i got you - you got whatever’s left of me to get

Last year CMU was home to visiting professor Pat Oleszko, whose “Cunning Stunts” class brought a time honored artsy-fartsy tradition to Carnegie Mellon- an artsy Downhill Derby. I didn’t get to compete last semester, but I got to watch grad students hurdle around with trash cans, a giant pinata, and tinkerbell all mosey down the cut- slowest wins. Professor Bob Bingham is bringing the derby back for a second year, and Tara Helfer & I are going to race- as the Huntin’ Hunnies, a pair of plaid-wearin’, stuffed-deer totin’, pop-gun shootin’, truck drivin’ sweetie-pies. We’re both from rather rural areas, and we figured we’d embrace out roots- and, in Oleszko style, go overboard in the process.

The truck will probably be a modified wagon off of craigslist, and the deer will be sewn out of ugly dresses and sheets from goodwill- we’re going to perch on top of our conquests, shootin’ off our pop-guns, waving our plaid confederate flag, and trying not to steer the truck into the crowds. Plaid is more brawny paper towel guy/lumberjack than it is hunter, but we’re looking for pattern OVERLOAD and we ARE at Carnegie Mellon… & so, plaid it is. MORE. TO. COME.
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