From the monthly archives: April 2011
Thursdays are my Fridays, as I may have noted, but unfortunately Fridays are also my Fridays. Sunday night is my Monday morning. The Grail, the goal, is the night where nothing is due the next day, and that’s the Friday late-night creation shift. I get the most done because nothing has to be done.
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Eldon Davis, The architect of the California Coffee Shop Style has died, as you may have heard. (Thanks to all who thought of your host and sent in the news.) I thought of his work today as I looked at this set of pictures of Minneapolis and St. Paul in the 70s. They’re [...]
Another light day with links and photos, since A) it was rainy and cold, blustery enough to make an episode of “The Killing” look like MTV Spring Break, and B) I had a dinner tonight, which left me with little time, and rather logy as well. There was surf and there was turf. Actually Stream [...]
A warm spring day: the imperative is clear. Walk around downtown. Take pictures. I’ve walked around downtown for long I don’t know what to shoot anymore, and then I find something that’s been there all along. All pictures are from my phone, post-futzed with a variety of programs and filters. A relic of the days [...]
Saturday evening we were expecting my sister and her family to come over for dinner. My wife decided to make ribs, and went to the store for a large rack of naked pink pig segments, ready to be rubbed with a special improvised collection of granules that made specific arguments to various locations on your [...]
After the interview with the former Secretary of Defense I went to the grocery store to get something for two, not three. Wife’s out for the night, no dinner. In the pizza aisle:
When you go that far out of your way to misspell wings, people will assume there’s absolutely no chicken involved [...]
Busy day, and I didn’t do squat anyway except work, and who cares about that? Unless you’re reading the PopCrush site, which now has a correct URL here. I was intending to do a column on horrible the DMV can be at noon towards the end of the month, so I went there to get [...]
Sorry! The line-art iphone app is toonPaint. It’s a buck-99. Enjoy. (Ploughing through the comments, gleaning the queries and assertions, and enjoying them, as always. Every day you guys validate, to use the annoying word, my decision to leap to wordpress and add comments. Hope you like it, too – with most sites I view [...]
Supposed to get several inches of snow today. I am so disappointed in Minnesota. This spring was off to such a promising start, but it was the usual cruel tease, the cozening look, the crooked finger, the flash of ankle, the stroll down the alley where we could be alone, and then bang: a pimp’s [...]
When you can say “best weekend ever” and it includes snow, in April, that’s saying something. Friday I had lunch with Bill Whittle, in town for a speech; picked him up at his hotel, showed him the sights, had a great lunch, then took him home to meet Jasper. Everyone wants to meet Jasper. Speaking [...]
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