5chw4r7z:: the ethos of downtown Cincinnati

Hyde Park near, but not too close

Fire, it brings out those primal instincts, feasting , drinking and story telling. Thousands, tens of thousands, hell hundreds of thousands of years sitting around fires and now its ingrained in us. Not just sitting around them either, seems like we try to integrate fire into almost everything we do.

Had me thinking of a former life back in Ytown. It had snowed all week and probably had 18" on the ground by Saturday night when we all headed over to a friend who had a good brush pile going along with wood from remodeling that he was doing. We lit that baby off and up it went, we would scoot farther back as more and more of it caught.

It was one of those brisk 15°Northeast Ohio nights and when our backs got too cold we'd turn around and watch the steam pour off the fronts of our pants as they cooled quicky in the air. Ten minutes or so and we'd whip back around. We jammed a couple cases into a snow drift and started into telling each other lies about back then.
Before we knew it the beers gone the fires dieing out and we're pushing each others cars out of the deep snow and heading home.

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trop de sucre

The portions are smaller in Europe is what I've always heard and when we got to Paris I found out that yes that's true but it doesn't tell the whole story.
For instance when I ordered coffee or café as they call it they handed me a shot sized cup that was half full. Looking at it forlornly I thought I'm going to need about 50 of these things to get moving. But as it turned out they pack a half a pot of coffee in their diminutive cafés.
The other interesting discovery is they handed me two of these packs for every café I ordered, the sugar literally had more volume than the coffee and i never used more than half of one of the packets.
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Sid Saturday

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the Force is an energy field created by all living things it surrounds us and penetrates us and it binds the galaxy together

This edition of Watch This hosted by the Cincinnati Athletic Club, what is left to say about Star Wars? Not much if you're a geek it has permeated our entire lives.
With an audience full of techies and geekies whats left but to present Star Wars in 20 tweets.

@AlexShebar R2D2 and C3PO: the original ro-bromance. #StarWars #WatchThis

@5chw4r7z i keep adding f-bombs from han solo in my head. makes way more sense

@5chw4r7z "chewy. lock in the mother f@kin power!" see, an r-rated star wars would have been awesome x 100

@LivingInGin Yoda: "Get medieval on your ass I will."

@5chw4r7z marching into the mother f@kin detention center is not what i had in mind #mystarwars

@LivingInGin No way that overhead door is code-compliant. I guess there's a reason they call it the Death Star. #WatchThis

@5chw4r7z this is some mother f@kin rescue ~ princess leia #mystarwars

@Megebee Luke is whiny, Han is a jerk, and Leia is a bossy bitch. Why do we like this movie so much? #StarWars #WatchThis

@armonde I'm not sayin Han's a gold digger, but he aint messin with no broke... Princess #WatchThis

@LivingInGin That trash compactor would rent for $2000 a month in Brooklyn. #WatchThis

@5chw4r7z dig those high tech targeting systems. wouldnt robots make better gunners? #starwars

@jamespilcher @5chw4r7z droids outlawed for military use after clone wars!

@5chw4r7z 0_o that fighter pilot has a red shirt on, hes screwed

@armonde Yes Luke, I'm sure you did used to "Bullseye" "womprats" with your "t-16" back home. You innuendo isn't needed at this meeting. #WatchThis

@5chw4r7z how can @allisonjo1 fall asleep in the middle of star wars?

@5chw4r7z damn! the end of star wars is so inspiring, i want to overthrow an evil republic now

@AlexShebar Damn good movie. Damn good people. Damn good time. #StarWars #WatchThis

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Parker Flats Friday

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the view from here

A trip to the top of Carew a couple weeks ago, you can see the Mehring Way relocation is almost complete, and the work on the Banks continues. I wonder if the naysayers are still saying they'll believe it when they see it?

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downtown Landor inspires you

This is a pretty cool project, everyday or night at 1:10 (the address for Landor Associates, 110 Shillito Place) Landor employees will sketch something that they are thinking, pick a color that inspires, find a word that they associate with, or take a photo at that moment that they find interesting....and record that experience in a booklet.

The results will be displayed throughout the process.

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How to photograph an atomic bomb

Ground control to major Tom
Ground control to major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten) Ground control
(Nine) to major Tom
(Eight)
(Seven, six) Commencing countdown
(Five), engines on
(Four)
(Three, two) Check ignition
(One) and may gods
(Blastoff) love be with you

This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
Here am I floatin' 'round my tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows
Ground control to major Tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, major Tom?
Can you hear me, major Tom?

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Final Friday: October edition plus happy vegan day with a large helping of All Saints

Interesting to me at least that last winter saw huge crowds at Final Friday and when the weather broke they were gone all summer and then Friday when it was cool?
BAMM everyone is right back.
Park+Vine was slammed, you couldn't even move in that place. I think Dan may have screwed up because he's already outgrown that place and hes only been there a month. OK, not really, congrats on all your success Dan you've worked hard for it and deserve every bit of it.

Look ma, no eggs. Now you too can enjoy Taste of Belgium waffles.

Every Final Friday the same as the last one, starts with a wheels burger, one of the best burgers in Cincinnati. The word is getting out because every time I see Cafe de Wheels the lines are bigger than the last time.