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The Guerilla Drive-In in Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
A writer in Australia emailed and told me they saw the projector in, of all places, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!! The link is here: comics.com/ripleys_believe_it_or_not/2009-10-05/ Wow, what a suprise! And I’m in august company, with the TEETH OF STEAL man and the diner made from the fuselage of a B-29!
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Minigolf Portals and Cigarette Silks
I took yesterday off from work, and we all drove out towards Morgantown and Lancaster to look at stuff in anqtique/junk shops. LBY and I ended up playing minigolf while Kate went for the bonus expert round of shop-looking. If there’s anything better than the little portals in the fabric of spacetime at minigolf courses,…
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110% Over-Thanked, But I Can’t Complain While my Mouth is Full
As a "thank you" for building a kitchen set and shooting a movie in our garage, filmmaker friend Susie baked us a pan of fresh, homemade apple dumplings. With a bottle of cinnamon-sugar sauce. And a bottle of bourbon to top it with: OH MY GOD, were they good. We are seriously, egregiously over-thanked here.…
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Videos From the Chester County Hospital May Fair
In 2008, I blogged about a visit to the Chester County Hospital May Fair, on a wet and rainy morning. This year, the weather was amazingly magnificent. While Kate and her mom tried to whip the house into shape, I diverted LBY by taking her! Here are some iPhone videos I took: The truck-portable ferris…
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HURRAH FOR SPRING!
In celebration of spring, I am posting my favorite UNCHAIN THE AWESOME videos, from one I just discovered today (“Grocery Groove”, below), to my favorite thing in the whole entire world, animal, vegetable, or mineral — the Bill Irwin video from Sesame Street at the bottom. See, his Charleston really was THAT amazing the whole…
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I Graduated from C25K This Weekend!
I’ve been doing the Couch to 5K beginning (and returning) runners’ plan since January, and yesterday, I finished it and ran a 5K race for the first time in, uh… oh, wow: twenty years! C25K is pretty straightforward, though there’s a lot of stuff to keep track of. You start by jogging one minute, then…
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Cult of the Object: Wheatley Aluminum Fly Box
My grandfather, John Randolph (“Slim”) Young, was a hell of a fellow. He was an avid fly fisherman, and belonged to a fishing club in the Poconos called the Pohoqualine Fishing Association, which I’ve blogged about before. Here he is in 1979 with my aunt Becky, relaxing in the white clapboard fishing cottage called “totem…
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Still Life With Dashing Uncle
Matt got his 1971 BSA Thunderbolt up and running yesterday, and stopped by at dinnertime. There’s a line in a Lord Peter Wimsey book where Peter produces a revolver, and immediately is upgraded in the eyes of his nephew from “genial uncle” to “Exalted Uncle”, and that’s what this picture reminds me of: Matt is…
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Ice Cream Sundae, Sundae, SUNDAE!!!
Every Lose It or Lose It user (here’s my profile; I’ve lost 26 pounds while on a LIOLI plan so far!) gets a daily reminder: “STEP AWAY FROM THE CHEESEBURGER!” we exhort our users. “DON’T CONCENTRATE ON THAT TWENTY POUNDS, just concentrate on the two pounds you need to lose for your next weigh-in!” Users…
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West Chester in the Snow
Last Wednesday, the snow was coming down thick and fast. It had been snowing for, what, three days in a row, and I think by that point it was drifting up to seven or eight feet, on top of the twelve or thirteen that we already had. West Chester was totally shut down — AGAIN…
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