put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Hoover Dam

I’m pretty okay at baking stuff, and back in February, I came across a couple of recipes that I knew would be ridiculously popular at tailgate parties. Stolen Adapted from Nook and Pantry and Smitten Kitchen, here are Irish Cake Bombs:

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even more words

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Hoover Dam

It’d be an understatement to say that words project was successful beyond our expectations; we’ve never had the team and/or individual players track us down, unsolicited, for compliments on this stuff before. Thus, we saw no reason not to continue the theme with new players who made distinct impressions on the squad through the remainder of 2008 and early 2009.


Kheli Dube, “JOY”: This is actually a holdover from last summer that I never got around to posting here, largely because I was trying to combine it with a video showing this banner’s creation from start to finish. That never came together, so here’s the banner, based on what else but Dube doing his goal-scoring dance of joy.


Chris Tierney, “DRIVE”: The first of the 2009 entries. I was a little unsure about the source image, which was a much smaller resolution than I would have liked, but I think the final effect came out quite striking.


Darrius Barnes, “SMOOTH”: Was almost “throw,” given his popular hundred-yard throw-ins. The best thing that could possibly happen with this banner is him getting the nickname of Smoove B. Girl, that other team ain’t right for you. Smoove B will freak your back line nasty. Also, there will be throw-ins.

Posted in finished projects, revs, words |

why I love this league

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Hoover Dam

Taken right after an irritating Revs home loss:

L-R, fans of: Houston, New England, New England, DC.

I’m short

Posted in goofy, why we do this |

HOT DAMN

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Hoover Dam

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NO SLEEP TILL CAPE TOWN

Posted in how did I get here, I can't believe we pulled this off, nats, south africa, world cup |

so as I was saying about this is way out of hand

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Hoover Dam

Hey man, nice shirt, got one at home just like it.

Posted in finished projects, goofy, I can't believe we pulled this off, revs, why we do this |

look fierce

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Hoover Dam

“So, wait, why’s Shalrie Joseph holding one of your cats?”

That’s easy: He was here to grab a bunch of shirts we’d had run up to sell on his website.

I’d had a couple of people ask me over the course of last season about putting my banners on shirts, and every time, I had to rebuff them, because I knew if I did, it’d be about ten minutes before a cease and desist appeared. Then in December, I got home from vacation to find an email on an account I don’t check so often: The man himself wants to make the shirts.

The guy whose shirt I wear every week is tracking me down to tell me he’s a fan and he wants to wear my shirt.

Well, hell. Played email tag over the rest of the offseason; this is the first time I’ve had a fan project that involved consulting a lawyer (photo and merch rights). Finally got everything lined up, then worked out some designs. Had to bug three different real live graphic designer buddies (including a Dynamo fan) to ask them the best way of converting the source material for print, since I didn’t have access to a high enough resolution version of the original. Contracted out with a local screen shop, they ran ’em up, I picked ’em up, and that’s why Shalrie was here today to play with my cats and get the shirts he wanted.

Pretty much every stage of the process involved me remarking to my husband that this had gotten way out of hand–I mean, this was just some goofy idea I came up with in spinning class one afternoon.

I love being an American soccer fan.

Posted in finished projects, I can't believe we pulled this off, revs, why we do this |

Hey, look, it’s one of my cats

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Hoover Dam

With his new buddy!

Hooo, is there a long story behind this one

Posted in finished projects, goofy, I can't believe we pulled this off, revs, why we do this |

cool stuff that comes in the mail

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Hoover Dam

Season ticket pack! Season ticket pack! Season ticket pack!

Posted in goofy, revs |

a joke only natasha kai could love

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Hoover Dam

If a Breakers player favors her right, is she then properly described as “goofy?”

Posted in breakers, goofy |

dos a cero siempre

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Hoover Dam

All my soccer buddies had their own Dos a Cero stories, but not me–every time there’s been a US-Mexico game since I started watching soccer, the timing just hasn’t lined up for me to go. This time, though, it worked out. So I went to Columbus, and I got to see that guy I remember as a gawky, sullen teen loping around for daddy’s Metros completely tear shit up for daddy’s Nats, and also:

  • Booed a guy at the supermarket
  • Got soaking wet
  • Didn’t hang the Wake Up banner–we went to set banners just as the storm hit, so in a matchday fitness decision, it was left in the car
  • Which is probably what should’ve happened to Nery Castillo
  • Hey, Naked Juice, how come I can’t get Black and Blueberry Rush in Boston except for that one time like two years ago?
  • Met everybody I was hoping to run into; it’s pretty great how if you just hang around the right meeting points long enough, you find everyone eventually
  • Saw several people at the airport who left the bar after I did, but who were flying out before I was, making me wonder if they bothered sleeping
  • Only just washed off all the glitter
  • Did hang the 2006 Obey Gooch banner, since it was proven weather-tolerant
  • Had dinner postgame with complete strangers
  • Ate enough pub grub I’m good on that for weeks to come
  • Note to self re: above: open soccer bar with menu composed of mostly Thai dishes
  • Tried to throw my scarf to Altidore, wind picked it up, no idea who got it
  • Pulled up next to the World Cup Express school bus only to discover it was a buddy driving, a buddy who needed directions to the postgame meetup
  • Watched some dude lamely kick the front bumper of my rental car postgame as I sat and waited for traffic to clear
  • Also watched two Chivas fans either fighting or making out or both, who the hell knows which
  • Was delighted to see, on postgame review, the ad using “Over There” to promote the WCQ cycle; makes me feel hip about using WWI posters as banner material
  • Uh, Sacha, you should probably figure out how you really fit at the big people table
  • Also I think Demps had been up all night with the baby
  • Got a great response to the first phase of the Campaign 2010 project, about which I’ll post in detail next month
  • Got home on Thursday afternoon 47 hours after we’d left, exhausted, dehydrated, and sore…yep, that’s a national team game all right

Mildly in-jokey pix to prove it.

Posted in finished projects, goofy, how did I get here, nats, why we do this, you should've been there |