Recently readGE Party-o
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Well, I didn’t really make it around to as many galleries and shops as I’d planned.
I went out on my own, hit Kaldi’s for a couple of pints, then I went to Mainly Art, where owner Mark Fisk did a great job of pretending not to be sick of me showing […]
Filed under: Life | No Comments »
Adriana has a report from the corporate front that is well worth a read, as much as doing so may make your gut wrench. It really is frustrating to think about all the opportunity-dodging going on inside businesses. On the positive side, she also has some great suggestions “for those who find themselves in a […]
Filed under: Life | No Comments »
Tyler Davidson Fountain
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Walking from Over-the-Rhine to the Havana Martini Club last night with Joe and his friend Stepfanie, we swung by Fountain Square because Joe had a scoop that all the construction that’s been going on in the square had been mostly completed, and that the Tyler Davidson Fountain would be lit […]
Filed under: Life | 2 Comments »
A friend of mine, who is much older than me and has been a confirmed socialist since he was a teenager, always says to me whenever we get into some sort of political discussion, “JD, you have lots of facts on your side, but that’s not how I arrive at my views. Emotion has to […]
Filed under: Life | 6 Comments »
They said it couldn’t be done. It has been, and it’s a cracking execution. (I’m just surprised a British paper was the first to get there, to be honest. The ‘race to be second’ amongst British businesses that I saw close up during the early days of blog consultancy would not have had me put […]
Filed under: Life | No Comments »
For reasons too uninteresting to go into, I’ve been spending some time surfing YouTube for old songs I like. Here are the treasures I’ve unearthed in 20 minutes.
God, don’t hold this against me.
Filed under: Life | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I was walking down the street and found myself thinking about how sad I’d be to learn that Amy Winehouse wasn’t nearly as good a singer as I believed her to be. (Really, that’s about as cerebral as I get.) So last night, no matter how much the outcome might hurt me, I decided […]
Filed under: Life | 5 Comments »
Final Friday
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Eating fire on Sycamore Street, Final Friday.
Filed under: Life | No Comments »
If you’ll be doing the Final Friday gallery-and-shop-walk tonight in Over-the-Rhine, maybe I’ll see you up there. This will be my first Final Friday, so I’m probably a little too excited about it.
I’m also kind of worried that, since Mark Fisk is going to have his store Mainly Art open for the first Final […]
Filed under: Life | No Comments »
Make sure you watch till the bone-chilling end:
via Scott Wickstein
Filed under: Life | No Comments »
One of the topics I am keen to avoid with my new friends here in Cincinnati is healthcare. It is hard to listen to people who have never lived in a country with socialised medicine tell you how wonderful it would be to do so. I have often thought of printing up a one-page list […]
Filed under: Life | 11 Comments »
Kelly’s got a voice that just hooked me, and she’s even making me dread my running routine a little less. She’s much more engaging than many of the local newspaper columnists whose pieces I’ve read, which almost sounds like damning with faint praise, but I mean it: Put her in a paper with Joe and […]
Filed under: Life | 5 Comments »
I know I said I’d post something about Cathy, from me, a few days ago. But I’ve been way too submerged in disgust for the savaging she has had to suffer - first from Eliot Stein, and over the last week, from someone best described - to borrow from what Allan Mayer says later in […]
Filed under: Life | 3 Comments »
TV station, castle
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
Here’s the local ABC affiliate and the wee castle next door, Elsinore Tower.
[T]he Norman Romanesque Revival mini-castle consist[s] of a cylindrical castellated tower joined to a smaller square tower by a battlemented archway. Since the Cincinnati Art Museum officially opened in 1886, steps were placed behind the Elsinore Tower as […]
Filed under: Life | No Comments »