Battlestar Galactica vs. Richard Dawson Mark your calendars for October 21st as the day you will will be spending quality couch time hunkered down in your bunker taking in every single episode of Battlestar Galactica. Although the DVD isn’t out until October, Amazon has it for pre-order. It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years …
Monthly Archives: August 2003
Queer Eye for the C.O.P.SThe misses was in a state of disquiet trauma last night when I arrived home from the bar. It seems that moments before I landed home, she had come face to face with the ‘strangest thing she had ever witnessed in Uptown’, which is saying a lot as she is a …
Boggle Your Brains Out Somehow in the course of a weekend of dog-sitting I ended up with a spot of poison ivy on my left hand. It itches like crazy and typing at the machine only makes it itch more. Fess is the dog. She’s named after the Boogie Woogie piano player, Professor Longhair. She’s …
The Lost Souls of the Insect Generation I bolted out of bed this morning after having one of those horrific ‘wake-up-snooze-fall-back-asleep-dreams’. The dream involved three oversized, translucent yellow, razor thin cockroaches with spindly foot-long legs making them resemble those bugs we used to make out of craft wire as kids. Only these cockroaches had a …
Afrobeat Exhibit The New York Times has an amazing on-line exhibit called Finding Fela. It’s a beautiful web compendium to the exhibit at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York.
Four Nursing Homes I read a great passage from the book The Music of Failure, by Minnesota native, Bill Holm last night. In the book he recounts a few poetry gigs that he and a few other poets lined up at nursing homes around Southern Minnesota. I thought I’d share two of them here this …
The Road to Breakfast is Paved with Idiots Checkout the Worth1000 Photoshop Contests results for propaganda art. The first one is for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. I went to get ‘donuts’ and coffee this morning. I was very tired when I walked into the bakery. I wasn’t fully in control of my words and actions. Standing …