tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59901963623671409602024-02-18T22:38:43.218-05:00Life in the NohoDomeJim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-34282629906245780582012-12-15T17:54:00.001-05:002012-12-15T21:00:48.124-05:00Coca Cola and Cupcakes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The best Coke is from Mexico. This is Dara at Sam's Pizzeria holding a bottle of Mexican Coca Cola. (Thanks for agreeing to the photo, Dara.) I'm not a big soda drinker, but when I do indulge in the classic pizza and coke combo, I now prefer Sam's Coke of choice bottled in Mexico using cane sugar instead of corn syrup for sweetness. My mom used to buy six packs of the green glass 6.5 oz. bottles in the '70s and the promise of one gave me all the motivation I needed to mow the lawn. When I tasted the Mexican Coke for the first time recently, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It was the real thing. </div>
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The Thorne's Market Photo Booth is back in order. The only other one I know of in the area is in Faces right across the street. That thin black and white strip of 4 photos will always be an iconic (refrigerator) art form. They've been usurped by digital cameras which provide immediate (overrated) gratification but I remember when they used to an important part of the dating ritual. How many of us posed with someone on a first or second date and look at the photos now years later and see some combination of hope, fear, and remarkably smooth and tanned skin? If you both agreed to get in the photo booth, it was an early yes vote for the relationship. Or at least assurance that you were at least willing to sit on each others' laps. Usually a good sign. The forced proximity was an alibi for intimacy. I still smell pheromones and photo chemicals when I think about Sandy L. and me in a photo booth after seeing E.T. at the mall. Waiting together for the photo was a sneak preview and a dress rehearsal for our togetherness. It taught us patience and required that we stand there together and ponder what we had just committed to film and to each other, while behind the peely walnut grain papered photo booth wall, the developer, stop bath, and fixer combined, reflecting our own chemistry. Waiting too long. Was it broken? Was it a sign? But then PLUNK. Immortalized x 4 regardless of what was to come. </div>
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In Northampton, and probably elsewhere, people will go out in public wearing clothes that were really meant to stay in the environs of the home and one's own family. Perhaps because downtown really can be a very comforting place and people often do feel like they're at home. Main Street is really just the hallway outside their bedroom on the way to the kitchen to get coffee...or a bag of wine.<br />
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Sadly, Ultra Gal is folding up their sparkly gown and calling it a day. Who will be FOE's new downstairs neighbor? Maybe they'll move downstairs themselves? The rent must be much more reasonable where they are but that one flight of stairs will deter a huge percentage of the retail "Walking Dead" just as being on a side street does. I wonder which factor is the bigger deterrent to casual customers, the 2nd floor or the side street? </div>
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The <a href="http://chrisgentes.com/" target="_blank">Chris Gentes</a> view of Henry's Book Store.</div>
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Christina Gusek, Adam Mulcahy and and Eric N. Peterson, spoken word, and
more to celebrate the new issue of <a href="http://meatfortea.com/" target="_blank">Meat For Tea: The Valley Review.<span style="color: #669999;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #669999;"><span style="font-size: small;">$</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">5 Suggested Donation. </span><span id="eventLocation"> <a href="http://www.valleyartshare.com/events/event/listByLocation?location=SONELAB">SONELAB</a></span><b> 142 Pleasant Street</b> Easthampton this Saturday, December 15th from 7:30 to Midnight <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/448065871896901/" target="_blank">Facebook Event </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pioneervalleyrollerderby.com/" target="_blank">The 8th Annual Stars & Skulls Crafty Craft Fair Saturday, December 15th</a> from 1pm to 7pm at the World War II Club at 50 Conz Street in Northampton. Organized by PVRD's
co-founders, Pink Panzer and Bazooka Joe, Stars & Skulls is the
Valley's original DIY alternative craft fair. The fair will feature dozens of vendors selling locally made
jewelery, clothing, toys, tasty treats, housewares, comics, and much
more! If you're looking for unique and affordable holiday gifts, look no
further. PVRD will also have a table where
we'll be hawking merch and other goodies, and to answer
any questions you might have. Curious about PVRD? Want to become a
member or just profess your undying love? Talk to them at the
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College MFAS Dance Event: Everything's all already alright is this
Thursay December 13th at 7PM at Scott Dance Studio in the Gym. This
annual fall performance will feature new works by first year MFA
candidates: Shaina Cantino, Sara Coffin, Safi Harriott and Mat Elder.
It’s always a crowd-pleasing event with limited seating so plan to
arrive early. Tickets: $1.00. Reservations are highly
recommended due to limited seating, to reserve please contact:
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Mike
is a reputable, friendly guy and a great drummer. But you need reading
glasses to see the phone number on his tear tags so I will save you
aspiring skins-men and women the eye strain: 413-348-1841 or
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This
landscaping service exhibits a lot of personality and lists a San
Francisco area code. Given that it's time to shovel snow, not mow, I'm
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are two vintage Columbia bikes parked in front of <b>Th</b><b>e Antique Ce</b><b>nter of Northampto</b><b>n. </b>Did you know that <b>Columbia Bicycles </b>has local roots In Westfield? <b>Colonel Albert Pope</b>, a captain in the Civil War, founded <b>Pope Manufacturing </b>in Boston in 1877 and sold bicycles imported from England<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">. In 1878 he joined forces with the <b>Weed
Sewing Machine Co</b>. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">and started manufacturing bicycles in Hartford. </span></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Pope died in 1909 at the age of 66 and in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">1914 the main offices were moved to Westfield</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> as </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">The<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Manufacturing_Company" target="_blank"> </a><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Manufacturing_Company" target="_blank">Pope Manufacturing Company.</a> </b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;">In 1916 the company reorganized and renamed <b>The Westfield Manufacturing Company</b>. The catalogs stated that
they were <b><i>“successors to The Pope Manufacturing Company”.</i></b></span></span> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b> </b>In </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">1961 the company was renamed <b>Columbia Manufacturing Company</b>.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> I</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">t remains to this day <a href="http://www.columbiamfginc.com/" target="_blank">making the tubular school furniture that they began making in 1953. </a>Since 1988 bicycle
production in Westfield has been limited. The reproduction
1941 and the blue 125th Anniversary bike were made in the
Westfield plant. They continue to sell a Columbia line of imported
bicycles.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"> In 2008 several of the original factory buildings in Westfield were torn down including the main building on <b>Cycle St.</b> and
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November 1881 issue he ran an article titled “Bicycle-Making Where and how bicycles are made<span style="font-size: small;">.</span>”<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>This involved an extensive
tour of the Hartford Connecticut factor<span style="font-size: small;">ies</span> of The Pope Mfg Co. and their offices in Boston Massachusetts. Presented
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Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-63051776852417119502012-07-26T13:44:00.003-04:002012-07-26T13:45:04.729-04:00Copper Blue 20 Years On<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Twenty years ago, this album changed my life, literally. In 1991 <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=45470330698" href="https://www.facebook.com/bobmouldmusic">Bob Mould</a>
visited the Rykodisc offices on Pickering Wharf in Salem, Mass. with a
DAT in his pocket. The twelve of us that comprised the label's East
Coast headquarters gathere<span class="text_exposed_show">d around <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=557723776" href="https://www.facebook.com/john.hammond">John Hammond</a>'s
office with Bob and sat in stunned silence for 45 minutes as we
listened to Sugar's "Copper Blue" from start to finish. I had
spontaneous tears in my eyes as the wrenchingly beautiful opening track
"The Act We Act" dramatically changed octaves halfway through, like
someone making a passionate argument grabbing your shoulders and
pulling you even closer. When it was done, we knew we'd heard a
masterpiece of rock. We felt a sense of purpose as young music lovers
who were amazingly in a job where we would get to take this work of
musical art to the world. It sounds overstated, right? But this was
real. I was 28. "Jaded" wasn't in my vocabulary. For most of 1992 I
quarterbacked a radio promo team that took the album to #1 on the
alternative charts. I accompanied Sugar on the initial dates of their
first tour. Bob, Dave Barbe and Malcolm Travis played loud, hard, and
precisely, and no one who was at those shows doesn't rank them among
their top lifetime concerts. I drove Bob around Los Angeles, San
Francisco, and Seattle visiting the trades and radio stations. HITS,
Album Network, Gavin, KROQ, Live 105. In LA I was overwhelmed and turned
the wheel of the rental car over to Bob who knew the sprawling city I
had never even visited inside out. Ironically, thanks to Bob, I would
become an LA resident a year later. In February of 1993 in San Francisco
I won the Gavin Award for "Independent Label Promotion Director of the
Year" largely based on Copper Blue's epic run. A job offer from Rhino
Records in Santa Monica followed. At 30 I moved to West Hollywood and
kicked off an eight year stretch of life that would be hard to match for
fun, satisfaction, and growth. Now back in Northampton, as I listen to
Copper Blue, it sounds as fresh and new as ever and my eyes still tear
up during The Act We Act. My path with Bob crossed again earlier this
year when he played a solo show at the Iron Horse and we both shook our
(grayer and balder) heads that it was 20 years ago. I still love
finding music lovers that haven't heard Copper Blue and turning them on.</span>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-21438078751440235432012-06-03T23:09:00.001-04:002012-06-03T23:09:26.031-04:00More Old Northampton Postcards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-9029493114877676342012-05-25T10:39:00.005-04:002012-05-25T10:40:48.805-04:00Historic Pleasant Street Theater in Northampton To Close -- Amherst Cinema To Carry On Valley’s Cinematic Legacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Immediate Release – May 25, 2012 <br />
Contact: Carol Johnson, Executive Director <br />
Amherst Cinema Arts Center, 28 Amity Street, Amherst MA 01002 <br />
Office Tel. (413) 253-2547 x 6 cjohnson@amherstcinema.org www.amherstcinema.org <br />
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-- Historic Pleasant Street Theater To Close -- Amherst Cinema To Carry On Valley’s Cinematic Legacy <br />
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NORTHAMPTON, MA – Northampton’s historic Pleasant Street Theater, an iconic destination for art house film since the mid-1970s, will close on June 8. <br />
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“This was not a decision we came to lightly, or without sadness,” said Carol Johnson, Executive Director of the Amherst Cinema Arts Center. “And it was not a decision about the future of independent film and world cinema in our Valley,” she said. <br />
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“Our Valley loves film! This decision was about how best to fulfill our mission and how to use our future resources to meet the growing needs of an expanding regional audience.” <br />
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After the Pleasant Street Theater closed in 2007, the Amherst Cinema Arts Center – a member-supported nonprofit – re-opened the theater under its umbrella. <br />
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“We gave it our all, and evaluated many options for keeping the Pleasant Street Theater open before <br />
concluding that the theater is physically inadequate as a venue in which to continue our mission,” said Johnson. <br />
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“We would have been looking at significant expenditures just to stay current with the technology that is essential for vibrant arts programming today.” <br />
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“Also, today’s audiences expect good sight lines and a comfortable theater-going environment, two things the size and configuration of the Pleasant Street Theater make impossible. On top of that, the theater, which we rent, is not handicapped-accessible and cannot be made so because of space limitations. These factors, combined with the costs of updated technology, led to the decision to focus our efforts in a way that best serves our audience.” <br />
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The Amherst Cinema Arts Center is an independent arts organization that presents current-release film not typically shown in commercial cineplexes, and offers a range of educational and cultural programs. It was built and opened in 2006. <br />
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“The Amherst Cinema is thriving and offers superb first-run film in a comfortable, fully-accessible theater. In addition, we can offer the Valley a broad range of events captured live in HD, such as ballet performances and plays from Britain’s National Theatre. The theater has also become a favorite venue for visiting filmmakers and other artists. We plan to continue our current-release film offerings and special film series, expand our educational programming, and present a wide array of other arts programs at Amherst Cinema,” said Johnson. <br />
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“The Amherst Cinema offers a variety of exciting opportunities, and we look forward to building on its success with the support of an active member base that spans the entire Pioneer Valley.” <br />
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All employees of the Pleasant Street Theater will be offered work at the Amherst Cinema. Staffing changes will also be managed through attrition at both theaters. <br />
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“We thank our community – film lovers, supporters and believers in the power of independent cinema – who helped keep the Pleasant Street Theater alive and open for over four years after its closing in 2007,” said Johnson. <br />
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“We have been honored to be a part of the Pleasant Street Theater’s storied history. Our Valley has benefitted from the love and knowledge of cinema that the theater’s founders, Richard Pini and John <br />
Morrison, brought to this creative adventure, and the theater’s decades-long place as a destination for art house cinema.” <br />
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“We thank the theater’s friends, patrons and community members for their support. We will do our best to carry on its legacy,” said Johnson. <br />
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Special farewell screenings at the Pleasant Street Theater are being planned for Friday, June 8 and will be announced at a later date. <br />
<br />Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-84698732273888043722012-05-22T22:32:00.001-04:002012-05-22T22:32:17.611-04:00Northampton Postcards Through The YearsThis is my collection of Northampton postcards, scanned and posted for your time traveling pleasure.<br />
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<br />Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-28238902056954786622012-01-29T15:22:00.003-05:002012-01-29T15:40:15.906-05:00Beat on the Brat with a Banjo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxBta7yjZy_0Db7SdUvkbjjrbwlbnbI6CnhQYW2Ax0IjVpyVbTLBLrav9U_MCpyzkujTo1VDeUlUtn43w7lu_VDY97VbOPT9n2PiX01odjkj0UuiGoA0RYFs6iMBfm1WvPKlm5uJMfvne/s1600/peanuts_banjo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxBta7yjZy_0Db7SdUvkbjjrbwlbnbI6CnhQYW2Ax0IjVpyVbTLBLrav9U_MCpyzkujTo1VDeUlUtn43w7lu_VDY97VbOPT9n2PiX01odjkj0UuiGoA0RYFs6iMBfm1WvPKlm5uJMfvne/s400/peanuts_banjo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>My friend David sent me a message about the<a href="http://www.carolinachocolatedrops.com/" target="_blank"> <b>Carolina Chocolate Drops</b> </a>show at the <a href="http://www.iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp" target="_blank">Calvin Theatre</a> in Northampton last night. <i>"We really loved both bands -- your prompt to get there in time for <a href="http://www.joykillssorrow.com/" target="_blank"><b>Joy Kills Sorrow</b></a> was good advice. I've still got banjos twangin' around in my head. Need an afternoon of the Ramones or something to put a stop to it." </i>I told him that if he was pressed for time, and as short as Ramones songs are, there are equivalencies to take advantage of. For mental banjo cleansing, one serving of<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1028567242"> </a><b><a href="http://www.imotorhead.com/" target="_blank">Motorhead's</a> </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwC2QljLn4" target="_blank">"Ace of Spades"</a> packs the pluck purging power of the <b>Ramones' </b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvkzQmc68Y" target="_blank">"Beat on the Brat"</a> <i>and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1028567254"> </a></i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLlLtSG7xe4&feature=related" target="_blank">"I Wanna Be Sedated" </a><i>combined.</i> Neither of us have anything against banjos for the record. Why do I tell you this? Because after the exchange, I was walking through town and one of the street musicians was banging out "Beat on the Brat" <i>ON A BANJO. </i>Can I get a witness? Did anyone else see this guy outside of <a href="http://www.facesmainst.com/" target="_blank">Faces?</a> True story.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This obviously isn't the same guy I saw on the streets of Northampton playing The Ramones song "Beat on the Brat" on the banjo but it clearly captures the essence of the moment and Johnny Ramone's signature assault stance. </td></tr>
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</tbody></table>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-54525653226473541472012-01-10T16:55:00.003-05:002012-01-11T10:13:25.764-05:00Still Life With Left Ventricle<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Antique Center of Northampton located at 9 1/2 Market Street is not one store but several dozen rented booths on two floors; the main floor and a basement. The more high-brow Stuart F. Solomon Antiques on the 2nd Floor is a separate business and seems to be open on a whim or by appointment. The Antique Center, on the other hand, is everything a fun vintage stuff store should be. The prices tend to be reasonable and the variety of vendors makes for some entertaining browsing even if you aren't in the market for ceramic penguins or outsider art nativity scenes.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A vintage iPhone. One app.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center" style="font-family: inherit;"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Decaying rubber Disney figurines. Donald seems to be faring the best. But what of Walt? </span><span style="font-size: small;">In the decades since Walt Disney's death, the claim that he arranged for his body to be frozen has become ubiquitous. Nearly everyone has heard the story that <a href="http://www.snopes.com/disney/info/wd-ice.htm" target="_blank">Disney's corpse is stored in a deep-freeze chamber</a><nobr> somewhere -- directly </nobr> under Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction is the most frequently mentioned <nobr> site -- awaiting </nobr> the day when science can repair the damage to his body and bring 'Uncle Walt' back to life. </span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">No antique store worth its dust should ever be without at least one clown painting. The expert on clown paintings is Diane Keaton who also dabbles in acting. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Clown-Paintings-Diane-Keaton/dp/1576871487" target="_blank">She curated a book on the subject in 2002.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes, overwhelmed by a shelf-load of "pieces" (in dealer parlance), I find myself in a timeless, frictionless plain, unsure where to focus and what to feel. Every piece has an aura that exudes its history and the energies of the people who came in contact with it. From conception to creation to market to possession to dispensation and back to market. Did someone keep it until death or was it yard saled out of their lives? </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">All these pieces, if one believes in destiny, ended up together here for a reason, each with a storied trail of adventure. Like the little wooden canoe toy in the children's book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddle-to-the-Sea" target="_blank">"Paddle to the Sea," </a>each was an inanimate witness to a specific history. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">History would be rather different written by a stumpy Easter Island-esque wooden figurine, wouldn't it? Oh the lies our teachers told us and the truths that these pieces could tell were they to talk. They all saw people, frequently tacky hoarders, with their guards down completely.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah, the plot thickens.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mishap at the doll factory or sadistic head-swapping brother?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I offer no explanation, though I fear there may be one.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">These people are weighing a baby.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> After the wise men departed, leaving their frankincense and myrrh, the big man finally showed up with the Wii. </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-44471651882137245122012-01-02T14:22:00.005-05:002012-01-02T14:30:49.672-05:00Nohodome Is Back for 2012Eighty percent of success is showing up. This oft cited Woody Allen quote applies to blogging as much as anything. I hope to show up here at the Nohodome at least a few times a week henceforth. Welcome or welcome back. 2012 is a new garden to plant, a freshly erased chalk board, a new vacuum cleaner, a new pair of socks, an alphabetized bookshelf. <br />
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My theme for 2011, "first world problems," emerged after seeing a Louis CK bit on Conan. Not to dismiss the validity of any struggles that you or others may be dealing with, especially if you're unemployed, ill, or somehow not where you think you want to or ought to be. But especially in Northampton, life for most of us, while not luxurious, ain't so bad compared to many other places. The region is a veritable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La">Shangri-La</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green River Festival, July 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trails behind Smith College make for a beautiful walk. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naturalization ceremony for new immigrants to the U.S. on the Northampton courthouse lawn on July 4th, 2011.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al Houghton changing the Calvin marquee. IHEG (where I work) presents over 600 live concerts a year at the Calvin Theatre, Pearl Street, The Iron Horse Music Hall, and the Basement in downtown Northampton and 10+ outdoor concerts at Mountain Park in Holyoke. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>A new Tumblr site is dedicated to this notion. <a href="http://first-world-problems.com/">First World Problems.</a> Example:<span style="font-size: small;"> “I can't get comfortable in bed even with 1000 thread-count sheets because one pillow positions my head too low and two pillows is too high."</span><br />
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Here is the clip from the now defunct Conan O'Brien show of Louis CK's "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy": <br />
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With the passing of George Carlin, I think Louis CK is the most visionary comedian out there. His TV series "Louie" is pushing the boundaries far beyond anyone else out there. Here's a (graphic and confrontational) clip about the origins of the word "fag." Louis always diffuses the tension and the shock with silliness and humor, but the lessons make it through.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjottzbA4n8DpyghFpuiZctHeq1Hcw9rYpN-gIzCiL2FL0zy7SPUbEnnk5IrfrorRCvG5P3CJy6ebsAT0mWBK73kHIOTnEjKFxCuxGVfWw7uE8tEVzDjOz5QbqsDFcb-SCcXMUvhCpFb9Px/s1600/snore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjottzbA4n8DpyghFpuiZctHeq1Hcw9rYpN-gIzCiL2FL0zy7SPUbEnnk5IrfrorRCvG5P3CJy6ebsAT0mWBK73kHIOTnEjKFxCuxGVfWw7uE8tEVzDjOz5QbqsDFcb-SCcXMUvhCpFb9Px/s400/snore.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>After filling out some forms I sized up the room. A queen sized bed had a grandmotherly quilt already turned down for my convenience. Several machines with dials and wires glowed and hummed on the night table next to a box of kleenex. A television was mounted on the wall. Just one painting hung on the wall with a Picasso-esque nude woman floating in abstract space, or maybe lying in a field, apparently sleeping, though the aerial perspective and her fetal yet sprawled position actually gave the impression that she had been gunned down from above by a helicopter. Pulling open the curtains on the window and raising the venetian blinds revealed bare wall. Was I already asleep and dreaming? Was this the Magritte Suite? I recalled the scene in Jim Jarmusch's film "Down By Law" in which Italian speaking Bob played by Roberto Benigni is in a jail cell with Zak and Jack (Tom Waits, John Lurie) and after drawing the outline of a window on the cell wall with chalk asks Zak, in his continuing effort to learn English,<i> </i>"Do you say in America you look<i> out</i> the window or <i>at</i> the window?'" Zak says, "Well Bob, in this case I guess you'd have to say you look <i>at</i> the window."<br />
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Walt returned. I stood before him, tropical floral be-boxered and otherwise bare. There was an awkward silence as he sized me up. As if to respond for me, my body tingled in the cold air and goosebumps swept up my legs to my chest. Nipples stiffened. Scalp tightened. "So...," I said.<br />
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"It'll take about 45 minutes to wire you up. We like the bald guys. Goes quicker," he said, drawing lines and dots on my head with a marker and attaching cold sticky things. <br />
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I couldn't tell if he was a tech trained purely in the implementation of the overnight studies or if he was a degreed sleep scholar. I wondered, if you fell asleep in class at sleep school, could you just claim you were doing research? <br />
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There was a camera trained on the bed and a two way speaker so I could shout out, hands free, and be unplugged in case I had to use the bathroom. Walt implied that this was a hassle so I should go for all I was worth now. He explained what all the equipment was and what it would measure. They would monitor my heart, my breathing, my motion and position. I imagined asking "will you tally my erections?" I chuckled as I listened to how the words sounded in my head and he eyed me quizzically.<br />
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"So how long have you been doing this?" I asked. "Is this your passion? Your chosen field?"<br />
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"It is now I guess. I used to restore classic late '60s muscle cars but I got arthritis and a bad back and had to give it up."<br />
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"Well," I said, "now you're working on a 1963 Jim Neill. Truly a classic. A one of a kind production model. All original parts. No restoration. Actual miles."<br />
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"Okay then," he said, "Let's get you up on the lift."<br />
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Incidents?<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhe5TH8Rg0u4FdD9nfgK0chjTAouAl2lTgHF4rr49fXsmuVgNAS9cNyK_sykSGo7VKheyB86fMzX1vqEnGQI4yNBq6IxOopG8GP4Dwi2cfbKCmyBUtmYn-1_EWw6C2LKI014IHTKdd8MnB/s1600/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhe5TH8Rg0u4FdD9nfgK0chjTAouAl2lTgHF4rr49fXsmuVgNAS9cNyK_sykSGo7VKheyB86fMzX1vqEnGQI4yNBq6IxOopG8GP4Dwi2cfbKCmyBUtmYn-1_EWw6C2LKI014IHTKdd8MnB/s400/a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I lay there feeling like Dave in the bedroom scene in<b> 2001: A Space Odyssey</b> or Jason Robards in <b>Magnolia</b>. I hoped that this would be the only time I would ever be connected to wires and tubes in a bed. <br />
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I wondered about lightning strikes.<br />
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To be continued.Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-19526049996086402772011-07-16T11:35:00.000-04:002011-07-16T11:35:25.515-04:00Jim Neill’s Jukebox - A weekly radio show on 93.9 WRSI The River- Wednesday nights 7-10pm- Recent Song Obsessions circa July 16, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wrsi.com/pages/6171460.php"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOo44Azl-wbSEo6M-FJX54S-K92n_bv92D4xCOdfi0w-umFN2VE-i3dv4dd1JfEpLA2_Rvz0VfqnY7NQ2DGxphikuuVDGIrW0PDx3cdgNS2Lv1N0pjaQ33yrLvhN0nIdOC2Pyw-6_Y8_gv/s400/jim+neil+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<b>Adam Faucett- </b>“Saturday” and “T-Rex T-Shirt” <br />
from More Like A Temple (Space Neck Collective) <br />
(Adam plays The Basement on Friday August 19th)<br />
<b>Marissa Nadler-</b> “The Sun Always Reminds Me Of You” <br />
from her eponymous 5th album (Box of Cedar Records)<br />
<b>Active Child-</b> “Hanging On” from You Are All I See (Vagrant out 8/23)<br />
<b>The Hundred in The Hands-</b> “Pigeons” from epon. debut (Warp Records)<br />
<b>Eleanor Friedberger (of Fiery Furnaces)</b>- “My Mistakes” <br />
from Last Summer (Merge Records)<br />
<b>The Belle Brigade- </b>“Losers” from eponymus debut (Warner Bros,)<br />
<b>The Civil Wars- </b>“To Whom It May Concern” <br />
from Barton Hollow (Sensibility Music)<br />
<b>Little Scream- “</b>The Lamb” from The Golden Record (Secretly Canadian)<br />
<b>Foster The People</b>- “Pumped Up Kicks” from Torches (Columbia)<br />
<b>Sea of Bees- </b>“Gnomes” from Songs for the Ravens (Crossbill Records) <br />
<b>Buffalo Daugther-</b> “A11 A10ne” <br />
from Weapons of Math Destruction (label unknown)<br />
<b>tUnE-YarDs-</b> “Bizness” from WHOKILL (4AD)<br />
<b>Joy Kills Sorrow- </b>“When I Grow Up” <br />
from Unknown Science (Signature Sounds out 9/13)<br />
<b>Motopony-</b> “Euphoria” from eponynous debut (Insound)<br />
<b>Jed and Lucia </b>- “The Park (Refix)” from Helium EP (Ubiquity Records)<br />
<b>High Highs</b>- “Open Season” (Bandcamp only so far?)<br />
<b>Sun Airway-</b> “Waiting On You” <br />
from Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans) <br />
<b>Damon and Naomi</b>- “Shadow Boxing” <br />
from False Beats and True Hearts (20/20/20 Records)<br />
<b>Ages and Ages -</b> “Alright You Restless” <br />
from Alright You Restless (Knitting Factory)<br />
<b>Elbow- </b>“Lippy Kids” from Buy A Rocket Boys (Downtown/Cooperative Music)<br />
<b>Death Cab For Cutie</b>- “Underneath the Sycamore” <br />
from Codes and Keys (Atlantic Records)<br />
<b>Cass McCombs- </b>“County Line” from Wit’s End (Domino)<br />
(Cass plays the Iron Horse on Tue. July 19th)<br />
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email: dynablob@gmail.comJim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-72304257662622625322011-07-02T19:58:00.012-04:002011-07-02T23:14:50.989-04:00Epic Pancakes<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As with the word "awesome" in the late 20th century, the ever more ubiquitous "dude-bro" demographic, within the last decade, has commandeered and eviscerated the once sacrosanct term <i>"epic." </i> No longer is an epic merely the historical noun of choice for <span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">lengthy,</span> heroic, <span id="hotword" name="hotword">poetic</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">compositions like <b>The Odyssey, </b> <b>The Iliad,</b> and various<b> Bibles</b> which,</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"> before the advent of printing,</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">offered historical and cultural continuity</span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"> from one generation to the next via ritual</span></span><span id="hotword"> r</span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">e-tellings</span></span> of the epics,</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"> </span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"> narrated</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">in</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">the grandiose</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">style</span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"> befitting its lofty subject matter. No longer is<i> epic</i> in its adjective form limited to classifying these chronicles </span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">of great</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">achievements</span> and <span id="hotword" name="hotword">events</span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="hotword">long wars and harrowing voyages </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">so vast, heroic, </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">majestic, </span>and <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">impressive</span> in stature as to transfix and strike awe in the listener and allow them to forget, if only for a moment, the Black Death, slavery, and the notoriously ruthless medieval meter maids.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"Dude, I know these sirens are, like, sweet tai</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;">l with epic racks</span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;"> and all, and, like, they sing mighty righteous tunes but they are some mad crazy ho's! Row, bro, row!"</span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="hotword">Where once the epic narrative poem<b> Beowulf </b>would be told aloud, often from memory around medieval campfires, in modern times, specifically this morning at the Green Bean in Northampton, I overheard this exchange:<i> "Bro, these are epic pancakes."</i> "Dude, with maple syrup and bluebs they're<i> mad </i>epic." Indeed, in the ancient tradition of passing epic stories along to keep them alive, one of the apparently very satisfied diners fired off a text undoubtedly notifying another dude-bro from his posse of this very same superlative assessment of breakfast. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7fGhy2n_dWQ_m03rW2j-oCGcpYIBLtaXbstOkonHQ5fhLYDcHRv1PD34gRMvZJxp7Anj9VpfpBCPCKwjnPYi4XKzYovsqsqAPzcRIhhKuK6QYDZTnhsVhdRTeLxnCUbOuEgg4Ug4s6tc/s1600/homer-simpson-vitruvian-man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7fGhy2n_dWQ_m03rW2j-oCGcpYIBLtaXbstOkonHQ5fhLYDcHRv1PD34gRMvZJxp7Anj9VpfpBCPCKwjnPYi4XKzYovsqsqAPzcRIhhKuK6QYDZTnhsVhdRTeLxnCUbOuEgg4Ug4s6tc/s320/homer-simpson-vitruvian-man.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">In the big picture, one hopes, but it certainly isn't assured, that the classic epic poems will continue to be integral to the class syllabi of our secondary school and college English programs, serving up in history's earliest recorded incidents, the original dudes and bros, virgins and of hos, to experience life's archetypal story arcs (also evidenced in most episodes of VH-1's Behind The Music): Life-Death-Rebirth. Or, if discussing over some tasty flapjacks; an epic win is usually followed by an epic fail and then a less epic (but still awesome in a mellower way) win, or in the most epic of fails, death i.e Andy Gibb, Odysseus, et al.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">One of the earliest known examples of a member of the phylum Homeyus-Dudebroticus from approx. 1982, native to Southern California but now prospering nationwide.</span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-3677916615181939752011-07-02T19:00:00.002-04:002011-07-02T19:59:25.283-04:00Even ghosts have to feed the meters.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Jaywalking (jayrunning) ghost races to beat the meter maid, confident that any traffic will pass right through her. </span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-11380226172034233252011-06-26T16:31:00.020-04:002011-06-26T22:57:53.226-04:00Downtown Northampton Sunday Afternoon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Buskers in transit.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">He is one of the sweetest and kindest guys out there but his version of Yellow Submarine, often heard in front of Thorne's Market, is exactly the same song as his take on Bob Seger's "Turn The Page"....or anything else he plays. Only the lyrics change. It's remarkable that he has absolutely no sense of time signatures or song structure and makes chord changes on a whim if at all. It is beautiful in an outsider art way, and yet he breaks my stride and triggers my heart murmur and my fillings hurt and sometimes I feel a vein twitch on my forehead.</span></td></tr>
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</div><span style="font-size: small;">When I was a little girl<br />
Younger than nine or ten<br />
I once spoke to the Silver Lady<br />
But I never saw her again.<br />
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To me she flew out of the sky<br />
She was born riding on the water<br />
Her hair blew all around her<br />
She was the crazy man's only daughter.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">No Explanation </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">by <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/70">James Tate</a></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Copyright 1999 by James Tate. Published originally by <a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/">Rain Taxi.)</a></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Parker, who does his best to compete with bigger stores on Rt. 9 and elsewhere reported that Nat across the street at <a href="http://www.amherstbooks.com/">Amherst Books</a> was getting online textbook orders from UMass Amherst students that wanted him to ship the books to their dorm, one mile away. Come on kids. Take a walk will ya? I hate to be overly sentimental but I'm a little bitter about the struggles of some of my favorite local "mom and pop" shops in the wake of the closing of <a href="http://www.forbeslibrary.org/giving/PSV.shtml">Pleasant Street Video</a>. Not that they <i>deserve</i> to prevail just because they're locally owned. In fact, with so much at stake you'd think some of the local stores would be a little nicer to their customers. I would have bought my bike in Northampton if the shop I visited recently even feigned some interest in helping me when I stated outright, "I am here to buy a bike today" and hung around for a while to wait my turn. And don't EVEN think that I am one of those cloying Valley types that wants a clerk to get up on their hind legs and bark for me to win my patronage. At Laughing Dog in Amherst, you don't have to beg.<br />
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Note the Latin above the logo: <i>Ni Carborundum Illegitimati</i> (roughly: Don't let the bastards grind you down.) Parker know his bikes and you can tell because he uses phrases like "your tires are a little roached, man." I bought a sweet Gary Fisher bike from him and rode back to Northampton on the ever more lethal and notorious bike path made of broken glass which, while certainly a sad and embarrassing state of affairs, generates a considerable amount of tire repair business for the local bike repair industry. Parker says a shard he pulled out of one tire bounced off his retina which, even more horrifically, made a clicking noise as it did so.<br />
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Hanging over the Laughing Dog door is an impossibly awesome golden age of skateboarding (Tony ALVA, not Hawk era) Sims Taperkick longboard with Tracker wides and OJs. It's like Action Comics #1 or Amazing Fantasy #15. And it belonged to the legendary John Dwork who most people know as "the dude who majored in Frisbee at Hampshire College" though of course there are no "majors" at Hampshire and the 1984 degree was technically called "Flying Disc Entertainment and Education." John was also the editor of the Deadhead bible<a href="http://www.deaddisc.com/books/Duprees_Diamond_News.htm"> Dupree's Diamond News</a> (his more credible answer to Relix) and the author of the three-volume<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AMichael%20Getz%20and%20John%20Dwork%20The%20Deadhead%27s%20Taping%20Compendium%3A%20An%20In-Depth%20Guide%20to%20the%20Music%20of%20the%20Grateful%20Dead%20on%20Tape&page=1"> Deadheads Taping Compendium. </a><br />
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Parker always has some sonically joyous music blaring in the workshop and said I should check out some bands for my radio show: the Dirt Bombs who used to be The Gories and Soft Pack who used to be The Muslims. At our age, the bands we loved are already onto their second or third incarnations.Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-71354298700020423092011-06-18T20:01:00.007-04:002011-06-19T00:34:09.957-04:00The Westerly Hauntings<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A couple of years ago the word <b>"westerly" </b>began chanting itself in my head. Like a random song, it got stuck there. (Though when those "random" songs get stuck, pay attention to the lyrics and you'll often find a reason why it stayed with you. Of course it might just be the insidious hooks of ABBA.) When I would write anything it would jump to the front of the line. "Westerly," it said. <i>"Westerly westerly westerly! </i>Westerly." I didn't think too much of it. My mind is of the monkey variety and is on an endless Wonka boat ride; in a perpetual state of shuffling cards and whirling compasses. It's a windstorm of words and images and ideas in a sort of maniacal spin-art that occasionally comes together at just the right moment and allows me to utter something practical like "hold the mayo" or "Happy Birthday!" I am also able to do my own taxes and laundry. Beyond that sometimes I think it's a miracle I've made it this far. Maybe I haven't.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTiANNzhoYnymb7g3b08bfrRRjQQAA3hPjFpPu88euPE36xWzqnc8ydm2bCqqAS6P2miMmsFiVD2kuoUlMNye-rJgxTbr7aV35pqQqN3as5kbBOokiABFE9zLuFTNgnp84u_rd4UYW_P6/s1600/the-green-twist-machine_1_9SQew_69.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDTiANNzhoYnymb7g3b08bfrRRjQQAA3hPjFpPu88euPE36xWzqnc8ydm2bCqqAS6P2miMmsFiVD2kuoUlMNye-rJgxTbr7aV35pqQqN3as5kbBOokiABFE9zLuFTNgnp84u_rd4UYW_P6/s400/the-green-twist-machine_1_9SQew_69.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I curated a <a href="http://drivebypoets.blogspot.com/2008/09/pre-reading-meeting-with-steve-shavel.html">poetry reading</a> at Forbes Library a few years ago and created a limited edition chap book with a selection of the five poets' poems and, indulgently, some of my collages. I made 26 of them out of road maps I'd picked up at a tag sale,"numbering" each with a letter of the alphabet on a field of red <a href="http://neighborhoodvalues.com/nv/paper/043PP.htm">Holden Trading Stamps</a> (not as popular as the S & H Green Stamps many of us may recall our moms collecting in that endless lick-and-affix-a-thon with visions of toasters and food processors dancing in their eyes). As I folded the very last map into the pocket shape and affixed the letter Z and the tape to the edges, the town's name staring up at me from my work table on the map was <b>Westerly, Rhode Island</b>. I am trying to figure out who actually owns that particular copy but here is edition<b> # J</b> from the series, just to give you an idea of what the design was:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe2NJvD6D599ORQzSB4zbhGdkTrCasYqbvlrycnPV-C4AWfGk79TtYBfRXYJRV9mPqQXKM8PlSIC-iAyqM7O3e0mQVPyjVEFpNdkWxqSnJGlgb1R6NkDwNoW5uKH5qUFqcF6u_Qd0PBNUn/s1600/IMG_5708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe2NJvD6D599ORQzSB4zbhGdkTrCasYqbvlrycnPV-C4AWfGk79TtYBfRXYJRV9mPqQXKM8PlSIC-iAyqM7O3e0mQVPyjVEFpNdkWxqSnJGlgb1R6NkDwNoW5uKH5qUFqcF6u_Qd0PBNUn/s400/IMG_5708.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last night at the <a href="http://www.wbfinearts.com/">William Baczek Gallery in Northampton</a> while waiting for Godot (aka an order from <a href="http://www.localnorthampton.com/">Local Burger</a> where they might want to rethink their slogan: "<span class="style1"><span style="color: black;">It's not fast food... It's good food fast!"</span></span> or maybe just change the name to "Rip Van Winkleburger") I was drawn to a piece by Connecticut painter <a href="http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/joshua-smith.html">Joshua Smith</a> in the corner. As I stared at it, something emerged that I hadn't seen for a while. Have a look.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrQQpx8-Y6gG3JfsdCwbGbHkJ_-NgJXFbnH5GlOehb9xt7fcM9d2WNWMLFFLNPT6YctGIqs8GBSe-jHpM-Ns2Dp3qKX6VC_bOIvZ28HHj-sUIfrY4KfgGMiPdNVMAYPHJK1L105OHRAaR/s1600/IMG_5686.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrQQpx8-Y6gG3JfsdCwbGbHkJ_-NgJXFbnH5GlOehb9xt7fcM9d2WNWMLFFLNPT6YctGIqs8GBSe-jHpM-Ns2Dp3qKX6VC_bOIvZ28HHj-sUIfrY4KfgGMiPdNVMAYPHJK1L105OHRAaR/s400/IMG_5686.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I got home I GOOGLED: "Jim Neill Westerly" on my partner's computer and it returned this ominous top result:<b> James Neill (Deceased). </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now on my OWN computer as I attempt to recreate the result for this post, it comes up with something about<b> Intrauterine Insemination.</b> I know that Google searches will yield different results on different accounts based on search histories etc., all the better for Google to market to you for their advertisers. Hers comes up with me dead. Mine with making babies, if in an indirect fashion.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, then.</span></div>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-39033898505014142202011-06-17T17:46:00.003-04:002011-06-18T02:16:42.826-04:00"I lied about being the outdoors type." - Evan Dando<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfZiYymBwE6jLzsSiSeln0G-Og4t3N4SIElLkduKIax2r1UpI3ACS5OP6INzmWp2nc9KTZk-kLsSPeWSkGrjY0Yz96QzscULYjF23Nrqeg_ZTFRDVXfaxlV7BeJMUlZ0akumbVvhJiXM0/s1600/IMG_5603.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.apearts.org/"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieD9KrVYzJgGhNsTkbfe3EZRFb7jrkb4h6b74-XA_nSATFC87-KDgM5e7Tw0dnMLjKOvRCqe7qd0tfqSHoTKY2Mfdq6k6XwXifhbbZx1kxW1O4jeBOBNDIfcsjLx5ThGAM3dsVn7HgR_7-/s1600/APELogoSmall.png" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Click logo above for A.P.E. Site</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"Steve Snell's Alaska Wild! & Other Adventures in Contemporary Art"</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<b>At APE on Main Street in Northampton it's hard not to do a double-take when passing by. This huge painting in the entrance reminded me of the moon two nights ago and this inspirational shirt I saw on Amazon:</b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Here's the deal on the actual APE exhibit after that bit of ....inspired frivolity: </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">First, he floated down the Connecticut River on a couch boat. Then he met Alec Baldwin while journeying across the State on a ‘Thesis Quest’ for his Master of Fine Arts degree. Now, he is back from an adventure to the Alaskan wilderness, and prepared to share with the Pioneer Valley all that he has learned and experienced on these adventures, which he identifies as ‘art’. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xmi2JtzcRQxWd6_qVKOXsm8BSlBq1w_UxudkgmmWfd8ZSH3V34sf0mA1mkOC8JXNowgIZzojLWRVZSwXjCmgp1iOreKjvYkTFZdEm3vjCpXOw1ZbcdPhr8hnhT425i7rkoHvSbksEUHI/s1600/SteveSnellshowcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xmi2JtzcRQxWd6_qVKOXsm8BSlBq1w_UxudkgmmWfd8ZSH3V34sf0mA1mkOC8JXNowgIZzojLWRVZSwXjCmgp1iOreKjvYkTFZdEm3vjCpXOw1ZbcdPhr8hnhT425i7rkoHvSbksEUHI/s400/SteveSnellshowcard.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Beginning June 17<sup>th</sup> and running until June 30<sup>th</sup>, 2011, local adventure-artist,<b> Steve Snell,</b> will exhibit an installation of video, sculpture, drawing, and painting at the A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery at 126 Main St. in Northampton. This exhibition will feature three separate adventures that seek to explore the mediated and physical reality of American popular culture and the artist’s relationship to it. Snell has searched for meaning in the mountains of Western Massachusetts all the way to the wilds of Yakutat, Alaska. He has floated rivers, walked backcountry roads, flown over remote glaciers, and kayaked into distant, pristine waters. He has found eagles, otters, beavers, CNN, abandoned cabins, lost dogs, kind strangers, Alec Baldwin, and art. Now visitors can have these experiences for themselves via this mediated installation at the A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>A closing reception will be held on Thursday, June 30<sup>th</sup> from 5 PM – 8 PM</b>. Then, Steve Snell will vanish from the Northampton arts scene on a new, yearlong adventure into the deep south of the United States. He says he will return one day and claims “you haven’t seen the last of Steve Snell” (his voice slowly trails off).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Gallery Hours for this Exhibition: Daily: 12-5, Fridays: 12-8</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><h2>Visit A.P.E.</h2><div>A.P.E. at Window <br />
126 Main St.<br />
Northampton, MA 01060</div>Phone: 413.586.5553<br />
Fax: 413.586-6819<br />
<h3>Gallery Hours:<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Tuesday - Thursday, 12-5 pm, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Friday & Saturday, 12-8 pm, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Sunday, 12-5 pm, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Closed Monday </span> </h3><div class="MsoNormal">To view a preview of this installation go to:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_RKLNgfut8" title=""> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_RKLNgfut8</a> </div>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-37543058478405298012011-06-15T23:29:00.002-04:002011-06-15T23:34:02.901-04:00Daily Hampshire Gazette FeatureIt's always a surprise when my casts out into the sea hook a little "mainstream" attention, dating back to the letter that Marvel Comics printed in Marvel Team-Up #54 back in 1976 when I first moved from Maryland to Amherst and discovered that the outside world included me if I chose to participate in it. Thanks to Phoebe Mitchell for noticing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It seems that after nearly 30 years (I think) our beloved<b> Pleasant Street Theater Video</b> store will become <b>Northampton Wools</b> in a matter of weeks. Rumor has it that the <b>Forbes Library</b> is interested in buying the amazing collection of films that has provided so many households with well curated evenings of cinematic joy, horror, thrills, laughs, groans, panic, and even utter disgust. (Did anyone rent <b>Centipede</b>? Yuck!!! The middle segment would definitely be the worst even though #3 got the least nutrition.) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Let's hope so. the collection should remain in the town's bloodstream and if it helps increase traffic at Forbes, then all the better. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are no more video stores in Northampton. Thanks, technology! ! I will miss the conversations with <b>Dana, Bill, Philip, Gene, Jennifer, Patty, Chris</b> and the rest as well as the communal rapport that regular customers developed. It's the kind of store where people would feel free to offer unsolicited tips (or warnings) to total (or partial) strangers. Even the staff would discourage me from renting a movie sometimes. Not because it necessarily sucked but because they knew <i>I</i> probably wouldn't like it. Because they knew me. So thank you, Pleasant Street Video staff, for your years of service and movie lists and good advice and wit and friendliness. (Painting by <b>Robert Sweeney</b>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Back in the mid-80s, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">after a late night out dancing at the <b>Northstar</b> <b>Seafood Bar</b> to <b>DJ's Jim McDee </b>or <b>Scotty Dread, </b>or thrashing to the <b>Pajama Slave Dancers</b> and <b>Watch The Teeth Kate</b> at <b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sheehan's,</b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> everyone who was anyone showed up for breakfast at<b> Jake's</b>, which used to stay open until 3AM on weekends. Aside from ditching the late night hours, Jake's stayed the course and remained largely the same for all these years</span>. Frills? Never had 'em. Never will. This Wednesday is the last day of business as usual at Jake's so come in, get a turkey club, maybe with carrots instead of chips, and say goodbye. After all these years, the black and white photo of the most regular customer, Bruce, must come down. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvH8VHNHcLePmFcwl1TzGjSE2QF70VyQeYz6lT3Safp0V5QnorE5hLBM6_hyTMbtfb-HfXb0GMbhsP7xPwr9Z2wPgXA8tMcH5I6c9SMBxzUXg9w8_Umrch8057KYpykcmd2y3GdnK-T5ig/s1600/IMG_5597.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And what ever became of the Father's Day poster?</span><br />
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After I took this photo, someone bought one of these last two shirts right off the wall.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fellow Local Blogger Tommy Devine. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Check out his <a href="http://www.tommydevine.blogspot.com/">Cosmos Report. </a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVyhYbcqtZidp-1wUnD0KXfjY25e7jqS3p3aPUG9lKNEfaKq0Qj9yoAAIj06CdkfVUX4ans6R8H07aL7TH0PHwequp2XHkiQERJeioUK6LpvDxRdYQ4DNuMJpaGBzK9P-IADDSO0oOXst/s1600/IMG_5075.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVyhYbcqtZidp-1wUnD0KXfjY25e7jqS3p3aPUG9lKNEfaKq0Qj9yoAAIj06CdkfVUX4ans6R8H07aL7TH0PHwequp2XHkiQERJeioUK6LpvDxRdYQ4DNuMJpaGBzK9P-IADDSO0oOXst/s400/IMG_5075.JPG" width="300" /></a></div>Jim Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246481156712611536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990196362367140960.post-77647609334959081662011-02-27T13:52:00.015-05:002011-02-27T20:46:37.762-05:00Weekend Stroll through Northampton<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVobxEyHP5z4zr0HLHXcZR7R9zNzVTIl5ZX9IikA4SaIYNbLp99OG_JWFsASFXH_CS7r3GJuZG4bB-AHWPIGhQZ7cf27E6YVlaqlQQ7lELjnf_A-uyTRVPkfgzh39sFVESl_nD1a55aXf/s1600/IMG_4850.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>CLICK any photos for larger views. </div><br />
New<b> Retro Genie</b> location opened this weekend on Strong Ave. across from East Side Grill but next weekend will be the grander opening!<br />
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The basement at Retro Genie, decoration in progress. I'm feeling Greg Brady and Jack Lemmon at once.<br />
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I dream of Retro Genie....<br />
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Bumper sticker philosophies for passers-by...<br />
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"Do you have a G-spot GPS?"<br />
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Mardi Gras season in evidence at Ultra Gal.<br />
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Dick and boob art is unhindered, and in fact enabled, by winter precipitation. No I am NOT the artist. I am merely monitoring the culture in whatever beer-fueled forms it may sometime take.<br />
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The Vegan Monologues...<br />
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The Roost, a great reason to come over to the other side.<br />
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Old time-punch clock for factory workers on display at the Antique Center on Market Street.<br />
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Mild Max. <br />
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