I had to bike through the hood yesterday to meet a client. Cruising the bike, the hood creeps up on you slowely. It’s a very gradual thing that takes over all your senses. The smell is the worst. Especially as you bike into it from the river. Like a hurricane you can almost pinpoint exactly …
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So much working. Not enough time for posting and bantering. Got my first homer hanky since 1987 last friday, right before watching Radke and the Twinkies close down the Oakland A’s winning streak. I know I swore off baseball last week but that will have to be postponed until after the Twins win the world …
Bike commuting doesn’t get better than mornings like this one. Beautiful weather and some decent strangeness to keep me amused. A squirrel decided to race me for a block. It just started bolting down the sidewalk when I passed him/her. It won. Four kids who were waiting for their bus at an intersection were all …
I read this great article last year, that I wish I could find now but I can’t. The main thesis of the article was that the health of the Trucking Industry is the best indicator of how our economy is doing. Basically, if trucking is doing well then manufacturing is doing well and consumer spending …
Now that France has gone down to a four day week, I think it’s high time we did the same. I got so much done over the last few days, I feel like i’ve had a two week vacation. Really just that extra day for getting all the weekend errands done was key. I spent …
Photographs everywhere! Zeitgeist photographer Ryan McGinley has dropped his first book available at index magazine. Check out some of his snaps here. The one’s of the band mum are great. I went to the Walker’s One Planet Under a Groove, a loose collection of contemporary art inspired by Hip Hop’s back catalog. The highlight of …
Ouch. Late night at Kinko’s. Mad printing fury of brochures and materials went late into the night. Thank god for Kinkos and their 24 hour policy. And god bless Ben, the Kinkos helper for taking time out between tracks of his “new” Gorillaz CD to help me negotiate some tricky maneuvers on their Macintosh. And …
Fair day was a blast. It really takes almost a whole day to do the fair proper. And it will probably take a full day of biking to work off the Buckets o’ French Fries and other greasy assorted edibles that were consumed at every turn. My favorite thing at the fair was Lillian. Lillian …
After a hefty morning of playing my melodica, drinking coffee, listening to live jtb and playing the new tony hawk on my mac, it’s off to the fair to gawk at barnyard animals, strolling humans and the wonderful hazy line that distinguishes the two. Jackass the movie trailer.
Readers of these narrow pages and the comrades who watch me devour huge plates of greasy fries at local midnight eateries are well aware of my excessive use of the condiment known as Heinz Ketchup. If there were a help group for abusers of this tempting tomato treat, I’m sure that there would have been …