1. Midwinter is the single best time to make the squash do all the work : RECIPE 2. Timothy Braun has written the year end list I hope to be together enough to write in a year or two. Insightful and forceful without flailing, your sample? 12.) All I want for Christmas is for Sarah Plain to read, watch, and [...]

With a short year of Friday Fives to choose from it would be a little silly to do an end of the year “Best Of”. So I won’t. Instead let’s highlight what has been a year of amazing growth for my artistic partner Will Hollis Snider. He took what was a fallow year for us theatrically and turned it into [...]

1. There’s no way I’m not leading off this Friday with Ryan Woodward’s ‘Thought of You’ Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo. .2. Mark Demsteader? Check 3. Sometimes it’s nice to be reminded 4. from Yimmy’s Yayo 5. Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic: I liked my little hole, Its window facing a brick wall. Next door there [...]

1. While trimming our tree on Saturday afternoon, I came many beautiful decorations which were Mike’s before we were even a couple. One of them was the “Mike Angel,” a gift from our friend Sandra from 1999. The “Mike Angel” was a hilariously funny addition to our tree for years. She made it out of a styrofoam ball and orange [...]

1. Steampunk, check. Shadow puppets in front of the magic lantern styling, check. The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello! 2. Paper crafts. Like doctorate level paper crafts from Peter Callesen. 3. Haunting work from Fuyuko Matsui 4. I love smart t-shirts: 5. Steam Punk RECORD PLAYER: