Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I’ve been a space geek for as long as I remember. When I was a child I had a book called Our Galaxy or something like that, with cool facts about planets, stars, galaxies, black holes and other astronomical phenomena. I read it like a million times. I had glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on my…
My friend and fantastic photographer Lynn has posted to Flickr a bunch of pics from the photoshoot of my friend Eugene and me breaking that we did last weekend. I'm super jazzed about how the pics came out! Catching exactly the right moment as we are hitting various b-boy freezes is no easy task. Honestly,…
This Thursday, November 4, we are throwing a very special Frim Fram Jam swing dance. We are delighted to be showcasing the Boilermaker Jazz Band performing live, with DJ Swifty spinning during the breaks. Plus this is the beginning of the month, so we will have a beginner dance lesson taught by the talented Mr….
In the interest of full disclosure, and cause I wanted to brag, here's some free "Scott Pilgrim" swag I received recently from the nice folks at Oni Press. And my parents said that blogging would never pay off! Included in the "level up!" kit from Oni Press: two Scott Pilgrim wristbands! two keychain fob thingees!…
This morning I had a really fun time at a breaking photo shoot done by my friend Lynn, a talented photographer and fellow lindy hopper. She has a good eye for catching dancers in motion, as you can see from her recent shoot of the General Mischief Dance Theater group and awesome lindy hoppers Evita…
Thanks to awesome graphic designer Damien Fate for creating this adorable Halloween-themed logo variation for our website Yehoodi.com! See more about Damien and his design work on the Pixel Valley website. For Halloween weekend dance opportunities, see our New York event calendar at http://yehoodi.com/nyc. Who wants pumpkin pie?
Captain Morgan on Yehoodi.com posted that there are some very telling similarities between a dance scene in "Toy Story 3" and a clip of dancers at the Ultimate Lindy Hop Showdown from 2006. The dancers in the ULHS clip are Todd Yannacone and Frida Segerdahl. Watching the two clips together, it's hard to imagine the…
I love this recipe for "preserving children" that you can find in the Powell House cookbook (now out of print). Tom Rothchild brought this gem to my attention. The recipe is as follows: Take one large grassy field, half a dozen children, three small dogs, and walk along a narrow strip of brook, pebbly if…
I know this is an old and juvenile joke, but a bunch of us at the Brooklyn Meeting retreat this weekend up at Powell House got a kick out of this "Kitty Litter Cake" made the resident chef Kris. It's basically a chocolate pudding cake, with crumbled up cookies on top to look like the…
This weekend I got to enjoy the company of 40-some Quakers in upstate New York for the 2010 Brooklyn Quaker Meeting Retreat, which I helped organize. It was one of those times that reaffirm everything that I love about Quakers as a community. The locale was the historic and quaint retreat center called Powell House…