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MANDOM!
It’s condom, man, random, domination and condiment rolled into one word! (Says my friend and colleague Claudia.) I cannot possibly do justice to these commercials in words, so I will not even try. Simply BEHOLD. MANDOM commercial number six, in which Charles Bronson demonstrates that “the world loves a lover” by going home alone, sticking…
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Lose It or Lose It on CBS3 this morning
Since the beginning of October, I’ve lost just over twenty pounds by carefully monitoring my calorie intake and working out 4-5 times a week. The lion’s share of my weight loss has been spurred by my friend and colleague Randy Schmidt‘s brilliant new website, Lose It or Lose It, which has a simple, effective premise:…
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Why you Should Move to West Chester, PA #6: THE FOOD
Imagine NINJA MOUNTAIN, where all the most sage, venerable, and deadliest ninja masters go to practice their craft. Ninja mountain is not in the middle of the capital city, because the bustle and high rent of a capital city are only good for the showiest ninja masters, for the crowd-pleasers, for the ones trying to…
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Matt and Kristen’s Wedding
On Saturday night, Kate’s brother Matt got married to the wonderful Kristen Seidle (you might remember her as the Tequila dance teacher at the Guerilla Drive-In) at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. We went in on Friday for the rehearsal, and stayed at the Loews for two nights so we would be in town…
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Bayard Rustin HS Marching Band at the West Chester Halloween Parade
Marching bands are like mana for small-town awesomeness, I think. The little girl in the stroller certainly thinks so! That’s Bayard Rustin’s high school marching band. The West Chester Halloween Parade is organized by West Chester Parks and Rec, and they did a great job. Coming up, the Christmas parade is organized by none other…
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Farrell Field and the Glory of Rome (a repost from September 2002)
I wrote this post in 2002, back when you capitalized “Blog”, and “my homepage” was still something you said with a straight face. I published this story as a bunch of short pages, but then they got lost in series of site reshuffles. I’ve stitched them together here, with horizontal lines to show the page…
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Guerilla Drive-In: Edward Scissorhands (with 32-second haircuts!)
Our last Guerilla Drive-In showing of the 2009 season was Saturday night; we showed Edward Scissorhands in the big, beautiful auditorium of the Chester County Historical Society (our only showing ever scheduled indoors!) Real-life scissor impressario Anthony Giunta III of Salon Chemistry was on hand to give 32-second haircuts to the audience. That’s because Kathy…
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The Oakbourne Water Tower Just Gets More Amazing
As you may know, there’s an Edward Gorey-style mansion near my house, featuring a wonderful Victorian/Bavarian/Miyazaki stone-and-cast-iron cuckoo clock of a water tower. I’ve breathlessly written about it before, going as far as buying a domain name with the intention of donating it to the group that runs the park. Tonight, my friend Jim Haigney…
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What Kenn Munk is up to (continuing to be awesome, basically)
My Internet friend Kenn Munk is one of my very favorite designers. He’s made a number of things for me that I really love, including the Tikaro Interactive “gear pixel” logo, the designs featured on the top half of my “commando nerd” patches, the Coworkout Wi-Fir, the logo for the dormant Gorilla Suit Construction Workshop,…
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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure at the BVA’s Browning Barn
Saturday night, we showed Pee-wee’s Big Adventure at the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In. We had planned to show the movie at Baldwin’s Book Barn, but rain moved us to the wonderful old wooden barn at the Brandywine Valley Association. Highlights of the show were the Tequila dance class that Kristen taught (with toe stands in…
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