I spent almost all day Saturday at the American Philatelic Society’s Annual  Stamp Show.  Lucky for me, a new stamp collector, the show was just down the 95 in Richmond, VA.  I took a lot of photos, made a lot of exciting purchases, and learned a whole lot– I’m still processing it and reading through [...]

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Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale
Dan Albergotti
Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.
Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires
with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals.
Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices.
Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Look each [...]

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A lobster roll from the Net Result

A lot of shellfish that Will gathered…

Corn that wasn’t this green in real life…

Potato wedges…

Water and (evidence of) roasted beets.

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On vacation in Martha’s Vineyard with dear friends from college…

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Buying Wine
Sebastian Matthews
When we were boys, we had a choice: stay in the car or else
follow him into Wine Mart, that cavernous retail barn,
down aisle after aisle — California reds to Australian blends
to French dessert wines — past bins loaded like bat racks
with bottles, each with its own heraldic tag, its licked coat
of arms, trailing [...]

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An anti-Stamp Act image: “O! The fatal stamp”

While visiting the Congressional Stamp Exhibition last week, I overheard someone mentioned that the “US was started because of a stamp.” And that’s true to an extent. The Stamp Act of 1765 was a real thorn in the side of colonists, imposing as it [...]

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One of my cousins is getting married!  We’ve sent him and his soon-to-be wife some art for their new home, a letterpress print I made way back in 2006.  It features a this quote from William Saroyan:
Standing at the edge of our city,
a man could feel that we had made
this place of streets and [...]

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Thanks to my friend Dan, I’ve found a suitable answer to my desperate question regarding music not unlike the Deadwood theme: William Elliott Whitmore.  Frankly, Mr. Whitmore, where have you been all my life?!  A bearded, tattooed man described as having “a voice that sounds like the reincarnation of an old gospel preacher from [...]

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One of the perks of living in Washington, and I know I’ve mentioned it before, is access to the truly incredible National Postal Museum.  Just last week I took a morning off work to visit the Congressional Stamp Exhibition at the US Capitol, well– very near the Capitol in one of the House office buildings. [...]

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