Skeleton’s and Skeletors Target’s upcoming designs for Halloween 2003 are totally kick ass and actually a wee bit creepy. The patterns, the typography, the scary princess girl mask, all of it rocks. Target is like the Missy Elliot of retail design right now. They can’t be stopped. I got an email reminding me that my …
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Ladybug Invasion Seriously. It’s not funny. My entire domicile is under attack from the Asian Lady Beetle. It’s like Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ only smaller and silent. The house, the yard, the air space between my garage and the back door, all look like I went Hyper-Halloween crazy. It looks like I bought 10 cans of …
The New Responsibility Another fine tour of Portland, Oregon has come to a close. Thanks to everyone for making it a blast. I feel I’m going to need this entire week to recover. Super congratulations to Liz and Dave on their wedding. And yes, if more people had a wedding party in a skate-park with …
Plaster Falling Around My Head I just realized that it’s been almost ten years since I have been able to listen to music as loud as I want to. A product of living in apartments and duplexes for way too long. Let me just tell you that music doesn’t sound right unless the windows are …
In The Quiet Hours of Minneapolis It’s going to be a long, deeply distressing couple of weeks if yesterdays Twins victory is any indication of what’s to come. . . Ahh. . . but what a fine victory it was. The look on the Yankees players faces gave me a great warm satisfaction. And that …
Wash Out People groan and moan about how terrible the Metrodome experience is, especially when baseball and the Twins are concerned. I’m one of those people. But I may becoming less of one of those people after traveling hundreds of miles and spending about the same to watch a Cubs game outdoors in Wrigley Field …
Amazing Shushing Action I want to get one of these Librarian Action Figures with hand operated shushing power. We need more real action figures for the unglamorous set. Action figures for community workers, prevention abuse councilors, ESL instructors, labor organizers, etc. Then you can play the special board-game,’Community’ (Please note: red tape not included with …
A Tale of Two Logos and a Need For a Name Oh boy, the process and product that created the new VH1 and MoMA identities stretch the continuum of re-branding strategies to the point of of snapping it like a hardened piece of silly putty. The new logos have politicized me almost to the point …
My Vinyl Weighs a Ton I spent the better part of yesterday moving 30 plus boxes of Vinyl recordings from distributed parts of the city into the new dwelling. Why couldn’t I have chosen to collect something more lightweight like dried flowers or butterflies? This addiction is going to be the death of me. Today, …
Bluing the Hard Business of Domestic Urgency Life is a pastel wash of moving boxes, paint chips, freeze pops, and rug doctors. Last night I ate sushi on white plastic patio furniture that I had set up in the living room for a fine dining experience. Today I’m going to start painting what will eventually …