Month: August 2007

  • Flea Circus article in Washington Post!

    Here’s a great article written about my show in the Washington Post!: The Tiniest Show in Town! At the Flea Circus, There’s More Than Meets the Eye By Rachel Beckman Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, August 27, 2007; Page C01 The magic of the flea circus climaxed during the chariot race. That’s when ringmaster Adam Gertsacov…

  • Flea Circus featured in Washington Post!

    My show was featured as one of the picks of the week for this week’s Washington Post! And a reviewer is coming on Sunday to the 4pm show to write an article about the show. If you have any friends in the DC area, please let them know, and please have them come out to…

  • Starting work on the house again.

    So we’re starting work on the house again! (Hooray! A house blog without house projects is like a fish without a bicyc –errmmm… waitaminnit!) We’re finishing the tile on our bathroom, and erecting a wall that hides our washer/dryer. That wall will become a closet. The guys are in the house for the first day,…

  • In which the lawnmower wheel falls off.

    As many of you know, I loathe cutting the lawn. Just don’t like it. For the last two years, (O my god, we’ve been in the house for two years!) I’ve been doing it infrequently with my weedwhacker. But it’s heavy, it’s awkward, and it eats string. I decided to buy a lawnmower. My decision…

  • The Son of Sam’s Paperboy…

    A friend of mine from THE WELL, used to be Son of Sam’s paperboy. No, really! (And for those of you who don’t know who Son of Sam, let’s just say he was a resident of Yonkers that the Chamber of Commerce rarely discusses…) You can read about his exploits on his blog: MEMOIRS OF…

  • Peaches and Corn and Eggplants (oh my!): The CSA Update

    So far, I’m very happy with our CSA. It’s a little bit of a pain in the ass to go all the way up to Tarrytown on a Saturday morning, but truthfully, it’s not THAT bad. Oh we get other things from them too– greens and cucumbers and radishes and eggplant and eggs and zuchini…