Tactics for Tax Evasion I can think of a thousand things I’d rather be doing than figuring out my taxes. Putting out lit cigarettes on my tongue? Hell it’s better than filling out an M1 form in triplicate. This year is an especially tough one. The tax quagmire is so large that I’m going to …
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The Headlights Shine on Deers that Drop Doo-dooWell how about that President of ours? Man, he really killed last night. I’ve completely lost the ability to speak and think about or otherwise analyze critically the message and tone of this national leader of ours. Even he looks bored with having to deliver the same rehearsed …
Training Days I’ll be heading to New Orleans for JazzFest in a couple of weeks. It will be my first time traveling in the Dirty South and from all the accounts I’ve heard of the festival, my time there will be an around-the-clock, non-stop musical exploration. It will be an endurance test of epic proportions. …
Thurston Moore on Kurt Cobain A reasoned piece in the NYT by guitar wiz Moore on the death of Cobain and the continuing life of the music he loved. You wouldn’t know it now by looking at MTV, with its scorn-metal buffoons and Disney-damaged pop idols, but the underground scene Kurt came from is more …
Twins Baseball My sleeping patterns get all twisted around when the baseball season starts. Already, the first two Twins games have spilled over into extra innings. Thankfully both have ended with victories for the home team but I’m not sure how long I can keep up this pace. Twenty-six innings of baseball in as many …
The Comma Will Save Us All This weekend while rummaging around antique stores in Saint Paul, I picked up a 1962 copy of The New York Times Style Book for Writers and Editors. I hope to use the edition along with Strunk and White to bring my grammar and spelling on these pages up from …
Somebody Hire This Guy Chicago boy seeks new job. The whole thing makes for a great Wednesday morning read. (via BoingBoing) Also a brilliant visualizer (is that a word?) of google news and it’s prioritization of articles. Axis of Aevil has a nice collecion of links to humdrum technicolor postcards.
The Don Quixote Plunge This weekend I picked up the newly designed Penguin Classics edition of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It’s going to be a commitment but hopefully within a few months I will have crushed this tomb and come out a better man for it. I love the newly retooled Penguin Classics editions. I wish …
Friday Morning in Paris The cats and I are taking a self-styled Paris vacation this morning. We can’t actually go anywhere, and I have work to do but we’ll just pretend that we’re working from home in Paris. I will smoke my pipe and listen to Beethoven while pretending my Mac is an Underwood Standard …
Brother Can You Spare 12 Bucks? What a classic debate – libraries versus stadiums? It’s one for the centuries. This debate probably goes back to the beginning of mankind. Surely the Egyptians and the Romans squared off a time or two on this one. Caligula (a.k.a Little Boots), never met a coliseum proposal that he …