Is it just me or is everything getting canceled this weekend? Living under the constant threat of snow can do that. But you know what cancellations mean? It means you get extra time with those you care about.
If you'll recall last week I discovered that tomorrow is National Pig Day and Des Moines is hold its first Bacon Festival.
Naturally I advocated for festivities here in Maine. Thanks to a combined lack of effort on my part and an underwhelming response from the public, it looks like we'll have to hold off on The First Annual Pig Port Bacon Fest until next year.
But that does not mean you are not without options for tomorrow.
(And oh yeah, you better believe I am getting one of those bacon pig t-shirts)
If you'll allow me to act as a bit of a menu planner, here's some pig-gestions. (Sorry, but I am alloted at least one pun a week.)
As for me I'll be spending my National Pig Day the way I spend a lot of my regular days around here - at Rosie's. You can't tell me Rosie's doesn't love some pig - bacon on a grilled cheese? Yes. I wonder if I can get them to deep fry some bacon for me...
ANYWAY, if you'd care to share a few slices of the divine meat, the NXT desk will be relocated for Saturday afternoon starting at 4 p.m. until I've had my fill. I'll be the guy with bacon in one hand and a high life in the other. Join me.
As for the weekend - a few quick hits:
Miss Fairchild is at Empire tonight for a leap year extravaganza starting at 9 p.m. It's a $7 ticket.
DJ Nicotine is spinning over at the White Heart starting at 9 p.m.
ALL-AGES ALERT: Twisted Roots, Cochise, Civil Disturbance and Bloody Marble Collective at (where else?) the Station. Doors at 7 p.m. and it's $10
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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