This last weekend during Caroline Collective’s anniversary party, while we were celebrating one year of helping the community and striving to improve conditions in Houston’s cultural and technological landscap, someone stole my laptop. My. laptop. The co-founder of Caroline Collective’s laptop. This laptop was sitting next to Grace Rodriguez‘s (who provides a great deal of [...]

Hurry. up. As soon as this is finished and some clothes and the laptop are thrown into a bag, we head to Austin. For the next nine days, SXSW is where you’ll find me. Houston’s Focus on Regionalism I strongly believe that regionalism is a viable path to greater success for groups and communities. This [...]

Rice University has asked me to plan a summer program and course addressing civic engagement from a multi-disciplinary standpoint. I look at this as a synthesis of everything learned during graduate student and accrued over the year of running Caroline Collective. My CV appears a bit schizophrenic thus a personal statement is required to explain [...]

This is for Dan Workman of Sugar Hill Studios who recently remarked: producerboy: @organ_printer you taunt me with your food tweets about 3 hours ago ·Reply · View Tweet This is a modified version of an Indian recipe for cumin flavored potatoes combined with my standard sauteed mustard greens as the bed the dish is [...]

That’s all folks, I’m out of sweaters. Like Thorny said in Super Troopers, “almost made it.” Unfortunately there were not enough Christmas sweaters to make it all the way to 31 but there were more than enough to reach saturation point. After all, there’s only so many combinations of green, red, trees and santas you [...]

Christmas Sweater #28 is the real deal. TWO types of Christmas trees plus Christmas bling in the form of sequins and beads. The fabric is thick and rugged to keep you warm even though it looks like just a simple vest. Perfect with any undershirt or none at all (pictured with shirt). Goodwill’s Plans for [...]

Christmas Sweater #27 is perplexing. First of all, it’s very simple and contains no shoulder pads although the reverse buttoning clearly marks it as a women’s sweater. Second, the sweater is that it’s not quite sure whether it wants to be in the Alpine Sweater category or the Christmas Sweater category. The pine trees and [...]

It’s not over yet, we’re just cresting the hill of extra content. Think of the next week as the second disc of your Fight Club DVD where you can watch the film an additional four different ways with commentary by everyone involved in the film, including the set designer. If anyone is interested in guest [...]

Christmas Sweater #25 is the real deal. Donated by Renee Davis of The Center for Hearing and Speech, who recently held their uber successful Via Colori festival. It’s long, even on me. Renee mentioned she used to wear green tights with the sweater, sadly mine were at the tailor getting some runs repaired. Santa’s beard [...]

It’s only one day from the best Christmas Sweater of them all. Get the bubbly chilled but don’t break it out just yet. Christmas Sweater #24 depicts the triumphant return of Santa’s sleigh to the North Pole following a whirlwhind trip around the earth. This begs to question, with a workshop that can literally produce [...]