Star-Ledger article

Hey! Words Pictures Movies made the Sunday Star-Ledger!

With a Little Budget, Trio Chase Big Screen Dreams

Eric Vitner, a budding filmmaker, has spent the last month shuttling across the state, logging 18-hour workdays and managing a dozen or so people working for free.

He's lost about 18 pounds.

"People want a great diet?" the 34-year-old former Edison resident says. "They should go out and make an independent film."

The film is "Everything Fred Tells Me Is True," the first feature by Words Pictures Movies, a company Vitner founded with screenwriter Adam Dickinson and production designer Bruce Meyers, friends he met at Rutgers a decade ago. They're filming parts of it around New Jersey: apartments and houses in Edison, Piscataway, Paterson, the Bagel Dish cafe in Highland Park.

Photos from NYC

I have no idea who this woman is, but there's gotta be an interesting story in this photo.



Martha and I coming home from a party.



Ghost Bike, seen in the East Village in NYC. The placard reads: "Andrew Morgan, 25 years old, killed by truck, June 22, 2005. Rest in peace." More information here. There's a link on that web page to a New Yorker article about ghost bikes. (Take a look at the comments.)

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This past weekend, I met a fellow touring cyclist. We got along well, and traded tips with each other. Unlike my weekend trip, he's attempting to cross the country, to see as much of it as he can.

He seems to have made a good start. He picked up a steel touring bike, and been through New York, Newtown, Philadelphia, and is now headed for Lancaster. He also started a blog to write about his adventures. Road and Blanket.

Here we are, at Typer Park Hostel:


So go read and comment on his blog - it's an understated, bi-lingual, and is documenting quite an adventure!

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Rain in the Woods

I had a great time! Despite torrential rain on Saturday, I found Pennypack bike trail to be wonderfully scenic, twisty, and steep. Sunday was lots of fun, if a more ordinary day touring. More to come, when I get a journal written up.

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The last-minute tour

Martha's working on Sunday, so I may as well go on a tour! I've got a weekend tour planned, and only 3 days to go.

Saturday, 27 miles: Take the train to Philadelphia, ride along the Delaware River to Mayfair, then head North through Pennypack Park. I understand there's a bike path there... somewhere. Should be interesting trying to find it.

Continue north through Lorimer Park, then take Huntington Pike 10 miles to Richboro, and Tyler State Park. I have a reservation at a hostel in the park, and a trail map to help me find it.

Sunday, 34 miles: Washington Crossing Road will lead me to a metal bridge between two parks linked by a road that's the namesake of both parks. (Yes, this is where George Washington posed for a painting in a boat.) I'll take one of my regular routes to Princeton from there.

Martha's work is 9 miles from the towpath's Kingston access point. I hope to be there at the end of her workday.