TONIGHT: 11 YEAR OLD PUNK ROCKERS, ALSO, THE REST OF THE WEEKEND.

Hey! This weekend is going to be pretty rad so I thought I'd spread the details around. Tonight at the ARM gallery on n7 between havemeyer & meeker "Tiny Masters of Today" - literally tiny people (11 yr olds) bang on the drums at Ben Frost's art opening. Later on there's the Rubulad, a day of action for Eric Ng, then Saturday's Michael Jackson party, and a warm and Sunny Sunday where I turn 26 and Callie and Orien also get old. Old! ||||||||||||||||||||||||TONIGHT|||||||||||||||||||||||| 1) THE ARM. Says Dan via Ian: Hello, This Friday December 8th from 7PM there will be an opening party for Ben Frost's show Don't Try This At Home at The Arm, 281 North 7th Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Music will be provided by pre-teen Brooklyn rockers Tiny Masters of Today. This is gonna be crazy! Entry is free. Drinks are free. Hope you can make it! 2) Rubulad. Not your average Rubulad experience, because it will feature the return of Orien and also Callie and me being birthday-ish. We're all getting old! Rubulad is at 338 Flushing Avenue, between Classon and Taaffee, Brooklyn 10p doors, 11p show; $10 B61 bus on Driggs to Flushing Avenue, J,M,Z trains to Marcy Avenue station, G train to Flushing or Classon sations ||||||||||||||||||||||||SATURDAY|||||||||||||||||||||||| 1) Day of Action & Memorial for Slain Cyclist Eric Ng 1PM: Memorial bike ride for Eric Ng, 22 year-old bicyclist, teacher, and friend who was killed by a drunk driver on the West Side bike path. Meet up in Washington Square Park at 1pm. We will ride together to the site of Eric's death at 1:30 SHARP. Non-bikers can go directly to the West Side Greenway, near Clarkson St. By train: take the 1 to Houston St. 2:30PM: Directly after the memorial ride there will be a memorial service at St. Mark's Church. Friends & family will share stories, show photos, and play music. St. Mark's Church is at the corner of 2nd Ave and 11th St. By train: 6 to Astor Place, R/W to 8th St, or F train to Houston St. 8PM: Memorial dance party. Do not go gently into that good night. DJs & live punk rock. At Time's Up, 49 E. Houston St. By train: 6 or B/D/F/V to Bleecker-Lafayette. 2) La Superette cheap good things at eyebeam 3) Remember When Michael Jackson was Black . . . AND AWESOME?!? a celebration of old-skool MJ. THIS SATURDAY - Dec 9th, partytime. 345 eldert st apt 206, corner of Irving. L train to Halsey $5 with free drink tikt or FREE with convincing crotch-grab and howl. *a note on this: i was able to ask later on what "reverse michael jacksonification" was, and, just as i feared it was literally people putting themselves in blackface and "whiteface." wtf, right? i think the idea was that the 3 black folks attending their party might put themselves in whiteface as though that was somewhat equitable. i mean, you wouldn't go to your friends house whose parent did of lupus and wear a "lupus face mask" right? it wouldn't become okay if this part featured lynchings of white people right? digging up the history of minstrelsy like that for fun just seems somewhere between massive oversight and batshit insane, can't decide which. i know they meant well, i'm a big fan of matt levy and my dear friend who lives with him, but this party was totally not okay in my view.

||||||||||||||||||||||||SUNDAY|||||||||||||||||||||||| It will be approximately twenty degrees warmer than it currently is. Rejoice! Also I will turn 26.