A Queer Mobile

Preparing for flooding

John was helping a friend when he got a call yesterday that he needed to move stuff inside his shop as high up as possible to avoid flood damage. We headed down in the afternoon to get the high-value equipment and wood off the floor and up as high as possible. Here's our effort with our friend and John's neighbor Sue Millar:

Check out PhilosophersNotes

I've been very much taken with this new service, PhilosophersNotes. Brian Johnson abstracts philosophically and spiritually oriented books into roughly six page summaries and sends them to you twice a month for a year for just under $40. You also get access to his archives of notes for all the other books he's reviewed.

The real benefit for me is to bring me into contact with books that I want to read. I've had about a forty percent hit rate so far of moving from reading the notes to buying and reading the book.

Check it out!

How to set up an art faire booth

Here's what John does when an art faire rolls around. I helped him set up for the Marion Arts Festival in mid-May, and I shot a bit of video along the way...

2 x 2 x u opens last week

The local arts district has a great open invitational art show, 2 x 2 x u, that opened last weekend here in Cedar Rapids. The assignment is simple: pay a small entrance fee, pick up a 2' x 2' square piece of plywood, build your art on it, and bring it back to be displayed in the arts district for about three months. John always participates, and we both get a kick out of the work folks do. Accomplished professionals enter and amateurs do, too. There's no judging - and that makes it fun.