26 Jul
Once again, Genius Picks are upon us. My friends blessed my life with these two videos, and now I pass them on to you and hope for the same. The first, via the Hayes family, is funny and awesome. The second, via Glenn, is just beautiful. Turn the volume up. Watch it in HD.
26 Jul
18 Jul
The Golden Pineapple is a pretty sweet idea. Suzy Rhine Hicks of the Joplin area runs this very nice looking site full of recipes she has come up with on her own. I really want to try out some of the recipes, but the main reason it interests me is the production. The photos look really good, with Mark Neuenschwander acting as photo mentor, and the design has some Jason Courtney flavor. It’s an all-around Joplin effort that makes this site a gem to behold. Honestly, you’ll wonder how this came out of Southwest Missouri and why you haven’t heard of it before. It’s that cool. Check it out here.
12 Jul
Well, I moved back to Joplin, and I’ve already had some adventures. After a fun summer mooching off of my parents and doing nothing, I had to move back to SW Missouri in order to complete an internship with the Joplin Globe. I’ll be working two jobs for a while and then doing one more semester at Southern. Finally, I’ll get out of college come December. It can’t come soon enough.
But on to the adventures! I now live in the Mayflower apartments near downtown. It’s a charming old place, built in 1928, with ivy growing up the side. It smells pretty musty, and it’s really hot, and my feet are duper dirty, and there are holes in my walls that reveal pipes and other apartments, and the air conditioner just doesn’t work well with the holes and the spaces between it and the window, but it’s starting to shape up into a cozy little home. Moving in has been a hot and sweaty mess. Today I definitely needed a shower. Problem is, I don’t have a shower – I just have a bath.
So after the rust cleared out of the water, I got in on my knees and washed my hair under the faucet and then proceeded to sit down and bathe. It was pretty humbling or maybe just plain inconvenient. Either way, I did it. Afterwards I felt cleaner than before but covered in a thin layer of soapy water. After drying off really hard, I immediately started sweating in my toasty, muggy apartment. Oh well. I’ll try again tomorrow.
7 Jul
We are officially announcing a partnership between Colbyintheraw and Poetry by Krystal, Joplin’s premier poetic experience. Check back on the Poetry by Krystal page found here or available by clicking the tab near the top of the page. She’ll have new poems up frequently and others will be archived for your reading pleasure. Check it out here.
6 Jul
I spent the weekend with my girl and my family. It was a wonderful and busy adventure, and I’m sore. We went to St. Louis, got cherries at Soulard’s farmer’s market, Schlafly’s sticky toffee pudding, Boathouse at Forest Park, City Museum, ferris wheel, fireworks, got smores all over our faces at Kayak Coffee, paddle boated really hard, tried to catch ducklings, and accidentally went to Illinois 3 times.
This is a hobo, wrapped in tin foil to cook over a fire. Picture courtesy of picky-palate.com
Then we played with my 5 nieces and nephews. Played hard. I’m wo’ out! We all also ate at Lambert’s and made “Hobos,” Allison’s recipe for cooking some good food over an open fire. Wrap up meat, potatoes, carrots, onions, ketchup, barbecue sauce, and whatever spices you fancy all together in tin foil and put it on a wrack above your fire pit. It’s so good.
2 Jul
This kid sure was bored in the Brazil v. Italy soccer match. And it sure is funny. Be sure to watch it for at least 17 seconds. You’ll laugh a lot.
1 Jul
While going through old boxes, my family just found this old photo album from the 40s and 50s in Southeast Missouri. The photos are really cool, and it’s weird how everyone looks alike. You should check it out here.
30 Jun
Summer has been hard, but fortunately, I’ve had some free time to make stuff. Scratch that…lots of free time. My parents’ backyard used to be flat with some pretty flowers and lots of dirty. Now it has a beautiful fish pond (landscaping still unfinished). It’s 18 inches deep in the middle. I used to have no canvasses and no money to buy them. Now I have a couple that I built out of boards and stuff. I used to have no Harry Potter costumes. Now I have two robes, some black glasses, and two wands with which to see the 6th movie premier at midnight. The wands are hand-whittled, leather bound, and stained. I didn’t make the robes, but I made everything else. Check it out.
