Archive for October, 2006
Friday, October 27th, 2006
Pumpkin Carving Secrets Revealed!
If you have always wanted to carve the Best Pumpkin in the World you can get in on the action with this book.
Mark Hayward has just released his first eBook: Pumpkin Carving Tips, Tricks and Patterns.
Even if you don’t want to be the Best in the World and just want to carve a better pumpkin [...]
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Building a Bed of Nails
I met a local magician named Vito a few weeks ago at the Rocky Ripple Fest here in Indianapolis, and yesterday I helped him build a bed of nails.
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Pumpkin Carving Party
We had our annual pumpking carving party Sunday night, and it was a good time as usual.
Many a good pumpkin was carved, and some new tools were even introduced, including a wood-carving chisel set and a eye-gouger/mellon-baller that Richard brought.
This year my pumpkin was not very intricately carved, this time it was all about the [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Juggling Knives While Carving A Pumpkin
This weekend I had a couple of gigs in the Chicago area, but I went up a day early to participate in a taping for Chicago Public Access Cable TV.
Harper, Matiss and I showed up with a bag full of juggling machetes and two pumpkins.
We carved this one in advance, and the other was to [...]
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
The White Rabbit Candy Project
Lenore and I went to the international grocery with our pal David Morrison. It was really fun. David is very much a food guy, so we stopped at the grocery on the way back from one of Dave’s many secret restaurant gems. This time it was a Vietnamese place called Sizzling Wok [...]
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
I Can’t Walk My Dog By the River Because of the Alligators
There are two alligators in the White River. Seriously. Alligators in Indianapolis. What’s up with that? Some fool must have released their pet gators when they got too big to handle, figuring that having large, dangerous, invasive predators in our city would make life better for everyone. One of the [...]
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Fort Wayne Indiana Jugglefest
I went up to the Fort Wayne juggling festival last weekend. It was fun, and very low key. There were maybe 30 or so people there, so it was much smaller than your average regional jugglefest, but it was a nice little gathering.
There were two things about the fest that were awesome. [...]
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
My Dog is Fun!
Extreme tug-of-war with Vader, the Egyptian Snake Hound.
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Vader & Me in the Woods
Today Vader and I were cruising through the woods, as we like to do, and we had been walking for about an hour and a half when just as we were almost back to the car all hell broke loose. One of the things Vader likes to do whenever he has the chance is [...]
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
More Model A Ford Action
Yesterday I completely disassembled and cleaned the horn. It wasn’t working so I wanted to be sure that it wasn’t full of gunk first, before I looked elsewhere for the problem. It’s a pretty neat device, and very cleverly made. It’s really interesting to look inside something that was made in the [...]
