Afrojet Presents: Music to eat freezies by Muddy Waters – Electric Mud Prefuse 73 – One Word Extinguisher Compost Records – Future Sound of Jazz Vol. 9 Cinematic Orchestra – Man With a Movie Camera Hey Mercedes – Everynight Fire Works Joyce – Tudo Bonito Pinback – Offcell Cursive – The Ugly Organ Houston – …
Monthly Archives: July 2003
Freezies and Fish for Everyone Beautiful weekend here in Minneapolis. I spent the better part of it enjoying the finer outdoor offerings the city lays at our feet. I have a sweet farmers tan (burn) to prove it. Today I’m wearing a dark t-shirt. The sleeves fall just short of my farmers tan making my …
Operatic and Sotted Last night the Tonics and Tangurays were put down with all the savageness of a ravenous wolf let loose in a sheep farm. As usual, the site of the sanguinary slide was the Stardust Lanes, and although I actually never got around to bowling a single frame I did sit mesmerized for …
No Sign of The Skelton Code My brother snapped this picture of our namesake sign outside the townhall of our very own township. Neither of us had any idea there was even a township in Minnesota called Skelton. I already feel an immediate kinship to the 372 people who live there. And I kind of …
We Have Cans I was standing outside moments ago when a guy on a bike rode by hauling three huge bags filled with hundreds of cans. He was no doubt on his way to get paid from the recycling plant down the street. Just as he passed me, a megaphone narration broke the air and …
It’s amazing how many books you can crush in a long weekend when the usual distractions of reality television, computers, tire changing, grocery shopping duties, and most importantly, humans are removed from the equation. Only the sounds of cardinals and giant mosquitoes were left to remove me from the printed word. I blasted through two …
Unplugging for the Fourth I’m not a big Fourth of July fan. Crowds, alcohol induced patriotism, and explosives will always lead to the inevitable post holiday assortment of news reports documenting the twisted nights of the unkept and dumb. It’s always the best time of year to get as far away from humanity as possible. …
Type for the Twin Cities Looks like the Twin Cities is one step closer to a new type face. The TypeCon site is featuring a new type by the fine folks at LettError. The type will be called Twin and it will be up to the folks of the Twin Cites to make the type …