Parade of Homes ‘Dream Home’ #0416 The Parade of Homes has started in the Twin Cities and yesterday the misses had a strange premonition that we were going to win the Powerball – it being a Saturday and all. Based on the fortified strength of this premonition, it was quickly decided that if we were …
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Garbage Can Wars Seems the neighbors across the alley have developed a very special fondness for my steely hard, black plastic dreck drum. Yesterday was trash day and while the misses was leaving for work she discovered our can to be overflowing with debris that clearly wasn’t the waste product of our own weekly detritus. …
Fernand Legros Today’s stenciled creation is of eccentric bad ass Fernand Legros, who during the beginning of the 1960’s sold and distributed over 400 forged pieces of art. Most of the pieces were done by his friend and master forger Elmyr De Hory, who is credited with being one of the greatest art forgers of …
Remembering Hunter S. Thompson Went and saw Willie Murphy last night at the Viking Bar. Drank Whiskey. Poured some on the ground. Paid tribute to a mighty legend, a teacher and, a beast of a writer. Willie dedicated Ray Charles’ “Unchain My Heart” to Hunter, whom Willie explained, “Told it like he saw it.” What …
Twelve Highlanders and a Bagpipe Make a Rebellion Went to something called a Scottish Ramble this weekend at the Landmark Center. I got some pretty definitive answers about my quest for dual-citizenship. Basically the answer was something like “yew’d have more luck trying to stuff a bagpipe into a pillbox then yew’d have getting yer …
That Subliminal Kid Went out last night and got my brains scrambled by Dj Spooky. He was giving a lecture at the University as part of his book tour for Rhythm Science. The lecture was the a keynote of sorts for an electronic music festival going on at the U of M called the Spark …
Dual-Citizenship This weekend, while going through some family history research, my mom brought up the possibility that I might be able to apply for dual-citizenship in Scotland based on the fact that my great great grandfather was a Scottish citizen. I got pretty excited about the possibility of getting a Scottish passport and being able …
Hell House My new GreenCine account has been hooking me up with some sweet documentaries lately. Last night I watched the horrifying Hell House. Forget all these ‘The Grudge style hollywood horror films, this is the real thing. The film follows the Pentecostal congregation at Trinity Church in Ceder Hills Texas, as they gear up …
Some Kind of Monster Finally, after way too long, I got around to seeing the Metallica documentary, Some Kind of Monster. Metal Thrashing Mad is this a brilliant and satisfying film. The DVD spread over two disks took me two nights of viewing. I wouldn’t let myself go to bed last night until I had …
Yao-zahhh Brother Ben got the hook-ups on some nice T-wolves tickets Friday night. Houston was in town to crush the spirits of a very mediocre Wolves team. Ugly stuff. But damn, seeing the Rockets Yao Ming up close and personal for the first time was almost mystical. In between sips of my large Pepsi spiked …