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Steve Martin Dueling Banjos
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The only stupid question is THE ONE YOU JUST ASKED HAW HAW HAW
Today, we had Coworkout at Shofuso, the seventeenth-century Japanese house in Fairmount park I arrived first, a few minutes before the house is opened to the public. I walked around the fenced garden, watching volunteers dig holes for new azalea bushes. The house looked IMPOSSIBLY, UNBELIEVABLY, INCREDIBLY awesome. This is the photo I took with…
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Shofuso House in Fairmount Park
I’m going to do some hyperventilating here. For a while, I’ve known that there’s a Japanese house in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park called “Shofuso” (literally, “Pine Breeze Villa”), and I knew it was built in a traditional sixteenth-century style, and I wanted to hold a coworkout session there, or maybe show “Ran” for the Guerilla Drive-In,…
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Kitty Bo’s Rodeo Pictures
Until I was six, my family lived in Austin, TX, because my parents were Official Scientific UFO Hunters. The folks at Project Starlight were really cool; I have shadowy four-year-old’s memories of a group of tall, capable Texans in denim clothes pouring concrete, welding rebar, lighting campfires to heat up coffee, and moving heavy UFO-detection…
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Meatcards is Non-Roman-Alphabet Famous!
Nin hau ma, y’all? *tips cowboy hat*: http://news.sohu.com/player/20080805/Main.swf What does “NYOU-lo KARR-szha” mean?
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Meatcards on “Attack of the Show”
Meatcards appeared on G4TV’s “Attack of the Show” yesterday. Their verdict? “Tastier than most business cards!” http://g4tv.com/lv3/38253 Chris had made a prototype just for them, before leaving for Florida to watch the shuttle launch. Will is waiting to hear back from the USDA to see if we have to comply with the Full Weight of…
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OMG Double Dutch!
Lydia discovered a jump rope at the drugstore yesterday; when I came home, she was jumping, five-year-old style in the back yard. So we spent some time googling for “jump rope” and then “Double Dutch”, and sure enough, YouTube did NOT disappoint: Check out the amazingness that starts at 1:14 in this video (though the…
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Lydia at Springton Manor Farm
Kate went with Lydia on a field trip today, to Springton Manor Farm. Here, the kids are scooping muck out of the pond, and watching all the tapoles wriggle (and dragonfly nymphs! and all sorts of other stuff!)
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Why you should move to West Chester, PA #4: NORTHBROOK CANOE COMPANY
Just a few minutes from West Chester, Northbrook is the pinnacle, the apotheosis, the ne plus ultra of summertime: Northbrook Canoe Company Northbrook is absolutely everything you could possibly want in a canoe-rental outfit. Headquartered in an old stock-feed depot on the banks of the Brandywine, every sign in the place is a hand-painted one-off…
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MEAT CARDS: The Timeline
Tuesday, April 21st, 11:40 AM EDT, in the Tikaro Interactive campfire chat room: Randy S: My brain isn’t working today, what is the popular on-line place to get biz cards printed? Chris C: overnightprints.com Randy S: oh, nice, thanks! Randy S: I was having trouble thinking of what to google for 😦 Chris C: yeah…
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