The City of Milwaukee is America’s Next Top Model In a sudden perfect storm of events, family itineraries, and rare opportunities, the misses and I will be road tripping it out to Milwaukee Wisconsin. We will be staying with Kelly’s cousins who have recently made a new baby. They also have a slightly older kid, …
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Incredible Cereal Review Another trip to Cub Foods means another cereal purchased and devoured – one more chapter in my never ending quest for the perfect movie/cereal cross promotion. This weeks candidate is the cereal for the movie The Incredibles. The Incredibles cereal is bold and creative. Its anthropomorphic edible bits enjoy the look of …
The Pen Unlocks Us All Not long ago I lived in an apartment along a busy street in Saint Paul. The domicile was a solid brick building that had fallen into disrepair as the owner/landlord didn’t do much in the upkeep department. Nowhere was this more apparent when it came to the locks that held …
Talkin’ Baseball Smack Daddy! Even after being beamed his first time up at bat Barry Bonds cranked out a home run last night to join one of the most exclusive clubs in baseball – The 700 club. His cute little daughter looks very happy for him. The above ‘Barry Bonds tribute font’ is called Ballpark …
The Attack of the Stealth Melodica This morning got off to great start. I was going through The Ramones catalog, forming my own tribute to Johnny Ramone, when one of the cats wandered into my office. She paused, listened to a few bars of a song, and then promptly barfed a stream of yellowish gruel …
Fashion Report: Arsenal of Freedom Hey kids, did you know that this years hottest new accessory for fall isn’t your beloved 70’s style poncho. It’s not even that bright colored counterfeit Hermes bag you bought for thirteen bucks in Chinatown. So five minutes ago people. No, as of this week, with a special fashion shout …
Save Betamax That’s right. You heard me. Get on the horn today and call up your Senator. Shout loudly about how important betamax was to your early childhood development. Tell them about how you watched Star Wars 54 times before the ribbon snapped. And then tell them that you are concerned about the ‘Induce Act’, …
The Great Tomato Hunt The cats have taken to the tomatoes. They don’t eat the tomatoes they just hide them. This morning I discovered three tomatoes hiding in various nooks and crannies around the house. Many of the tomatoes still have small vines (I guess you might just call them stems). During the night the …
From the Pacific Northwest I put together a few snaps from the latest journey out west. If you’ve got a moment, check ’em out. Most were taken with the Canon G1 digital camera. A handful were taken with the analog Pentax K-1000, rocking an Asahi-M 28mm wide angle lens. I tried to keep my fetish …
Harvest Time Oh the life you miss when you are travelling. After returning from almost two weeks vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, I discovered that the garden had used its time alone to overgrow and produce. Yesterday, I plucked 133 tomatoes from the vine! I am also flooded in green peppers, red peppers, bell peppers, …