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Just as I’m starting to get established in Mount Vernon, the federal government goes and sends me these tantalizing papers for a job in NYC with the Department of Homeland Security.  It could be a great paying job or only a decent one, but it would pay 3x what I make now, even at the […]

Congratulations to me!  I’m proud to say that I am now the Vice Chairperson of the Knox County Democratic Party.  I won the only contested seat, 16-13, on Tuesday night, and now sit on the board of a local committee in a county that is rather strongly contested between Republicans and Democrats.
Knox county has traditionally […]

Carly and I had the opportunity this week to see Saul Williams live in concert at the Grog Shop in Cleveland.  The show was just amazing, and it was worth the trip over and over again.
Williams has been a poet and writer for years, has starred in the film ‘Slam,’ published a few books of […]

A mentor of mine, one Professor Robert Gaebel, used to say that there was nothing wrong with elitism; in fact, elitism is a good thing.  It means that you’re good at something and you know it.  It means that you have either earned or been given some great talent or wealth and that you separate […]

Yes, that means that I’m going to start blogging about things that piss me off, again.
It’s how I started, many years ago, updating each silly page by hand-coded HTML, on the University of Akron Server.  It’s how I inspired Greg Haberman to start Cool People From Akron, and it’s how I ultimately began thinking of […]

I spent half the day in a meeting for one of my candidates, Duane Grassbaugh. The guy is a real down-to-earth, straightforward fellow with a lot of good ideas. He’s well-informed in the political realm and he’s got a great head on his shoulders. I’m glad I’m working for him and I […]

Normally, I don’t work at the bakery on Fridays.  I’m there mainly to speed along the mass production work we do there, which is on the order of 100 cases of bread products a week.  It normally takes us about four workdays to pull off the orders, with a crew of four or five people.  […]

I have taken a few weeks off sending out resumes to just work at the bakery, let my brain uncoil, and relax.  I get a little money from the bakery job, so it takes the immediate pressure of needing more money away, but the long term problems are still there.  A few great job opportunities […]

So the Pop Shop show was a smash.  Quite a few people showed up, and the art looked brilliant.

Thanks to everyone who showed up!  The work will be on display through April.  We’ll keep you posted of upcoming events.

Off to Akron and Cleveland today.  First, Carly is going to somewhere near Youngstown to attend a law school friend’s baby shower.  She’ll be riding with the much-missed Jessica, another law buddy.  While they’re off cooing and mewling with the expecting’s friends and family, I’ll be hitting up old haunts and meeting with friends of […]