All For Me Grog, Me Jolly Jolly Grog Here’s to you and yours this holiday season. May your shores be calm and your ships sturdy and strong. As the new year creeps up on us, I find myself looking for a Midwestern pub to celebrate and stomp out some old time sea shanties. I want …
Monthly Archives: December 2004
Just Say No Oh boy. Minus 25 degree wind chill outside this morning but no real snow to speak of. This is fucked up. If it’s going to be this goddamn cold out, well then there better be some snow because people around here take their ‘White Christmas’ very seriously and it’s hard to get …
Popsicle Salad Finally some snow here this morning to go along with our uncomfortably cold temperatures. The weather guy is predicting a high of 1 for Thursday. That should be fun. Yesterday the town was decorated by thin sheets of ice, which left me in a very uncomfortable spot with my mailman as I hadn’t …
Skelton: Ale Wiues Downe This jacket design from A Selection of Poems by John Skelton contains a contemporary woodcut depicting Skelton’s famous character, Elenor Rumming the alewife. Apparently, Skelton wasn’t very fond of Elenor, for an ‘alewife’ is a foul smelling and awful looking fish that is native to the Atlantic and is listed on …
Pomp and Circumstance Last night watched the Little Brother graduate from Metro State University. Congratulations to him. Whoop. Whoop. The new Saint Paul Chief of Police was the commencement speaker. He set out to break some sort of personal best by giving a speech in under seven minutes. He even had another cop time him. …
Collateral Rented the Michael Mann masterpiece Collateral (trailer) last night. A great movie that I wish I had seen in the theaters. Michael Mann is the king director in my book. His films are so focused and finely crafted with intense visual detail. I would love to see a feature on DVD’s that allows the …
Snorkel Hoods Up This winter is already shaping up to be a weird one. Still no snow on the ground or in the trees. Yet the continental weather map shows Minnesota as the coldest state right now. I’d be in a horrible state if it weren’t for the snorkel hood power that’s keeping me warm. …
Vulgar Display of Power Pantera on the Hi-Fi all day yesterday. Who would gun down one of the heaviest axemen of all time? Where is the motive? My guess is that the disturbed man who went forth with this crime of violence did so after he spent years and years trying to reproduce the solo …
The Inter-demential Time Travel Cat So there I was playing around with the digital camera taking pictures of the cats in one of their more rambunctious and playful moods, when I snapped the above image of Leila. I took the photo, looked at the preview screen and then dropped the camera in horror and shock. …
Photo Walking Unseasonably warm weather Saturday was the perfect climate for some Minnesota hiking, stopping numerous times to snap a few photos. I really like the compacted metal photo. It looks very organic, like human muscle tissue. The twisted kitchen fork in the middle of the metallic carnage is a nice touch I thought. Also, …