Unofficial poll.

[spacebug]

I'm a cheapskate (heh), so I don't have polling ability.
Do it up with comments.

Should spacebug try out for the Rollergirls this summer?

A. Hell yes! Get thee some kneepads and fishnets and start kicking ass!
B. Hell no! You'll put an eye out!
C. Damnit, Low Orbit still doesn't have a full length. Spend those three nights a week in your studio, bitch.
D. None of the above

Comments

[lokey.livejournal.com]

A; there are 4 other nights of the week for music

[lexinatrix.livejournal.com]

A - as someone who rides motorbikes, I can't rightly claim B is a worthy answer. And lokey has a point about the 4 other days in the week.

[windelina.livejournal.com]

A!!!

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

A, but only if you achieve C (or significant progress towards it) before summer.

[nibblesonwords.livejournal.com]

A, all the way! tell scott that i promise to protect you lots and make sure that those tough chickies follow the rules...

yay for spacebug trying out!
we already have 30 girls, and you know that we can put in a good word for you.... :D

heart heart!

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

30? Gah! I'll actually have to learn to skate worth a damn pretty soon, then, if I'm serious about this. Is there an official sign-up somewhere?

[nibblesonwords.livejournal.com]

just email headtrauma@mnrollergirls.com! :)

you should skate with dena & me -- it'll be a lot of fun! :D

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

I should skate with you and dena! When do you go?

[nibblesonwords.livejournal.com]

well, i attend adult skate night at cheapskate on monday nights (9-11pm, like tonight) and, if dena didn't switch her schedule, she'd be skating with me tonight...*sniffles* we have derby practice on tuesday, thursday and sunday night, but there's skating before then, too. (like, 11am on sunday) on tuesday, you could probably even go to the roller gardens where lokey goes since it's adult skate night and you don't have to deal with those pesky little children...

if anything, skating is just *fun* so you should just skate. let's learn how to skate backwards together! :)

[433.livejournal.com]

It's so sad that there are only three people with "minnesota rollergirls" as an LJ interest, one of them is from out west, and the other two are my girlfriend iguana and myself.

[twitme.livejournal.com]

B. but then, I'm a big pansy.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then, like lex said- I've got no business havin' a motorbike then, either. :)

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

C.

[burnunit.livejournal.com]

C.

without question it's C. For my tastes, anyways. I mean, yeah, it's super cool. and anyone who wants to really should. and it's unbelievably cool. and you only live once and it's cool.

However, if you get injured- like let's say you break your hand (not unheard of in a rough roller skating environment), how will you play your keyboard to the fullest? Or what if you start with the best intentions but really get more involved or have to practice more for that than your music? Or the simple fact that you started one thing and it's super awesome and it's YOUR thing that you started and you're not joining something led by someone else (something that I'm no NO WAY bagging on, so whoever reads this and thinks I got something against roller girls you got another think comin!)

Lokey's point about the other 4 days is cool and all, but that means, well, if you do music on 4 days and roller girls on 3 days, that means the other 9 million things you have an interest in then get zero days of the week.

And the comparison between motor vehicles (even motorcycles) and roller girls isn't quite rhetorically accurate. Because cars and motorcycles are dangerous, true. But that's a situation where the whole system (speed limits, safety devices, engineered roadways, signs, and perhaps most important, the lack of team competition) is designed in prevent or protect against injury.

But deliberately putting yourself in a position that risks injury is one really good way to get better at roller derby and such risks may be required of a roller derby player in order to advance the cause of her team; whereas putting yourself in position to risk injury is one really good way for a driver to advance the cause of trauma medicine. So it's not a one-to-one correlation, IMHO.

It's still rilly rilly cool.

Low Orbit, well, all you'll risk breaking when you do a public work like an album is, you know, your heart and soul and stuff.

I say C, still.

[azure-armand.livejournal.com]

B and C.

[jodi.livejournal.com]

as a dedicated lifetime member of the Promoters of Quad Skates(tm) i am forced to choose A with enthusiasm and zeal

[harlequinskiss.livejournal.com]

I vote for a combination of A and B:

Hell yes! You'll put an eye out!

then you can be a pirate! arr!

[thaadd.livejournal.com]

A, A, and more A.

I was hoping to myself. But now I'm hoping for a job that'd keep me out of the cities 4 days of the week. Go Rock! Start a pirate team!

[denaballerina.livejournal.com]

if you worry about getting hurt, you never have any fun in life.
seriously. you have a motorcycle, and your worried about skating?
plus, this is a pretty low risk contact sport, with the padding and all.
and wearing a mouthguard is HOT. ;)
so i vote A.
but yeah, the tryouts are gonna be sorta brutal, so you should start learning how to skate NOW. i got in on the ground floor, so i had it easy.
'course, now i rock the house, but thats another story for another post.

love,
your local DaggerDoll.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

if you worry about getting hurt, you never have any fun in life.
True, in more than a physical sense.

It's in there more for the sake of the poll than for me, I was a pretty daring kid from the get-go. :) Rollercoasters as soon as I was tall enough, 2 story speed waterslides at age 5 or 6, have sustained fabulous bruises from cliff jumping, ride a motorcycle, have done circus tricks on horseback- been thrown, dragged, and got right back on...

So, yeah. I do know how to skate, I just don't know how to skate as well as I'd have to.

I'm far more worried about having less time for music than I am about bruises.

[denaballerina.livejournal.com]

yeah, its a time commitment, thats for sure.
you have to go to 66% of the practices, so thats twice a week at least.
something to consider.
oh, and the fun fun fun drive to f-ing coon rapids.
i still say you should do it though.
:)

[irisjack.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind a space bug to play with.... A