I got an unex­pected free hair­cut today from the ladies who run the Gentlemen’s Bar­ber Shop in Tremont. Appar­ently they’ve got­ten some busi­ness from my Tremon­ter post­ing about the place. I tried to talk them out of it, but there was no dice. They wouldn’t even take a tip. I’m just glad to know that I helped out […]

Almost a year ago I made my first Google Map for the redesign of the TWiFi site. I didn’t touch the API again until I finally started redesign­ing Tremon­ter a few months back. The idea for cre­at­ing a neigh­bor­hood map for Tremont had been rat­tling around in my head since I first started the site, but I knew how tedious the work would […]

On Fri­day I spent about 5 hours on the Art­Walk, includ­ing judg­ing a Mutts­quer­ade, and on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day I spent much of my time on the redesign of Tremon­ter. The design itself is pretty much fin­ished, and now I’m just tweak­ing the con­fig­u­ra­tion, adding more con­tent and a bit more func­tion­al­ity. If I can just fig­ure out how to get […]

When I first moved to Tremont almost two years ago I only knew two peo­ple in the neigh­bor­hood. They’ve since moved to New York City, greener pas­tures, and bet­ter oppor­tu­ni­ties. As I’m not very good at mak­ing friends, I decided that a good way of meet­ing peo­ple in the neigh­bor­hood would be to start a weblog and forum that would […]

The night before last I met a rel­a­tively new Tremont res­i­dent for beer and tacos at the Lin­coln Park Pub. We spent nearly two hours chat­ting about the var­i­ous places we’d lived in Indi­ana, job prospects and how to fix Cleve­land. Yes­ter­day I was going to write more about this, but due to a power out­age, I had no internet […]

I’ve got so much web-​based work to do that I’m con­sid­er­ing drop­ping the $50/​mo it would cost to have inter­net access at home again. The redesign of Tremon­ter is mov­ing fit­fully, I’m hav­ing to teach myself much mySQL, and Dru­pal’s doc­u­men­ta­tion assumes a cer­tain level of devel­oper exper­tise that I’m just now get­ting. The inter­ac­tive Google […]

Last night at The Church I saw three bands. Slack­jaw [soon to be Early Girl] was a folky-​moving-​toward-​rock band from Cleve­land that put together a decent sound but I seem to have caught them in the awk­ward part of the tran­si­tion. The vocals are still folky and get over­whelmed by the music. Amy Kasio was a two-​piece elec­tronic out­fit with poppy lyrics […]

So it looks like I’m not going to be able to afford a house in Tremont. With only one excep­tion, every house that I researched [about 2 dozen] would sell for sig­nif­i­cantly more than what I can get a mort­gage on. There was one house on Auburn, pur­chased in 1997 for $13k, that was sold in 2004 for $134k. It […]

My 4^th of July would have been dead all day if it weren’t for Tremont busi­nesses who were open. I dropped off Carl Sagan’s The Demon-​Haunted World at the Library and ran in to Steve and Kathy Smith and Steve Gold­berg on the way. I stopped in to Scoops and got a Wild Cherry-​Cranberry smoothie while I checked my […]

I got sauced this week­end, since I orga­nized and fol­lowed through with a tour of all the ritzy drink­ing estab­lish­ments in Tremont. The Vel­vet Tango Room was by far my favorite, and I’m going to have to stop in for their com­pli­men­tary sushi on Tues­days. All the reviews start here and plenty of pic­tures are here.

Recently I’ve been doing my laun­dry in the evenings, and there is always a very old lady play­ing lot­tery with scratch off tick­ets the entire time I’m there. It doesn’t mat­ter which day, or what time, she’s there. She only scratches off one ticket at a time, then leaves the table in the laun­dro­mat, goes out­side, walks […]

The house across the street from my apart­ment is for sale for $50k. The house pay­ment would be cheaper than my rent, but upon look­ing at the inside I esti­mated another $50k would need to be invested just to make it liv­able. I don’t have the time, money or incli­na­tion to do that kind of work on […]

A poetry night recap.

In which another entry is made into the annals by our hero con­cern­ing poetry, pot and delib­er­ate word abuse.

In which Adam describes an evening spent learn­ing about air pollution.

In which Adam repro­duces for pos­ter­ity a Craigslist post he made.

In which the author, for the gril­lionth time, rumi­nates. Specif­i­cally, on movies shot in Tremont.

In which Adam attends a local open mic night, runs in to a bunch of neigh­bors and rumi­nates on community.

When I went to get my laun­dry out of the dryer at the laun­dro­mat, raw sewage was float­ing out of the main doors. And the guy that man­ages the places what squeegee­ing shit down a drain. Bonus.

If you go over to Tremon­ter you can check out the pro­gres­sively drunker reviews I did for all the places in Tremont that have Guin­ness on tap. This post links to all of ‘em. I was alone for most of the tour, but Jeff Schuler caught up with me at The Tree­house. He’s a cool guy, just moved […]

Last evening was the per­fect evening to be out­side. So I hopped on my bike for a nice leisurely ride, intend­ing to explore Ohio City. I never made it out of Tremont. I ran into Lou Muenz, com­ing from the Lin­coln Park Pub and their $1.25 taco night. We rode around the neigh­bor­hood a bit, caught sight of Steve Goldberg, […]

Last night was some sort of weird art nir­vana in Tremont. For the 150^th Art­Walk no punches were pulled. I started out at Inside-​Outside where I ended up buy­ing a small paint­ing, then I headed over to the Scran­ton Gallery for some poetry read­ings, then I stopped by the park for some Sum­mer Shake­speare, then I went to the Ukrain­ian Museum […]

I’ve been spend­ing a lot of time hang­ing out at the local ice cream place. I killed a cou­ple of hours there early Fri­day evening, shoot­ing the shit with the folks that work there and a cou­ple more hours yes­ter­day, where one of the work­ers directed me to the site of her semi-​nude phở­tos. [!] I think I know every­one that […]

I’m heart­ened by the ini­tial response I’ve got­ten with Tremon­ter. I’ve received an email from a pro­fes­sional phở­tog­ra­pher who would like to take some pic­tures for me, an email from a Tremont res­i­dent who has B&W phở­tos that she’s will­ing to have posted, encour­age­ment from fel­low blog­gers and most impor­tantly, vis­i­tors I’ve never heard of.

Well, I’m fin­ished putting together my Tremont spe­cific weblog and bul­letin board. I was going to wait till May to tell every­one, but since I’m only left with the nev­erend­ing “adding of con­tent” phase, I thought I might as well get it over with. Now I’ve just got to get the word out around Tremont. The site is […]

The Auburn Block Club is a whole dif­fer­ent beast than the Professor-​Thurman-​Valley View club. I guess my ini­tial con­fu­sion as to which I belonged to was well-​founded; My build­ing sits right on the dividing line.

This was a big meet­ing last night and the upshot of it is that I finally dis­cov­ered which block club I’m sup­posed to be going to, offi­cially. It ain’t this one. No big deal though, because both block clubs have stuff to do with my street and I’ll take any excuse to visit Lucky’s.

I just got back from the March Professor/​Thurman/​Valley View block club meet­ing. Coun­cil­man Cim­per­man was present to lis­ten to our con­cerns and to tell us a bit about what is going on with Steel­yard Com­mons and other items of Tremont interest.

I went to a block club meet­ing for Tremont res­i­dents last evening. It doesn’t mat­ter which block club because appar­ently I can go to any block club I want to go to and every­one will wel­come me. As expected, most of the mem­bers there were older, the youngest prob­a­bly being in the late 30s to early 40s, except […]