shake it, like a ladder to the sun

We went to a very good friends fathers calling hours last week,she seemed in good spirits and was comforted by all the friends and family.
She has to be one of the sweetest people I know in Cincinnati, so I felt for her.
Afterwards, back home and not having eaten yet, we strolled down to Nada's, one of our fav places to eat downtown.

Nada
Nada
Nada
Nada

I'm guessing it was the tacos and beer that did it, along with the emotions of the day, but that night I had the most bizarre dream.
Now I never dream about people that actually exist, well maybe a handful of times that I remember and most of my dreams are also always in black and white.
But this night, and this gets morbid, it was hard enough talking about it once, but after the funeral I learned a close friend had committed suicide. Days later a letter comes in the mail, from her and its written in one of those colored pencils that changed colors three times a letter. brilliant red, yellow, blue over and over. Now the content of the letter wasn't important in the dream but for some reason the gaily over sized colorfully written letter itself was.
Like I said, morbid and somehow fascinating at the same time, like trying to cry and laugh at the same time.

Nada
Nada
Nada
Nada
[where:600 Walnut St, Cincinnati 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown
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sidewalk psychology

In front of Twist

sidewalk psychology

In front of the fur store I think.
sidewalk psychology


There was one more in front of Koch's Sporting Goods that said Sports are the modern Opiate of the people.
DUH!
hello?
Ok, it's cool someone felt the need to do this and acted on it, I'm just glad it was chalk and nothing permanent.[where:4th street cincinnati, ohio 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown chalk graffiti

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recycleD bin

Jenny an interior design student at University of Cincinnati, has setup a display at Park+Vine and is selling containers made entirely out of plastic grocery/shopping bags.
How cool is that?
Recycle(or trash) bins made out of recycled bags. Its funny, when I first saw her blog I twittered her and told her she absolutely had to talk to Dan, And she told me she already had and here is the result..

recycleD bin
recycleD bin
recycleD bin
recycleD bin[where:1109 Vine Street Cincinnati Ohio 45202]cincinnati ohio otr over rhine green sustanable
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Jay Bruce* is livin large at Great American and on Race St.

Nissan GT-R
Nissan GT-R
*It probably isn't Jay Bruce's Nissan GT-R. But it could be![where: 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown nissan gt-r jay bruce reds saks 5th ave
RBIs?

we tried saving the world, but millions of innocent brain cells died anyhow

Mainstay Rockbar

Mainstay Rockbar after work yesterday, man is it me or are these beers huge?

Mainstay Rockbar

Anyhow, after one of these puppies we had all the answers to love, happiness, tweetdecks and neck ties.
@kate_the_great @tcallinan and I hanging out, talking social media and what it all means and where its going. Kate has some super interesting projects coming down the pike, I'm kind of jealous of her.
Good times, Mainstay is the hit new neighborhood bar, and just a block away, how awesome is that.
I told you guys they had a pinball machine, my mistake, its video golf. Hope no one rushed down there to check it out.

Johnny Cash and his "I didn't come here to impress none of you mother-f#@kers" pose.

Mainstay Rockbar[where:301 W 5th St Cincinnati, OH 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown
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Haut Chocolate road trips

The drive home and back just isn't getting easier for sure, takes me a day or two to recover usually.
But we do get bonus stops in Columbus, just like Cincinnati, there's never a lack of things to do or explore there.
On the way home Monday Ms 5chw4r7z had a monster craving for Jeni's ice cream but unfortunately we hit C-Bus too early. I had remember seeing Bakery Gingham on My Columbus Oh, a Cincinnati ex-pat now living in German Village.
After a loop of Schiller Park looking like hayseeds with our mouths open we hit the bakery.
This is not Schiller Park, but its close, next time we're up there and the sun is shining.....

Bakery Gingham
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choose Jif??
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Haut Chocolate.
My mouth turned inside out and did back flips while my eyes spun around.
yeah, it was good.
Bakery Gingham

funny twist, while we were in C-Bus mere blocks from her apartment, she was running around Cincinnati just blocks from my condo.[where:189 Thurman Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43206]columbus ohio german village gingham bakery cupcakes cakes
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Rusconi Alley

The hardest artwork in the city to photograph, you can't get far enough away to get it all in.
Going to the Athletic Club, I walked past this every weekend for a couple months before I really took a look at it, not sure what to make of it. Its definately dated, probably looked dated 5 minutes after they got it up.

Rusconi Alley ArtRusconi Alley Art
[where:Rusconi Alley cincinnati alley 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown
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eye


Could you show me ... Something I've not seen?
Something infinitely interesting
Could you show me ... Something I've not seen?
Something infinitely interesting


~~Incubus Echo

[where:mcfarland st cincinnati, ohio 45202]cincinnati ohio downtown
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it was a dark and stormy night....

And it was, raining like crazy out, at least it was warm.
Added bonus we had the entire place place to ourselves. Why did we wait almost 5 years to check out Myra's?
No idea, dumb mistake for sure.

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Its the small things that make you feel at home.
Myra's
frosted mugs will always boost that tip.
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Is your forehead sweating yet? Mine was.
Myra's

Another sneaky tip booster.
Myra's
Myra's[where:121 Calhoun St Cincinnati, Ohio 45202]
cincinnati ohio downtown
Myra's Dionysus on Urbanspoon
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Campus Services Building

CSB

Have you ever driven past this building on Reading Rd and wondered about it?
No?
Don't blame you, there is nothing about this old Sears building that would catch your attention.
The inside, as you could imagine is as drab as the outside, having been modeled, remodeled and reremodled over the years.
But this Easter egg is cool in a old building geeky kind of way, a 2' square access panel about a 1' off the ground, a tight squeeze through and you have...
an escalator to nowhere. At the top of the upper one and the bottom of the lower one is a brick wall.
kind of cool they were left there.
CSB
CSB
[where:Reading Rd Cincinnati OH 45221]cincinnati ohio csb university cincinnati
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