Saddle Up and Ride I thought I’d watch the end of the ACLS Game 6 last night while I mixed up some five-spice powder and set the rice to simmer. I had no idea I was committing to yet another extra-inning marathon that would take me deep into the night – ending just before the …
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Horny Goat Weed The absolute best piece of music for driving that long stretch of 494 that connects South Minneapolis to the darkest corners of Inver Grove Heights, where the worlds finest cribbage players come to congregate on frigid fall nights, has got to be M83’s Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. It’s the …
Questionable Neighborhood A little piece of news from the Southwest Journal Crime Report: Sept. 17, 2:55 a.m., 5700 block of Blaisdell Ave. A resident awoke to a noise in their basement and found a suspect with a “mullet” burglarizing the home. The victim tried but couldn’t catch the suspect. Enjoying: William Shatner’s new album Has …
Largactyl Again with the crushing workload – the late nights working through the weekend. Everytime I came up for air I was slammed in the face by the brutal power of the New York Yankees and the Ghengis Khan antics they brought to our home state. After Saturday night’s loss I felt like a piece …
Bald egotism A crushing long night passes into morning and I still can’t accept the fact that the Twins lost Game 2. But spirits are high still after the Game 1 victory – they float blissfully on the hopes of capturing Game 3 here at home. It will be tricky channel bouncing Friday night with …
Go Twins! Please Win. Oh man. I was offered tickets to the Vote For Change Tour tonight in Saint Paul and I had to pass. What?!? I know, it’s terrible but I have to watch my boy Johan Santana take it to the Yankees this evening. Nothing can get in the way of that right? …
The Don’t Vote Billboard Has anybody else seen this billboard that says ‘DONT VOTE’? I saw it the other night on highway 280 just north of I-94. That’s all the billboard says. The only other text is the Clear Channel logo that appears standard on the bottom most billboards around town. According to this article …
Exercise the Mind by Destroying the Liver I’m trying to gear up for tonight’s heated intellectual debate. Mental push-ups, people. Tonight’s intense political discourse will no doubt be historical, the barbs and jabs so electric, one might – if one held their head just so – see a slight pale glow hovering over Miami. With …
Meet the Wiggles Back from the Germanic olde stylings of bountiful Milwaukee. Exhausting. The little kids that plied for my attention all weekend wore me right the hell out. So many wandering and fragmentary innings of baseball played. Huge castles and kingdoms were erected and then surreptitiously connected by loose wooden railway systems. The older …
Toys R’ Melancholic What the hell happened to Toys R’ Us? What was once the flagship, the mecca of my childhood toy browsing has become some kind of enfeebled flop house of gummed up mockery. Seriously, I’ve been to third-world toy stores that were far more uplifting and chipper than the gloomy, forgotten shelves of …