If you received a Christmas card from Daphyn and me, chances are you didn’t get “it”. My own mother didn’t realize I drew it, my best friend scolded me for highbrowing him, and only three people recognized the loose reference to Rodin’s masterpiece. Next year I’ll just have to try harder…

Did this place even need to advertise? Seriously, there was a line in front of the store for days after it opened, but every design nerd in the NYC area blogged about it. I’m surprised I wasn’t amidst a reunion when I went into the store…

I believe it was my wife who recently told me that my blog posts are getting way too technical. Of course, I just came off of a month where I did nothing but work, so this site didn’t serve for much more than archiving snippets of code… I suppose I can see how such posts just aren’t approachable for some of our friends, so this week I’m going to try and dedicate my posts to the non-technical, boring, everyday life stuff.

Restlessness on Friday night caught up with us, so we decided to head to Harrisburg for the weekend to catch up with friends. I think my in-laws are still convinced that I made the trip just to pick up my Willie Parker jersey, which was shipped to their house (Apparently, I won an eBay auction on an authentic jersey–for what I paid, I’m definitely not complaining!). Of course, I decided to stay home for the nationally-televised Steelers-Bengals game on Sunday and missed out on seeing the Bus stop in on Scruffy Duffy’s.

I stopped at the Oddones Holiday Bizarre at the Maennerchor on Saturday (which I found out about via Beyond Second). I guess I partially went just to see the interior of the building, since it’s not very public. I was happy to discover that the local art community is still doing well, as it was a pretty good turnout. The prices seemed to be extremely reasonable, too. I was hoping to add an official Jason Smith-designed (C)ondemned t-shirt to my wardrobe, but alas, there were none to be found. I settled for this pretty cool silkscreen shirt of the Broad Street market for $8.