Thursday, October 06, 2005


vermin drachen
wildwood, nj (2005-05-28) Posted by Picasa

posted by hobbitt at 7:48 AM

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Blogger hobbitt said...

A long time ago my friend Roger owned a kite store called the Meadow Mouse. He also sponsored a women's softball team which he called the Field Mice. Or when they didn't do so well, the Field Vermin. This morphed into Vermin Drachen ("drachen" being German for "kite"), because he liked the sound of it.

The Japanese hold "kite battles", where whole neighborhoods build huge kites called rokaku (roe - ka - koo), and use them to knock other roks ("rokes" or "rocks", depending on what part of the US you're from) out of the air.

The western world simplified this a bit and put it some rules, but the point is still the same - use your rok to knock everybody else's rok out of the air. And make lots of noise and craziness while you do.

Roger likes this idea.

He commissioned a Vermin Drachen kite. The logo was a scrawny rat holding a bloody battle axe. It was, to quote an English kite flier, "bloody freakin' ugly". And it didn't fly all that well.

So he comissioned another kite, with a "modern" (I suppose you could say "corporate") logo on it. And this is what you see here.

October 06, 2005 8:05 AM  

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