Fishtown the book

I was slow the get the news, but I tag-surfed across the graphic novel Fishtown (available online at act-i-vate.com here) by Kevin Colden.  It is a fictional 100pg comic based on some news stories  the kids involved in the Jason Sweeney murder in 2003, and for the past month available in hardcover.

I read it before [...]

get your Art Shop on

In case you haven’t heard…

look, mom, we’re on TV

My rather cool friend Josh Camerote has been working on a piece for Current TV on Circle of Hope for a few months.  The finished piece is now on their website and will be on their tv station at some point.
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Things Better Left Unsaid #247: talking to kids about torture at the dinner table

So last night we’re having dinner (me, MG, Jay, and my 2 daughters Helena-7 and Lily-4) and Martha’s cell comes up.  She is thinking about what to talk about next week (Tues night in Fishtown at Lindsay Mae’s house) since they are doing a sort of short series on world events and justice issues.  She [...]

Getting Africanized

I just wrote a longer post on the Circle of Hope blog, but at least wanted to mention how pumped I am to get the drumming classes going again-see earlier post here for deets.
Last night a group of us spent several hours re-headding and building djemebes.  I learned a lot about a lot.  We tried [...]

feasted

great love feast tonight.  i seem to frequently forget to bring my camera to get some pics, although I guess most of us do.
I did upload some pics from my cell’s World Series party the other night here.  Game 2 loss was kind of brutal, but it was still a great time to be together [...]

Jay’s return

I’m glad we’re getting the drumming classes going again.  We are going to have some issues with scheduling and no doubt with space conflicts until we get the studio built.   Here’s the flyer for the upcoming classes.

The word on the street is that the mate-masie will be in the house for both classes.  MG and [...]

Things Better Left Unsaid #18

This is kind of a tip of the hat to Leann.  Maybe this will turn into a series.  Usually, I guess, things in this category would be like saying to my kids…”wait.  do that again.  I want to take a picture and put it on my blog”, etc.
Things Better Left Unsaid #18:  “I feel like [...]

movin on up

Thanks Nick for uploading the video that Jim shot and edited.  Here is the video of the Human Chain that moved Circle Thrift on Labor Day.  Hi-res version MPEG here for dnld.

You may want to share a highlight from the day here. I previously posted about how glorious of a day [...]

CT move pics…

so Carina needs tons of props (dub kuds) for not only taking tons of pics today, but for posting them online lickety split.  what a gal!
Take a look at this one from 2233 Frankford Ave.  It looks so fresh!!!

What a moment.  Much thanks and respect to those who made it out today to help move [...]