Recently readBoy, do I have some contributions to make to THIS database (via Jeff Nolan’s Twitter feed). It’s not just rotten neighbors, but rotten landlords, bad area warnings, and all that stuff you wish you’d had before you moved. I’m not crazy about some of the site functionality, but it is still in beta.
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Jake Speed + flautist/singer
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I headed up to Clifton with the Schwartzes (I’m sick and effing tired of spelling their name with numbers, I told them! So there!) today for the Streetscapes street painting festival on Telford Ave. It’s more like street chalking, though. There was some amazing work, and I bumped into […]
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Looks like Nancy got quechup on her head thanks to the supremely customer-hostile Goodreads:
it asked me to set up a profile, which I did, and then it asked, do you want to see who on your yahoo! email list is already a member? And I clicked sure, and saw four people, and unclicked one who […]
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New York Dry Cleaners
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Saturday was stunning and perfect. I spent all day running around Over-the-Rhine, buying fruit, vegetables, and art. More on the latter when I’ve recovered from the joy of my good fortune. (I took a bunch of pictures yesterday in the neighborhood. They’re all here.)
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Life may not close one door without opening another, but it sure is dark in the hallways.
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The best thing any of us can hope for is a radical de-victimization.
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Once pickled, never a cucumber again.
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If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.
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Once you know you don’t know everything, you […]
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
-Ronald Reagan via the Adam Smith Institute
and:
Burma is a good example of ‘gun control’, i.e. a state of affairs where firearms are a legal monopoly of the government forces. One side has good intentions and the other side has loaded rifles, and the result (so far) […]
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Produce
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I headed up to Findlay Market this afternoon to grab a few bits and pieces (which quickly turned into a backpack and three huge bags stuffed with fruit and vegetables, a fraction of which is above). I was wearing this t-shirt, as part of my participation in the Red Shirt for Burma […]
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It’s funny because it’s true:
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Main Street during MPMF
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Between the Mid Point Music Festival and Final Friday, the streets were really buzzing tonight!
5chw4r7z and I first hit the opening night party of the new Nicholas Gallery show, Urban Obsessions. Gallery owner Nick Paddock was his usual delightful self, and we even got to meet two of the […]
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I can’t believe anybody at all thought that this crappy Photoshop job would not be detected by voters or media. The cheek of these politicians just beggars belief. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so insulting.
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I can’t help but steal this from my friend Ben Casnocha:
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: […]
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Gin Soaked Boy, Divine Comedy (great Irish band that I once had the, er, fortune to see in Wolverhampton - shut up - on St. Patrick’s Day. I would have picked another day and a nicer town, but they were excellent):
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Cincinnati Supper Club
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I was very sorry to miss the seventh (!) gathering of the Cincinnati Supper Club last Friday night. What I did not expect was that I would feel excited about it happening without me. As I moved around New York, I kept looking at the clock on my cell phone […]
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…despite the horrific weather. (Well, I find torrential downpours, thunder, and lightning rather lovely, but not when you have to brave all that just to get somewhere good.)
I have to confess, I have been totally wiped out since I arrived home from New York, so I was feeling less than energetic yesterday. But Nick Paddock […]
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