Gadgt Control For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about buying a new cell phone. I’ve been having visions of glorious color displays, minimalist ring tones straight out of The Life Aquatic, the ability to post to this blog low-res snaps (taken in dark clubs where nobody but myself could identify anything in the …
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Ghosts in the Wind Get Under My Skin “Shut All Doors Securely And Tightly!” – this is the text of a sign I have made that I will be attaching to every door in the house at once. Seems that I live in a house that can only be described as “drafty”. Yet, drafty, as …
Fans of The Game I’m not sure if I’m a bigger Melvins fan or a Twins fan. Hopefully I’ll never be faced with the horror of having to choose between taking tickets to a Twins playoff game or attending a Melvins concert on the same night. Stranger things have happened. But hey, this video of …
Sifting Through Cannonballs I just took the ailing auto to Lehman’s Garage for the third time in as many weeks. The car, I believe, is just beginning to feeling all of the 100,000 miles that have been put on her. Two days ago the mysterious ‘check engine soon’ light came on. But what exactly does …
Why They Call Me Mr. Happy Back to the Triple Rock for NoMeansNo last night. The evening started out right where my last venture to the Triple Rock left off – with violence! As I walked up to the club around 8pm there were two ambulances outside and a fire truck. An employee from the …
Friday Fav’s: Savage Yet Tender Edition My favorite product of ’05 that you can buy for a dollar has to be the Sharpie Mini key chain. Unfortunately, I grabbed mine in the dim light of an Office Max yesterday afternoon and discovered in the light of day that I had purchased a purple one instead …
Turf Tongues Tussle Over Trophy A beautiful argument between bar patrons was overheard last night at the Fort Snelling Club. Three young gentleman agitators dismissed themselves from the premises after they got heated with each other and started smashing glasses on the floor to protest one another’s remarks (a punctuation technique that doesn’t get used …
What Hides In The Dark Another great color pallet spawned from a rotting vegetable. I found this delicious looking onion Saturday morning as I was rummaging through the bottom of my pantry looking for some potatoes that I could use to whip up a giant breakfast. Sadly, when I found the potatoes they didn’t look …
Air America Air travel is the tall man’s nemesis. People sometimes ask, “is it a pain to be so tall?”. To which I usually retort, “only when I fly”. Which isn’t always true. I should say, “only when I fly and don’t procure bulkhead or emergency row status”. Note to the enemy: if you plan …
Society Fox Trots and Other Springtime Rituals The daises are blooming on the Minneapolis music season. Finally, after five cold and decidedly low decibel months, touring bands are starting to stop through town again. You can almost set your watch to it. As daylight saving pushes through it’s high time to head down to the …