Feel the Wrath of the Windy City All my limits and base proclivities for pacifism were flushed down the toilet, like this mornings coffee poop, when that god damn Cubs fan reached beyond his grasp and sent an earthquake of depression through the entire midwest last night. For those of you who have no idea …
Monthly Archives: October 2003
The State Fairground Blues The misses got all kinds of excited about a never-before-seen-on-planet-earth huge sales extravaganza that she saw advertised on television. She knew that I had spent the previous week scouring the town unsuccessfully for new stereo speakers, so when she heard something like “20 to 80 percent off stereo speakers – this …
Skeleton’s and Skeletors Target’s upcoming designs for Halloween 2003 are totally kick ass and actually a wee bit creepy. The patterns, the typography, the scary princess girl mask, all of it rocks. Target is like the Missy Elliot of retail design right now. They can’t be stopped. I got an email reminding me that my …
Ladybug Invasion Seriously. It’s not funny. My entire domicile is under attack from the Asian Lady Beetle. It’s like Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ only smaller and silent. The house, the yard, the air space between my garage and the back door, all look like I went Hyper-Halloween crazy. It looks like I bought 10 cans of …
The New Responsibility Another fine tour of Portland, Oregon has come to a close. Thanks to everyone for making it a blast. I feel I’m going to need this entire week to recover. Super congratulations to Liz and Dave on their wedding. And yes, if more people had a wedding party in a skate-park with …
Plaster Falling Around My Head I just realized that it’s been almost ten years since I have been able to listen to music as loud as I want to. A product of living in apartments and duplexes for way too long. Let me just tell you that music doesn’t sound right unless the windows are …
In The Quiet Hours of Minneapolis It’s going to be a long, deeply distressing couple of weeks if yesterdays Twins victory is any indication of what’s to come. . . Ahh. . . but what a fine victory it was. The look on the Yankees players faces gave me a great warm satisfaction. And that …