Scooter Du
Reading Bob Mould’s Blog, I ran across this funny little Sooter Du event happening here in Minnesota later this summer. I know nothing about the scooter scene here in the Twin Cities but it looks pretty cool.

Meet my new best friend. We’ve been spending a great deal of quality time together. I’m going to make stickers that say “I love to shred”. Sometimes I have these day dreams where I’m working as like the head shredder guy at the State Department and I run around to all these huge industrial shredding machines feeding the monster its classified lunch. Seriously satisfying work. Sometimes, if I get an e-mail that really pisses me off, instead of just deleting it, I’ll print it out just so I can shred the bitch. My shredder lives on a steady diet of passive aggressive e-mails. My new thing is redefining font sizes and line-heights of certain documents so that when shredded the cascading ribbons that end up in the basket can be removed and then repositioned to form prose of real interest. Result vary but these things feed the soul.

R.I.P. Elvin Jones. An absolute monster on the skins. I just got Grant Green’s Matador from the library this week and was marveling for the millionth time at E.J.’s mastery of color and texture. Sad news.