http://dragonballyee.com/blog a new city. a new life. here's my two sense. Fri, 16 May 2008 05:27:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Tuesday, I went out to Lancaster, with Lady as my co-pilot, to scout the location of a wedding I'm shooting on Saturday. It was awesome. The venue is called the Country Barn Farm Market and it's a working farm complete with hogs, chickens, turkeys, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits and ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/16/turkeys-on-the-farm/ Last Friday morning, approximately 70 citizens trudged through the driving rain to the Klein Jewish Community Center in the northeast on the morning of Sgt. Liczbinski's funeral. Public Safety was on the minds of many of those in attendance of the fourth installment of the A City That Works Great ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/15/citizens-get-to-work-as-city-mourns/ I took a trip up to the incredibly beautiful Morris Arboretum on April 27th with Andi. It was the 75th Anniversary of the arboretum as a public garden and they were opening their doors to all comers for free. And as a special treat, they were allowing, for the first ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/12/trip-to-morris-arboretum/ My new nephew as of 11.31a Friday. Dylan came in at 8lbs. 5oz. and according to my mom, my sister had a relatively easy delivery. My brother, and the rest of my family, went to see him yesterday and MMS'd the pic above to me in the afternoon. I can't wait ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/11/new-addition/ At 11.30a today a fire broke out at a University of the Arts metal foundry studio at the northeast corner of 15th and Pine Sts. According to UArts Chief Communications Officer, Paul Healy, artists in the studio use wax to create bronze sculptures. The casts are placed in a kiln ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/08/uarts-metal-foundry-studio-fire/ It's time for another set of Great Expectations forums! This time around, it's a set of forums called "A City That Works" held, once again, in each of the 10 district councils. At each stop, a set of city officials from the mayor's office, performance office and budget office will ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/08/a-city-that-works-perzel-community-center/ My new buddy OzO, a painter, DJ, producer and all around artist, invited me to check out her set at Haru in Old City all of 3 days after I first met her. She told me that there was going to be a troupe of African belly dancers there. How ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/06/african-belly-dancers/ Yesterday afternoon, I went to see an incredible photo show. It was Zoe Strauss's I-95 Show, year 8 of 10. I got there around 12.45p, 15 minutes before the show officially opened. I wanted to get there a little early to say hi to Zoe and see some of the ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/05/zoe-strauss-i-95-show-2008/ So the smart cars have hit the ground here in the past couple of months. I've seen at least half a dozen different smarts running around town and PhillyCarShare has 3 themselves. I think that they're outrageously expensive ($11,500 - $18,000 depending on model/options) for the amount of car it ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/02/un-smart-parking/ Those evil oil companies made out big time (yet again) last quarter. Through the roof profits are pouring in like it's a monsoon of moolah: Chevron: $5.17B - 10% increase [source] BP: $7.62B profit - 63% increase [source] Shell: $9.08B profit - 25% increase [source] Exxon-Mobil: $10.9B - 15% increase [source] At this time last ... http://dragonballyee.com/blog/2008/05/02/profits-in-black-gold/