1. At Floydfest 12, we had three good weather days and one day of steady rain that made a lot of mud. The mud brought up stories of Woodstock and the question of whether today’s music festivals compare to that iconic festival. “If Woodstock was a president, it would be JFK,” I heard myself say […]
At some point on Saturday Floydfest began to feel like a floating island separating those who were onsite from those who (like me) wanted to be but couldn’t get back because of the heavy, steady rain. And I’m sure some of the wet people onsite were wishing they were in the comfort of their own […]
Well it’s been raining pretty hard today and I just read on the Floydfest Facebook site that the traditional noon children’s parade has been cancelled (always a big draw for me). The latest festival update says: “The Boston Boys are up and running on main stage. Most of our stages are still on schedule with […]
The following are some sneak peek random shots of day one of the four day festival. I arrived in the afternoon with my son Josh, who is doing collage journaling with teens at the Global Village’s Imagine Tent, which my husband Joe runs. It wasn’t long before I headed for the backstage beer tent for […]
1. A first: I just conducted an interview for a Floyd Press story via Facebook messaging. Not only that, the Floyd person I was interviewing was answering my questions from a brewery in Charlotte NC! 2. A college textbook editor recently bought THIS photo after finding it here at loose leaf. 3. Favorite Facebook post […]
One of the several signs that have been showing up in unlikely places in Floyd. Another further up the road says “Bless Your Heart.”
Poetry is like a longtime loyal mate that I have to rekindle by attraction to Sometimes I sleep with it in the middle of the day Other times I just lie there If you proposition poetry it will raise its hourly rate and if you have children with it you can never walk away […]
The following appeared in the July 18th issue of The Floyd Press. The festival is set to begin this Thursday and run through Sunday. A framed photograph of rock-icon Jackson Browne hangs in Linda DeVito’s office at Across-the-Way Productions (ATWP), the downtown Floyd company that promotes and produces Floydfest and other live events. DeVito, […]
This is what I like to do on the weekends: dance to Spoonfight, an excellent Floyd band comprised of Blue Mountain School alumni. Have a listen HERE and HERE. This is what I don’t like to do the next morning after doing what I like to do the night before: take a 4 hour medicine […]
We were instructed to take video by the event’s no-nonsense teacher/MC, played by Locust Street Player Maggie Hessinger, who also wowed the crowd with her version of The Evolution of Dance (see video 5 below). “You must videotape and you may like to youtube it,” she told the audience, holding up a blackboard pointer and […]
1. When the Japanese mend broken objects, they fill the damaged parts with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. See an example HERE. 2. I love that Ethan Estess spent four months building sculptures using only San Francisco’s garbage. My favorite was a piece […]
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