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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Urban Outfitters Sells Ford Shirt
Hey Ford fans! Urban Outfitters has a Ford t-shirt on sale right now, but you have to hurry because they are on clearance for $10. Don’t miss out on your chance to have the style edge at the next meeting of all your car pals. It’s a small style edge I know, but I’ll take [...]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
1926 Ford Snow Motor- Early Snow Machine
This is really cool. A very unusual design for a snow tractor/snow mobile/snow machine… whatever you like to call them where you live. Apparently it is Henry Ford himself driving. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=568_1233111054
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
I Found My New Trading Card Out in the World!
For the celebration of 80 years of Duncan Yo-yos a massive set of demonstrator trading cards came out, and one card has been included in each entry-level yo-yo. My Duncan pals and I have been looking for our own cards in the stores, and I just found mine this weekend! It was pretty cool. Here’s [...]
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Nice Write-Up in a Local Paper
I did two library shows in rapid succession here in the Pittsburgh area and got a nice article written about me in the Signal-Item Newspaper. You can read it here.
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
Spinning a Giant Top at the Greentree Library
Last week I had a gig at the Greentree Library here in the Pittsburgh area, and they filmed a little web extra for their patrons. You can see other virtual events posted by the Greentree Library here.
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Mark Hayward on the CBS Early Show with the Duncan Crew
I managed to get myself on National TV once again! Check it out: It was great fun hanging out with Bob Rule and getting the stories from the old days of yo-yo demonstrations. Of course it’s fun hanging with the other guys in the tour van, but they’re no Bob Rule. You can see Bob’s [...]
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Dick Stohr’s House
Today was another Toys R Us demo with the Duncan Tour, but this one was back down in Virginia. Afterwards we got to stop in at good ol’ Dick Stohr’s house and see his yo-yo collection. It’s always fun to see a yo-yo collection, and it’s nice to spend time with a yo-yo pal when [...]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Big Day On Tour Today: Clacker Balls and The Wall of Fame
Today started with a news spot at the very reasonable hour of 8am. That beats previous spots we’ve had that involved getting to the station at 5:30am. Seth Peterson and I were on CBS 3 in Philly with a really great and enthusiastic anchor who just happened to be named Yuuki. He was jazzed to [...]
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Duncan Tour 2009, Nothing But Giggles and Sunshine
It’s day 3 of my East Coast leg of the Duncan Tour. This morning Brandon Jackson, Seth Peterson and I are sitting in the parking lot of Toy R Us in Baltimore, waiting for our 3rd early morning TV spot. We got here at 5:30am and will be rolling out at about 8:15 to go [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Duncan Crew Gets Electricity Injection
October 5th 2009. On tour with the Duncan Crew. We had just finished up a nice demo at Old City Kites in Sacramento and it was time to get in the van and be off to our next gig. Emil Lamprecht, Paul Escolar and I piled in and Emil turned the key in the ignition… [...]
