We Got Jokes and Jokes and Jokes and Jokes Had the good fortune to see Dave Chappelle at the Orpheum Theater over the weekend. It was a rambunctious crowd that attempted again and again to pigeon hole Dave with some of his signature lines from his show. To his credit he dealt with their heckling …
Monthly Archives: June 2004
Saint Paul Saints The Twins need to get themselves an outdoor stadium immediately. Watching the Saint Paul Saints, outdoors on a cool summer night, you can’t beat it. If you get there late (because you got distracted by a box of cold Red Stripes tailgating in the parking lot) then you get into the game …
Born into DodgeballI Saw the Bukowski Documentary Born into This and I watched the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. I decided I would try and review Dodgeball in a Bukowskiesque type poem: only children play dodgeball when men do this they are whores when other men watch they are worse than whores fist fights …
Summer Activities This past weekend I had to deal with the consequences of the unfortunate play of our Minnesota Twins in Milwaukee. One overzealous Brewers fan hounded me day and night with drunken unintelligible rants left on my voice mail and inning by inning emails recounting the destruction of my team. It was all a …
Who Cries For The Children? After a couple reminiscent email exchanges with folks out West, it was brought to my attention that the incredible 1986 production of Hear N’ Aid won VH1’s The Greatest: 100 Metal Moments. As luck would have it I have a copy of this wonderful video after I stole it from …
Why I Love Summer
Cacafuego Too much going on. Work is kicking my ass these days. It feels like every time I come up for air there are a thousand buccaneers shaking their broadaxes at me; their chirpy talking parrots demand hard labor and threaten me with crude hand canons. Today, I’ve been fighting them off with the ferocious …
Interleague Play These interleague games are great for baseball. I got to see the New York Mets live at the Dome for the first time in my life the other night. Better yet, I got to see the Mets get crushed and humiliated by the Twins for the first time. And again, for the second …
Iceman Versus Captain America Remember those great articles by Evan Wright in Rolling Stone last summer (The Killer Elite, From Hell to Baghdad and The Battle for Baghdad)? They were pretty damn good weren’t they? Well, Mr. Wright would like Afrojet readers to know that his new book with, “considerable expansion/change of those articles is …
Mill City Museum Finally got around to visiting the Mill City Museum this weekend. I was blown away. Top notch. A beautiful addition to the Mississippi waterfront. When I worked downtown, I used to bike by the development of the museum every day. It’s great to see the completion. The award winning architecture developed by …