The Mobile Gem Sweater Museum is here. They’re now parked in front of JDK at 47 Maple Street. Leslie’s mother — who has so far sewn her 8 pairs of gold pants — just stopped by the 7D office to say that they had to buy over 200 gallons of gas to get here (that’s a shitload of money post-hurricane), and they broke down twice and had to be towed. They arrived yesterday, just a few minutes before midnight.

Just so everybody knows, the Art Hop is not paying these folks to be here. So buy some of Leslie’s stuff. She’s got t-shirts and CDs, which I highly recommend. She even wrote a song about that 1985 Sarah Jessica Parker/Helen Hunt classic, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. It’s called Tune in Tokyo. If you’ve seen the movie, you may remember the joke…

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...