June 2010
10 posts
Reflections on The 2009 Voice of The Valley Fest,...
1. Rat Bastard had a very clever lo-tech solution for keeping all the beer cool whilst driving/camping/rocking in miserable Appalachian sweat-funk weather: dry ice, and a collapsible nylon-and-foam cooler. No condensation, no soggy ice melt. The dry ice merely disappears, a slowly sublimating ghost that gives up its life, puff by chilly puff, so that one may enjoy delicious, extremely cold Bud...
Grace Tavern Follow-Up!
Wow, I just made mention of the Cult of Rees going on over at Yelp, and here the inimitable Bowman T. Bowman (yes, that is his real name)(in part) coincidentally, weighs in, not two hrs ago.
Bowman, for those of you who don’t know him, and you don’t probably, is a nearly seven-foot-tall man-mountain who tends bar with Rees at Grace Tavern and also at Sugar Mom’s, which is a...
Rees Effin' Brown
Wow, Rees has his own tag on Yelp.
If only the people he serves drinks to could figure out how to spell his name correctly.
The Pickup
From The Pickup, a 2008 piece by Heather L. Johnson and Eleanor Eichenbaum Eubanks, in which they did this:
Brief personal narratives of those who have lived, worked, or traveled in New York City are being collected, edited to one or two enigmatic sentences, and hand-embroidered to vintage handkerchiefs. Each handkerchief is dropped at the location where the event it describes took place, and...
Inbox goodies
(Tons of cool youtube vids of Lee Ranaldo and his art projects, including a bunch I was utterly unaware of.)
Wow—I’m flattered—someone just sent me this—from writer Dennis Cooper’s blog—I didn’t know about this, but we are old friends—-haven’t seen or spoken to him in ages——
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Puffin'
from Mike Watt
Sent at 12:08 PM (GMT-07:00). Current time there: 6:31 AM.
to Chris Grier
date Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:08 PM
subject puffin’ at a ripe age
http://comedy.com/2010/05/28/wtf-video-of-the-day-smoking-baby/
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:36:45 -0400, Chris Grier wrote:
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> “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is
> why several of...
What We Need Is Clarity
from (Mike Watt)
Sent at 12:18 PM (GMT-07:00). Current time there: 6:29 AM.
subject what we need is clarity