Mooking The Good Doctor weighs in with his definition of ‘Mook’, ruminates on the reasons we mook, and delivers a brief story about collegiate mooking in a Colorado Walgreens. mook (mook) vt. (from mooke) 1 to use hands or fingers to covertly smash or squish soft grocery items or packaged foodstuffs so as to cause …
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Winter Garden These three crippled heroes are the last tomatoes and represent all that’s left from what was once a glorious summer garden. I wonder what they taste like…
Walgreens So there I was at Walgreens, breaking my promise for the hundredth time that I would never, never ever ever go into a Walgreens again. But the household needed Ice Melt and an extension cord and shit maybe some gum drops, the kind with little sugar crystals on the outside. Such a motley crew …
Keepin’ It Alive in ’05 Hope everyone had a nice little vacation. It’s been a time of good relaxation here. Books have been crushed. Good movies watched. Took in the new year with Bill Murray. The Life Aquatic is a fine film. Got to get me a pair of those limited edition “Steve Zissou” Adidas …
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 …
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 …