Archive for the 'Roller Derby' Category

Meet Megabeth - the 53-year-old derby grrl..

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I get nervous skating track and I’m 29…this 53-year-old librarian (and roller derby girl) puts me to shame…
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=int&vid=/video/living/2009/08/28/roller.derby.librarian.cnn

Whip It!

Friday, August 21st, 2009

No, not the Devo song - the Hollywood film about roller derby featuring Ellen Page, Juliette Lewis, and Drew Barrymore. It’s also Barrymore’s directorial debut. The film is based on the book ‘Derby Girl’ by Shawna Cross.
ROLLER DERBY…..IS COMING….AND IT’S REALLY *HOT*…

Roll With It

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Recently, I wrote a 3-page feature on the sport of roller derby for Lifescape magazine (www.lifescapemag.com).
Here it is - rollergirls, if you’re reading this, I hope I did the sport justice…and got all my facts right! Please don’t come after me on skates if I got stuff wrong! : )
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Three months in pictures…

Friday, March 6th, 2009

So I have been rubbish and not updated my blog, so here’s an update in pictures of what I’ve been up to the past few months:
First of all, in January, I went to see a musical double whammy at The Scala in London - two of my favourite bands - Imperial Leisure, and Ugly Duckling […]

Hell yes, they skate

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Just got back from another great night watching some UK flat-track all-female roller derby action in Birmingham : )

This time it was ‘Capital Punishment’ - where Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames pitted themselves against the London Rollergirls all-star team, known as London Brawling. Yep, roller derby is puntastic all the way, from the girls’ […]