I need a Saratoga Vichy table…

Last year, I built the Saratoga Vichy Crate Art Project, where I took an old Saratoga Vichy wooden crate and some vintage Saratoga Vichy water bottles, and electrified that bad boy to look super-Saratoga-Vichy-awesome. That being said … this artwork needs a table.ย  I can’t just get a folding stand and put the artwork on…

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Remembering a “Living Legend”

It’s the early 1970’s, and my local TV station airs Saturday morning and Sunday morning professional wrestling programs.ย  The shows were part of what was then the World Wide Wrestling Federation organization, with babyface champions like Andre the Giant, Chief Jay Strongbow, “Polish Power” Ivan Putski, and tag team specialist Tony Garea.ย  It also had…

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Is the Tech Valley Center of Gravity in my future?

If you’ve read my blog for any discrete amount of time, you know that I have a tendency to work on projects.ย  Dream Windows.ย  Crate Art Projects.ย  Stitching burlap endeavors. And, for all intents and purposes, I’ve done all these things in a small two-room apartment.ย  Not exactly a maker studio, but I do get…

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Why “full disclosure” is so important

When you are in any form of media, it’s important to disclose that the information you’re providing is either your own, or that you were requested or required to say something by your company’s mandate.ย  Or if you are offering testimony on a product in your blog or in your podcast, you needย  to disclose…

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Collarworld: Vincent’s Epilogue

It was a quiet, lazy morning in the afterlife waystation known as Collarworld, where pets wait until they are once again joyously reunited with their masters. It was very quiet.ย  From his home in a green meadow, Vincent the king orange tabbycat could barely hear any noises from the nearby realms.ย  That’s fine, he thought.ย …

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Jeremy McNamara: Badge 5475

Tomorrow, my friend Jeremy McNamara gets to fulfill the #1 entry on every competitive runner’s life list. He’s going to run his first-ever Boston Marathon.ย  He’s wearing running bib number 5475, and he’s going to race the 26 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square on Monday morning. This is a major, major, major achievement.ย  I’m…

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