This year I ( Read more... )

1. West Palm Beach is like Miami with less cocaine. If you can live there you can be a roofer anywhere ( Read more... )

1. Friday Night at The Fuze had a bunch of strong newcomers. I feel the Philly scene is the culmination of ten years of Just Hanging In There. There is enough stability to have new and old artists challenge each other and raise the bar.

2. Saturday the traffic going into Philly was so jacked up that I missed the last guided tour for Eastern ( Read more... )

New Year's Eve was different for me. I'm used to spending that raucous and drunken night with people I know very well. I took a chance this year and decided to spend it with people I haven't met ( Read more... )

1. Traffic
2. Hangovers
3. Parades
4. & 5. (Let's not get into it)

But all five things culminate at the Mummers Parade on New Year's Day in Philadelphia. I've never been to it. Never wanted to. But I need to go in order to write the novel.

Now they're talking about cutting it short this year. Bullshit.

For the novel (that thing that I'm "working" on, if by "working" I mean sitting around and thinking of more ideas but not actually writing it) I am going to need a couple of Dragons that exist in Philadelphia.

I know of some already.

1. There's this one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
2. The Dragons in the Chinatown Arch
3. The Drexel Dragon ( Read more... )