Green Day Went to the Green Day world stadium tour 2005 last night. Wow. What a strange and wonderful show. Billie Joe is the human Energizer bunny and the band knows how to dominate a sold-out stadium. Punk rock in the 2005 is a heavyset older women wearing a muumuu standing next to you, completely …
Monthly Archives: September 2005
How Many? I find it odd that without question the single most frequently asked questions I get asked when someone learns: a) what I do for a living (graphic design) and, b) where I do it from (the comfort of my home office) is, “how many monitors do you use and how big are they?” …
The Giant John: a Trend for the Future I’ve never been completely at ease with the fact that my given birth name is a synonym for that special place we all deposit our daily load. Don’t get me wrong, if it wasn’t for Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘saucy Godson’, Sir John Harington and his invention of …
Grounded Blogging slowdown this last week as the Skelton Ranch entertained its first family visitor. Stepfather arrived from California bearing gifts of solid oak table legs that were constructed and designed by famed wood worker Larry Golden. Legs were placed on a Golden table-top that I had acquired over a year ago. Now we have …
A Million and Counting Yesterday, Oprah picked James Fry‘s rehab memoir, A Million Little Pieces for her next book club read. That’s a good choice. James and Oprah cooked up a scheme to have James’ mom in the audience when she announced the book. Mom didn’t expect a thing. Nice video of the mom screaming …
I Brake for Demolition Without question the single greatest item in my quiver of tools is the Wonderbar. I can’t even imagine what life was like before this solid piece of steel with its generous curves landed in my hands. All other tools that man has invented up to the forging of the first Wonderbar …
A Life Encased in Styrofoam It feels like I’ve spent the better part of this summer throwing things away. How can two people create so much garbage? In preparing for our move out to Portland, the misses and I made countless trips to the Goodwill, sold half our lot in a garage sale, and spent …
The Return of the Page-turner Almost two years ago I posted about a Peter Serkin concert that I attended at the Saint Paul Ordway. In the post, I ruminated on the the craft of the gentleman who was turning pages for Mr. Serkin. Somehow, through the magic of Google and the blogosphere, said gentleman found …
Kanye West Remix I’m sure everyone and their pomeranian is going to be linking this one up today so I’ll just surf that bandwagon. It’s a Remix of Kanye West‘s ‘Gold Digger’ by the Legendary K.O. The song brilliantly takes Kayne’s off-script (“George Bush don’t care about black people”) comments at the NBC relief concert …
Memory-Foam and Posturepedic Elite PillowtopsThe Skelton Ranch is almost ready to accept visitors. Unfortunately in order to set up our guest bedroom we had to buy another bed, which meant that we had to make an unfortunate trip to a mattress store. Next to car salespeople, mattress pushers have to be the second sleaziest people …