Hiawatha Line: Back to the Future I took the new Hiawatha-Line Light Rail Transit to a Twins game the other day. The first train car I tried to board was so packed with humans that I couldn’t even pound my way into a cabin. I did push my way onto the next train and was …
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Newsflash: Sun Ra Predicts Saturn Radio Emissions Astral Jazz Pioneer, Sun Ra, claims he was born on the planet Saturn, which is a dope little piece of science fiction that I’ve always found comforting when listening to anything from the Ra cannon. I have always believed it to be fiction however. Now I’m not so …
The Stank of Dark PlacesI’ve completely run out of my Shrek 2 cereal this morning. Now I’m jonesing for it. The donkey marshmallow were especially delicious. Got to see John Vanderslice with Pedro the Lion at First Avenue last night. Vanderslice had a great set. I missed him last time through on his Spring Tour …
We Got Jokes and Jokes and Jokes and Jokes Had the good fortune to see Dave Chappelle at the Orpheum Theater over the weekend. It was a rambunctious crowd that attempted again and again to pigeon hole Dave with some of his signature lines from his show. To his credit he dealt with their heckling …
Saint Paul Saints The Twins need to get themselves an outdoor stadium immediately. Watching the Saint Paul Saints, outdoors on a cool summer night, you can’t beat it. If you get there late (because you got distracted by a box of cold Red Stripes tailgating in the parking lot) then you get into the game …
Born into DodgeballI Saw the Bukowski Documentary Born into This and I watched the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. I decided I would try and review Dodgeball in a Bukowskiesque type poem: only children play dodgeball when men do this they are whores when other men watch they are worse than whores fist fights …
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 …
Who Cries For The Children? After a couple reminiscent email exchanges with folks out West, it was brought to my attention that the incredible 1986 production of Hear N’ Aid won VH1’s The Greatest: 100 Metal Moments. As luck would have it I have a copy of this wonderful video after I stole it from …
Why I Love Summer
Cacafuego Too much going on. Work is kicking my ass these days. It feels like every time I come up for air there are a thousand buccaneers shaking their broadaxes at me; their chirpy talking parrots demand hard labor and threaten me with crude hand canons. Today, I’ve been fighting them off with the ferocious …