NINE Playing background dinner music is one of the best places to people watch that I know of. It’s better than a bench in the mall, better than a county fair, better even than a cafe table on a busy street. When you’re on the piano you may stare all you want and no one [...] Continue Reading »
nine. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
2our hipster tourist guide of knoxville
4Hi, I’m an artist from Vancouver Canada, and I will be visiting Knoxville in May. I was looking up arts and culture in Knoxville when I stumbled upon your bog. I am wondering if you could do a post on a hipster tourist guide for Knoxville, as I am hoping to see indie art and [...] Continue Reading »
yes this is real
0I talked to a man about a dishwasher on Craigslist this afternoon and made a dash out to Seymour to check it out, but that’s beside the point and maybe a different story altogether. The Henley Bridge is out, as all Knoxvillians know, and going to South Knoxville is something you have to be intentional [...] Continue Reading »
something new will still be you
4This is an Instagram, obviously, of my cat. Isn’t it nice. My Nikon d3100 took a vacation to the factory. It was my workhorse camera until I had the idea to sell it and then the very next day: no more focusing. Almost as if betrayal could not be swallowed. It did have 13 [...] Continue Reading »
before we jump in the camper and go
4I know there was a lot of drastic talk on here a while ago about an Airstream and outfitting ourselves for a new chapter on the road. Our last attempts are fresh on my mind. They were good efforts but not experiences to repeat. Not Ashley and I, and not with a two month old. [...] Continue Reading »
best google search engine terms that found us
4And now it’s time for more guilty Google searches. Of course we can’t see who they are, but we know what they were looking for. Here are the chosen (for this Quarter): why isn’t my daughter a hipster? fellini kroger (39 times) settlers of catan hipsters (3 times, spelled cantan 2 more times) kick em [...] Continue Reading »
the big 3.0
14I’m excited about turning 30 here in about four hours. 30 is a landmark. 30 is historic. 30 is dang near respectable. I’ve been a grown man for a while, but not a 30 year old grown ass man. I say bring it. Ashley asked me if there was anything I wanted to do before [...] Continue Reading »
better to live on the corner of a roof….
3…than share a house with a contentious newborn. No I’m kidding of course. Our five week old is driving me a little nuts however, and I was at one point ready to show tough love. He’s not hungry, he’s not sick, he just wants to fuss. He’s bored with us I’m afraid. I told Ashley [...] Continue Reading »
can you help our blog?
3On January 15th this blog will be three years old. In the beginning I pasted entries onto my Myspace page and Facebook notes, just to let you know we were here. Ashley realized I was serious and joined me in February. For two years we hosted on wordpress.com and saw our numbers slowly rise. For [...] Continue Reading »
Shop Class as Soulcraft, a book review of sorts and thoughts on creativity
2(by Levon who is listening to the rain) I’m reading a book I can’t put down, except to drop in my lap every couple pages and have a mini soapbox session to myself. The book is “Shop Class as Soulcraft” by Matthew B. Crawford. It’s an “inquiry into the value of work” written by a [...] Continue Reading »