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My brother Oliver, who is spending six weeks as artist-in-residence here at the Barcode Building in West Chester, surprised me with this watercolor when I came in to the office this morning. I think he painted it this weekend before (after?) he visited Frank Frazetta. It’s a watercolor about 10″x14″. You can see it larger…

In January, I wrote about the “Green2Steam” mad-scientist tea party that Randy, Eric, Harold and I had at Harold’s studio: “Like a tea party. With fire. For MANS!“. Eight months to the day later, Jim and Ellen hosted a second version of the “let’s make the most complicated cup of coffee possible” party on their…

Last week, we showed “The Great Outdoors” at Northbrook Canoe Company, with special celebrity guest, my high-school friend Chris Young. We had a really, really wonderful time — highlights for me were the NINETY-SIX OUNCE STEAK(!!!) that Mary Bigham of West Chester Dish brought and grilled, as well as the old ninety-sixer eating competition, where…

Lydia and I were looking at videos of her from when she was a baby, and we came across this: THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME.

Kate, Lydia, and I are back in West Chester after a week on 15th Street in Avalon, New Jersey. Our friends Jonathan and Francine had the house next door with their two daughters, who Lydia describes as HER BEST FRIENDS IN THE WHOLE WORLD. We had a wonderful, restful week. Highlights: trips to Storybook Land,…

Jack Renaud, the producer for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, called me this afternoon to let me know that the piece he put together on Guerilla Drive-Ins was probably going to air tonight. That was really nice of him; I didn’t know that Big Powerful TV News Producers did that. I suspect they…

You might remember that when we wandered into Iron Hill a few days ago to watch Larry and Jean pour barley into the enormous copper “Mash tun”, Kate spotted a big pile of woven plastic grain sacks used to bring specialty grains over: “Munich Malt, Type 1”, they say in bold, no-nonsense sans-serif fonts. “Brau-,Röst-…

I got the idea for the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In from an article Kate showed me in ReadyMade Magazine in, maybe, 2001. The story was about a bunch of crazy anarchists in Santa Cruz that were trying to take back corporate brownfield space by showing movies in it, making community happen in it.. you know,…

Coworkout is like the Guerilla Drive-In, except with cubicles. We pack our laptops and an EvDO-to-WiFi repeater, put a catenary shade tarp in the sidecar, and go do our programming work at interesting locations outdoors around Philadelphia, like Fort Mifflin and Shofuso. Last Friday, we held Coworkout at the Lanchester Scenic Overlook, which is a…

This morning, as we were getting coffee on Market street before going to the office, Kate and I noticed that the door was open at the Iron Hill brewery, steam was rising off the giant copper kettle, and something was being poured from a spout in the ceiling. So we stuck our head in. Now,…