We sold a lot of stuff today. Starting early this morning, people came in to tell us we had nice stuff, make a pile, and then start backing up about it not being that nice. That’s why I don’t price anything, it doesn’t really matter. I do, however, judge a man by his negotiating skills. [...] Continue Reading »
I’m going to talk to a man about a little pony
3can 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 »
Sucker of a guy
0From my phone: I just brought my friend home after lunch and playing 11 o’clock Rock on knoxivi.com. We’re watching the movie Once. Glen Hansard is chasing the bum to get his tip money back. I gotta go scrape lead paint off a house in 4th and Gil. Playing on the show was fun. I’m [...] Continue Reading »
there will be a parade today
0Around 4 o’clock today, we are going on parade. The route will be Armstrong to Glenwood, Glenwood to Broadway, and Broadway to The Black Market in Knoxville Market Square. Honk if you see us. Throw candy. We haven’t notified the city, but Ashley, as the member of the force (a crossing guard for Bel Morris [...] Continue Reading »
black mold
2Ashley’s dad got some free drugs and his legs shaved today, then we all left and went to a basketball game. The Johnson City Medical Center discovered black mold in the operating room and the open heart surgery was postponed. Meanwhile the Addair family had settled in for a week. Ashley was watching Twilight on [...] Continue Reading »
updates
2We just wanted to give an update of everything going on around the Mason Jar and with Ashley and I. Ashley is having her art workshop tomorrow night, 6:00 PM and you can click the tab to see this month’s theme. She’ll be at the Knoxville Farmers market this Saturday. I’ll be busking there [...] Continue Reading »
a good saturday
0Ashley and I fit a 10X8 tent, a couple wooden tables, an easel and a plastic crate full of crafts into the Corolla most Saturday mornings. After that we shove paintings and wood blocks into the crevices before jumping in the car and trying not spill the first mug of coffee or slam a canvas [...] Continue Reading »
song 10 of 14: Questions
0When two people consider entangling their lives together, they begin by asking questions. While the questions get more serious, they begin to look like one big question. Are we going to do this? And if so, what are we going to do? We are still asking, often adding expletives so that it’s more like, “What [...] Continue Reading »
she wont let them, song 5 of 14
0Early on a Saturday in New York City, Ashley and I were already on the subway with bags of wood block paintings, embroidered pictures, handbags, guitar, dog, and laundry hanger. We’d crowded into the back of a near empty car when the train picked us up in Harlem. As we bound closer to Union Square, [...] Continue Reading »
song 4 of 14
0Let me set the scene for this one. Ashley was working out the end of her two week notice last December as a nanny for a family in Chesapeake, VA. My landscaping had already slowed to a halt. We were living with an artist we had met at the oceanfront and making plans to head [...] Continue Reading »