After last week's fairly boring episode, this week's LXD episode "Can''t Dance" (series 3, episode 4) comes back with a light and entertaining romp through a tailor's workshop. It's got great energy, silliness, and joy in the dancing. I loved it. Harry Shum, Jr. is just always a pleasure to watch. Check it out here.
Yehoodi’s “Beaver Lodge” Ep 1 is online: where the lindy ladies get their say!
Last week, the lindy boys got to have their fun on the "Sausage Fest" podcast, episode one. Now its the ladies' turn with episode one of "Beaver Lodge"! This is a bawdy, probably NSFW, gabfest where the lindy ladies get to talk about whatever they want, dance related or otherwise. This show features our host…
This Friday Learn How to Give Great Presentations at NPLive Online Event
This Friday, August 26, starting at 10am PST, I will be speaking at an online interactive event on "Giving Great Presentations," as part of TechSoup's "Nonprofits Live" series. Other speakers are : Kivi Leroux Miller, speaker, writer, and the president of the Nonprofit Marketing Guide Nat Robinson, vice president of SlideRocket, who provides insight into…
“67 Sueños”: Pro-migrant Mural Unveiling on August 26 at SF Quaker Meetinghouse
I am happy to share that a really beautiful new mural on a pro-migrant social justice theme is being officially unveiled on Friday August 26 in downtown San Francisco. On the northern wall of the San Francisco Quaker Meetinghouse, the new mural is called "67 Sueños" (67 dreams). Created by muralist Pancho Pescador in collaboration…
My Quaker-inspired Solo Dance Piece “The Message” (video)
Yesterday at San Francisco Quaker Meeting, after the morning worship, I performed for the first time publicly my solo dance piece “The Message” before an audience of about 30 people. This is a personal piece that comes out of my experience at Quaker Meeting for Worship, particularly what Quakers refer to as “sharing a message”…
LXD S3Ep3 “The Forbidden” : Flamenco, the forgetten street dance (video)
Ah, LXD, you tease. You had me all sucked in with your two excellent opening episodes of Season Three. And then you give me this weak, boring, illogical episode three, "The Forbidden." First off, the dancing. It's Flamenco. Flamenco, for gawd's sake. I mean, I know that flamenco is a bad ass dance, a street…
Tim Ferriss Tackles Spirituality in “The Four Hour Spirit”
For those of you who are die-hard Tim Ferriss fans, having quit your normal 9-5 to travel the world and live off of your mail-order oven mitt business, working on your killer abs and having great sex, you might be wondering what is next from the "4-hour" wunderkind? Well I have it from reliable sources…
The Sausage Fest Podcast Returns: Where lindy dudes (ahem) let it all hang out
Yehoodi.com is proud(?) to announce the return of Sausage Fest, our naughty-talking gabfest where lindy fellas get to talk about whatever they want. In this episode, we talk with our special "sausagists" Andrew Thigpen, Dave Frutos, and Bobby White! They hold court on whether they would rather have a "bad blues dance" or a "bad…
The LXD Season 3 Opens: Bollywood & Scary Clowns Locking FTW! (video)
As my readers know, I have had strong reservations about the LXD dance web-series for the past couple of seasons. For the most part, it has been bursts of inspired dance sequences nearly ruined by hackneyed plots, bad dialogue, and stilted acting. So I have been somewhat nervously waiting for season three to come out….
The “It’s It”: San Francisco’s Superior Ice Cream Sandwich
Philly has the cheesesteak, Chicago has the deep dish, and (for me at least) San Francisco has the "It's It" ice cream sandwich. A San Francisco favorite since invented by George Whitney in 1928, it has remain virtually unchanged: two oatmeal cookies sandwiching vanilla, chocolate or mint chip ice cream, and then covered with dark…