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I finally finished up one of the first videos I ever shot with the 2 piece RCA VCR and camera I bought in 1983. It was quite cumbersome by today's standards and the battery life was quite short. My good friend Chris "Theo" Theodore led the interviews...

Every time I travel to a place that has big water, I just love to find me a sailboat that takes people out for a good sailing trip. In Aruba my favorite sail is Mi Dushi, which I've done a number of times. This voyage is from Sail Freedom an incredib...

Demanda Diamond and I flew down to Tampa to visit some of her family over the Easter break and decided to make the 4 hour drive to St Augustine . I'd never been to St Augustine but knew how historical a city it was, dating back to the 1500's. It's a ...

My brother Andrew and I visit our dad's grave who passed on tax day April 15th 2004. Nothing real heavy here, just a few minutes to pay tribute to Coffey loved ones. I'm guessing dad is rolling over in his grave upon hearing that neither Andrew or I...

My good friend Dave now lives up in New Hope Pennsylvania so I took the opportunity to get out of West Philly and journey to the country on a sunny winter day. He had been telling me about a couple of pigs that he had saved from the bacon factory and...

It was 9 degrees Fahrenheit in Philadelphia this morning but I bundled up as best I could and took the 10 minute trolley down to 30th Street Train Station to catch the launch of Whistle Stop Train ride for President Elect Barack Obama. Without gettin...

This marks the start of my fourth year of video blogging and I decided to take a small break from shooting any of the Mummers Festivities for this year. I did go down to do Washington Ave for some site inspections and caught up with Jonny Goldstein a...

Well it's taken 20 years but I finally started to edit the videos I shot at our summer shore house in Sea Isle City from the summer of 1988. There wasn't much of a market for editing VHS movies for the regular consumer but thankfully, my tapes have h...

Philly was going through a bizzare weather weekend. The Saturday Phillies game the night before was rain delayed to a 10PM start that didn't end till 1:45 AM. A front brought a really nice brisk fall day to the area on Sunday with SSW winds from 6-8...

What a great weekend to take down a couple new folks to the boat for some great day sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. Beautiful fall weather with an easy 5-8 knot NE wind. After a great day of sail we see Mystic Whaler on the way back to my mooring. We ...

Hurricane/Tropical storm Hannah arrived to the Delaware Valley just as Red Bull Soapbox was about to launch on the fabled Wall of Manayunk Philadelphia. The rain held off till about a half an hour before the first run, but I did get enough footage of...

Pillaged and plundered Rock Hall for the first ever Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend. The weather was fantastic and so was the large crowd. Many thanks to Cuban stowaway Jorge Muniz for singing and guitar, and Blue Crab Charters for making it all ...

I've stopped by this the Butterfly Farm the last 2 times I vacationed in Aruba. It is a quick little tour and Demanda, a high school biology teacher, does a great job at filling in some very important butterfly information. Jimmy CraicHead

Demanda insisted we try something new in Arbua and many of the people at our time share Paradise Beach Villas suggested we try Madame Janette for some excellent sea food. Being one that eats to live, I'll let Demanda do the talking. Beware of the two...

A tradition in South Philadelphia since 1975, Odunde played out to a sweltering heat wave that hit the east coast. I got the opportunity to chat to Daily News reporter Damon Williams a longtime Philly resident and Odunde attendee and neighbor of th...

It was a great day to head down to Rock Hall Maryland with Cap'n Tony for some relaxing and to get the sails on my sailboat. I had the pleasure of turning the good Capt'n onto some Hop Wallop a winter seasonal that we found lingering in the fridge of...

This was a real quick play with my brother Andrew as we took a walk to a local pub for some spirits and conversation. I live in the University City section of West Philadelphia which is a melting pot of Ivy League academics, anarchists, hippies and a...

Another videobloggingweek2008 has me salvaging some footage I took at the Cannstatter club last September. Alt Weiber Mühle loosely translates to "old women treadmill". It's an invention I hope will soon be invented!Jimmy CraicHead

Samantha recently turned 40 years and she shares about surviving cancer as a child in this birthday tribute. Enjoy, tomorrow is promised to no one! Jimmy CraicHead

This footage is a little bit of goofing off before my brother Andrew Coffey and I went off to the first Podcast Media Expo in 2005 where he was hosting Podcast Awards. I had always wanted to visit Hollywood Forever an incredible cemetary featuring t...

I shot this video at Drexel University, my alma mater by the way, last October. It was one of the first big Democrat debates and featured a cast of still hopefuls like Joe Biden, Mike Gravel and John Edwards. Not as much footage as I would have for a...

Let's call premier videobloggingweek2008 video the prequel to Dover to Belgium ferry ride. My travel pal Cynthia is one crazy girl. Met her at a Philly block party around 1982, and I was impressed that she was the only black girl (African American te...

This the third part of our trilogy to Ireland. We saw some of Ireland's best weather in 2007 and Killarney was our third stop after Dublin and Galway. We took a jaunting car ride through Killarney National Park, and the fine driver, whose name escap...

Philadelphia is just a few days away from Philly Beer Week, a first for this town and I must say that my beer geekiness far surpasses my tech geek. But like tech, my beer geek friends far out knowledge me in the hops, barley, Belgians, etc, etc, etc....

A group called "Anonymous" had worldwide protests of Church of Scientology. This is a little of what went down in Philadelphia. You can get a little more of what went on from Boston, London, Washington DC and Philly at Rocketboom, which featured some...

I've been going every Mummers Parade since 1980 so I've seen a lot of ups and downs with weather, postponements, and cancelations and this year was no different. My sole reason to go the Mummers Parade is to see the String Bands. Every year we have t...

Demanda was sick for this video so I took Judy, my brindle mutt down to Running of the Santas an event held in several cities around the USA. It is a benefit for Alex's Lemonade Stand, a foundation for child cancer. The Philly run is about 2 blocks f...

As promised, Jimmy has a lot of good Craic tucked away in the video vaults. This is some classic footage of RUIN from the Lee Paris Benefit 1986 from Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania. Special appearances include Dr. Dirt, Mel Taylor and Ala...

Demanda and I showed at up Downrigging Weekend in 2006, only to find all the tickets for sailing had been sold weeks before. This year we booked early and were greeted with strong cold north winds, the remmnats Hurricane Noel. There are over a dozen ...

A perfect day to head down to an Eagles tailgate party. A beautiful indian summer day in October for a 4pm meeting with the Chicago Bears. Many thanks to Chuck and Eric over at Eagles FanCast, a weekly podcast devoted to the Eagles fans and diehards ...