Yesterday morning, I dragged my tired butt over to the Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park for one of our rare cleanup days. These cemetery cleanups are nice ways for the NYC Quaker community to come together and do something practical together in a beautiful natural setting. I was one of the first ones there, as…
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Breathing is Expensive
I'm taking a potent and costly cocktail of medications for my asthma this Spring, due to the unusually high pollen counts. I've never spent this much to breathe. But it's still better than the alternative.
Help Global Kids Teens Get to College: Support Our Scholarship Fund!
Every year, Global Kids helps hundreds and hundreds of disadvantaged New York City seniors through the confusing and lengthy college application process, supporting them in this important step in creating a better future for themselves. Unfortunately, for those that get accepted, paying for college remains a high hurdle for these teenagers and their families. It's…
Fordham High School Step Team at Global Kids Conference (video)
I've been meaning to put this up, but got behind on my videos. Here's the awesome step team from Fordham High School in the Bronx tearing it up at the 2010 Global Kids Youth Conference earlier this month. So fierce. [Link to original video.]
Akemi & Nathan dancing to Baby Soda in Washington Square Park (video)
Here’s a cute video of Nathan and Akemi lindy hopping to the Baby Soda Jazz Band today in Washington Square Park. It was a glorious day for listening and dancing to some awesome swing jazz by the Baby Soda guys. About 20-some dancers turned out, along with an appreciative crowd of onlookers. My favorite part…
Daily Dancespiration: Quest Crew’s “Sing Sing Sing” Routine on ABDC Charity Show! (video)
My friend Toni alerted me to a particularly relevant routine on the last episode of America’s Best Dance Crew last Thursday. Finally got to see it late tonight, and OMG so ridiculous! It’s the incomparable Quest Crew doing a breaking routine to the Benny Goodman swing classic “Sing Sing Sing!” Such great tricks, humor and…
Midsummer Nights Swing 2010 Lineup: Battle of the Bands, Bhangra & New Orleans Moonshiners!
Friends Eden and David on the banner of the Midsummer Nights Swing website! Lincoln Center this morning released the line up for the 2010 season of Midsummer Nights Swing, their summer celebration of music and dance. Taking place from June 27 to July 17, it looks like a fun, eclectic mix of music and…
Slutty Cakes from Shopsins: Promiscuously Pleasing (SFW)
This morning I met up with my buddy Rafi for some breakfast from the fantastic Shopsins General Store in the Lower Eastside. Rafi had the mac n' cheese pancakes, which I've written about before, and was very tempted to order again. Instead I got the "Slutty Cakes," which are pancakes made with pistachios, peanut butter…
My Talk on Youth Learning Networks at the WebWise Conference in Denver (video)
The organizers of the excellent Webwise conference that I attended last month in Denver have recently posted to the web videos from the event. While there, I spoke on a panel on "Creating Connections and Promoting Networks" focused on the challenges and opportunities of using new media to transform user experience and provide a network…
R. Stevens of Diesel Sweeties wants to “Crush Rik”
I ran into the awesome web cartoonist R. Stevens of "Diesel Sweeties" fame at the MoCCA comic convention this weekend. Here's the cool illustration he drew for me in his book "Crush All Humans." And for those of you playing along, a couple of his awesome tee-shirts appeared on the recent episode of "The Big…