Machines. Damn Machines.If it ain’t one thing it’s another. I thought the brougham (my ’85 Olds) was heading for a slow death last night. I was caught in rush hour traffic in some terrific horizontal rainstorm when slowly the juice just started to leave the car. The lights started dimming, the windshield wipers began to …
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Twin Cities Type“How might a typeface express what is unique about a city?” That’s a big bad question to ponder or try to answer? How do you develop a typeface that imbues: ‘Minnesota Nice’, an evolving cosmopolitan ethnic insurgence, University of Minnesota student riots, and two cities that fight and play across a winding and …
Better Than Coffee I almost bought the whole farm this morning. You really can’t beat an absolutely-near-fatal, morning bike commute calamity to loosen up your arteries and get your heart beating on all four cylinders. You can’t get that kinda rush from caffeine. The car must have been going 50 and it probably missed me …
All My Music is Haram Oh the things you can learn on the “internet”. It’s astounding. Today, I learned that pretty much all the music I listen to is Haram. Which is to say that under the Islamic code – Allah ain’t down with it. I got wise to this when researching something on the …
Revisiting Planet TRONRecently I re-watched the movie TRON on cable. What a dope flick. I love watching these early eighties sci-fi movies on cable. I’ve probably watched Logan’s Run like twelve times this year already. That movie tops the charts. But goddamn TRON…I can’t believe its been 20 years since my brother and I first …
Art CrawlingGrumpy’s bar on Washington Avenue has officially organized OX-OP and will play host to a number of great traveling street/folk/pop artists this summer. Check out their online calendar here. Get into the wonderful world of panoramic illustrations as produced by the NY team of Kozyndan. Their use of bunnies is hypnotic. Check out this …
Ten Strange Minutes in the Life ofI sat down to read Davy Rothbart’s, The Lone Surfer of Montana Kansas, and noticed my arm was bleeding. It didn’t hurt, but it was making a mess. If I wasn’t careful and didn’t act quickly I was going to bleed on a lot of things. Which was annoying …
While You Were OutStill giddy from the sunny weather of the west coast, I prematurely broke out the bike Wednesday and took my inaugural bike commute of 2003. The first one is always the hardest. Your ass hurts for a day and your heart feels like it’s going to explode. I was also faced with …
Vacation PicturesMy new snap photography philosophy is as follows: take as many vacation snaps as you can and eventually you’ll hit the target and get some good ones. So here are some of the good ones. Check out the wide style Oregon snaps and then don’t miss the tall style snaps. To get the full …
Shock and Awe: Spring Break ’03 Pour the coffee, wince twice, and try to remember how to work this damn machine again. I’ve just returned from a jam packed ten day dance all over the great state of Oregon. Sorry to have been out of the blogsphere for so long but I was on vacation …