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Fishtown Street Movies and Miscellaneous Short Animations
On Friday night, the Scribe Video Center’s Street Movies! program came to Fishtown. Films included Shouts from the Crowd, a documentary about local jazz band Nate Wiley and the Crowd Pleasers, From the Del to the El, a story about the evolution of Fishtown, and Still Life With Animated Dogs. The hit of the evening […]
Camping in Acadia
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to visit Maine’s Acadia National Park. I was a reasonably successful camper, surviving timed showers (4 minutes!), thunderstorms, slimy cheese from the cooler, various creepy crawlers, and a whiny kid at the campsite next door. Acadia is the only US national park comprised solely of donated land, […]
I’m back, and now I have a drill
As required by the laws of home ownership, I recently acquired a drill (thanks, Clair) and have been making holes in the basement. Now that I possess both a drill and a fifty pound Solid-State Osterizer Cyclomatic blender, I’m pretty much unstoppable. Did you hear that Verizon? I’ve been very patient about three weeks with […]