We joined up with Kaz Gamble of worcesterlove.com to capture the fun at stART. Kaz visits with festival attendees, Jacob Berendes of HBML Junk Shoppe, Sarah from imfromworcester.com, and WCCA-TV’s Snow Ghost. Kaz also visits with his dad.

It was a lot of fun to make this video. My very favorite thing about it though is the way all the bloggers interacted that day. It was really good to meet these people and (in some cases) become part of their own postings on what they saw.

Check out the postings and you’ll see the different points of view.

Anyway, we had a great time with Kaz (THANK YOU!!) and at the festival (THANK YOU START FOLKS!!).

I can’t wait for September!

This is the first video I’ve gotten done. I have some other really fun stuff to post but I don’t have those videos edited yet. For now, this is some of what happened at stART In The Park.

Wormtown Taxi has a great post about the festival. It was indeed a very cool event. The park was a great place to have it. It was nice to get out there and see people and enjoy the beautiful weather.

I expect to be posting more video from the event including parts of the soon-to-be-famous “Worcester Love” song (see Wormtown Taxi’s post for explanation).

Here’s links to the web sites of people in the video:

• Mississippi Jon Short, Have Blues Will Travel
• Tina Zlody, stART In The Park
• ActionGeek
• Scott Holloway, Painting Loft
• Scott Boilard

Other posts about the event

• “Made In Lowell”, stART from an artist’s point of view
• worcesterite.com has posted the “official stART In The Park aftermath thread. It’s a place for all the Worcesterites to post links to their stART stuff
• 4-rilla is for real! has some cool pix of artist, Erik Nasinnyk’s

work

Coffee, originally uploaded by Claudia Snell.

Yep, still good coffee. Actually I had a cappuccino, which was good. The place was a lot busier last night than the last time I went but it was still a nice place to have conversation. It looks like they pull a nice crowd of quiet people in.

I DID notice this time is that there are only a couple of options (hot chocolate or milkshake) if you don’t want coffee or tea (I know, weird, but it happens). It might be nice to see some cold drinks like juice or soda in there in the future. Maybe I was missing something and they do have stuff - it’s entirely possible. I dunno.

I am liking The Q. I’ve been twice - had good experiences twice. This is good. I’ll be back

“Hold all my calls please”, originally uploaded by Claudia Snell.

Well, at least he doesn’t let work get in the way of his rest.

Actually, my being home and working in the studio has been a little disruptive to him. He’s had to move his nap from my desk to my lap and/or the cat bed on the floor. Sorry Chuck!

Maybe if he didn’t weigh 23ish pounds I could share the desk with him but he’s just too huge. And he likes to stretch out while he’s sleeping.

Why can’t I be a cat?

I’m a "beta-tester" for Joffrey’s, originally uploaded by Claudia Snell.

Original post about the beta-test :
Joffry’s coffee beta test for bloggers - WOOT!

It’s really official now - I got the coffee and am actually drinking some of it right now. It’s great! They sent me a flavor called “Jamaican Me Crazy”. It seems to have a slight vanilla taste. YUM!!!

I would certainly buy this stuff if I see it. I must confess, I usually do not venture into the “boutique” coffees much. I’m more of a “price-shopper”. This stuff is good for when you want more than just some “liquid-awake” though. It’s for enjoying (as if I have time for that - ha!).

Anyway. I’m off to do a million things that must get done or the universe will implode. Or, more accurately, people will act as if the universe is imploding which is actually more unpleasant than a literal universe implosion because it’s never-ending as opposed to one big catastrophe and it’s over - ugh!!!

Thank you Joffrey’s for the fun taste-test! I’m happy I played along.

Thank you Trainstopping for sending me the link to Joffrey’s. Lovin’ it!