working for the man to the man himself!

We are currently planning our next bout, set for April 28th at Expo Idaho. We expect another, SOLD OUT show to a crowd of over 1300!

The TVRGirls are offering other local businesses a spot for a table at our bouts - you can sell or promote your goods & services for a very reasonable price of only $100!

So get in while you can - deadline to reserve your table for our next bout is: Friday, April 6th.

Please contact us by messaging our TVR league on MySpace or emailing us at: tvrgirls@gmail.com.

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Also, this is from Koffin Kitty (of Cell Block B) - She pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter:
to the fans of the treasure valley rollergirls....

thanx for bein there, we've practiced & trained for a year now. going through soo much, physically, emotionally & any other obstacle we had to encounter on the way.

ever since i joined people asked, do you get paid? nope.
does it hurt? yes. so why do you do it?

up until last night it was because of the sport, which that is a huge part of it, your all derby or nothing.

but last night filled in the last piece of the puzzle. this huge dust cloud covered, bruised, chaotic puzzle on wheels....

& it was all of you, the true fans of the treasure valley rollergirls!!
those fans who waited in lines to get the chance to sit on metal bleachers & watch us tear each other apart, cheering & screaming all the while!!

& i can say with out a doubt, that every single girl on the league looks forward to every pain filled, gruelling practice, just so we can do it all over again for years to come, for you...

again thanx,

koffinkitty #666
cell block b
treasure valley rollergirls

My league had our first public bout on Tuesday! If you want to read about it, It's over here. There are some links to YouTube even!

I should have some pics soon too!

xoxo

There is a lot of derby going on this week! I don't know if any of you have heard any ads today or not, but we're all over the radio stations!

First of all, the Treasure Valley Rollergirls are going to be on the Channel 6 evening (10pm) news tonight! Their reporter spent 2 entire practices filming us and one she even laced up and skated with us! The spot is supposed to rerun during the Thursday early am news and will be up on the KIVITV.com website at some point!

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Then on Thursday, we are having a fun event at the Record Exchange! Head on down there from 6-7 and you could win tickets to the bout or other great prizes! Plus you will get to meet girls from each of our four teams!

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FINALLY! If you haven't yet got your tickets to our first bout on March 21st, you should definitely get on that! We have a REALLY COOL halftime show - Firedancers! - in addition to the debut bout for all four of our local Boise teams!


( Bout Poster )

Music Memoirs - Take Me Back Tuesday - Week 110

Take "softer" as you will. Soft rock, having the word soft in it...let your imagination go on this one.

Three softer artists.

1. Soft Cell


2. Luscious Jackson


3. Phil Collins

Three softer songs.

1. Leather & Lace - Stevie Nicks/Don Henley


2. Killing Me Softly - Robert Flack (although most of you would say The Fugees)


3. Soft & Wet - Prince

Three softer albums.

1. Not So Soft - Ani DiFranco


2. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips


3. Surfacing - Sarah MacLaughlin

See? That wasn't so hard? Har har.

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In other news, check out the cartoon that one of our Fresh Meat gals - Sin'OMen Roll - drew of me! ( I'm not that cute! )

CELEBRATE (good times!) with the Treasure Valley Rollergirls! We're in our final fundraising push before our debut bout on March 1st! Please join us for a night of Disco dancing fun - there will be great costumes, dancing & prices! Also we will be celebrating our league's 1 Year Anniversary!

When: Saturday, February 3rd @ 9PM
Where: The Bouquet Downtown Boise
Cover: $5



Also - Don't forget! Our bout tickets are for sale online now:

Buy tickets for Treasure Valley Rollergirls: It's a Bout Time!

March 21st 7PM @ Expo Idaho - $10 in advance, $12 at the door. You can also get tickets at the Record Exchange downtown. We will also have tickets at Newt & Harrolds and Donnie Mac's, but I don't think they're quite there yet.....


B-Town Batallion vs. Devil's Darlings

VS
Cell Block B vs. The Derailers

Hope to see you there!
xoxo

Who: Treasure Valley Rollergirls (See the B-Town Batallion, Cell Block B, Derailers & Devil's Darlings)
What:  It's a Bout Time! - TVR debut bout, expo season
Where: Expo Idaho
How Much: $10 in advance, $12 at the door
When: March 21, doors open at 6pm, bout starts at 7pm


Buy tickets for Treasure Valley Rollergirls: It's a Bout Time!

Our bout poster is being finalized now, we'll have it up soon too!

Sorry guys, I know I've been posting a fukton of derby-only stuff lately, but we've been so insanely busy trying to get everything taken care of for March. Anyhow, I'm starting to finally have more me time and can spend more time on here again.......Miss you all!

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At any rate, here's another fundraiser we've got going on: ( Bee Eye En Gee Oh! )

Our website is also in the process of being created. It's still VERY basic, but you can find more information out about our league, view our current calendar of events and see pictures of our teams. We will also have merchandise available soon at Café Press and tickets for the March 21st bout will be on sale later on this month!

treasurevalleyrollergirls.net

Annnnnd if you want to see my player profile, it's HERE.

Anna Webb put us in her end of year Life article. :) There is also another pic of our looooovely Devil's Dimes! :)

Unexpected Artists

There was a time, I speak of Boise circa 1975, when Downtown was desolate, Idaho was too-often mixed up with Iowa — well, perhaps we haven't quite outgrown that one — and Boise was a punch line.

What was always cool about this town, though, was that even before it became the darling of "most livable," "most bikeable," "most business-friendly" lists, it tended to breed artists.

As long as I can remember, Boise has been home to people who quietly, confidently, do their own thing.

I always figured it had to do with the unacceptability of the status quo if you grow up feeling fond of your hometown, but out of place in it, too. If you want to stay, you have to find, or more often create, a private place where you're happy.

My great delight in writing features for the Statesman's Life section, has been discovering that while Boise has grown, the same kinds of creative people still live here, like they always have.

Performers, writers and visual artists are legion and inspiring, but the unexpected artists especially intrigue me.

I think of the women of Juan Martinez's welding class at Boise State, Annie Berglund, Melissa Corp, Kimberly Ecklund, Lerina Harris and Erika Sather-Smith. Commercial welders, they created a metal bra sculpture suitable for Barbarella or a Valkyrie. They donated the piece to a fundraising auction to fight breast cancer.

Rita Sturiale opened her house to Preservation Idaho's Heritage Home Tour this year. The North Ender insists she's never thrown anything away in her whole life. The rock given to her by a high school boyfriend that still decorates her patio is good evidence.

Her home is a quirky museum of armadillo purses, dolls and things you'd find in a cellar. She leaves spider webs intact because she thinks they're beautiful. My favorite new structure in town may be the greenhouse she built entirely of salvaged windows. It hangs on the side of her Queen Anne house, keeping her substantial cacti collection warm all winter.

I love the Treasure Valley Rollergirls, a group of local women who started Boise's first flat track roller derby league. They don't just skate. They marry art, athletics and considerable humor into one campy mix.

Each woman has created an elaborate persona for the track, like "Nurse Naughty," a zaftig beauty whose roller motto is "Your pain is soon going to be 10 out of 10," and "Devil's Dimes." She's a blond, pixie-ish woman, except for her horns.

Two of my favorite places in town also are depositories for the unexpectedly artistic. The Idaho Historical Archives and Library is home to one of the most haunting photo collections I've ever seen — mugshots of the women imprisoned in the Old Pen from 1887 to 1968. History books often detail the bright and industrious in society. These small photographs detail the dark side of Idaho life that didn't make the history books.

Then there's the Historical Society's storage warehouse in a secret location near Downtown Boise. The dusty jars of ossified Chinese medicines, memorial wreaths made of human hair and a horse's Ku Klux Klan hood wrapped in tissue paper are only a few of the reasons the place is known as "Idaho's attic."

Vietnam vet Joe Toluse looks after the collection, attempting to catalogue everything in the place. When he's not on the job, he likes to amass his own collection of chopsticks.

To offer story ideas or comments, contact reporter Anna Webb at awebb@idahostatesman.com or 377-6431.