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on December 4, 2014 at 9:43 am ×
We’d just finished dinner, chicken (and fake chicken) and cheese quesadillas. Yum. I was washing a pile of dishes — dry skin cracking beneath near-burning water and tangerine scented suds. The new Gustafer Yellowgold album was still spinning on my phone, which was plugged in 18″ from the double sink […]
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on December 2, 2014 at 2:38 pm ×
Huge thanks to Annenberg Center for sponsoring this month’s podcast. The performing arts theater located in University City Philly has the silent madcap adventures of MUMMENSCHANZ on stage from 12/11-12/14. Find out more and buy tickets here. Brrrr. It is December. It is cold. And I am sick. Surprisingly, this […]
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on November 26, 2014 at 9:21 am ×
So the other night, the Mrs. and I were at Old Navy. Yeah, again. What of it? I like that place, alright. They were (still are, actually) having a bitchin’ 30% off the entire store sale which meant we could make our dollar go far whilst shopping for our Sponsor […]
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on November 19, 2014 at 11:51 am ×
A carnival ride for Playmobil people. That’s what woke us up on a recent Sunday morning. I’m sorry, I should be more specific. I should paint this picture in fluorescent blues and yellows for you to see it better from where you sit right now, especially if you too have […]
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on November 17, 2014 at 1:58 pm ×
Holiday music, if anyone is talking about it at all, is usually being bemoaned and belittled openly with much disdain. Blame the big box stores, who begin force feeding it to us through their lame sound systems while the ghosts and goblins of late-October are being moved unceremoniously to the […]
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on November 15, 2014 at 9:41 am ×
There are so many to choose from, with more seemingly going live every single day, but Instagram has proved the more exciting social sharing platform for me. I recently tried to explain why this is to a friend over dinner and I think it is as simple as the extra […]
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on November 13, 2014 at 8:56 am ×
Since transitioning from working dad to stay at home dad to lazy dad at home alone with kids in school every day over the past 6+ years, the mid-week matinee movie has become a tradition unlike any other; The Masters without the Green Jackets, 4th of July celebrations without the […]
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on October 31, 2014 at 3:31 pm ×
The Mouse, age 7, invented a superhero named Rainbow Warrior late last month. Her mind is a wheel that never stops spinning, even when it veers off into a ditch. Round and round and round it goes. She and I created her hero’s logo in Adobe Illustrator and then she […]