Fine north shore getaway. I barely even remember how to use this computer thingy. Lazy times. Highlights include; Nordic Scandinavian architecture, simple analog living, lakes that seem like oceans, a full twenty degree temperature difference that is perfect for hoodie sweatshirt living come supper time, evergreen smells, vistas, super rare Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Sarah Vaughn records for $1.00 at local flee market, wood carvings, not hearing or seeing one firework on the forth of July, walleye over wild rice, that one part, about 4 minutes into track 10 of Wilco’s new record-wow!, and the whole darn town of Grand Marais.

Also I shouldn’t forget – losing myself in the Canal Park Antique Mall and then emerging victorious with a 1905 second printing of The Sea-Wolf by Jack London (with dope illustrations) and Jack Karouac’s letters to Carol Cassady. An archavist never sleeps.

At the Sivertson gallery in Grand Marais I fell in love with the photography of Minnesotan, Lonnie Dupre. The photos he took while attempting to circumnavigate Greenland in a kayak and using sled dogs, tell me, i need to do some traveling in Greenland: Earth’s Largest Island. The book Where Ice is Born captures the best of these images. Also his wife writes children’s books with an Inuit and Greenland pride flavor. The Illustrations for The Raven’s Gift are terrific. What a team.

Also scored a great record called, “Convoy: 20 of Today’s Hits”, which I guess is like the top songs that truckers were listening to during the whole Convoy movement of the late Seventies. See the great Sam Peckinpah directed Film Convoy starring Kris Kristofferson and the ever lovely Ali MacGraw if your not familiar with this epic period of tragic American History. The back of the record sleeve comes with a full C.B. Directory (Instant Messaging is really just a modern day versions of the C.B., with much debate on the fad like quality of the medium). Here are some highlights. Don’t be surprised if they start showing up more frequently in these pages after I get a handle on ’em. Haaa! Get it? Handle? C.B.’s? Oh man that’s rich.

GoGo Girls = Load of Pigs Headed for Market
Ten-One-Hundred = I Gotta Go Potty
Bear = State Highway Patrol
Tijuana Taxi = Full Dressed Bear
Roller Skate = Small Car
Pregnant Roller Skate = VW
Seat Covers = Girls in Cars
Ratchet Jaw = Never Stops Talking
Suicide Jockey = Driver Hauling Dangerous Goods
Shakyside = California, Becasue of Earthquakes
Threes and Eights = Heavy Regards