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Last week Mike Volpe tagged me in a blogger photo meme where you look up the 6th photo on the 6th page of your Flickr account. Here’s what mine turned up.

The Deluxe Town Diner is a breakfast+lunch+dinner spot in my neighborhood. It’s a well known spot in Watertown that’s been around for 64 years. My favorites: the cob salad and the goat cheese and spinach omelet.

Tag, you’re it: Nick Peterson, Michael Femia, David Fisher, Ben Saren, Jeffrey Radcliffe, Glenn Yoder.

Tagged as: 6th Photo Meme, Ben Saren, David Fisher, Deluxe Town Diner, Glenn Yoder, Hubspot, Jeffrey Radcliffe, Michael Femia, Mike Volpe, Nick Peterson, Photo Meme, watertown

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TAZA chocolate gave tours of their facility in Somerville on December 6th. I’ve tried to use their chocolate for my truffles and they never turned out all that great. Next time I’ll probably use a little less of their choco just to give the truffles a different consistency without overdoing it. I definitely have a better appreciation for their “stone ground bean to bar” chocolate after co-founder Alex Whitmore gave a tour of how they make their chocolate modeled after a traditional Mexican chocolate making process.

In this video, Alex explains how the cocoa beans are roasted. I’ll have a couple more videos of the rest of the tour posted soon.

Tagged as: Alex Whitmore, How Stuff Works, Roasting Cocoa Beans, Somerville, Sooz TV, TAZA, TAZA chocolate

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Etsy has some great little shops where you can find all sorts of interesting things. I bought these Japanese chiyogami votive candles from a cool little shop called gamiworks. The candle holders are made with chiyogami, a type of Japanese paper decorated with woodblock-printed patterns. A search for “chiyogami” on Flickr brings up a bunch of interesting Flickr groups and photos.

Tagged as: candles, chiyogami, japanese paper

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I haven’t been writing a lot of words on sooz.com lately — busy with client work and some other projects including Exploit Boston!. I’m going to start updating the site most days with a photo when the wordy entries don’t happen. You can always read my micro-tidbits over at twitter.com/sooz.

When I first moved to Boston, Flathead and his little dog Potato were regulars in Harvard Square. This was back in 1994-1998(ish) before the square started to transform into more of a mall. Remember The Tasty Diner and Wursthaus? Flathead (aka Ned) was back in town in September and October this year and it was a blast of fun nostalgia to run into him as I was walking back to Harvard Square after a late Tuesday night enjoying the music of Session Americana with friends at the Lizard Lounge. I stopped to say hi to Flathead and ask if I could take a few photos and noticed that Potato wasn’t there — he had died a few years ago.

Tagged as: Busking, Flathead, harvard square, Ned, Nostalgia

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A cloning machine would really come in handy right now. But since that doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon, I’m hiring two interns for Exploit Boston!, my Boston music blog and concert guide. The promotions and publicity intern will manage contests (concert ticket giveaways, etc.) and line up photo credentials and review tickets for staff. The web editor intern will add music-related happenings to the site: listings and more in-depth features with audio and video. If you know anyone who might be interested, have them check out the job listings on Craig’s List. I’ve received some interesting responses so far.

Tagged as: Exploit Boston!, Internships, Work

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I’ve got three videos and a bunch of photos on Exploit Boston! from Sunday’s HONK! Fest and Oktoberfest in Harvard Square. They were expecting 100,000 people — not sure if there were that many but definitely a lot. Lots of people. And dogs. And street bands. Mostly just a lot of happy people enjoying a beautiful Fall day.

Here’s a 70 second clip of Titubanda from Rome performing at HONK! Fest. The full video is at Exploit Boston!.

Tagged as: event photos, harvard square, honk! fest, oktoberfest, Video

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Last weekend I was at the Lizard Lounge to see the final night of Boston Pop Underground’s Fall Residency with Mike Viola. There was little doubt it would be awesome since he was reuniting his band the Candy Butchers and Lori McKenna would be there to sing a bunch of songs. And then Mandy Moore was there, too. She’s collaborating with Mike Viola on her new album so they sang a few songs together. I shot some video that you can check out at Exploit Boston! To add to the fun, Mandy Moore (or whoever writes for her on her blog) gave me a shout-out regarding the videos.

So… thanks to my newfound friend (who I still haven’t met), SOOZ, there are a few videos posted on Youtube… Check them out. If anything, I am hoping they are as fun to watch as it was to just get up and play them…

Last night I was at Ray LaMontagne’s first of two nights at the stunning Boston Opera House. Yes, more awesomeness. It’s just been that kind of month! Some of the photos I took of LaMontagne and his band of cohorts and a review-of-sorts are over at Exploit Boston!.

Tagged as: Boston Pop Underground, Concert Photos, Lori McKenna, Mandy Moore, Mike Viola, photos, Ray LaMontagne, Video

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(Ooops! If you subscribed to the “what’s new” list over at Exploit Boston!, it was accidentally hooked up to the what’s new list at sooz.com the past few weeks. So head back over to Exploit Boston! and sign up for its email list if you feel inspired.)

I’ve been working on some new updates over at Exploit Boston! … concert recommendations and photos. The internet radio station will come back to life sometime this Fall.

Tagged as: Exploit Boston!, Projects, SoozHQ

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Acquia, who I worked for as event planner for Drupalcon Boston this past spring and then as an event marketing contractor for a few months over the summer, launched their new commercially supported Drupal products today. They’re helping make it easier to set up and run Drupal powered websites — you don’t need to be an open source programming rock star. Very cool. I recommended Tim Merrill to them (who I met through Paul Irish) for the website design makeover. Awesomeness all around!

Tagged as: Acquia, Awesomeness, Drupal, Open Source, Work

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