In this instance, dinner was at Melt with a friend on a rainy day. Melt is one of these places that I kind of wish was a buffet, because I want a little of everything each time I go and it’s hard to decide on just one thing and one side.
My brother gave me these little fellas and they watch over me as I catch up with things at my desk. Sidenote: I went down a rabbit hole to find out what smurfing meant and the most interesting version was the bank industry jargon that is a way to launder money.
A day of balance, where I spent the Sunday hours doing little but cursing Daylight Savings Time. I did head out to Frisch’s by myself and read a book with actual pages. Yeah, I’m that guy. Don’t fret. It’s nice to be quiet sometimes.
Saturday was jam packed I tell ya. After the bending workshop we joined some friends for fancy hot dogs and gluttony downtown, headed to Kentucky to kill a slice of time before our friend Russ and his bandmates performed some Irish music at Arnolds. The Unlucky Charms were already in full swing when we walked [...]
On Saturday, Tom and I went to Hive13, a hackerspace here in Cincinnati, for a Bending Workshop. Many different skill levels were represented, with me at the noob end of the spectrum having never used a soldering iron before. We made these Bending Buddies (pictured complete below) that allow you to patch and probe circuits for sounds. Tom [...]
Patti Smith is everywhere for me lately. Above: A Shepard Fairey piece is in the foyer of the CAC. I went there with Tom to catch the Keith Haring exhibit, which was really pretty darn great, but sad at the same time as you see his creative life was cut too short. It’s worth going just to see Haring’s [...]
Back to Ohio. Wendy had a night off and suggested catching a flick. The sad variable: there was nothing we really wanted to see, so we caught No Strings Attached at the discount theater. It was awful. The redeeming part of the evening was walking around the ghost town that is the almost-entirely-abandoned but still oddly all-lit-up [...]