CLUBS

I like having clubs. I always have. When I was little my friends and I would form different clubs. One summer we had a club where we looked for animals that were on lost animal signs. We never found them. One time my friends snake was missing and we found it in a pizza box in a neighbors garbage in a pizza box. That was the only lost animal we found. In high school we had fake clubs that I remember discussing while in line in the cafeteria. The clubs I remember were the "I'm not 18 club" (that was such a bummer for going to shows), and the "I hate gold club" because gold is ishy. I am now much older than 18 and I can appreciate gold as a color. I also had a feminist club. I wanted to be a part of a riot grrrl chapter, but there wasn't one I could find in the twin cities. Some friends and I started the Minneapolis Feminist Collective. We had meetings, workshops, went to protests as a group and made a zine (that I do not have a copy of *bummer*).

There have been many more clubs since then, best friend roller skate (where you roller-skate with your best friend behind your boyfriends while they skateboard... oh to be 18), eat shit I love you aka stoop sitters (where you are nice to strangers and say Hi to people when you cross paths, especially if they look like a hello or how are you would really make a difference BUT if someone is a butt, you want them to eat shit; nice until you give me a reason not to be). Ah, there have been so many clubs. Other ones include other drawing clubs, boy thursday, legs wednesday, being sneaky club, stitches and bitches and so many more.

Currently I have my craft club and my doodle club. Events, things of interest and meeting notes can be found on those pages (as I remember to post them).

I also (now and forever) have walking club. Walking club is when you walk to or from a location with someone else.  If you live near someone and get off work around the same time... walk together! Point out things of personal interest along the walk, share stories of things that have happened at different points along the way. If you and someone else tend to take similar routes, leave things for them to find, or tell them about something they should look for. Walking club is the caterpillars spats.
If you choose to have an initiation process, I recommend asking about what they nerded out over as a kid, what childhood clubs they had with their best friend, etc... While only talking about that kind of stuff while commenting on houses, graffiti, bad drivers, trees, gardens, etc... (that you see while you're walking)... you really get to know someone on a really great level. When sticking within those boarders of conversation nothing really can be a point of conflict. It is a great side of people to know. Nothing to do with work or current personal life. Just observations and information sharing based on our weird interests. Look at that baby rabbit hopping around! I was into UFOs and cryptozoology, You loved horses. Ha, look at that gold penis spray painted on that fence! Walking club rules.
I strongly encourage everyone to do this when they can. Talk about how now it is walking club and  you have to share childhood interests and talk about things you see. Then talk talk talk. Fun fun fun.