gingerbread solstice

passing confection
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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don’t pass (up) NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase:
>> ONLINE
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – better than mylanta!

See a cellphoneSketch on this site you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg.

Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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how to move it off the back burner

add flame here; push through fear
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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Spice things up with NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase:
>> ONLINE
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – now you’re cooking!

See a cellphoneSketch on this site you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg.

Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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eye candy

the art of artificial flavor
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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Or try Organic! NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase:
>> ONLINE
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – naturally sweet!

See a cellphoneSketch on this site you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg.

Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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unseating the breadwinner

brought-home bacon is the new mayor of sunday
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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It’s not late too late for holiday cards NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase:

>> ONLINE
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – next best thing to bacon!

See a cellphoneSketch on this blog you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg. Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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the opposite of EVERYTHING
on your to do list

happy friday EVERYDAY
Isabella's Stickey Buns Cafe, Freeport, ME
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Caution: The Blueberry Pancakes WILL transport you into deliriously delicious & sensuous (foodie) bliss*. Allow at least a full half hour before re-engagement with to do lists.

* serving suggestion tip: spring for the extra buck twenty-five for the REAL maple syrup.

isabella’s sticky buns

heiferlump IRL

what makes this camel pass the Heifer International
'7 Ms of livestock' test?
Click thumbnails to view slide show. Hover/click on each slide to advance. Can’t see the thumbnails? You can thank Microsoft IE for that. Optional viewing on Picasa.

An inspired trip with Durham Maine Friends to Heifer International Learning Center at Overlook Farm in Rutland, Massachusetts.

A global organization dedicated to ending world hunger.

The 7 M’s of livestock?
milk
manure
meat
muscle
money
materials
motivation

© 2010 Dave Weinberg

a rooster’s welcoming

official grand opening, Rooster's Coal Fired Pizza & Tap House, Augusta, Maine
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Now open in Augusta, Maine. Coming soon to Key West: http://roosters.com

More on the branding and identity of Rooster’s.

Start liking it on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RoostersPizza

tricked or treated

last candidate standing
© 2010 Acadia D. (sketch); Dave Weinberg (skribe)

Please VOTE this Tuesday. And maybe take a risk to base it not on fear, not on polarized party affiliation, but on the issues and ideas that matter most. It may still be ‘the economy, stupid‘ but also consider that it may be ‘the relationship, genius!’ – our relationship to one another and ourselves.

Perhaps if we asked more questions about our own true values and what shaped them (particularly some of those more painful value-shaping moments) and stopped listening to 24 hour fear-mongering news channels (as posited at yesterday’s rally to restore sanity) we might get in touch with something new.

I mean in the end, why DO we do what we do? Do we even know or are we just on auto-pilot most of the time cause we’re too friggin’ busy to stop and ask some important questions? And if so, why is that?

“If you will accept the conditions as what you’re aiming at then the rest of this applies to you — otherwise not.”

-J.G. Bennett (1897-1974)

note: product placement in this sketch intentionally unintentional.

social media FTB* #ftw2010
(with a hand from @HeatherDesi)

*For The Bagel
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Social Media FTW – an inspired, strategic and tactical day of social media and socializing – the brainchild of @therichbrooks, @jakks and @ccmaine. SMO IRL. Excellent conference for beginner and advanced.

…tho admittedly nothing beats Brooklyn for an advanced bagel 😉

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and nothing beats NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!
Now available for purchase online and in select stores:
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine
cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – almost as good as an everything bagel

See a cellphoneSketch on this blog you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave.
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sweet (and spicy) tooth

just desserts - not-to-be-missed authentic frosted doughnut with a pinch of cayenne pepper - but wait till you see the bacon padded cruller! now serving at St. Joe's Coffee, Gorham, Maine
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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also not-to-be-missed NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!
Now available for purchase online and in select stores:
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine
cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – cayenne pepper, optional!

See a cellphoneSketch on this blog you can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave.
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woolen scallopini leftovers

upscale packaging for your leftover seafood
© 2010 Acadia D. (sketch); Dave Weinberg (skribe)

In the emerging new economy anything goes. The internet makes it easier than ever to bring any idea you have to market. And clearly what the restaurant market now craves is an upscale upgrade to the conventional containers used for customer’s unfinished meals.

“The Doggie Bag, is just so 20th century…” notes a patron of a popular Boothbay Harbor, Maine seafood restaurant. “My husband just had his leftovers scooped into an authentic Peruvian designer Alpaca Poncho. The spongy Huacaya fiber naturally repels water- and it’s ‘crimpy’ so the sauce does not leak all over the seat and stink up the Jaguar on the way home. And of course, it is totally luxurious!!!”

Owners of the restaurant could not be reached for comment.

coleslawSketchpad

still life with side dish (and horseshoe crab shadow)
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

It’s true we all have our shadow side. Sometimes it takes the shape of a small bowl of haplessly shredded bits of raw produce in brine strategically lit by sunset to help us see that we too can have a dark casting shadow with a hard shell… and claws…

Know someone casting a dark shadow? Claw your way over to NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards also in select stores – Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine and Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine.

Guaranteed to cast a smile!

hot dogs days of summer

the 'original' - surf ave., coney island, b'klyn
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Hot dogs days! cellphoneSketch artists, Dave Weinberg and Acadia D. peruse amusements of luna park, the boardwalk and the original Nathan’s. Thanks to local historian and location scout, Grandma Myrna. Click thumbnail to view slide show.

mac & cheese 2.0 – maine style

the making of the now famous @candacekaru's (and/or the now infamous @candasea's) Lobstah Mac & Cheese*
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
* editors note: martini optional but highly recommended.

Follow famous foodie and Cabot Creamery Consumer Lifestyle commentator, Candace Karu on twitter or her arguably evil twin. And for the original ‘making of’ shot

and the ing’enue of the the arts, beckoned

a call to kaleidoscopic community
skirting the issues
renaissance flamenco nouveau fashionista
building(s). arts. activism.
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Above sketches from the annual League of Young Voters ReEmergence event at SPACE Gallery last nite in Portland, Maine. More about this event, a local mashup of artists, musicians, poets, civic leadership and services providers can be found here in the Portland Phoenix. I knew cellphoneSketchpad was in the right place when the event kicked-off with Medeski, Martin, Wood and Scofield’s Little Walter Rides Again (ring tone on my cellphone).