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Crazy love

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

UNLIKELIER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED than my buddy Travis getting married. The dude has raced Saabs across Sweden. He’s pushed a giant fuel bomb off a three-story balcony. Rumor has it he once strapped a vial of scalding-hot fluid to his leg to falsify a medical test. How many times has Travis persuaded me to choose what is [...]

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The Archive Is 5

Thursday, March 21, 2013

SINCE I STARTED THIS BLOG we got Obama, computer-phones, and one less planet, Sarah saved a school, Johanna attained literacy, and I had Asian food for lunch at least 250 times. Five years is a fair bit in Internet Time, especially for a project that’s as loose and lazy as a tour diary. By a band that doesn’t actually perform. We are known to [...]

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Red scare

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

I HAVE COMPLICATED FEELINGS about corporate philanthropy. They well up as I read this request from Jo’s teacher: Tomorrow we are taking a school-wide picture at the grand opening of the Target Library Make-over.  We thought it would be fun to wear red for this picture.  If you see this message in time… please have [...]

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Itasca Masters

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I JUST BAGGED MY THIRD AND FOURTH state parks of the summer, and we’re barely four weeks in. I don’t recall when I became a Minnesota park system groupie. Growing up, I went to exactly one Iowa State Park and that was mostly to skirt parental supervision for the day. Now I’m following some unconscious collector’s [...]

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Cache only

Saturday, June 9, 2012

>> Quintron – Place Unknown

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Sweet 16

Friday, March 30, 2012

WE TRIED RESURRECTING some clattertrap projectors that haven’t been fired up in years and—with patience and careful tending—they roll. Last night we screened a triple-stack of 16-millimeter films from the archive (“Multiple Tube Bender,” “Springtime,” “Eureka Graduation,” “Canoeing Manitoba,” and others cycled in). Featuring Lucas Alm on bass. Playing both vids at once is a surprisingly [...]

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Sketches of San Juan

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

LIKE MANY MIGRATORY SPECIES OF THE UPPER MIDWEST, we left home last month for a stay in the Caribbean Archipelago. After leaping snow berms in sandals and light jackets to make our plane, we soon alighted in a 10×10-block finger of land known as Old San Juan, one of the oldest colonial settlements in the [...]

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Café-Nation

Monday, January 24, 2011

TWO SIGNS I DON’T BELONG IN THIS COFFEESHOP: it took three baristas five minutes to pour me a mug of coffee. And the only other patron is reading Tim Pawlenty’s “Courage to Stand.” In a town with many excellent cafés, the lameness of others feels like an affront. So let me tell you about the [...]

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Etherworld

Monday, October 4, 2010

YESTERDAY I AWOKE IN A FOG (literally for a change). It shrouded our ‘hood in mystery and grandeur. A sudden suburban jungle. On my way to get a paper. Click to enlarge. The crowing of our neighbor’s illegal rooster completes the equatorial village vibe. Some neighb’s wish this empty school would disappear. And for several [...]

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A jam named Saturday

Saturday, October 2, 2010

WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG to listen to the old-school hip-hop show on KMOJ 89.9 The People’s Station, Saturdays 12-3 p.m? I’m phasing out Good & Country on KFAI for a few week in favor of DJ Divine and crew. Kane, LL, Slick Rick, Notorious B.I.G., MC Lyte. Lots of entertaining PSAs. Testament to [...]

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