TOO FAST FOR LOVE

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Cooooooooooooooooooooooome and Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Itttttttttttt!

We are showcasing our new team of NEW girls, brand SPANKING new personalities,styles and skills! Come check out your friendly neighborhood roller derby. We can't show you love if your not there to see it!

So first we have the Bombshell Brigade(new team new girls) against the NWA roller gals, all fresh to the Dallas scene. Then we have an all out scrimmage with the rest of us bruisers. Our Ass City travel team has been busy this off season travelling to Kansas to battle the Kansas City Roller Warriors (lost but fought hard and learned lots) and the No Coast Derby Dames (WON) and then to San Antonio to fight the Alamo City girls(WON). Our season starts in March, come brush up your derby senses and don't worry, we haven't been getting dusty!

Also say hello to our new announcer Hank E.Pankey and our beloved Armand Hammer!

a day or so in the life of a derby chick

how do we do what we do and what else do we do when we're not doing it?
whew!
I think every girl on our league has like two jobs and two kids, or responsibilites equivalent to it. So I'm going to try to do a day in the life of a derby chick...starting with moi, because i'm easy for me to write about.

zee Morning

I hate them, even as child I was resistant to them.
During the week I wake up anywhere from 5am to oh shit it's already 7:15am. My son,
Arman Dangerous, usually wakes me up because he doesn't have the morning curse and has to be at school by 7:45am. Then I hit the morning traffic train for about 45min-1hour, w/no rhyme or reason for the timing. I've got to be at work by 8:30.

The day at work, bleh bleh bleh, I'm a receptionist at a cool uptown office with hopes of climbing the ladder.....off at 5:30pm and back to my son's school by 6:30, singing and screaming thru the traffic.

Now, on Tuesday nights and some Thursday nights I am a massage therapist. So it's a shuffle of motherhood, dinner, homework and off to bubble myself in a mood of calm, cool, collect...seems more like a switch on than a reality these days.

Sunday nights and Wednesday nights it's derby time! On Wednesday nights I hop back in my car for another 30 min-1hour to get to practice with the rest of the world that doesn't know how to drive. I pretty much feel beat down by the time I get to practice..... but it's about switching on your motivations, ya can't think about it, you just have to keep moving. Robotic almost. I just channel the traffic into my skating, RELEASE!

The rest of my life-Monday&Friday nights and Saturdays,is the regular stuff, house work, procrasinating house work, family time, extra excercise, friends.......they all pretty much get an nth of whats left of me...but I do it for derby. I love the way it feels to give a block and still be standing or pass up the pack like I wish I could in traffic. The sport is addictive.

Mia Hammer
40 oz