The slow demise of three midwestern cousins living in an apartment in Astoria, New York. It is unlikely that they will survive.
Jack White’s Rolling Record Store came through New York today. I’ve been keen to pay it a visit since it was unveiled a while back. I know it’s silly to expend this much effort to buy records, but it’s like a treasure hunt, or something. The effort makes an otherwise unremarkable consumer exchange interesting.
-Mac
That’s our Max.
Tonight is our last night performing Spoon River Anthology in this beautiful building. Not a bad place to go to work every night, eh? Now it’s down to the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn.
-Paul
Max got up at 5:30am to go to Record Store Day.
Just a week or so ago I stumbled upon a Kickstarter by the Brooklyn Grange, an urban farming operation which (despite the name) is located on a rooftop in Queens. Their project was to raise a pile of cash to build an apiary, or bee farm, and I couldn’t keep myself from throwing them a few bucks to build something that cool.
In doing so, I noticed that Brooklyn Grange operates a Community Supported Agriculture project, or CSA. The idea is that people can purchase shares of the farm’s output, receiving weekly shipments of vegetables.
Always looking for ways to get the most out of our grocery money, The Fort decided to buy in. We’re looking forward to bags of fresh produce, starting in mid-May and running through the end of October.
Though it’s a bit pricey up front, we’ve struggled to find good produce in the city. What’s more, we’ve never kept a good supply of vegetables in the home. This CSA arrangement would not only keep our larders stocked, but also force us to cook more and try new recipes in order to get our money’s worth.
We’re excited at the prospect, and I’m especially keen to get my hands on some of that sweet, sweet honey! Mid-may can’t come quickly enough.
-Max
The cleaner head on my Dyson vac gave up the ghost a while back. Something caused it to start spinning off its axis and was wrecked over the course of some months. I finally got around to ordering a new part last week (which was easy, and above all: free) and it arrived today.
We really only have one carpeted surface — our living room rug — but it become quite gross in the months of vacuum non-functionality.
This is how much dirt the now-revived vacuum pulled off our single rug.
-Max
Sometimes you forget where you are, and then you see something like this.
-Max
