I suppose that I would be immediately outed as a witch during the Salem Witch trials of yore. I make secret brew in my house, write lusty plays about circus folk, and find myself enamored of both intentional communities & the magic of Apple computers. Mostly, I am just freakishly tall. Yet, after being stranded [...]

We shot a lovely two-song session with Wakey! Wakey! this past weekend, in what will hopefully be the first of many for the Goddamn Cobras‘ “Cobra Den Invitational” series. I’m trying to teach myself to use Final Cut Pro, so I shot some footage on my little digital camera while we were setting up, and [...]

Had the pleasure of listening to a band called Bow Ribbons at Monkey Town Tuesday night. They only played two songs, because they were sharing the evening with Jolie Holland, Mike Wexler, Garrett Devoe and others (in what Monkey Town described as “a night of medieval sonic drone guitar rock, fiddle, folk-pop and expert percussion”) [...]

• Brooklyn’s Backyard Chicken Keepers from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Meet Megan Paska and Katrina Mauro both Mother Hens to four curious egg-laying chickens in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They decided to raise chickens for the first time in their tiny urban backyard as a way to live more sustainably. What they discovered is that raising chickens is [...]

“What the hell is that? What are you doing out there?” A confused friend asked me this during a recent visit to our home. To which I proudly puffed out my chest and said, “This is our Compost Pile.” Oh yeah, we buy our produce at farmers’ markets, carry canvas bags everywhere, and reuse our [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6deggcIR98Q&feature=player_embedded] Saw the Christmas Spectacular show at the House of Yes last Friday. Very impressive. Not your typical holiday- show mix of burlesque dancers and bland comedy (though the comedy was bland) – the House of Yes show features amazing aerial acts combined with genuinely talented dancers of all sorts of varieties (from burlesque to [...]

For all those of you who are spending the holiday with those you love, even though you may not technically be “home” … Enjoy: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cy3hMbl1W8] I am not spending the holiday at home, nor with the person I love like this (because he is, no lie, spending the day at Barbara Streisand’s house), but I [...]

When I was a freshman in college, my friend Kari asked me if I would like an orange. We were sitting in her dorm room with some friends. I accepted her offer, and watched, a few minutes later, as everyone in the room stared at me aghast. My faux pas? I had bitten into the [...]