This past weekend Brian, Benjamin, Brian's parents and their respective new partners, and I all went frolicking through Duke Gardens in Durham, next to Chapel Hill. there were lots of flowers and I climbed a tree! Here are some pictures. Spring tree-climbing will never be QUITE as glorious as the time JoJo and I dressed up in crazy pink poofie ( Read more... )

Happy Zombie-Jesus Day to all! Let us rejoice with gorging ourselves on chocolate eggs and braaaaaiiiins!
(everyone else gets matzoh)


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While waiting in the long line of cars to pick up Benjamin from school, I saw a HUGE SUV with "pro-life" stickers plastered all over it, and the lady driving it threw some trash out the window that floated over into the school's playground. Two little girls playing on the swings saw it and ran over to pick it all up and throw it away. I was ( Read more... )

HAPPY PASSOVER! let's jew it up :D

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So yesterday I helped pass on the sacred tradition of going through other people's garbage in search of free awesome stuff. Actually, all I did was (while bringing Benjamin to a park) I saw some furniture at the side of the road that I could use, and we pulled over to get it. But afterwards, I started babbling about freegans and about all the great ( Read more... )

Central Station in Antwerp, Belgium (the city I was born in, and visited again last summer) filled with a hundred maniacs dancing together and acting like it is totally spontaneous. Fantastic! Apparently, the 200 dancers were promoting the Dutch TV version of “in search of Maria“, staged by the Belgian commercial VTM network. This is the kind of ad ( Read more... )

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My "faux shank bone for vegetarians" was featured on favecraftsblog.com, in an article by Mindy Yahr about fun Passover crafts:
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What's there to do 'round these parts? Stand in the creek barefooted, of course! YEEHAW! Here's a picture of the skid and I livin' it up Winston-Salem-style this weekend. Actually, we were going on a quasi-hike around a big lake, and had to cross this waterfall-creek-thing at one part of it to get back ( Read more... )