My Garden Hack Is On The ReadyMade Blog!
I love magazines. I used to subscribe to 26 different publications. I had so many magazines that my friends nicknamed me “Magazina.” I’m sure that I could have bought a house five years sooner than I did, had I not subscribed to so many decorating publications. At any rate, with what I think amounts to [...]
Acting Like A Beekeeper In A Kashi Commercial
I booked my first commercial acting gig the first time out of the gate! Already I’m typecast as a beekeeper. Mr. Foxypants is a great actor. We auditioned as a couple on Tuesday and both got called back yesterday to audition for the director and the Kashi executives. So, imagine my surprise when I discovered [...]
Beekeeping Audition For A Kashi Commercial
Today Mr. Foxypants and I auditioned as beekeepers for a Kashi commercial. We were recruited by a local casting company through our bee club blog. I don’t know if any other actual beekeepers auditioned today, but the lobby of the casting company was full of actors auditioning for the beekeeper part. They were all wearing [...]
A Beekeeping Murder Mystery On The Rockford Files!
Two great things that go great together: beekeeping and THE ROCKFORD FILES! This episode aired in 1974. Sadly, 37 years later, beekeepers are still facing the same issues. On an amusing side note, David Chase, the creator of THE SOPRANOS, was a writer and producer on THE ROCKFORD FILES. If you watch THE ROCKFORD FILES, [...]
Garden Hack: A Citrus Peel Starter Pot For Seedlings
This is one of those desperation is the mother of invention moments. I recently discovered that Mr. Foxypants had thrown out my seed-starting tray “to make room in the garage.” Don’t get me started on the “WTF-buddy-throwing-away-tools?” screed. I’m still mad about it. You don’t want to hear it anyway. Since I’ve pledged to once [...]
The Incredible Art Of Tomas Libertiny & His Bees
With a Little Help of the Bees by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny was part of Droog‘s Smart Deco 2 Show at Milan 07. Libertiny made the vase shaped hive by building a wax infrastructure that the bees then colonized, building a their comb around it. Libertiny calls the process “slow prototyping”–it took 40,000 [...]
52 Letters, 52 Weeks Challenge: Seed Exchange
My friend Glen, who I have never met in person, traded me egyptian walking onions for lettuce and chard seeds. I love my adult pen pals.
