Thanksgiving Bookmark Clean Up Jellyfish are cool. Japanese Skyline Mac Eye for the Windows Guy Revisiting Thriller Travel Brochure Graphics Best Buy versus IKEA The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters from Russia The Moog: book, movie Anna and the Moods Interview between Thom York and Howard Zinn Two ways to pick colors Van paintings (find them …
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Shattered Glass Saw the terrifying movie Shattered Glass last night at the Uptown. Don’t let this baby slip under the radar. Hayden Christensen’s performance as pathological lair and freelance writer Stephen Glass, is so convincing that you have to watch it between your fingers. The intelligent direction allows the film to unfold like a tense …
Maximum Throwing Power In what was being billed as the Storm of the Century (StarTribune Photo Gallery), and perhaps one of Minnesota’s 10 worst storms of all time, the snow was coming and I had to make a mad dash Saturday morning to finally clean out the gutters. It was a nasty job I had …
The Global Garb of the Disenfranchised From Alternet; reporting in Miami on the use of undercover cops posing as ‘anarchists’: “MIAMI – Protestors seemed to skirmish with heavily armored Miami police outside the Riande Hotel Thursday morning, but nothing is at it seems this week. These “anarchists” were undercover police officers whose mission was to …
The Worldhood of the World as Such Heavily distracted this morning by world events. Television news channels only covering weird Michael Jackson/Lacy Peterson stories. God Bless this internet thing. Listen to police reports coming from this mornings protest in Maimi. Listen to resistance radio (stream) to get a minute by minute testimony of events. Chase …
Trent, Stop Calling Me Ever since I got my T-moblie phone I’ve been a pretty happy camper. I don’t ask much of it and it doesn’t ask much of me. However, since the day I’ve had the phone, I’ve been called by a mysterious phone number. The random call is a local number and the …
Hazardous Materials Shaky hands and a dizzy head greet my Monday morning. Yesterday, I was all excited and motivated after the Vikings got crushed by the Raiders and the Packers beat up a Tampa Bay team that doesn’t look at all like the one that won the Big Bowl last year. I celebrated the victory …
Me and My Melodica In these cooler days, I’ve been rocking out a lot with my Melodica. This crazy, German made instrument that’s a cross between a harmonica and a piano, and made popular by the shining Rastafarian maestros of a dubwise babylon, continues to soothe the soul and illuminate the spirit. With almost no …
Choppin’ Broccoli If cooking consisted of nothing more than chopping things up with various types of finely sharpened cutlery, then I would be the king of cooking. Well, actually, that’s not entirely true. Actually, it’s far from true. Let’s just say it’s a title I would aspire to. A gourmet chopper. Is there a specific …
Automotive Rescue Blues My chariot, my trusty road-sled, the grand ’85 Oldsmobile Brougham, is on its death bed – gasping and wheezing for its last ethanol breath. It will take a minor rattletrap, super skate miracle to bring my gas guzzler back from the brink. I took it to the local garage today and they …