In Memoriam Dutch ??/??/?? - 5/16/08

This American Life

...summarizes the credit crisis with enough clarity to make any person with a pulse hate capitalism. (Or at least, you know, begin to sense the real predatory violence of the ruling transnational fundamentalist speculative oligarchy.)

cherry mantel

Or more precisely, mantelshelf (the dictionary approves mantelpiece as well to refer to just a shelf). This 4" thick cherry slab really tied the room together. Four rebar in studs and generous 5-minute epoxy mean a child or a dwarf could probably sleep on it, after a late night...counting sheep...


Some of the scraps became coasters:

flog

May Day

When working ten hour days (in the sun) it gets hard sometimes to remember to commemorate things one definitely should.

See also How Wright Was Wronged, from the new US Socialist Worker.

bloodwood trio

Tiger maple, 100% reclaimed African bloodwood and mahogany. Medium size and small bar cutting board, white hickory.

All for sale, reluctantly. Email for prices (negotiable, sliding scale based on your income). Or visit my Etsy.

cutting board, chopping block commissions

Recently custom made:Edge-grain, hard Spalted Ambrosia Maple, with Oak handle


End-Grain Quarter-Sawn Oak, biscuit-joined



Leopard wood and hickory (with cherry and walnut):



Some very direct and generous customer testimonial here.

nyc event

My friend Ross Benjamin will talk of his experience translating Hölderlin's Hyperion.