Entries from August 2006

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Sold my soul for $200 voucher on Continental

I am stuck in an airport because I took a $200 voucher instead of my scheduled flight to Newark. So, while here in Cleveland (CLE), I got to thinking about what airports I have traveled through. Here is my initial list: ABQ, ATL, AUS, BWI, BOS, CLT, CHO, MDW, ORD, CVG, CLE, DFW, [...]

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Cultural Update

Even though the semester is starting which means back to work, don’t think we are slacking on the cultural front. Here is a quick recap of the past two days:
* Mixed Media We saw Ian Svenonius at Internationalist Books on Friday night. He has a new book, The Psychic Soviet, which is a collection of [...]

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

We went to our third show in less than a week last night and saw the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players! I last saw them 3 years ago or so in New York and they are still at it! They are a family band fronted by the dad (Jason) with their 12 year old [...]

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Work rules about blogging

My work just posted a policy about blogging and it seems very reasonable but for the record:
“The opinions expressed here are my own and are not those of my employer. This blog is not sponsored by or endorsed by my employer.”

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

First physical of the millennium

I can’t wake up this afternoon. I think it has something to do with fasting until 2:30pm for my physical. THEN my doctor recommended that I ease off the coffee (and/or spicy foods & bike riding which I said would be impossible…I will let you can google my “condition” on your own) so [...]

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Patty Griffin

the crew at the show

Originally uploaded by d&e.

We went to the art museum again last night. This time we saw Patty Griffin from front row center seats (really any seat at the muesum is a good one and you can always sit on the [...]

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Kites!

Block Island (in the ’80s)

Originally uploaded by d&e.

Here is a photo of me, Christopher, Chuck, Brendan, and Adam on Block Island from the 80s (?!) that I found when I was looking for a photo of Chuck’s 6 foot box kite. I think this is the day we lost some kites in the Atlantic [...]

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Ocracoke

first night sunset

Originally uploaded by d&e.

I posted the Ocracoke photos! We ended up with 200 photos of kite flying and ferry rides and not much in between the two activities. However, there wasn’t that much to our days there. We made it [...]

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Weeks like this make me wish I still had a Hoboken apartment

Check out who is playing the McCarren Pool in Brooklyn in the next 7 days:
Thursday, 8/17/06 Iron and Wine with Low and Califone
Wednesday, 8/23/06 The Shins with J. Mascis and Sam Jayne
Thursday, 8/24/06 Neko Case with Joanna Newsom and Martha Wainwright
I think that last show takes the cake…and tickets are still available for Case/Newsom/Wainwright! I am going [...]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Home again…

Originally uploaded by d&e.

Ellen and I are home…again. We got back from Ocracoke this afternoon, took a nap, and then headed out to the art museum to check out Jeff Tweedy’s solo show. It was a great set of songs from Uncle Tupelo [...]

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