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 bit more than I could take so I hastened out to the golf course both Saturday night and Sunday morning to try and bring calm to the situation and lift the dark cloud of disappointment. Saturday night was beautiful. The setting sun cast magnificent pink brushwork across the sky. My game was good. Sunday was a whole different story. I’m still getting use to some extra long clubs. I may as well have been playing with a shovel and gardening hoe. I did more gardening and sod removal on the course than one should legally be allowed. The golf cops continued to appear on speedy carts and I was sure that one of them was going to offer a citation or a cease and desist order. “Please Sir, you must stop.”

The Walker Art Center’s Summer Music and Movies series is on point this year. Six Steve McQueen movies outdoors. I can’t wait to see Bullit and The Getaway sprawled out on the Sculpture Garden lawn.

Even more summer goodness comes to The Minnesota Orchestra, where Chris O’Riley will be playing classic piano compositions of Radiohead’s music.