Although I haven’t’ even tried to incorporate it yet, I am as excited to try blogging through ical as I am to try blogapp. Now that Tim has made it smoking and amped up for Jaguar. I will try running blogapp tonight and hopefully will use it to post tomorrow. Also trying to embody myself …

Some solid jazz and spoken word descended on Minneapolis last night at the Illusion Theater. Baikida Carroll spoke mighty volumes with his horn in a “Prayer for Miles Davis” and the rest of his quintet wrestled urgently with their instruments to invoke a joyful noise. With Carroll’s Quintet getting free and loose, they invited spoken …

Pictures, letters, empty coffee cups, and CD’s surround my desk and keep watch over a hundred little slips of insurgent papers. Those slips of paper which up till today were my calendaring system are now vanquished after a painstaking morning of manually importing them into apple’s new ical program. Maybe now I can start showing …

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 …

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 …