Skateboarding with a Bowl of Papaya Salad The meal of the gods is surely Thai Green Papaya Salad. Where have you been all my life? I swear I could eat this stuff three times a day it’s so good. It’s light, it’s filling, and it’s got more flavor than the combined efforts of all the …

All Your Life in a Brandy SnifterI saw this awesome rerun of Saturday Night Live over the weekend that had this funny skit where Alec Baldwin and Jimmy Fallon were two entrepreneurs from Long Island who had a company called something like Precious Moments where they would take your old treasured photos and class them …

House Money Effect I’m sure someone could write a doctoral thesis on the juxtaposition of the two sides of this bus stop display that lurks outside my building on Washington Avenue. I have to hand it to Skyy Vodka they’ve really taken the whole phallic advertising thing to a whole new level. It reminds me …

Time spent wellAnother weekend, another fine wedding of one of my extended High School family. Congratulations Emily and Bryce. Thanks for the boat tour on the Saint Croix. Yesterday, I saw Owning Mahowny (site | trailer). And yes, Philip Seymour Hoffman can do no wrong. Whether he’s huffing gas in Love Lisa or a gambling …

Early Morning SportsLet’s just say that my favorite time for watching sports is between the hours of 6AM and 9AM. I wish all sporto events took place during this perfect time of the day. Last year I had the World Cup bright and early, now it’s the French Open. If every day could start with …

The Idealist I just got the latest snap book of Glen E. Friedman’s. It’s called The Idealist: Twenty Years in My Eyes and it is so damn nice. And beautiful. I could stare at is all day long. Poking around a bit, I found a page of Glenn’s called Recent Rolls, which displays some massive …

Minnesota ResourcesIt’s been over two long months since the last trimming of the locks. I’m beginning to look like a bad extra from That 70’s Show. It’s time to go in again. This time I went online to find the right spot. I ended up at the Hair Police. Where I could actually browse through …