Elizabeth Miles pm, Dec 15, Contributing Reporter. Jeffrey Kerekes. You schedule everything else around practices and bouts. You hang out almost exclusively with your league mates.
You wish your butt was bigger. Now your defending champions β the Iron Angels! In her first game, number 21, Ka POW ski! The audience erupts in applause, cheers, and hoots, as Kill-ty Pleasure welcomes those of us among the spectators to the Connecticut RollerGirls home team championship, on a Sunday evening, Nov. Women in red and gray tank tops, leggings and bulky elbow and shoulder pads speed onto the track.
Fading in the early 70s, contemporary derby returned in the early s as an all-female amateur sport, brought back by a grassroots business model. Modern derby is one of the only sports in which women set the original rules. Have you ever had crabs? Pinky Nails, number on her derby jersey , objects to all of this. Through the window of Book Trader on a frigid northeastern Friday, dark by 5 p. Linda Kelley-Dodd, as Pinky is known off the rink, had just finished a day running the costume shop at the Yale School of Drama.
In between helping execute student designs for Shakespeare, she made derby themed ornaments for the Christmas tree. She grinned. It is truly β truly, truly β a piece of crap.
Such a shitty town. Bless its little heart. Blessed be Waterbury, home to both a semi-defunct Biblical amusement park named Holy Land USA, and Roller Magic, which resembled nothing so much as a supermarket lost in the wild. An unobtrusive one-story building behind fences and brambles, it glowed a bright used-to-be-white. While I was putting on skates, a three year old wandered into our row of booths. Pinky shook her head. The three year old asked why Pinky was putting on bulky wrist guards.
