It’s Saturday! And spring! Time to shake off that hangover and get out there, champ. Might we suggest:
If you listened to our advice a couple of weeks ago, then you’ll be spending the next 24 hours at Mind Camp. It’s a conference completely without agenda: “On Saturday afternoon, after everyone has lunch and introductions are made, we’ll open the Session Grid to all comers. A large sheet of butcher paper will be blocked out with hour slots along the x-axis and room names down the y-axis. Each attendee who wants to present a session will enter their Session Title and their name in whichever block they can manage to claim. Then, everyone steps back and takes a look at the signups, picks their session, and makes for the appropriate room.” If you’re not going, you won’t even get to know what you should have been jealous about until people start blogging about it on Sunday.
Or, from 10-5 today you could visit the FlorAbundance Spring Plant Sale out at Magnuson Park, benefiting the Arboretum foundation. It’s the Pacific Northwest’s biggest plant sale, and you know your garden’s getting thin.
Last I heard, there were still some tickets left for the Rock Lottery happening at Neumos. Twenty-five local musicians are picked, and at 10 a.m. they’re split into five bands and given 12 hours to create three-to-five songs. At 10 p.m. they’ll file back into Neumos and hopefully impress an audience that will have had two hours since the doors opened to get good and drunk. Remember last year, when Sean Nelson and one of the girls from Smoosh played a song about a spider? Yeah, me neither, because I missed it, but I’ve certainly been hearing about it for the last year. I don’t intend to make the same mistake twice, and all proceeds go to KEXP.